12-letter words containing d, r, s, a, m
- florida moss — Spanish moss.
- foreadmonish — (rare, transitive) To admonish beforehand, or before the act or event.
- formal dress — clothing for elegant or solemn occasions
- fort madison — a city in SE Iowa, on the Mississippi.
- gastrodermal — the inner cell layer of the body of an invertebrate.
- gastrodermis — the inner cell layer of the body of an invertebrate.
- gendarmeries — Plural form of gendarmerie.
- gerrymanders — Plural form of gerrymander.
- gormandising — Present participle of gormandise.
- gormandizers — gourmandise1 .
- grand master — the head of a military order of knighthood, a lodge, fraternal order, or the like.
- grandmasters — Plural form of grandmaster.
- grandmothers — Plural form of grandmother.
- gypsum board — wallboard composed primarily of gypsum and often used as sheathing.
- haemorrhoids — Plural form of haemorrhoid.
- haemosiderin — Alternative form of hemosiderin.
- hammarskjold — Dag Hjalmar [dahg yahl-mahr] /dɑg ˈyɑl mɑr/ (Show IPA), 1905–61, Swedish statesman: Secretary General of the United Nations 1953–61; Nobel Peace Prize 1961.
- headforemost — headfirst (def 1).
- headmasterly — In a manner befitting a headmaster.
- headmistress — a woman in charge of a private school.
- hemihydrates — Plural form of hemihydrate.
- hidrocystoma — An adenoma of the sweat glands.
- home address — the address of one's house or flat
- homesteaders — Plural form of homesteader.
- hydrargyrism — mercurialism.
- hydromedusae — Irregular plural form of hydromedusa.
- icbm address — (networking, humour) (Or "missile address") The form used to register a site with the Usenet mapping project includes a space for longitude and latitude, preferably to seconds-of-arc accuracy. This is actually used for generating geographically-correct maps of Usenet links on a plotter; however, it has become traditional to refer to this as one's "ICBM address" or "missile address", and many people include it in their sig block with that name. (A real missile address would include target altitude.)
- idea hamster — a person who is employed as a source of new ideas
- immortalised — to bestow unending fame upon; perpetuate.
- imparadising — Present participle of imparadise.
- imperialised — Simple past tense and past participle of imperialise.
- impersonated — to assume the character or appearance of; pretend to be: He was arrested for impersonating a police officer.
- incendiarism — the act or practice of an arsonist; malicious burning.
- intimidators — Plural form of intimidator.
- isodiametric — having equal diameters or axes.
- james edward — Stuart, James Francis Edward.
- jameson raid — an expedition into the Transvaal in 1895 led by Sir Leander Starr Jameson (1853–1917) in an unsuccessful attempt to topple its Boer regime
- kalmar sound — a strait between SE Sweden and Öland Island. 85 miles (137 km) long; 14 miles (23 km) wide.
- ladies' room — a public lavatory for women.
- land measure — any system of measurement for measuring land.
- leaf mustard — a pungent powder or paste prepared from the seed of the mustard plant, used as a food seasoning or condiment, and medicinally in plasters, poultices, etc.
- liquidambars — Plural form of liquidambar.
- madreporites — Plural form of madreporite.
- maid service — cleaner, cleaning business
- maidservants — Plural form of maidservant.
- mainstreamed — Simple past tense and past participle of mainstream.
- major orders — the degree or grade of priesthood, diaconate, or subdiaconate.
- make friends — get to know people
- make inroads — If one thing makes inroads into another, the first thing starts affecting or destroying the second.
- malnourished — poorly or improperly nourished; suffering from malnutrition: thin, malnourished victims of the famine.