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12-letter words containing d, o, r, e, m

  • rhombohedron — a solid bounded by six rhombic planes.
  • rhytidectomy — face-lift.
  • road manager — The road manager of someone such as a singer or sports player is the person who organizes their travel and other arrangements during a tour.
  • rodomontader — a person who boasts or brags
  • roman candle — a firework consisting of a tube that sends out a shower of sparks and a succession of balls of fire.
  • 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
  • sarcoadenoma — adenosarcoma.
  • sclerodermic — of or relating to a scleroderm or to sclerodermia; hard-skinned
  • second-homer — a person who owns another house in addition to their main home, often in an area where they are not native and used as a holiday home
  • semi-dormant — lying asleep or as if asleep; inactive, as in sleep; torpid: The lecturer's sudden shout woke the dormant audience.
  • serra do mar — a mountain range on the SE coast of Brazil. Highest point, 7420 feet (2262 meters).
  • siderochrome — any of various chemical compounds functioning in the transport of iron in bacteria.
  • silver mound — a perennial Japanese herb, Artemisia schmidtiana, having silver-green leaves forming a moundlike shape.
  • sloped roman — a roman (vertical) typeface, usually sans serif, i.e. without the small, decorative, terminal strokes with which some typefaces are designed. The typeface is made to slope (usually to the right), but not generally to the same degree as a true italic typeface
  • small wonder — (I am) hardly surprised (that)
  • sober-minded — rational; sensible.
  • sound camera — a motion-picture camera that is capable of photographing silently at the normal speed of 24 fps and operating in synchronization with separate audio recording equipment.
  • spermatocide — spermicide.
  • spermatozoid — a motile male gamete produced in an antheridium.
  • stem-end rot — a disease of fruits characterized by discoloration, shriveling, and decay of the stem and adjacent parts of the fruit and caused by any of several fungi of the genera Diplodia and Phomopsis.
  • storm-lashed — badly affected by storms
  • storm-tossed — thrown up and down or side to side by a storm
  • 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.
  • 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
  • superstardom — a person, as a performer or athlete, who enjoys wide recognition, is esteemed for exceptional talent, and is eagerly sought after for his or her services.
  • tenderometer — a device measuring the tenderness of peas
  • 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.
  • thermostated — a device, including a relay actuated by thermal conduction or convection, that functions to establish and maintain a desired temperature automatically or signals a change in temperature for manual adjustment.
  • thunderstorm — a transient storm of lightning and thunder, usually with rain and gusty winds, sometimes with hail or snow, produced by cumulonimbus clouds.
  • timberdoodle — the American woodcock, Philohela minor.
  • time-honored — revered or respected because of antiquity and long continuance: a time-honored custom.
  • tmj syndrome — a condition attributed to tension in or faulty articulation of the temporomandibular joint, having a wide range of symptoms that include dizziness, ringing in the ears, and pain in the head, neck, and shoulders.
  • torso murder — a murder in which the body of the victim is dismembered at the torso.
  • tragi-comedy — A tragi-comedy is a play or other written work that is both sad and amusing.
  • tremendously — extraordinarily great in size, amount, or intensity: a tremendous ocean liner; tremendous talent.
  • trondhjemite — a coarse-grained igneous rock composed of quartz, plagioclase feldspar, and a small amount of biotite.
  • turned comma — quotation mark.
  • unburdensome — oppressively heavy; onerous.
  • undemocratic — pertaining to or of the nature of democracy or a democracy.
  • underkingdom — the domain of an underking
  • underperform — If someone underperforms in something such as a sports contest, or if one thing underperforms another thing, they do not perform as well as they could, or they perform less well than the other thing.
  • undreamed of — If you describe something as undreamed of, you are emphasizing that it is much better, worse, or more unusual than you thought was possible.
  • unformalized — not formalized
  • unformidable — causing fear, apprehension, or dread: a formidable opponent.
  • unformulated — to express in precise form; state definitely or systematically: He finds it extremely difficult to formulate his new theory.
  • unglamorized — not glamorized
  • unharmonized — to bring into harmony, accord, or agreement: to harmonize one's views with the new situation.
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