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12-letter words containing a, d, o, l, e, s

  • hydrolysable — Alternative spelling of hydrolyzable.
  • hydrolysates — Plural form of hydrolysate.
  • hydrosulfate — a salt formed by the direct union of sulfuric acid with an organic base, especially an alkaloid, and usually more soluble than the base.
  • iceland moss — an edible lichen, Cetraria islandica, of arctic regions, containing a starchlike substance used in medicine.
  • idealisation — Alternative spelling of idealization.
  • ill-assorted — badly matched; incompatible
  • immortalised — to bestow unending fame upon; perpetuate.
  • indisposable — Not disposable.
  • iodized salt — common table salt to which a small amount of sodium iodide or potassium iodide has been added
  • isolated set — Mathematics. a set containing none of its accumulation points, consisting, therefore, of only isolated points.
  • jeopardously — with risk or peril
  • kaleidoscope — an optical instrument in which bits of glass, held loosely at the end of a rotating tube, are shown in continually changing symmetrical forms by reflection in two or more mirrors set at angles to each other.
  • ladies' room — a public lavatory for women.
  • landlordless — Without a landlord.
  • lap dissolve — dissolve (def 17).
  • leaderboards — Plural form of leaderboard.
  • lean towards — If you lean towards or lean toward a particular idea, belief, or type of behaviour, you have a tendency to think or act in a particular way.
  • leatherwoods — Plural form of leatherwood.
  • leonardesque — of, relating to, or suggesting Leonardo da Vinci or the style of his paintings.
  • leopard seal — a yellowish-gray, spotted seal, Hydrurga leptonyx, of the Antarctic.
  • leopardesses — Plural form of leopardess.
  • loco disease — locoism.
  • logodaedalus — a person who uses words with skill or cunning
  • long-handles — long underwear.
  • long-waisted — of more than average length between the shoulders and waistline; having a low waistline.
  • look daggers — to turn one's eyes toward something or in some direction in order to see: He looked toward the western horizon and saw the returning planes.
  • lord's table — the, communion table.
  • loudspeakers — Plural form of loudspeaker, especially a pair for a left and right channel.
  • love handles — fat midriff
  • mademoiselle — (often initial capital letter) a French title of respect equivalent to “Miss”, used in speaking to or of a girl or unmarried woman: Mademoiselle Lafitte. Abbreviation: Mlle.
  • madisonville — a city in W Kentucky.
  • maledictions — Plural form of malediction.
  • malnourished — poorly or improperly nourished; suffering from malnutrition: thin, malnourished victims of the famine.
  • manifoldness — (mathematics) multiplicity.
  • mantelboards — Plural form of mantelboard.
  • memorialised — Simple past tense and past participle of memorialise.
  • mendaciously — In a lying or deceitful manner.
  • misallocated — to allocate mistakenly or improperly: to misallocate resources.
  • monadelphous — (of stamens) united into one bundle or set by their filaments.
  • nasal demons — Recognised shorthand on the Usenet group comp.std.c for any unexpected behaviour of a C compiler on encountering an undefined construct. During a discussion on that group in early 1992, a regular remarked "When the compiler encounters [a given undefined construct] it is legal for it to make demons fly out of your nose" (the implication is that the compiler may choose any arbitrarily bizarre way to interpret the code without violating the ANSI C standard). Someone else followed up with a reference to "nasal demons", which quickly became established.
  • nationalised — Simple past tense and past participle of nationalise.
  • neofeudalism — A theorized contemporary rebirth of policies of governance, economy and public life reminiscent of those present in many feudal societies.
  • noahide laws — the seven laws given to Noah after the Flood, which decree the establishment of a fair system of justice in society, and prohibit idolatry, blasphemy, murder, adultery and incest, robbery, and the eating of flesh taken from a living animal
  • non-disabled — physically or mentally impaired, injured, or incapacitated.
  • non-residual — pertaining to or constituting a residue or remainder; remaining; leftover.
  • nonsteroidal — of or relating to a substance that is not a steroid but has certain similar physiological effects.
  • nucleocapsid — the nucleic acid core and surrounding capsid of a virus; the basic viral structure.
  • nucleosidase — any of the class of enzymes that catalyze the hydrolysis of nucleosides.
  • nucleotidase — a biochemical catalyst that facilitates the process of hydrolyzing or splitting a nucleotide and turning it into a phosphate and a nucleoside
  • off-islander — a temporary or seasonal resident of an island; island visitor or tourist.
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