12-letter words containing d, e, i, n, o
- reproduction — the act or process of reproducing.
- resoundingly — making an echoing sound: a resounding thud.
- respondentia — a loan upon a ship's cargo, which is repaid with interest if the ship reaches its destination, and if the ship does not, the loan is not repaid
- retrodiction — the act or result of retrodicting
- revalidation — to make valid; substantiate; confirm: Time validated our suspicions.
- rhode island — US state
- ride herd on — a number of animals kept, feeding, or traveling together; drove; flock: a herd of cattle; a herd of sheep; a herd of zebras.
- ride shotgun — a smoothbore gun for firing small shots to kill birds and small quadrupeds, though often used with buckshot to kill larger animals.
- roller blind — a blind consisting of a length of fabric rolled around a pole and fitted to the top of a window
- romanticized — interpreted according to romantic precepts
- rose diamond — a diamond, one side of which is flat, and the other cut into twenty-four triangular facets in two ranges which form a convex face pointed at the top
- 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.
- sapindaceous — belonging to the Sapindaceae, the soapberry family of plants.
- scolopendrid — any myriapod of the order Scolopendrida, including many large, poisonous centipedes.
- second birth — spiritual rebirth.
- second reich — the German Empire 1871–1919.
- second sight — the faculty of seeing future events; clairvoyance.
- section hand — a person who works on a section gang.
- self-loading — noting or pertaining to an automatic or semiautomatic firearm.
- semi-dormant — lying asleep or as if asleep; inactive, as in sleep; torpid: The lecturer's sudden shout woke the dormant audience.
- semi-nomadic — of, relating to, or characteristic of nomads.
- semideponent — (of a Latin verb) active in meaning but passive in form in the perfect tense
- semidominant — producing an intermediate, heterozygous phenotype
- serial bonds — Serial bonds are bonds that are issued at the same time but have staggered maturity dates.
- series-wound — noting a commutator motor in which the field circuit and armature circuit are connected in series.
- severodvinsk — a city in the N Russian Federation in Europe, on Dvina Gulf, E of Archangel.
- sexdecillion — a cardinal number represented in the U.S. by 1 followed by 51 zeros, and in Great Britain by 1 followed by 96 zeros.
- shareholding — a holder or owner of shares, especially in a company or corporation.
- shore dinner — a meal consisting chiefly of seafood.
- short-winded — short of breath; liable to difficulty in breathing.
- silver mound — a perennial Japanese herb, Artemisia schmidtiana, having silver-green leaves forming a moundlike shape.
- single modal — modal (def 3).
- sixty-second — next after the sixty-first; being the ordinal number for 62.
- slide-action — (of a rifle or shotgun) having a lever that when slid back and forth ejects the empty case and cocks and reloads the piece.
- sober-minded — rational; sensible.
- sorting code — a sequence of numbers printed on a cheque or embossed on a bank or building-society card that identifies the branch holding the account
- sounion head — the tip of the Attica peninsula, E central Greece: site of ancient temple ruins.
- speedboating — the act, practice, or sport of traveling in a speedboat.
- spinsterhood — Disparaging and Offensive. a woman still unmarried beyond the usual age of marrying.
- split second — a fraction of a second.
- spot welding — fusing metal
- steady-going — steadfast; faithful; unchanging: steady-going service to the cause of justice.
- stride piano — a style of jazz piano playing in which the right hand plays the melody while the left hand plays a single bass note or octave on the strong beat and a chord on the weak beat, developed in Harlem during the 1920s, partly from ragtime piano playing.
- stringholder — an oblong piece of wood at the lower end of the body of a viol or other stringed instrument to which the strings are attached.
- studiousness — disposed or given to diligent study: a studious boy.
- subdiaconate — the office or dignity of a subdeacon.
- subintroduce — to introduce subtly
- subordinated — placed in or belonging to a lower order or rank.
- suicide note — letter left by person ending own life