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

  • ormond beach — a town in NE Florida.
  • ornithomimid — (zoology) Any member of the Ornithomimidae.
  • orthodromics — the act or art of sailing on a great circle
  • outperformed — Simple past tense and past participle of outperform.
  • overconsumed — Simple past tense and past participle of overconsume.
  • overdocument — to document excessively
  • overdominant — excessively dominant
  • overdramatic — of or relating to the drama.
  • overmannered — excessively mannered
  • overmedicate — to treat with medicine or medicaments.
  • overmodestly — in an extremely modest manner
  • oxford comma — a comma between the final items in a list, often preceding the word 'and' or 'or', such as the final comma in the list newspapers, magazines, and books
  • oxford frame — a frame for a picture, mirror, etc., consisting of four straight pieces whose ends project beyond the corners.
  • pachydermous — any of the thick-skinned, nonruminant ungulates, as the elephant, hippopotamus, and rhinoceros.
  • paedomorphic — showing signs of paedomorphism
  • palindromist — a word, line, verse, number, sentence, etc., reading the same backward as forward, as Madam, I'm Adam or Poor Dan is in a droop.
  • parade armor — ornamented armor worn only for ceremonial purposes.
  • pedomorphism — a speeding up of the rate of development, resulting in an adult form that has the appearance of its larval or juvenile ancestor.
  • period drama — a drama set in a particular historical period
  • 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.
  • picture mold — a molding near a ceiling from which pictures can be suspended.
  • platform bed — a bed, originating in Scandinavia in the 1930s, consisting of a simple shallow box for holding a mattress situated on a slightly recessed pedestal.
  • pompeian red — a dull, grayish red.
  • post-fordism — the idea that modern industrial production has moved away from mass production in huge factories, as pioneered by Henry Ford, towards specialized markets based on small flexible manufacturing units
  • postmeridian — of or relating to the afternoon.
  • pot marigold — calendula (def 1).
  • praseodymium — a rare-earth, metallic, trivalent element, named from its green salts. Symbol: Pr; atomic weight: 140.91; atomic number: 59; specific gravity: 6.77 at 20°C.
  • pre-modelled — a standard or example for imitation or comparison.
  • 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.
  • predominance — the state, condition, or quality of being predominant: the predominance of the rich over the poor.
  • preformatted — the shape and size of a book as determined by the number of times the original sheet has been folded to form the leaves. Compare duodecimo, folio (def 2), octavo, quarto.
  • 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.
  • primordially — constituting a beginning; giving origin to something derived or developed; original; elementary: primordial forms of life.
  • product mark — a trademark used on only one product.
  • promuscidate — shaped like a proboscis
  • propagandism — the art, system, or use of propaganda
  • pseudamphora — a Mycenaean vase having a spherical body, a spout on the shoulder, and a handle, curving across the top, supported by a solid conical neck.
  • pseudomartyr — someone falsely or inaccurately called a martyr
  • pseudorandom — noting or pertaining to random numbers generated by a definite computational process to satisfy a statistical test.
  • pteridomania — an excessive enthusiasm for ferns
  • pteridosperm — seed fern.
  • pyramidology — a belief system based on the supposed occult significance of the Egyptian pyramids
  • pyridoxamine — a metabolic form of pyridoxine
  • quadrinomial — consisting of four terms.
  • quadrominium — a building consisting of four individually owned apartments or living units.
  • quadrumanous — four-handed; having all four feet adapted for use as hands, as monkeys.
  • radioelement — a radioactive element.
  • radiomimetic — (of drugs) producing effects similar to those produced by X-rays
  • radiothorium — a disintegration product of thorium.
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