12-letter words containing y, a, m, e, r
- compensatory — Compensatory payments involve money paid as compensation.
- condemnatory — Condemnatory means expressing strong disapproval.
- contemporary — Contemporary things are modern and relate to the present time.
- cotemporally — At the same time.
- coxey's army — Jacob Sechler [sech-ler] /ˈsɛtʃ lər/ (Show IPA), 1854–1951, U.S. political reformer: led a group of unemployed marchers (Coxey's army) in 1894 from Ohio to Washington, D.C., to petition Congress for legislation to create jobs and relieve poverty.
- crape myrtle — an oriental lythraceous shrub, Lagerstroemia indica, cultivated in warm climates for its pink, red, or white flowers
- cream sherry — a full-bodied sweet sherry
- crumble away — disintegrate
- crymotherapy — cryotherapy.
- cryptomerias — Plural form of cryptomeria.
- cryptomnesia — the reappearance of a suppressed or forgotten memory which is mistaken for a new experience
- crystal meth — crystal methamphetamine, a concentrated and highly potent form of methamphetamine with dangerous side effects
- cyber monday — the Monday after Thanksgiving, one of the busiest online shopping days.
- cyma reversa — a cyma whose convex part projects beyond the concave part.
- cytomembrane — a membrane around a cell that encloses cytoplasm and acts as a semi-permeable barrier
- dairy farmer — a farmer who has a herd producing milk
- danger money — extra money paid to compensate for the risks involved in certain dangerous jobs
- daydreamlike — resembling a daydream
- deambulatory — a place for walking often with a covering overhead
- delta rhythm — the normal electrical activity of the cerebral cortex during deep sleep, occurring at a frequency of 1 to 4 hertz and detectable with an electroencephalograph
- demonography — a treatise on demons.
- demonstrably — capable of being demonstrated or proved.
- dermatophyte — any parasitic fungus that affects the skin
- desquamatory — an obsolete surgical instrument once used for the desquamation of bones
- determinably — In a determinable way.
- diathermancy — the property of transmitting infrared radiation
- diet pyramid — food pyramid (def 2).
- dipyridamole — a yellow crystalline powder, C 24 H 40 N 8 O 4 , used prophylactically for angina pectoris and in combination with other drugs to reduce thrombus formation.
- disopyramide — a substance, C 21 H 29 N 3 O, used in its phosphate form in the symptomatic and prophylactic treatment of certain cardiac arrhythmias.
- duty manager — A duty manager is a person who is in charge at a particular time.
- dynamometers — Plural form of dynamometer.
- dynamometric — Relating to dynamometry.
- dysmenorrhea — painful menstruation.
- early modern — designating or of the period of European history from the end of the Middle Ages (c. 1450) to c. 1750
- east germany — a former country in central Europe: created in 1949 from the Soviet zone of occupied Germany established in 1945: reunited with West Germany in 1990. 41,827 sq. mi. (108,333 sq. km). Capital: East Berlin.
- eleemosynary — Of, relating to, or dependent on charity; charitable.
- elementarily — In an elementary way.
- emancipatory — Of or pertaining to emancipation or to an emancipator.
- emolumentary — advantageous; tending towards emolument
- empyreumatic — relating to empyreuma
- energy-smart — using electrical power in an efficient or economical way
- ephemerality — (uncountable) The state or condition of being ephemeral; transience.
- erythematous — Of or pertaining to erythema.
- erythroderma — An inflammatory skin disease with erythema and scaling that affects nearly the entire cutaneous surface.
- extemporally — In an extemporal manner.
- extramurally — In an extramural manner.
- featurectomy — /fee"ch*r-ek"t*-mee/ The act of removing a feature from a program. Featurectomies come in two flavours, the "righteous" and the "reluctant". Righteous featurectomies are performed because the remover believes the program would be more elegant without the feature, or there is already an equivalent and better way to achieve the same end. (Doing so is not quite the same thing as removing a misfeature.) Reluctant featurectomies are performed to satisfy some external constraint such as code size or execution speed.
- female rhyme — feminine rhyme.
- fire company — a company of firefighters.
- flash memory — Computers. a type of reprogrammable memory that retains information even with the power turned off.