12-letter words containing m, i, e, d
- seam binding — a narrow strip of fabric attached to the unfinished edge of a seam or hem to keep it from raveling.
- secd machine — Stack Environment Control Dump machine
- sedge family — the plant family Cyperaceae, characterized by herbaceous plants, often found in wet areas, having solid stems, narrow, grasslike leaves with closed sheaths, spikes of very small flowers set in a scalelike bract, and a dry, flattened, convex fruit, and including the bulrush, chufa, cotton grass, papyrus, and umbrella plant.
- sedimentable — capable of forming sediment
- self-damning — causing incrimination: damning evidence.
- self-imposed — imposed on one by oneself: a self-imposed task.
- self-limited — (of a disease) running a definite and limited course.
- semi-dormant — lying asleep or as if asleep; inactive, as in sleep; torpid: The lecturer's sudden shout woke the dormant audience.
- semi-invalid — a person who is partially disabled or somewhat infirm
- semi-nomadic — of, relating to, or characteristic of nomads.
- semi-skilled — A semi-skilled worker has some training and skills, but not enough to do specialized work.
- semi-skimmed — (of milk) having part of the cream removed, so it contains less animal fat and fewer calories than full cream milk
- semiattached — partially attached; semidetached.
- semicylinder — half of a cylinder divided lengthwise.
- semidarkness — partial darkness.
- semideponent — (of a Latin verb) active in meaning but passive in form in the perfect tense
- semidetached — partly detached.
- semidiameter — half of a diameter; radius.
- semidominant — producing an intermediate, heterozygous phenotype
- semifinished — partially or almost finished.
- semipellucid — somewhat pellucid; partially translucent or transparent
- shield match — a cricket match for the Sheffield Shield
- siderochrome — any of various chemical compounds functioning in the transport of iron in bacteria.
- sierra madre — a mountain range extending from S Wyoming into N Colorado.
- silver medal — a medal, traditionally of silver or silver in color, awarded to a person or team finishing second in a competition, meet, or tournament.
- silver mound — a perennial Japanese herb, Artemisia schmidtiana, having silver-green leaves forming a moundlike shape.
- simpleminded — free of deceit or guile; artless or unsophisticated.
- single modal — modal (def 3).
- skimmed milk — milk from which the cream has been skimmed.
- slim disease — a form of AIDS common in Africa, marked by emaciation and fever.
- small-minded — selfish, petty, or narrow-minded.
- sober-minded — rational; sensible.
- 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.
- spermaticide — spermicide.
- spermatocide — spermicide.
- spermatozoid — a motile male gamete produced in an antheridium.
- steam-driven — powered by steam
- stem-winding — wound by turning a knob at the stem.
- stress-timed — having a rhythm in which stressed syllables tend to occur at regular intervals of time, regardless of the number of intervening unstressed syllables.
- striped drum — a North American marine and freshwater sciaenid fish, Equetus pulcher, that utters a drumming sound
- sub-mediocre — of only ordinary or moderate quality; neither good nor bad; barely adequate: The car gets only mediocre mileage, but it's fun to drive. Synonyms: undistinguished, commonplace, pedestrian, everyday; run-of-the-mill. Antonyms: extraordinary, superior, uncommon, incomparable.
- 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
- superimposed — (of a stream or drainage system) having a course not adjusted to the structure of the rocks presently undergoing erosion but determined rather by a prior erosion cycle or by formerly overlying rocks or sediments.
- superkingdom — in some systems of biological classification, either of the two major subdivisions, prokaryote or eukaryote, into which all living organisms can be placed
- swedish mile — a unit of length used in Sweden, equal to 10 kilometres
- swim bladder — air bladder (def 2).
- synecdochism — the use of synecdoche
- systematized — to arrange in or according to a system; reduce to a system; make systematic.