12-letter words containing a, d, u, s, t
- dust catcher — Informal. a knickknack or other household object that is little used.
- dust wrapper — dust jacket (sense 1)
- dutch master — one of a number of renowned and influential Dutch painters
- dysregulated — Simple past tense and past participle of dysregulate.
- educatedness — the quality of being educated
- educationese — the jargon associated with the field of education.
- educationist — a specialist in the theory and methods of education.
- egads button — a switch that triggers the destruction in flight of a malfunctioning missile.
- eisteddfodau — Plural form of eisteddfod.
- elucidations — Plural form of elucidation.
- encapsulated — Simple past tense and past participle of encapsulate.
- equidistance — (uncountable) Equal distance.
- expostulated — Simple past tense and past participle of expostulate.
- fasciculated — Grouped in a fascicle; fascicled.
- fastidiously — excessively particular, critical, or demanding; hard to please: a fastidious eater.
- fluid assets — assets that are in the form of cash or easily convertible into cash
- frustratedly — In a frustrated manner.
- fundamentals — serving as, or being an essential part of, a foundation or basis; basic; underlying: fundamental principles; the fundamental structure.
- fused quartz — glass made entirely from quartz: a form of silica glass.
- gesticulated — to make or use gestures, especially in an animated or excited manner with or instead of speech.
- goddaughters — Plural form of goddaughter.
- gradualistic — Of or pertaining to gradualism.
- graduateship — the time or condition of being a graduate
- great sunday — Easter Sunday.
- ground staff — The people who are paid to maintain a sports ground are called the ground staff.
- ground state — the state of least energy of a particle, as an atom, or of a system of particles.
- guardianista — a reader of the Guardian newspaper, seen as being typically left-wing, liberal, and politically correct
- guesstimated — Simple past tense and past participle of guesstimate.
- gustave dore — (Paul) Gustave [pawl gy-stav] /pɔl güˈstav/ (Show IPA), 1832?–83, French painter, illustrator, and sculptor.
- headquarters — a center of operations, as of the police or a business, from which orders are issued; the chief administrative office of an organization: The operatives were always in touch with headquarters.
- hindquarters — the posterior end of a halved carcass of beef, lamb, etc., sectioned usually between the twelfth and thirteenth ribs.
- housetrained — Simple past tense and past participle of housetrain.
- hydronautics — (nautical) The science of the design and construction of ships, their engines, and their instrumentation.
- 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.
- idolatrously — In an idolatrous manner.
- incapsulated — Simple past tense and past participle of incapsulate.
- indisputable — not disputable or deniable; uncontestable. indisputable evidence.
- indisputably — not disputable or deniable; uncontestable. indisputable evidence.
- individuates — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of individuate.
- industrially — of, pertaining to, of the nature of, or resulting from industry: industrial production; industrial waste.
- ins and outs — details
- judicatories — Plural form of judicatory.
- lady's-thumb — a smartweed, Polygonum persicaria, of the buckwheat family, having pink or purplish flowers and lance-shaped leaves with a spot resembling a thumbprint.
- latifundista — the owner of a latifundio in Latin America or Spain.
- latitudinous — having latitude, scope, range, breadth, etc., especially of ideas, interests, interpretations, or the like: a Renaissance man of latitudinous outlook.
- launderettes — Plural form of launderette.
- laundry list — a lengthy, especially random list of items: a laundry list of hoped-for presents; a laundry list of someone's crimes.
- leaf mustard — a pungent powder or paste prepared from the seed of the mustard plant, used as a food seasoning or condiment, and medicinally in plasters, poultices, etc.
- liquidations — Plural form of liquidation.
- locus standi — the right of a party to appear and be heard before a court