12-letter words containing o, r, d, e, m
- gastrodermal — the inner cell layer of the body of an invertebrate.
- gastrodermis — the inner cell layer of the body of an invertebrate.
- goldsmithery — the occupation of a goldsmith
- good-humored — having or showing a pleasant, amiable mood: a good-humored man; a good-humored remark.
- gormandizers — gourmandise1 .
- gourmandizer — One who gourmandizes.
- grandmothers — Plural form of grandmother.
- haemorrhoids — Plural form of haemorrhoid.
- haemosiderin — Alternative form of hemosiderin.
- hall bedroom — a small bedroom off a corridor, esp. a small bedroom formed by partitioning off the end of an upstairs corridor
- hard-mouthed — of or relating to a horse not sensitive to the pressure of a bit.
- headforemost — headfirst (def 1).
- hemichordate — belonging or pertaining to the chordates of the phylum Hemichordata, comprising small, widely distributed, marine animals, as the acorn worms.
- hemispheroid — half of a spheroid.
- hemodialyzer — artificial kidney.
- hemorrhoidal — Usually, hemorrhoids. Pathology. an abnormally enlarged vein mainly due to a persistent increase in venous pressure, occurring inside the anal sphincter of the rectum and beneath the mucous membrane (internal hemorrhoid) or outside the anal sphincter and beneath the surface of the anal skin (external hemorrhoid)
- heroic drama — Restoration tragedy, especially that popular in England c1660–1700, using highly rhetorical language and written in heroic couplets.
- hindforemost — with the back part in the front place
- holidaymaker — vacationer.
- home address — the address of one's house or flat
- 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.
- homebuilders — Plural form of homebuilder.
- homesteaders — Plural form of homesteader.
- hot-tempered — easily angered; short-tempered.
- hydrobromate — (chemistry) hydrobromide.
- hydrobromide — a salt formed by the direct union of hydrobromic acid and an organic base, especially an alkaloid, usually more soluble than the base.
- hydromedusae — Irregular plural form of hydromedusa.
- hydrometeors — Plural form of hydrometeor.
- hydrothermal — noting or pertaining to the action of hot, aqueous solutions or gases within or on the surface of the earth.
- idiothermous — warm-blooded
- ill-informed — lacking adequate or proper knowledge or information, as in one particular subject or in a variety of subjects: The public is ill-informed of the danger.
- immoderately — In an immoderate manner.
- immoderation — lack of moderation.
- immortalised — to bestow unending fame upon; perpetuate.
- immortalized — to bestow unending fame upon; perpetuate.
- impardonable — (obsolete) unpardonable.
- imperforated — Also, imperforated. not perforate; having no perforation.
- 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.
- import trade — goods, services and products brought into a country and which were bought from another country
- impoverished — reduced to poverty.
- improvidence — not provident; lacking foresight; incautious; unwary.
- indemnitors' — a person or company that gives indemnity.
- informidable — (obsolete) Not formidable; not to be feared or dreaded.
- iridectomies — Plural form of iridectomy.
- iridectomize — to perform an iridectomy on.
- isodiametric — having equal diameters or axes.
- 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
- ladies' room — a public lavatory for women.
- lampadedromy — (in ancient Greece) a relay race in which the runners or riders carried a lighted torch