12-letter words containing d, o, r, m
- random error — an error that has a random distribution and can be attributed to chance.
- 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.
- re-embroider — to embroider again
- reading room — a room set aside for reading, as in a library or club.
- rear-mounted — (of an engine, etc) fitted at the back of a vehicle
- 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.
- redemptorist — a member of the “Congregation of the Most Holy Redeemer,” founded by St. Alphonsus Liguori in 1732.
- redeployment — to transfer (a unit, a person, supplies, etc.) from one theater of operations to another.
- redoublement — the act of redoubling
- 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.
- rhodomontade — rodomontade
- rhombohedral — a solid bounded by six rhombic planes.
- rhombohedron — a solid bounded by six rhombic planes.
- rhytidectomy — face-lift.
- rigid motion — any transformation, as a translation or rotation, of a set such that the distance between points is preserved.
- road company — a theatrical group that tours cities and towns, usually performing a single play that is or has been a success in New York City.
- 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.
- rod from god — a weapon, currently in the development stage, that consists of a metal cylinder that is fired from an orbiting spacecraft at a target on earth. The cylinder is calculated to reach speeds in excess of 7000 mph, hitting its target with the power of a small atomic weapon
- 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
- run commands — (operating system) The expansion of the file name suffix, "rc", common to many Unix configuration files, e.g. .newsrc, .cshrc, .twmrc, elmrc, etc. Always abbreviated to /R C/ when spoken. Note, "rc" is not a typical filename extension as it doesn't start with a dot. The suffix "rc" derives from a script-creation utility in CTSS called "runcom".
- salamandroid — an amphibian of the genus Salamandra
- samurai bond — a bond issued in Japan and denominated in yen, available for purchase by nonresidents of Japan
- 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.
- src modula-3 — Version 2.11 compiler(->C), run-time, library, documentation The goal of Modula-3 is to be as simple and safe as it can be while meeting the needs of modern systems programmers. Instead of exploring new features, we studied the features of the Modula family of languages that have proven themselves in practice and tried to simplify them into a harmonious language. We found that most of the successful features were aimed at one of two main goals: greater robustness, and a simpler, more systematic type system. Modula-3 retains one of Modula-2's most successful features, the provision for explicit interfaces between modules. It adds objects and classes, exception handling, garbage collection, lightweight processes (or threads), and the isolation of unsafe features. conformance: implements the language defined in SPwM3. ports: i386/AIX 68020/DomainOS Acorn/RISCiX MIPS/Ultrix 68020/HP-UX RS/6000/AIX IBMRT/4.3 68000/NEXTSTEP i860/SVR4 SPARC/SunOS 68020/SunOS sun386/SunOS Multimax/4.3 VAX/Ultrix Mailing list: comp.lang.modula3 E-mail: Bill Kalsow <[email protected]> From DEC/SRC, Palo Alto, CA. "Modula-3 Report (revised)" Luca Cardelli et al.
- 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 window — a supplementary window sash for protecting a window against drafts, driving rain, etc.
- 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.
- surinam toad — a South American aquatic frog, Pipa pipa, the female of which carries the eggs and tadpoles in small depressions on its back.