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12-letter words containing a, u, d, i, e

  • quadriplegic — a person with quadriplegia.
  • quadrisected — Simple past tense and past participle of quadrisect.
  • quadrivalent — having a valence of four; tetravalent.
  • quasi-feudal — of, relating to, or of the nature of a fief or fee: a feudal estate.
  • quidditative — Alternative form of quiddative.
  • quinacridone — Any of a group of synthetic organic compounds whose molecules contain three benzene and two pyridine rings arranged alternately. They include a number of red to violet pigments.
  • quindecagons — Plural form of quindecagon.
  • quindecaplet — a group of 15
  • quinquenniad — a period of five years, quinquennium
  • race suicide — the extinction of a racial or ethnic population that tends to result when, through the unwillingness or forbearance of its members to have children, the birthrate falls below the death rate.
  • radio source — a cosmic object or phenomenon, as a galaxy, pulsar, quasar, or the remnant of a supernova or of a galactic collision, that emits radio waves.
  • radiolucency — almost entirely transparent to radiation; almost entirely invisible in x-ray photographs and under fluoroscopy.
  • radionuclide — a radioactive nuclide.
  • re-educative — of or relating to re-education
  • reacquainted — to make more or less familiar, aware, or conversant (usually followed by with): to acquaint the mayor with our plan.
  • readjudicate — to pronounce or decree by judicial sentence.
  • reattributed — to regard as resulting from a specified cause; consider as caused by something indicated (usually followed by to): She attributed his bad temper to ill health.
  • recirculated — to move in a circle or circuit; move or pass through a circuit back to the starting point: Blood circulates throughout the body.
  • refoundation — an act of refounding
  • regurgitated — to give back or repeat, especially something not fully understood or assimilated: to regurgitate the teacher's lectures on the exam.
  • res judicata — a thing adjudicated; a case that has been decided.
  • revictualled — victuals, food supplies; provisions.
  • rideau canal — a waterway in SE Ontario, Canada, connecting the Ottawa Riverin Ottawa to Lake Ontario in Kingston. 125 miles (202 km) long.
  • road haulier — a person who owns or works for a road haulage company; a trucker
  • ruling grade — the steepest grade on a given stretch of track, which determines the maximum tonnage that can be hauled in a train having a given horsepower at a stated minimum speed.
  • running head — a descriptive word, phrase, title, or the like, usually repeated at the top of each page of a book, periodical, etc.
  • rutlandshire — a former county, now part of Leicestershire, in central England.
  • sapindaceous — belonging to the Sapindaceae, the soapberry family of plants.
  • sendai virus — a paramyxovirus that tends to cause cell fusion: in inactive form, used in biological research to produce cells with multiple nuclei of different genetic constitutions.
  • slide guitar — bottleneck (def 3).
  • sodium amide — a white, crystalline, water-insoluble, flammable powder, NaNH 2 , used chiefly in the manufacture of sodium cyanide and in organic synthesis.
  • sounion head — the tip of the Attica peninsula, E central Greece: site of ancient temple ruins.
  • spade guinea — a guinea decorated with a spade-shaped shield, coined during the reign of George III
  • squared ring — boxing ring.
  • sub-additive — something that is added, as one substance to another, to alter or improve the general quality or to counteract undesirable properties: an additive that thins paint.
  • subdiaconate — the office or dignity of a subdeacon.
  • subdividable — to divide (that which has already been divided) into smaller parts; divide again after a first division.
  • subduplicate — of the square root of ratios
  • subeditorial — of or relating to a subeditor, the work of a subeditor or a subeditorship
  • subepidermal — just below the epidermis or skin
  • suberic acid — a crystalline dibasic acid, C 8 H 1 4 O 4 , obtained especially from suberin, castor oil, and cork: used chiefly in the preparation of plastics and plasticizers.
  • subinfeudate — to grant (lands) by subinfeudation
  • subordinated — placed in or belonging to a lower order or rank.
  • sugar glider — a gliding possum, Petaurus breviceps, inhabiting open forests of New Guinea, Tasmania, and Australia.
  • suicide pact — an agreement between two or more people to commit suicide together.
  • sulfadiazine — a sulfanilamide derivative, C 1 0 H 1 0 N 4 O 2 S, used chiefly in the treatment of urinary tract infections, meningitis, and malaria.
  • sulfarsenide — any compound containing an arsenide and a sulfide.
  • sulphadoxine — an antibiotic drug of the sulphonamide group, commonly used in combination with pyrimethamine to treat malaria, and in combination with various drugs to treat certain infections
  • sulphonamide — any of a class of organic compounds that are amides of sulphonic acids containing the group –SO2NH2 or a group derived from this. An important class of sulphonamides are the sulfa drugs
  • superordinal — relating to the superorder
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