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12-letter words containing d, i, m, e, n

  • online media — Acorn Online Media
  • organic mode — (programming)   A term used by COCOMO to describe a project that is developed in a familiar, stable environment. The product is similar to previously developed products. Most people connected with the project have extensive experience in working with related systems and have a thorough understanding of the project. The project contains a minimum of innovative data processing architectures or algorithms. The product requires little innovation and is relatively small, rarely greater than 50,000 DSIs.
  • overdominant — excessively dominant
  • periodontium — the bone, connective tissue, and gum surrounding and supporting a tooth.
  • permissioned — authorization granted to do something; formal consent: to ask permission to leave the room.
  • pompeian red — a dull, grayish red.
  • postmeridian — of or relating to the afternoon.
  • preadmission — (in a reciprocating engine) admission of steam or the like to the head of the cylinder near the end of the stroke, as to cushion the force of the stroke or to allow full pressure at the beginning of the return stroke.
  • predetermine — to settle or decide in advance: He had predetermined his answer to the offer.
  • predominance — the state, condition, or quality of being predominant: the predominance of the rich over the poor.
  • premium bond — In Britain, premium bonds are numbered tickets that are sold by the government. Each month, a computer selects several numbers, and the people whose tickets have those numbers win money.
  • pseudoanemia — Pathology. a quantitative deficiency of the hemoglobin, often accompanied by a reduced number of red blood cells and causing pallor, weakness, and breathlessness.
  • pseudonymity — pseudonymous character.
  • pteridomania — an excessive enthusiasm for ferns
  • pumpkin head — a slow or dim-witted person; dunce.
  • pyrazinamide — a substance, C 5 H 5 N 3 O, used in the treatment of tuberculosis.
  • pyridoxamine — a metabolic form of pyridoxine
  • quadriennium — quadrennium.
  • radioelement — a radioactive element.
  • re-admission — the act of allowing to enter; entrance granted by permission, by provision or existence of pecuniary means, or by the removal of obstacles: the admission of aliens into a country.
  • reading lamp — A reading lamp is a small lamp that you keep on a desk or table. You can move part of it in order to direct the light to where you need it for reading.
  • reading room — a room set aside for reading, as in a library or club.
  • readmittance — the act or process of admitting someone or something again
  • recommending — to present as worthy of confidence, acceptance, use, etc.; commend; mention favorably: to recommend an applicant for a job; to recommend a book.
  • redemptioner — an emigrant from Europe to America who obtained passage by becoming an indentured servant for a specified period of time.
  • 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.
  • reindictment — an act of indicting.
  • remainderman — a person who owns a remainder.
  • reprimanding — a severe reproof or rebuke, especially a formal one by a person in authority.
  • right-minded — having correct, honest, or good opinions or principles.
  • romanticized — interpreted according to romantic precepts
  • 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.
  • scheme-linda — A Scheme interface to Linda written by Ulf Dahlen of University of Edinburgh in 1990. It runs on the Computing Surface and the Symmetry.
  • schneiderman — Rose, 1884–1972, U.S. labor leader, born in Poland.
  • scrimshander — a person who makes scrimshaw objects.
  • seam binding — a narrow strip of fabric attached to the unfinished edge of a seam or hem to keep it from raveling.
  • secd machine — Stack Environment Control Dump machine
  • sedimentable — capable of forming sediment
  • self-damning — causing incrimination: damning evidence.
  • semi-dormant — lying asleep or as if asleep; inactive, as in sleep; torpid: The lecturer's sudden shout woke the dormant audience.
  • semi-invalid — a person who is partially disabled or somewhat infirm
  • semi-nomadic — of, relating to, or characteristic of nomads.
  • semicylinder — half of a cylinder divided lengthwise.
  • semidarkness — partial darkness.
  • semideponent — (of a Latin verb) active in meaning but passive in form in the perfect tense
  • semidominant — producing an intermediate, heterozygous phenotype
  • semifinished — partially or almost finished.
  • silver mound — a perennial Japanese herb, Artemisia schmidtiana, having silver-green leaves forming a moundlike shape.
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