12-letter words containing e, r, y, m
- diathermancy — the property of transmitting infrared radiation
- diet pyramid — food pyramid (def 2).
- dinner money — money given to school children to buy dinner at school
- dipyridamole — a yellow crystalline powder, C 24 H 40 N 8 O 4 , used prophylactically for angina pectoris and in combination with other drugs to reduce thrombus formation.
- dirty-minded — tending to have vulgar, obscene, or lewd thoughts, interpretations, etc.
- disopyramide — a substance, C 21 H 29 N 3 O, used in its phosphate form in the symptomatic and prophylactic treatment of certain cardiac arrhythmias.
- dissymmetric — Asymmetric.
- double rhyme — a rhyme either of two syllables of which the second is unstressed (double rhyme) as in motion, notion, or of three syllables of which the second and third are unstressed (triple rhyme) as in fortunate, importunate.
- duple rhythm — a rhythmic pattern created by a succession of disyllabic feet.
- dusty miller — Botany. any of several composite plants, as Centaurea cineraria, Senecio cineraria, or the beach wormwood, having pinnate leaves covered with whitish pubescence. rose campion.
- duty manager — A duty manager is a person who is in charge at a particular time.
- dyer's-broom — woadwaxen.
- dynamometers — Plural form of dynamometer.
- dynamometric — Relating to dynamometry.
- dysmenorrhea — painful menstruation.
- early modern — designating or of the period of European history from the end of the Middle Ages (c. 1450) to c. 1750
- east germany — a former country in central Europe: created in 1949 from the Soviet zone of occupied Germany established in 1945: reunited with West Germany in 1990. 41,827 sq. mi. (108,333 sq. km). Capital: East Berlin.
- eleemosynary — Of, relating to, or dependent on charity; charitable.
- elementarily — In an elementary way.
- emancipatory — Of or pertaining to emancipation or to an emancipator.
- embryologist — An expert or specialist in embryology.
- emolumentary — advantageous; tending towards emolument
- empty-nester — a married person whose children have grown up and left home
- empyreumatic — relating to empyreuma
- energy-smart — using electrical power in an efficient or economical way
- entry permit — customs
- ephemerality — (uncountable) The state or condition of being ephemeral; transience.
- erythematous — Of or pertaining to erythema.
- erythroderma — An inflammatory skin disease with erythema and scaling that affects nearly the entire cutaneous surface.
- erythromycin — An antibiotic used in the treatment of infections caused by Gram-positive bacteria. It is similar in its effects to penicillin.
- ethylmercury — (chemistry) The organometallic cation CH3CH2Hg+; it is a toxicant that does not seem to accumulate in the environment.
- extemporally — In an extemporal manner.
- extramurally — In an extramural manner.
- featurectomy — /fee"ch*r-ek"t*-mee/ The act of removing a feature from a program. Featurectomies come in two flavours, the "righteous" and the "reluctant". Righteous featurectomies are performed because the remover believes the program would be more elegant without the feature, or there is already an equivalent and better way to achieve the same end. (Doing so is not quite the same thing as removing a misfeature.) Reluctant featurectomies are performed to satisfy some external constraint such as code size or execution speed.
- female rhyme — feminine rhyme.
- fermi energy — the level in the distribution of electron energies in a solid at which a quantum state is equally likely to be occupied or empty
- fire company — a company of firefighters.
- flash memory — Computers. a type of reprogrammable memory that retains information even with the power turned off.
- flimflammery — a trick or deception, especially a swindle or confidence game involving skillful persuasion or clever manipulation of the victim.
- fly in amber — a strange relic or reminder of the past
- flyfisherman — Flyfisher.
- flyfishermen — Plural form of flyfisherman.
- flying lemur — either of two lemurlike mammals, Cynocephalus variegatus, of southeastern Asia and the East Indies, or C. volans, of the Philippines, having broad folds of skin on both sides of the body to aid in gliding from tree to tree: now rare.
- formaldehyde — a colorless, toxic, potentially carcinogenic, water-soluble gas, CH 2 O, having a suffocating odor, usually derived from methyl alcohol by oxidation: used chiefly in aqueous solution, as a disinfectant and preservative, and in the manufacture of various resins and plastics.
- fort mchenry — a town in NE Illinois.
- fragmentally — fragmentary.
- free company — a band of free companions.
- frolicsomely — In a frolicsome manner.
- from day one — from the very beginning
- galvanometry — the method or process of determining the strength of electric currents.