12-letter words containing o, e, d, m, a
- mousetrapped — Simple past tense and past participle of mousetrap.
- moustachioed — Alternative spelling of moustachio\u2019d.
- 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.
- muzzleloader — a firearm that is loaded through the muzzle.
- myxedematous — a condition characterized by thickening of the skin, blunting of the senses and intellect, and labored speech, associated with hypothyroidism.
- 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.
- oboe d'amore — a type of oboe pitched a minor third lower than the oboe itself. It is used chiefly in the performance of baroque music
- oboe d'amour — an oboe with a bulb-shaped bell that is pitched a minor third below the range of the conventional oboe and was much used in music of the Baroque period.
- 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.
- otitis media — inflammation of the middle ear, characterized by pain, dizziness, and impaired hearing.
- overdominant — excessively dominant
- overdramatic — of or relating to the drama.
- overmannered — excessively mannered
- overmedicate — to treat with medicine or medicaments.
- oxford frame — a frame for a picture, mirror, etc., consisting of four straight pieces whose ends project beyond the corners.
- pachydermous — any of the thick-skinned, nonruminant ungulates, as the elephant, hippopotamus, and rhinoceros.
- paedobaptism — the baptism of infants
- paedomorphic — showing signs of paedomorphism
- parade armor — ornamented armor worn only for ceremonial purposes.
- payment bond — See under contract bond.
- period drama — a drama set in a particular historical period
- platform bed — a bed, originating in Scandinavia in the 1930s, consisting of a simple shallow box for holding a mattress situated on a slightly recessed pedestal.
- poète maudit — a poet who receives insufficient recognition in his or her own time
- pompeian red — a dull, grayish red.
- postmedieval — occurring or existing after the Middle Ages, of or related to the period after the Middle Ages
- postmeridian — of or relating to the afternoon.
- praseodymium — a rare-earth, metallic, trivalent element, named from its green salts. Symbol: Pr; atomic weight: 140.91; atomic number: 59; specific gravity: 6.77 at 20°C.
- 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.
- 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.
- promuscidate — shaped like a proboscis
- pseudamphora — a Mycenaean vase having a spherical body, a spout on the shoulder, and a handle, curving across the top, supported by a solid conical neck.