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

  • oilseed rape — Oilseed rape is a plant with yellow flowers which is grown as a crop. Its seeds are crushed to make cooking oil.
  • oldfashioned — Rare spelling of old-fashioned.
  • outside lane — the lane on a motorway where overtaking of other vehicles is permitted and vehicles can travel fastest
  • peccadilloes — a very minor or slight sin or offense; a trifling fault.
  • perez galdos — Benito [buh-nee-toh;; Spanish be-nee-taw] /bəˈni toʊ;; Spanish bɛˈni tɔ/ (Show IPA), 1843–1920, Spanish journalist, dramatist, and novelist.
  • personalised — to have marked with one's initials, name, or monogram: to personalize stationery.
  • personalized — customized
  • petrodollars — Petrodollars are a unit of money used to calculate how much a country has earned by exporting petroleum or natural gas.
  • plasterboard — a material used for insulating or covering walls, or as a lath, consisting of paper-covered sheets of gypsum and felt.
  • postal order — money order.
  • postcardlike — (of a scene) resembling a postcard
  • postdeadline — the time by which something must be finished or submitted; the latest time for finishing something: a five o'clock deadline.
  • postmedieval — occurring or existing after the Middle Ages, of or related to the period after the Middle Ages
  • powder flask — a small flask of gunpowder formerly carried by soldiers and hunters.
  • pseudoallele — a false allele
  • pseudocereal — any of several plants, as buckwheat and quinoa, that produce fruits and seeds used as flour but are not of the grass family.
  • pseudopodial — a temporary protrusion of the protoplasm, as of certain protozoans, usually serving as an organ of locomotion or prehension.
  • pseudoscalar — a scalar quantity that changes sign when the sense of the orientation of the coordinate system is changed.
  • rapeseed oil — a brownish-yellow oil obtained by expression from rapeseed and used chiefly as a lubricant, an illuminant, and in the manufacture of rubber substitutes.
  • rhode island — US state
  • rocket salad — rocket2 (def 2).
  • rocket-salad — any of various plants belonging to the genus Hesperis, of the mustard family, and related genera. Compare dame's rocket.
  • rolled glass — a sheet of glass made by the extrusion of molten glass between two rollers.
  • rolled roast — meat that has had the bones removed and been rolled and tied for roasting.
  • sacred lotus — Indian lotus.
  • saddle block — a type of spinal anaesthesia producing sensory loss in the buttocks, inner sides of the thighs, and perineum
  • saddle horse — a horse bred, trained, or used for riding.
  • saddle joint — (on a sill, coping, or the like) a vertical joint raised above the level of the washes on each side.
  • saddle point — a point at which a function of two variables has partial derivatives equal to zero but at which the function has neither a maximum nor a minimum value.
  • saddle shoes — shoes with a midsection (where the laces are) that is darker in colour, usually black, to the rest of the shoe, which is usually white
  • sand-floated — noting an exterior wall finish composed of mortar rubbed with sand and floated when it has partly set.
  • scout leader — the leader of a troop of Scouts
  • second-class — of a secondary class or quality.
  • self-command — self-control.
  • self-loading — noting or pertaining to an automatic or semiautomatic firearm.
  • serial bonds — Serial bonds are bonds that are issued at the same time but have staggered maturity dates.
  • several-fold — comprising several parts or members.
  • shared logic — the sharing of a central processing unit and associated software among several terminals
  • shareholding — a holder or owner of shares, especially in a company or corporation.
  • shoulder bag — a handbag with shoulder strap attached.
  • shoulder pad — clothing: insert in shoulder
  • shoulder-bag — A shoulder-bag is a bag that has a long strap so that it can be carried on a person's shoulder.
  • shovel-ready — of or relating to a construction project that is ready to start immediately
  • shuffleboard — a game in which standing players shove or push wooden or plastic disks with a long cue toward numbered scoring sections marked on a floor or deck.
  • single modal — modal (def 3).
  • six-year-old — being six years in age
  • sleep around — to take the rest afforded by a suspension of voluntary bodily functions and the natural suspension, complete or partial, of consciousness; cease being awake.
  • sleeve board — a small-scale ironing board for pressing sleeves, especially a narrow board that fits inside a coat sleeve.
  • slide-action — (of a rifle or shotgun) having a lever that when slid back and forth ejects the empty case and cocks and reloads the piece.
  • sloped roman — a roman (vertical) typeface, usually sans serif, i.e. without the small, decorative, terminal strokes with which some typefaces are designed. The typeface is made to slope (usually to the right), but not generally to the same degree as a true italic typeface
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