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

  • premium bond — In Britain, premium bonds are numbered tickets that are sold by the government. Each month, a computer selects several numbers, and the people whose tickets have those numbers win money.
  • premium deal — a commercial transaction in which a special incentive or bonus is offered
  • promuscidate — shaped like a proboscis
  • pseudoanemia — Pathology. a quantitative deficiency of the hemoglobin, often accompanied by a reduced number of red blood cells and causing pallor, weakness, and breathlessness.
  • pseudonymity — pseudonymous character.
  • pseudopodium — pseudopod.
  • pteridomania — an excessive enthusiasm for ferns
  • pteridosperm — seed fern.
  • pumpkin head — a slow or dim-witted person; dunce.
  • purple medic — a plant, Medicago sativa, of the legume family, usually having bluish-purple flowers, originating in the Near East and widely cultivated as a forage crop.
  • pygmy glider — a gliding marsupial, Acrobates pygmaeus, of Australia, growing to about the size of a mouse and having a featherlike tail.
  • pyramid peak — a mountain in W central Colorado, in the Elk Range, in the S Rocky Mountains. 14,018 feet (4276 meters).
  • pyrazinamide — a substance, C 5 H 5 N 3 O, used in the treatment of tuberculosis.
  • pyridoxamine — a metabolic form of pyridoxine
  • quadragesima — the first Sunday in Lent.
  • quadriennium — quadrennium.
  • racemic acid — an isomeric modification of tartaric acid that is sometimes found in the juice of grapes in conjunction with the common dextrorotatory form and is optically inactive but can be separated into the two usual isomeric forms, dextrorotatory and levorotatory.
  • radioelement — a radioactive element.
  • radiomimetic — (of drugs) producing effects similar to those produced by X-rays
  • 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
  • re-submitted — to give over or yield to the power or authority of another (often used reflexively).
  • reading lamp — A reading lamp is a small lamp that you keep on a desk or table. You can move part of it in order to direct the light to where you need it for reading.
  • reading room — a room set aside for reading, as in a library or club.
  • readmittance — the act or process of admitting someone or something again
  • rear admiral — U.S. Navy, Coast Guard. a commissioned officer next in rank below a vice-admiral.
  • 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.
  • redemptively — serving to redeem.
  • redemptorist — a member of the “Congregation of the Most Holy Redeemer,” founded by St. Alphonsus Liguori in 1732.
  • redetermined — to settle or decide (a dispute, question, etc.) by an authoritative or conclusive decision.
  • 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.
  • reemphasized — to give emphasis to; lay stress upon; stress: to emphasize a point; to emphasize the eyes with mascara.
  • reindictment — an act of indicting.
  • remainderman — a person who owns a remainder.
  • remedilessly — in a remediless manner, beyond remedy
  • reprimanding — a severe reproof or rebuke, especially a formal one by a person in authority.
  • reward claim — a claim granted to a miner who discovered gold in a new area
  • rhytidectomy — face-lift.
  • right-minded — having correct, honest, or good opinions or principles.
  • rimmed steel — a low-carbon steel containing enough iron oxide so that there is continuous generation of carbon monoxide during solidification.
  • 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
  • salamandrine — any tailed amphibian of the order Caudata, having a soft, moist, scaleless skin, typically aquatic as a larva and semiterrestrial as an adult: several species are endangered.
  • salicylamide — a compound of ammonia and gualtheria oil
  • scheme-linda — A Scheme interface to Linda written by Ulf Dahlen of University of Edinburgh in 1990. It runs on the Computing Surface and the Symmetry.
  • schneiderman — Rose, 1884–1972, U.S. labor leader, born in Poland.
  • sclerodermic — of or relating to a scleroderm or to sclerodermia; hard-skinned
  • scrimshander — a person who makes scrimshaw objects.
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