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

  • 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.
  • premedicated — to treat with medicine or medicaments.
  • premeditated — done deliberately; planned in advance: a premeditated murder.
  • promuscidate — shaped like a proboscis
  • pseudomartyr — someone falsely or inaccurately called a martyr
  • pteridomania — an excessive enthusiasm for ferns
  • radioelement — a radioactive element.
  • radiomimetic — (of drugs) producing effects similar to those produced by X-rays
  • rammed earth — a mixture of sand, loam, clay, and other ingredients rammed hard within forms as a building material.
  • readjustment — an act of readjusting or the state of being readjusted.
  • readmittance — the act or process of admitting someone or something again
  • rear-mounted — (of an engine, etc) fitted at the back of a vehicle
  • returned man — a member of the armed forces discharged in Canada after service overseas.
  • rhodomontade — rodomontade
  • rodomontader — a person who boasts or brags
  • romanticized — interpreted according to romantic precepts
  • sedimentable — capable of forming sediment
  • semi-dormant — lying asleep or as if asleep; inactive, as in sleep; torpid: The lecturer's sudden shout woke the dormant audience.
  • semiattached — partially attached; semidetached.
  • semidetached — partly detached.
  • semidiameter — half of a diameter; radius.
  • semidominant — producing an intermediate, heterozygous phenotype
  • shield match — a cricket match for the Sheffield Shield
  • smooth-faced — beardless; smooth-shaven.
  • 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.
  • 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.
  • 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
  • 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.
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