12-letter words containing d, a, u, e, r, s
- laser-guided — (of a missile, etc) guided with the use of a laser beam
- launderettes — Plural form of launderette.
- 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.
- leonardesque — of, relating to, or suggesting Leonardo da Vinci or the style of his paintings.
- loudspeakers — Plural form of loudspeaker, especially a pair for a left and right channel.
- malnourished — poorly or improperly nourished; suffering from malnutrition: thin, malnourished victims of the famine.
- masquerading — a party, dance, or other festive gathering of persons wearing masks and other disguises, and often elegant, historical, or fantastic costumes.
- mass-produce — to produce or manufacture (goods) in large quantities, especially by machinery.
- media circus — excessive news coverage
- miniaturised — Simple past tense and past participle of miniaturise.
- misadventure — an instance of bad fortune; mishap.
- misdemeanour — Law. a criminal offense defined as less serious than a felony.
- 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.
- muckspreader — a machine for spreading manure over farmland
- murder squad — the section of a police force that is responsible for dealing with murders
- musical ride — a display by riders on horseback of manoeuvres to music, esp by members of the Royal Canadian Mounted Police
- nature study — the study of plants and animals, especially by amateurs.
- non-residual — pertaining to or constituting a residue or remainder; remaining; leftover.
- nurse's aide — a person who assists professional nurses, as in a hospital, by performing such routine tasks as making beds and serving meals.
- nurserymaids — Plural form of nurserymaid.
- obdurateness — The characteristic of being obdurate; stubbornness.
- orchidaceous — belonging to the plant family Orchidaceae.
- outsider art — art produced by untutored artists working by themselves and for themselves
- outspreading — Present participle of outspread.
- overpersuade — to persuade (a person) against his or her inclination or intention: By threats and taunts they had overpersuaded him to steal the car.
- pachydermous — any of the thick-skinned, nonruminant ungulates, as the elephant, hippopotamus, and rhinoceros.
- pasture land — grassland used for grazing
- postgraduate — of, pertaining to, characteristic of, or consisting of post-graduates: a postgraduate seminar.
- praseodymium — a rare-earth, metallic, trivalent element, named from its green salts. Symbol: Pr; atomic weight: 140.91; atomic number: 59; specific gravity: 6.77 at 20°C.
- producer gas — a mixture of carbon monoxide and nitrogen produced by passing air over hot coke, used mainly as a fuel
- promuscidate — shaped like a proboscis
- pseudamphora — a Mycenaean vase having a spherical body, a spout on the shoulder, and a handle, curving across the top, supported by a solid conical neck.
- pseudocereal — any of several plants, as buckwheat and quinoa, that produce fruits and seeds used as flour but are not of the grass family.
- pseudography — writing that does not follow conventional spelling or usage
- pseudomartyr — someone falsely or inaccurately called a martyr
- pseudorabies — a highly contagious, usually fatal disease of cattle, sheep, and other animals, caused by the herpesvirus Herpes suis, and characterized by severe pruritus and progressive central nervous system involvement sometimes including an aggressive excitement phase.
- pseudorandom — noting or pertaining to random numbers generated by a definite computational process to satisfy a statistical test.
- pseudoscalar — a scalar quantity that changes sign when the sense of the orientation of the coordinate system is changed.
- quadragesima — the first Sunday in Lent.
- quadrisected — Simple past tense and past participle of quadrisect.
- quadruplexes — Plural form of quadruplex.
- quarterdecks — Plural form of quarterdeck.
- queenslander — a native or inhabitant of Queensland
- 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.
- readjustment — an act of readjusting or the state of being readjusted.
- red larkspur — a plant, Delphinium nudicaule, of the buttercup family, native to the western coast of the U.S., having orange-red or sometimes yellow flowers.
- reduced mass — a quantity obtained when one particle is moving about another, larger particle that is also moving, equivalent to the mass of the smaller particle, were the larger particle not moving, and equal to the quotient of the product of the two masses divided by their sum.
- res judicata — a thing adjudicated; a case that has been decided.