12-letter words containing r, m, o, d, p
- hemispheroid — half of a spheroid.
- hippodroming — (baseball) present participle of hippodrome; Staging games to suit gamblers, especially baseball.
- hot-tempered — easily angered; short-tempered.
- hydromorphic — of or relating to soil having characteristics that are developed when there is excess water all or part of the time.
- hydrotropism — oriented growth in response to water.
- imidacloprid — The insecticide 1-(6-chloro-3-pyridylmethyl)-N-nitroimidazolidin-2-ylideneamine used to control fleas in domestic pets.
- 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.
- lampadedromy — (in ancient Greece) a relay race in which the runners or riders carried a lighted torch
- leopard moth — a moth, Zeuzera pyrina, having white wings spotted with black and larvae that bore into the wood of various trees and shrubs.
- loading ramp — a ramp that is used for loading a ship
- madreporites — Plural form of madreporite.
- mass-produce — to produce or manufacture (goods) in large quantities, especially by machinery.
- media person — a person who works in the mass media
- mediatorship — the position of a mediator
- microchipped — Simple past tense and past participle of microchip.
- microprinted — printed in microprint
- milk product — Milk products are foods made from milk, for example butter, cheese, and yoghurt.
- mimeographed — Simple past tense and past participle of mimeograph.
- mond process — a process for obtaining nickel by heating the ore in carbon monoxide to produce nickel carbonyl vapour, which is then decomposed at a higher temperature to yield the metal
- money spider — any of certain small shiny brownish spiders of the family Linyphiidae
- monodisperse — (of a colloid) Having particles of (approximately) the same size.
- mousetrapped — Simple past tense and past participle of mousetrap.
- multiproduct — a thing produced by labor: products of farm and factory; the product of his thought.
- multipronged — having or composed of several prongs: a multipronged electric plug.
- name-dropper — a person who indulges in name-dropping.
- newspaperdom — The realm or sphere of newspaper publishing or journalism.
- normed space — any vector space on which a norm is defined.
- obcompressed — compressed or flattened in a way opposite to the usual, as back to front instead of side to side.
- ombudsperson — ombudsman (def 2).
- outperformed — Simple past tense and past participle of outperform.
- pachydermous — any of the thick-skinned, nonruminant ungulates, as the elephant, hippopotamus, and rhinoceros.
- paedomorphic — showing signs of paedomorphism
- palindromist — a word, line, verse, number, sentence, etc., reading the same backward as forward, as Madam, I'm Adam or Poor Dan is in a droop.
- parade armor — ornamented armor worn only for ceremonial purposes.
- pedomorphism — a speeding up of the rate of development, resulting in an adult form that has the appearance of its larval or juvenile ancestor.
- period drama — a drama set in a particular historical period
- periodontium — the bone, connective tissue, and gum surrounding and supporting a tooth.
- permissioned — authorization granted to do something; formal consent: to ask permission to leave the room.
- picture mold — a molding near a ceiling from which pictures can be suspended.
- 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.
- pompeian red — a dull, grayish red.
- post-fordism — the idea that modern industrial production has moved away from mass production in huge factories, as pioneered by Henry Ford, towards specialized markets based on small flexible manufacturing units
- postmeridian — of or relating to the afternoon.
- pot marigold — calendula (def 1).