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12-letter words containing a, r, d, o, u

  • juiz de fora — a city in SE Brazil, N of Rio de Janeiro.
  • k/t boundary — Cretaceous/Tertiary boundary: the time zone comprising the end of the Cretaceous and the beginning of the Tertiary periods
  • kalmar sound — a strait between SE Sweden and Öland Island. 85 miles (137 km) long; 14 miles (23 km) wide.
  • ketoaciduria — (pathology) The presence of (excess) ketoacids in the urine.
  • kluge around — (jargon)   To avoid a bug or difficult condition by inserting a kluge. Compare workaround.
  • knock around — to strike a sounding blow with the fist, knuckles, or anything hard, especially on a door, window, or the like, as in seeking admittance, calling attention, or giving a signal: to knock on the door before entering.
  • laundry room — utility room
  • laundrywoman — laundress.
  • laundrywomen — Plural form of laundrywoman.
  • leatherbound — Bound in leather.
  • leonardesque — of, relating to, or suggesting Leonardo da Vinci or the style of his paintings.
  • linux loader — (operating system)   (LILO) A boot loader for Linux. LILO does not depend on a specific file system, it can boot Linux kernel images from floppy disks and hard disks and can even boot other operating systems. One of up to sixteen differernt images can be selected at boot time. Various parameters, such as the root device, can be set independently for each kernel. LILO can even be used as the master boot record.
  • loudspeakers — Plural form of loudspeaker, especially a pair for a left and right channel.
  • louver board — one of a series of overlapping, sloping boards used as louvers in an opening, so arranged as to admit air but to exclude rain or cut off visibility from the outside.
  • lunar module — the portion of the Apollo spacecraft in which two astronauts landed on the moon's surface and then returned to the orbiting command module. Abbreviation: LM.
  • malibu board — a lightweight, fiberglass-covered surfboard, usually about 10 feet (3 meters) long with a rounded nose and tail and a convex bottom for increased maneuverability.
  • malnourished — poorly or improperly nourished; suffering from malnutrition: thin, malnourished victims of the famine.
  • malodorously — With a bad smell.
  • mass-produce — to produce or manufacture (goods) in large quantities, especially by machinery.
  • misdemeanour — Law. a criminal offense defined as less serious than a felony.
  • modularizing — to form or organize into modules, as for flexibility.
  • mooch around — If you mooch around or mooch about a place, you move around there slowly with no particular purpose.
  • mountainward — Towards a mountain or mountains.
  • mouse around — To explore public portions of a large system, especially a network such as Internet via FTP or TELNET, looking for interesting stuff to snarf.
  • mousetrapped — Simple past tense and past participle of mousetrap.
  • multinodular — of, relating to, or characterized by nodules.
  • muzzleloader — a firearm that is loaded through the muzzle.
  • natural food — Natural food is food which has not been processed much and has not had artificial ingredients added to it.
  • naughty word — a word that is considered to be rude
  • neo-freudian — of or relating to a group of psychoanalytic thinkers whose modifications of Freudian analytic theory place increased emphasis on ego functions and interpersonal relationships.
  • nitrous acid — an acid, HNO 2 , known only in solution.
  • non-graduate — a person who has received a degree or diploma on completing a course of study, as in a university, college, or school.
  • non-residual — pertaining to or constituting a residue or remainder; remaining; leftover.
  • nonhazardous — Not hazardous; safe.
  • nonredundant — not redundant
  • nonregulated — Alternative spelling of non-regulated.
  • nuevo laredo — a city in NE Mexico, on the Rio Grande opposite Laredo, Texas.
  • obdurateness — The characteristic of being obdurate; stubbornness.
  • oboe d'amour — an oboe with a bulb-shaped bell that is pitched a minor third below the range of the conventional oboe and was much used in music of the Baroque period.
  • odd-man rush — an attacking move when the defence is outnumbered by the opposing team
  • old guardism — political conservatism.
  • old prussian — a Baltic language extinct since the 17th century. Abbreviation: OPruss.
  • orchard bush — open savanna country with occasional trees and scrub, as found north of the W African forest belt
  • orchidaceous — belonging to the plant family Orchidaceae.
  • order around — be bossy towards
  • outgeneraled — Simple past tense and past participle of outgeneral.
  • outsider art — art produced by untutored artists working by themselves and for themselves
  • outspreading — Present participle of outspread.
  • overabundant — an excessive amount or abundance; surfeit: an overabundance of sugar in the diet.
  • overeducated — Having been educated to a higher academic level than is necessary.
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