12-letter words containing t, i, m, d
- postmeridian — of or relating to the afternoon.
- postmidnight — the middle of the night; twelve o'clock at night.
- pot marigold — calendula (def 1).
- predetermine — to settle or decide in advance: He had predetermined his answer to the offer.
- premedicated — to treat with medicine or medicaments.
- premeditated — done deliberately; planned in advance: a premeditated murder.
- promuscidate — shaped like a proboscis
- pseudonymity — pseudonymous character.
- pteridomania — an excessive enthusiasm for ferns
- pteridosperm — seed fern.
- radioelement — a radioactive element.
- radiomimetic — (of drugs) producing effects similar to those produced by X-rays
- radiothorium — a disintegration product of thorium.
- re-submitted — to give over or yield to the power or authority of another (often used reflexively).
- readmittance — the act or process of admitting someone or something again
- redemptioner — an emigrant from Europe to America who obtained passage by becoming an indentured servant for a specified period of time.
- redemptively — serving to redeem.
- redemptorist — a member of the “Congregation of the Most Holy Redeemer,” founded by St. Alphonsus Liguori in 1732.
- redetermined — to settle or decide (a dispute, question, etc.) by an authoritative or conclusive decision.
- reductionism — the theory that every complex phenomenon, especially in biology or psychology, can be explained by analyzing the simplest, most basic physical mechanisms that are in operation during the phenomenon.
- reindictment — an act of indicting.
- rhytidectomy — face-lift.
- right-minded — having correct, honest, or good opinions or principles.
- rigid motion — any transformation, as a translation or rotation, of a set such that the distance between points is preserved.
- rimmed steel — a low-carbon steel containing enough iron oxide so that there is continuous generation of carbon monoxide during solidification.
- romanticized — interpreted according to romantic precepts
- scott domain — An algebraic, boundedly complete, complete partial order. Often simply called a domain.
- sedimentable — capable of forming sediment
- self-limited — (of a disease) running a definite and limited course.
- semi-dormant — lying asleep or as if asleep; inactive, as in sleep; torpid: The lecturer's sudden shout woke the dormant audience.
- semiattached — partially attached; semidetached.
- semideponent — (of a Latin verb) active in meaning but passive in form in the perfect tense
- semidetached — partly detached.
- semidiameter — half of a diameter; radius.
- semidominant — producing an intermediate, heterozygous phenotype
- shield match — a cricket match for the Sheffield Shield
- shittim wood — the wood, probably acacia, of which the ark of the covenant and various parts of the tabernacle were made. Ex. 25, 26.
- smith island — a group of islands in S Maryland and N Virginia, in Chesapeake Bay.
- sodium light — the light produced by a sodium lamp
- spermaticide — spermicide.
- spermatocide — spermicide.
- spermatozoid — a motile male gamete produced in an antheridium.
- standpattism — belief in or the practice of resisting or refusing to accept change, especially in politics.
- steam-driven — powered by steam
- stem-winding — wound by turning a knob at the stem.
- storm window — a supplementary window sash for protecting a window against drafts, driving rain, etc.
- stress-timed — having a rhythm in which stressed syllables tend to occur at regular intervals of time, regardless of the number of intervening unstressed syllables.
- striped drum — a North American marine and freshwater sciaenid fish, Equetus pulcher, that utters a drumming sound
- surinam toad — a South American aquatic frog, Pipa pipa, the female of which carries the eggs and tadpoles in small depressions on its back.
- syndactylism — having certain digits joined together.