12-letter words containing a, e, d, i, l, s
- mispleadings — Plural form of mispleading.
- musical ride — a display by riders on horseback of manoeuvres to music, esp by members of the Royal Canadian Mounted Police
- nationalised — Simple past tense and past participle of nationalise.
- near islands — a group of islands of SW Alaska, the smallest and westernmost of the Aleutian Islands, including Attu.
- 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.
- 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
- palais glide — a dance with high kicks and gliding steps in which performers link arms in a row
- pale-skinned — having pale skin
- peccadilloes — a very minor or slight sin or offense; a trifling fault.
- personalised — to have marked with one's initials, name, or monogram: to personalize stationery.
- personalized — customized
- philadelphus — (Philadelphus) king of Pergamum c159–138 b.c.
- pig islander — a New Zealander
- plaid screen — [XEROX PARC] A "special effect" that occurs when certain kinds of memory smashes overwrite the control blocks or image memory of a bit-mapped display. The term "salt and pepper" may refer to a different pattern of similar origin. Though the term as coined at PARC refers to the result of an error, some of the X demos induce plaid-screen effects deliberately as a display hack.
- pleased with — satisfied or content with
- 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
- presidential — of or relating to a president or presidency.
- pseudopodial — a temporary protrusion of the protoplasm, as of certain protozoans, usually serving as an organ of locomotion or prehension.
- quasi-feudal — of, relating to, or of the nature of a fief or fee: a feudal estate.
- 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.
- reading list — a list of sources (recommended by a teacher or university lecturer) which provide additional or background information on a subject being studied
- reclassified — to classify anew.
- rhode island — US state
- rijksdaalder — a cupronickel or silver coin of the Netherlands, equal to 2½ guilders.
- rutlandshire — a former county, now part of Leicestershire, in central England.
- 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.
- sailing date — the date that a ship or boat departs on a sailing voyage
- salamandrine — any tailed amphibian of the order Caudata, having a soft, moist, scaleless skin, typically aquatic as a larva and semiterrestrial as an adult: several species are endangered.
- salicylamide — a compound of ammonia and gualtheria oil
- sanctifiedly — in a sanctified manner
- scalar field — a region with a number assigned at each point.
- scheme-linda — A Scheme interface to Linda written by Ulf Dahlen of University of Edinburgh in 1990. It runs on the Computing Surface and the Symmetry.
- sedge family — the plant family Cyperaceae, characterized by herbaceous plants, often found in wet areas, having solid stems, narrow, grasslike leaves with closed sheaths, spikes of very small flowers set in a scalelike bract, and a dry, flattened, convex fruit, and including the bulrush, chufa, cotton grass, papyrus, and umbrella plant.
- sedimentable — capable of forming sediment
- see daylight — the light of day: At the end of the tunnel they could see daylight.
- seed capital — small sum invested in new business
- selenic acid — a crystalline, water-soluble, strong, corrosive, dibasic acid, H 2 SeO 4 , resembling sulfuric acid.