13-letter words containing d, o, m, s, a
- mountainsides — Plural form of mountainside.
- muzzleloaders — Plural form of muzzleloader.
- neo-darwinism — the theory of evolution as expounded by later students of Charles Darwin, especially Weismann, holding that natural selection accounts for evolution and denying the inheritance of acquired characters.
- no man's land — an area between opposing armies, over which no control has been established.
- no-man's land — No-man's land is an area of land that is not owned or controlled by anyone, for example the area of land between two opposing armies.
- nonrandomness — the quality or condition of not being random
- occidentalism — Occidental character or characteristics.
- of many words — talkative
- oil-based mud — Oil-based mud is a drilling fluid that is an emulsion containing oil as the base fluid.
- old testament — the first of the two main divisions of the Christian Bible, comprising the Law, the Prophets, and the Hagiographa. In the Vulgate translation all but two books of the Apocrypha are included in the Old Testament.
- ombudsmanship — The position or office of an ombudsman.
- osborne, adam — Adam Osborne
- outdoorswoman — a woman devoted to outdoor sports and recreational activities.
- overdramatise — Alternative spelling of overdramatize.
- overestimated — Simple past tense and past participle of overestimate.
- paedomorphism — the continuation of juvenile characteristics in the adult stage
- pamlico sound — a sound between the North Carolina mainland and coastal islands.
- parasitoidism — the feeding by certain insect larvae on host tissues such that the host remains alive until larval development is complete and then usually dies.
- passamaquoddy — a member of a small tribe of North American Indians formerly of coastal Maine and New Brunswick and now living in Maine.
- photodynamics — the science dealing with light and its effects on living organisms.
- plasmodesmata — any of many minute strands of cytoplasm that extend through plant cell walls and connect adjoining cells.
- plasmodiocarp — a fruiting body of certain myxomycetes.
- pleasure dome — a large building, facility, or place used for recreation.
- polydaemonism — the belief in many evil spirits.
- promised land — Heaven.
- psychodynamic — Psychology. any clinical approach to personality, as Freud's, that sees personality as the result of a dynamic interplay of conscious and unconscious factors.
- radio compass — a radio receiver with a directional antenna for determining the bearing of the receiver from a radio transmitter.
- random access — designating or of a volatile memory that allows data to be accessed directly and does not require following a sequence of storage locations
- random sample — a statistical sample that is devised to avoid interference so that its distribution is affected only by, and so can be held to represent, that of the whole population
- random-access — direct-access.
- redemonstrate — to make evident or establish by arguments or reasoning; prove: to demonstrate a philosophical principle.
- rhodesian man — an extinct Pleistocene human whose cranial remains were found at Kabwe, in Zambia: formerly in some classifications Homo rhodesiensis but now considered archaic Homo sapiens.
- roosevelt dam — a dam on the Salt River, in central Arizona. 284 feet (87 meters) high; 1080 feet (329 meters) long.
- rose mandarin — (in the Chinese Empire) a member of any of the nine ranks of public officials, each distinguished by a particular kind of button worn on the cap.
- sacerdotalism — the system, spirit, or methods of the priesthood.
- sacred bamboo — nandina.
- sadomasochism — interaction, especially sexual activity, in which one person enjoys inflicting physical or mental suffering on another person, who derives pleasure from experiencing pain.
- sadomasochist — interaction, especially sexual activity, in which one person enjoys inflicting physical or mental suffering on another person, who derives pleasure from experiencing pain.
- salmon ladder — a series of steps in a river designed to enable salmon to bypass a dam and move upstream to their breeding grounds
- santo domingo — a republic in the West Indies, occupying the E part of the island of Hispaniola. 19,129 sq. mi. (49,545 sq. km). Capital: Santo Domingo.
- santos-dumont — Alberto [ahl-ber-too] /ɑlˈbɛr tʊ/ (Show IPA), 1873–1932, Brazilian aeronaut in France: designer and builder of dirigibles and airships.
- scandalmonger — a person who spreads scandal or gossip.
- sedimentation — the deposition or accumulation of sediment.
- self-enamored — to fill or inflame with love (usually used in the passive and followed by of or sometimes with): to be enamored of a certain lady; a brilliant woman with whom he became enamored.
- semi-nomadism — a member of a people or tribe that has no permanent abode but moves about from place to place, usually seasonally and often following a traditional route or circuit according to the state of the pasturage or food supply.
- semiautomated — partially automated.
- semidominance — incomplete dominance.
- shear modulus — The shear modulus of a material is how stiff or rigid it is. It is equal to the shear stress divided by the shear strain.
- shoulder arms — to bring the rifle vertically close to the right side with the muzzle uppermost and held at the trigger guard
- shrove monday — the Monday before Ash Wednesday.