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12-letter words containing e, d, m, a

  • small-minded — selfish, petty, or narrow-minded.
  • smooth-faced — beardless; smooth-shaven.
  • social media — websites and other online means of communication that are used by large groups of people to share information and to develop social and professional contacts: Many businesses are utilizing social media to generate sales.
  • sodium amide — a white, crystalline, water-insoluble, flammable powder, NaNH 2 , used chiefly in the manufacture of sodium cyanide and in organic synthesis.
  • 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.
  • speed camera — device that detects speeding traffic
  • spermaticide — spermicide.
  • spermatocide — spermicide.
  • spermatozoid — a motile male gamete produced in an antheridium.
  • stamp dealer — someone who buys and sells postage stamps (to collectors)
  • stapedectomy — a microsurgical procedure to relieve deafness by replacing the stapes of the ear with a prosthetic device.
  • steam-driven — powered by steam
  • steam-heated — heated by steam.
  • storm-lashed — badly affected by storms
  • student lamp — a table lamp whose light source can be adjusted in height.
  • subepidermal — just below the epidermis or skin
  • sulphonamide — any of a class of organic compounds that are amides of sulphonic acids containing the group –SO2NH2 or a group derived from this. An important class of sulphonamides are the sulfa drugs
  • supermundane — above and beyond the nature or character of the worldly or terrestrial.
  • 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.
  • supramundane — transcending the world
  • sweet almond — the nutlike kernel of the fruit of either of two trees, Prunus dulcis (sweet almond) or P. dulcis amara (bitter almond) which grow in warm temperate regions.
  • sweet dreams — sleep well
  • swim bladder — air bladder (def 2).
  • systematized — to arrange in or according to a system; reduce to a system; make systematic.
  • tetradrachma — a silver coin of ancient Greece, equal to four drachmas.
  • the demerara — a river in Guyana, rising in the central forest area and flowing north to the Atlantic at Georgetown. Length: 346 km (215 miles)
  • the herdsman — the constellation Boötes
  • the mainland — a particular landmass as viewed from a nearby island with which it has close links, such as Great Britain as viewed from Northern Ireland or continental Australia as viewed from Tasmania
  • the midlands — the central counties of England, including Warwickshire, Northamptonshire, Leicestershire, Nottinghamshire, Derbyshire, Staffordshire, the former West Midlands metropolitan county, and Worcestershire: characterized by manufacturing industries
  • the old adam — the evil supposedly inherent in human nature
  • the red army — the Soviet army
  • 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.
  • third market — a market established by the London Stock Exchange in 1987 to trade in shares in companies required to provide less detailed information than that required by the main market or the unlisted securities market
  • third stream — a style of music that uses features of both jazz and classical music in an attempt to develop a new and distinctive musical idiom.
  • tidal volume — the volume of water associated with a rising tide
  • tinker's dam — the least value or merit; nothing or anything at all: It's not worth a tinker's damn.
  • tom o'bedlam — a roving beggar afflicted with or feigning madness.
  • tombstone ad — a boxed advertisement without artwork or illustrations, especially one announcing an issue of a stock or bond.
  • tragi-comedy — A tragi-comedy is a play or other written work that is both sad and amusing.
  • transmundane — reaching beyond or existing outside the physical or visible world.
  • tree diagram — Mathematics, Linguistics. a diagram in which lines branch out from a central point or stem without forming any closed loops.
  • trudeaumania — obsessional enthusiasm for Pierre Trudeau
  • tryparsamide — a white, crystalline powder, C 8 H 10 O 4 N 2 AsNa·½H 2 , used chiefly in treating African sleeping sickness.
  • turned comma — quotation mark.
  • tyndall beam — the visible path of light produced by the scattering action (Tyndall effect) of the particles in a colloidal solution on a beam of light passed through it.
  • ultramundane — outside or beyond the earth or the orbits of the planets.
  • un-earmarked — any identifying or distinguishing mark or characteristic: The mayor's statement had all the earmarks of dirty politics.
  • un-humanized — to make humane, kind, or gentle.
  • un-laminated — formed of or set in thin layers or laminae.
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