12-letter words containing d, e, r, m, i
- redemptorist — a member of the “Congregation of the Most Holy Redeemer,” founded by St. Alphonsus Liguori in 1732.
- redetermined — to settle or decide (a dispute, question, etc.) by an authoritative or conclusive decision.
- reductionism — the theory that every complex phenomenon, especially in biology or psychology, can be explained by analyzing the simplest, most basic physical mechanisms that are in operation during the phenomenon.
- reemphasized — to give emphasis to; lay stress upon; stress: to emphasize a point; to emphasize the eyes with mascara.
- reindictment — an act of indicting.
- remainderman — a person who owns a remainder.
- remedilessly — in a remediless manner, beyond remedy
- reprimanding — a severe reproof or rebuke, especially a formal one by a person in authority.
- reward claim — a claim granted to a miner who discovered gold in a new area
- rhytidectomy — face-lift.
- right-minded — having correct, honest, or good opinions or principles.
- rimmed steel — a low-carbon steel containing enough iron oxide so that there is continuous generation of carbon monoxide during solidification.
- romanticized — interpreted according to romantic precepts
- room divider — a partition, as a screen or freestanding bookcase, that separates one part of a room from another.
- rose diamond — a diamond, one side of which is flat, and the other cut into twenty-four triangular facets in two ranges which form a convex face pointed at the top
- salamandrine — any tailed amphibian of the order Caudata, having a soft, moist, scaleless skin, typically aquatic as a larva and semiterrestrial as an adult: several species are endangered.
- schneiderman — Rose, 1884–1972, U.S. labor leader, born in Poland.
- sclerodermic — of or relating to a scleroderm or to sclerodermia; hard-skinned
- scrimshander — a person who makes scrimshaw objects.
- semi-dormant — lying asleep or as if asleep; inactive, as in sleep; torpid: The lecturer's sudden shout woke the dormant audience.
- semicylinder — half of a cylinder divided lengthwise.
- semidarkness — partial darkness.
- semidiameter — half of a diameter; radius.
- siderochrome — any of various chemical compounds functioning in the transport of iron in bacteria.
- sierra madre — a mountain range extending from S Wyoming into N Colorado.
- silver medal — a medal, traditionally of silver or silver in color, awarded to a person or team finishing second in a competition, meet, or tournament.
- silver mound — a perennial Japanese herb, Artemisia schmidtiana, having silver-green leaves forming a moundlike shape.
- sober-minded — rational; sensible.
- spermaticide — spermicide.
- spermatocide — spermicide.
- spermatozoid — a motile male gamete produced in an antheridium.
- steam-driven — powered by steam
- stress-timed — having a rhythm in which stressed syllables tend to occur at regular intervals of time, regardless of the number of intervening unstressed syllables.
- striped drum — a North American marine and freshwater sciaenid fish, Equetus pulcher, that utters a drumming sound
- sub-mediocre — of only ordinary or moderate quality; neither good nor bad; barely adequate: The car gets only mediocre mileage, but it's fun to drive. Synonyms: undistinguished, commonplace, pedestrian, everyday; run-of-the-mill. Antonyms: extraordinary, superior, uncommon, incomparable.
- subepidermal — just below the epidermis or skin
- superimposed — (of a stream or drainage system) having a course not adjusted to the structure of the rocks presently undergoing erosion but determined rather by a prior erosion cycle or by formerly overlying rocks or sediments.
- superkingdom — in some systems of biological classification, either of the two major subdivisions, prokaryote or eukaryote, into which all living organisms can be placed
- swim bladder — air bladder (def 2).
- tertium quid — something related in some way to two things, but distinct from both; something intermediate between two things.
- thermidorian — a member of the French moderate group who participated in the downfall of Robespierre and his followers on the 9th Thermidor (July 27th), 1794.
- third market — a market established by the London Stock Exchange in 1987 to trade in shares in companies required to provide less detailed information than that required by the main market or the unlisted securities market
- third stream — a style of music that uses features of both jazz and classical music in an attempt to develop a new and distinctive musical idiom.
- timberdoodle — the American woodcock, Philohela minor.
- time-expired — (of a cheque) that has lapsed and is no longer valid
- time-honored — revered or respected because of antiquity and long continuance: a time-honored custom.
- tinker's dam — the least value or merit; nothing or anything at all: It's not worth a tinker's damn.
- tragi-comedy — A tragi-comedy is a play or other written work that is both sad and amusing.
- tree diagram — Mathematics, Linguistics. a diagram in which lines branch out from a central point or stem without forming any closed loops.
- trondhjemite — a coarse-grained igneous rock composed of quartz, plagioclase feldspar, and a small amount of biotite.