12-letter words containing d, e, l, o, s
- homebuilders — Plural form of homebuilder.
- homeschooled — Simple past tense and past participle of homeschool.
- hornswoggled — Simple past tense and past participle of hornswoggle.
- horrendously — shockingly dreadful; horrible: a horrendous crime.
- horse-dealer — a person who buys and sells horses as a profession
- hospital bed — a bed having side rails that can be raised or lowered and a mattress base in three jointed sections so that the head, foot, or middle may be raised by a crank or motor, allowing a patient to lie in various positions, as a therapeutic aid or for comfort.
- hospitalised — to place in a hospital for medical care or observation: The doctor hospitalized grandfather as soon as she checked his heart.
- hospitalized — to place in a hospital for medical care or observation: The doctor hospitalized grandfather as soon as she checked his heart.
- housebuilder — One who builds houses, particularly one who does so professionally.
- householders — Plural form of householder.
- hydroelastic — undergoing a change in elasticity as a result of the flow of water or another fluid
- hydrolysable — Alternative spelling of hydrolyzable.
- hydrolysates — Plural form of hydrolysate.
- hydrosulfate — a salt formed by the direct union of sulfuric acid with an organic base, especially an alkaloid, and usually more soluble than the base.
- hydrosulfide — a compound containing the univalent group –HS.
- hydrosulfite — hyposulfite (def 1).
- hyperbolised — to use hyperbole; exaggerate.
- hyperboloids — Plural form of hyperboloid.
- iceland moss — an edible lichen, Cetraria islandica, of arctic regions, containing a starchlike substance used in medicine.
- idealisation — Alternative spelling of idealization.
- ill-assorted — badly matched; incompatible
- ill-disposed — unfriendly, unsympathetic, or having a negative attitude, as toward another person or an idea.
- immortalised — to bestow unending fame upon; perpetuate.
- indecorously — not decorous; violating generally accepted standards of good taste or propriety; unseemly.
- index fossil — a widely distributed fossil, of narrow range in time, regarded as characteristic of a given geological formation, used especially in determining the age of related formations.
- indigenously — originating in and characteristic of a particular region or country; native (often followed by to): the plants indigenous to Canada; the indigenous peoples of southern Africa.
- indisposable — Not disposable.
- indissoluble — not dissoluble; incapable of being dissolved, decomposed, undone, or destroyed.
- indologenous — producing or causing the production of indole.
- involvedness — very intricate or complex: an involved reply.
- iodized salt — common table salt to which a small amount of sodium iodide or potassium iodide has been added
- isle of dogs — a district in the East End of London, bounded on three sides by the River Thames, and a focus of major office development (Canary Wharf) in recent years
- isolated set — Mathematics. a set containing none of its accumulation points, consisting, therefore, of only isolated points.
- jeopardously — with risk or peril
- kaleidoscope — an optical instrument in which bits of glass, held loosely at the end of a rotating tube, are shown in continually changing symmetrical forms by reflection in two or more mirrors set at angles to each other.
- kindred soul — like-minded person
- ladies' room — a public lavatory for women.
- landlordless — Without a landlord.
- lap dissolve — dissolve (def 17).
- leaderboards — Plural form of leaderboard.
- lean towards — If you lean towards or lean toward a particular idea, belief, or type of behaviour, you have a tendency to think or act in a particular way.
- leatherwoods — Plural form of leatherwood.
- lend oneself — to give support, cooperation, etc
- leonardesque — of, relating to, or suggesting Leonardo da Vinci or the style of his paintings.
- leopard seal — a yellowish-gray, spotted seal, Hydrurga leptonyx, of the Antarctic.
- leopardesses — Plural form of leopardess.
- lepidosirens — Plural form of lepidosiren.
- leukopedesis — an outward flow of white blood cells through a blood-vessel wall.
- ligniperdous — (of insects) wood-destroying
- lithopedions — Plural form of lithopedion.