12-letter words containing m, o, n, a, d
- early modern — designating or of the period of European history from the end of the Middle Ages (c. 1450) to c. 1750
- earth almond — chufa.
- echinodermal — (zoology) Relating or belonging to the echinoderms.
- enamoredness — Quality of being enamored; love; infatuation.
- endeavorment — Act of endeavouring; effort.
- endomembrane — (biology) All the membraneous components inside a eukaryotic cell, including the nuclear envelope, endoplastic reticulum, and Golgi apparatus.
- endometrioma — An ovarian cyst caused by endometriosis.
- endothelioma — Any of various mostly benign neoplasms derived from the endothelium of blood vessels or lymph channels.
- fibroadenoma — a benign tumor originating from glandular tissue, as in the female breast.
- foreadmonish — (rare, transitive) To admonish beforehand, or before the act or event.
- fort madison — a city in SE Iowa, on the Mississippi.
- from day one — from the very beginning
- gladsomeness — (archaic) gladness.
- gold farming — the practice of selling virtual assets gained in a computer game for real money
- gordian worm — nematomorph.
- gormandising — Present participle of gormandise.
- gormandizers — gourmandise1 .
- gormandizing — Present participle of gormandize.
- gourmandizer — One who gourmandizes.
- grandmothers — Plural form of grandmother.
- haemodynamic — Alternative spelling of hemodynamic.
- haemosiderin — Alternative form of hemosiderin.
- hamming code — (algorithm) Extra, redundant bits added to stored or transmitted data for the purposes of error detection and correction. Named after the mathematician Richard Hamming, Hamming codes greatly improve the reliability of data, e.g. from distant space probes, where it is impractical, because of the long transmission delay, to correct errors by requesting retransmission.
- hand-me-down — an article of clothing passed on to another person after being used, outgrown, etc.: The younger children wore the hand-me-downs of the older ones.
- handsomeness — The quality of being handsome.
- harmonichord — a musical instrument resembling an upright piano intended to fuse the sound of a violin with the functionality of a piano, the tone therefore produced using friction rather than through striking
- hemodynamics — the branch of physiology dealing with the forces involved in the circulation of the blood.
- high command — the leadership or highest authority of a military command or other organization.
- home and dry — If you say that someone is, in British English home and dry, or in American English home free, you mean that they have been successful or that they are certain to be successful.
- homesteading — a dwelling with its land and buildings, occupied by the owner as a home and exempted by a homestead law from seizure or sale for debt.
- homodynamous — (biology) Pertaining to, or involving, homodynamy.
- hope diamond — a sapphire-blue Indian diamond, the largest blue diamond in the world, weighing 44.5 carats and supposedly cut from a bigger diamond that was once part of the French crown jewels: now in the Smithsonian Institution.
- huffman code — Huffman coding
- human comedy — French La Comédie Humaine. a collected edition of tales and novels in 17 volumes (1842–48) by Honoré de Balzac.
- hydrodynamic — pertaining to forces in or motions of liquids.
- hypogonadism — diminished hormonal or reproductive functioning in the testes or the ovaries.
- iceland moss — an edible lichen, Cetraria islandica, of arctic regions, containing a starchlike substance used in medicine.
- idiodynamics — a system of beliefs in psychology emphasizing the role of the personality in choosing stimuli and in organizing responses.
- immoderation — lack of moderation.
- impardonable — (obsolete) unpardonable.
- impersonated — to assume the character or appearance of; pretend to be: He was arrested for impersonating a police officer.
- imponderable — not ponderable; that cannot be precisely determined, measured, or evaluated.
- indo-malayan — of Indian and Malayan origin, sponsorship, etc.
- indomethacin — a substance, C 19 H 16 ClNO 4 , with anti-inflammatory, antipyretic, and analgesic properties: used in the treatment of certain kinds of arthritis and gout.
- informidable — (obsolete) Not formidable; not to be feared or dreaded.
- infrakingdom — (taxonomy) A taxonomic category sometimes inserted below subkingdom.
- intimidation — to make timid; fill with fear.
- intimidators — Plural form of intimidator.
- intimidatory — to make timid; fill with fear.
- jameson raid — an expedition into the Transvaal in 1895 led by Sir Leander Starr Jameson (1853–1917) in an unsuccessful attempt to topple its Boer regime