12-letter words containing a, c, o, r, d, s
- discorporate — Having no material body.
- discouraging — to deprive of courage, hope, or confidence; dishearten; dispirit.
- discoverable — to see, get knowledge of, learn of, find, or find out; gain sight or knowledge of (something previously unseen or unknown): to discover America; to discover electricity. Synonyms: detect, espy, descry, discern, ascertain, unearth, ferret out, notice.
- discretional — discretionary.
- disordinance — (obsolete) disarrangement; disturbance.
- distractions — Plural form of distraction.
- doctrinaires — Plural form of doctrinaire.
- dodecandrous — (of a plant) having twelve stamens
- dominatrices — Plural form of dominatrixThe 'Concise Oxford English Dictionary' [Eleventh Edition].
- door scraper — a small horizontal bar fixed to the ground near a door where visitors can scrape mud from their shoes before entering
- drama school — a college which trains students (who are generally 18+) to act
- droseraceous — of or relating to the genus of plants Drosera
- endocarditis — Inflammation of the endocardium.
- endovascular — Within a blood vessel.
- eradications — Plural form of eradication.
- fascia-board — a band or fillet, as for binding the hair.
- fidel castro — Cipriano [sip-ree-ah-noh;; Spanish see-pree-ah-naw] /ˌsɪp riˈɑ noʊ;; Spanish ˌsi priˈɑ nɔ/ (Show IPA), 1858?–1924, Venezuelan military and political leader: president 1901–08; exiled 1908.
- grade school — an elementary school that has its pupils grouped or classified into grades.
- harpsichords — Plural form of harpsichord.
- hidrocystoma — An adenoma of the sweat glands.
- hydrocarbons — any of a class of compounds containing only hydrogen and carbon, as an alkane, methane, CH 4 , an alkene, ethylene, C 2 H 4 , an alkyne, acetylene, C 2 H 2 , or an aromatic compound, benzene, C 6 H 6 .
- hydroelastic — undergoing a change in elasticity as a result of the flow of water or another fluid
- hydronautics — (nautical) The science of the design and construction of ships, their engines, and their instrumentation.
- hydrostatics — the branch of hydrodynamics that deals with the statics of fluids, usually confined to the equilibrium and pressure of liquids.
- icosahedrons — Plural form of icosahedron.
- idiosyncracy — Alternative spelling of idiosyncrasy.
- idiosyncrasy — A mode of behavior or way of thought peculiar to an individual.
- iracundulous — easily angered or irritable
- isodiametric — having equal diameters or axes.
- judicatories — Plural form of judicatory.
- marsh orchid — any of various orchids of the genus Dactylorhiza, growing in damp places and having mostly purplish flowers
- mass-produce — to produce or manufacture (goods) in large quantities, especially by machinery.
- microreaders — Plural form of microreader.
- misericordia — (legal, obsolete) An amercement.
- morris dance — a rural folk dance of north English origin, performed in costume traditionally by men who originally represented characters of the Robin Hood legend, especially in May Day festivities.
- narcodollars — Usually, narcodollars. money obtained through illegal drug trafficking.
- nitrous acid — an acid, HNO 2 , known only in solution.
- nonbroadcast — not broadcast to a wide audience, supplied on a hidden or private network
- normed space — any vector space on which a norm is defined.
- noticeboards — Plural form of noticeboard.
- on the cards — likely
- orchard bush — open savanna country with occasional trees and scrub, as found north of the W African forest belt
- orchestrated — Simple past tense and past participle of orchestrate.
- orchidaceous — belonging to the plant family Orchidaceae.
- orthopaedics — (used with a singular verb) the medical specialty concerned with correction of deformities or functional impairments of the skeletal system, especially the extremities and the spine, and associated structures, as muscles and ligaments.
- pachydermous — any of the thick-skinned, nonruminant ungulates, as the elephant, hippopotamus, and rhinoceros.
- postcardlike — (of a scene) resembling a postcard
- postcardware — Shareware that borders on freeware, in that the author requests only that satisfied users send a postcard of their home town or something. (This practice, silly as it might seem, serves to remind users that they are otherwise getting something for nothing, and may also be psychologically related to real estate "sales" in which $1 changes hands just to keep the transaction from being a gift.)
- postdoctoral — of or relating to study or professional work undertaken after the receipt of a doctorate: postdoctoral courses.
- proboscidate — having a proboscis.