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12-letter words containing n, o, m, a, d, e

  • mouse around — To explore public portions of a large system, especially a network such as Internet via FTP or TELNET, looking for interesting stuff to snarf.
  • muddle along — If you muddle along, you live or exist without a proper plan or purpose in your life.
  • muttonheaded — a slow-witted, foolish, or stupid person; dolt.
  • name-dropper — a person who indulges in name-dropping.
  • narrowminded — Alternative spelling of narrow-minded.
  • nasal demons — Recognised shorthand on the Usenet group comp.std.c for any unexpected behaviour of a C compiler on encountering an undefined construct. During a discussion on that group in early 1992, a regular remarked "When the compiler encounters [a given undefined construct] it is legal for it to make demons fly out of your nose" (the implication is that the compiler may choose any arbitrarily bizarre way to interpret the code without violating the ANSI C standard). Someone else followed up with a reference to "nasal demons", which quickly became established.
  • neofeudalism — A theorized contemporary rebirth of policies of governance, economy and public life reminiscent of those present in many feudal societies.
  • newspaperdom — The realm or sphere of newspaper publishing or journalism.
  • nicotinamide — a colorless, crystalline, water-soluble solid, C 6 H 6 N 2 O, the amide of nicotinic acid, and a component of the vitamin-B complex, found in meat, liver, fish, whole wheat, and eggs: used in medicine chiefly as an agent for preventing or treating human pellagra or animal black tongue.
  • no harm done — If you say that there is no harm done, you are telling someone not to worry about something that has happened because it has not caused any serious injury or damage.
  • non-remedial — affording remedy; tending to remedy something.
  • nonautomated — not automated or operated by machines
  • nondemanding — not demanding
  • nonmedically — In a nonmedical manner.
  • nonmedicinal — Not medicinal.
  • normed space — any vector space on which a norm is defined.
  • oleandomycin — a macrolide antibiotic used to treat skin infections
  • omnidistance — the distance between an omnirange station and a receiver.
  • one-man band — A one-man band is a street entertainer who wears and plays a lot of different instruments at the same time.
  • online media — Acorn Online Media
  • organic mode — (programming)   A term used by COCOMO to describe a project that is developed in a familiar, stable environment. The product is similar to previously developed products. Most people connected with the project have extensive experience in working with related systems and have a thorough understanding of the project. The project contains a minimum of innovative data processing architectures or algorithms. The product requires little innovation and is relatively small, rarely greater than 50,000 DSIs.
  • ormond beach — a town in NE Florida.
  • overdominant — excessively dominant
  • overmannered — excessively mannered
  • payment bond — See under contract bond.
  • pompeian red — a dull, grayish red.
  • postmeridian — of or relating to the afternoon.
  • preadmission — (in a reciprocating engine) admission of steam or the like to the head of the cylinder near the end of the stroke, as to cushion the force of the stroke or to allow full pressure at the beginning of the return stroke.
  • predominance — the state, condition, or quality of being predominant: the predominance of the rich over the poor.
  • pseudoanemia — Pathology. a quantitative deficiency of the hemoglobin, often accompanied by a reduced number of red blood cells and causing pallor, weakness, and breathlessness.
  • pseudorandom — noting or pertaining to random numbers generated by a definite computational process to satisfy a statistical test.
  • pteridomania — an excessive enthusiasm for ferns
  • pyridoxamine — a metabolic form of pyridoxine
  • radioelement — a radioactive element.
  • random error — an error that has a random distribution and can be attributed to chance.
  • 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.
  • reading room — a room set aside for reading, as in a library or club.
  • rear-mounted — (of an engine, etc) fitted at the back of a vehicle
  • rhodomontade — rodomontade
  • road manager — The road manager of someone such as a singer or sports player is the person who organizes their travel and other arrangements during a tour.
  • rodomontader — a person who boasts or brags
  • roman candle — a firework consisting of a tube that sends out a shower of sparks and a succession of balls of fire.
  • romanticized — interpreted according to romantic precepts
  • 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
  • sarcoadenoma — adenosarcoma.
  • self-command — self-control.
  • semi-dormant — lying asleep or as if asleep; inactive, as in sleep; torpid: The lecturer's sudden shout woke the dormant audience.
  • semi-nomadic — of, relating to, or characteristic of nomads.
  • semidominant — producing an intermediate, heterozygous phenotype
  • shoshone dam — a dam on the Shoshone River. 328 feet (100 meters) high.
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