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12-letter words containing d, e, n, t, i

  • spindle tree — any of various shrubs or trees of the genus Euonymus, esp E. europaeus, of Europe and W Asia, typically having red fruits and yielding a hard wood formerly used in making spindles: family Celastraceae
  • spinsterhood — Disparaging and Offensive. a woman still unmarried beyond the usual age of marrying.
  • spiritedness — having or showing mettle, courage, vigor, liveliness, etc.: a spirited defense of poetry.
  • split second — a fraction of a second.
  • spot welding — fusing metal
  • standardized — to bring to or make of an established standard size, weight, quality, strength, or the like: to standardize manufactured parts.
  • steady-going — steadfast; faithful; unchanging: steady-going service to the cause of justice.
  • steam-driven — powered by steam
  • stellar wind — the radial outflow of ionized gas from a star.
  • stem-winding — wound by turning a knob at the stem.
  • stickhandler — a hockey or lacrosse player, esp. one who is talented at stickhandling.
  • stiff-necked — having a stiff neck; having torticollis.
  • 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.
  • strike hands — to show agreement by clasping hands
  • stringhalted — afflicted with stringhalt
  • 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.
  • stud welding — the semiautomatic welding of a stud or similar piece of metal to a flat part, usually by means of an electric arc
  • student file — a file containing information about each student in a school, college, etc, such as demographic information and information about grades, etc
  • studiousness — disposed or given to diligent study: a studious boy.
  • subdiaconate — the office or dignity of a subdeacon.
  • subinfeudate — to grant (lands) by subinfeudation
  • subintroduce — to introduce subtly
  • subordinated — placed in or belonging to a lower order or rank.
  • suet pudding — a pudding made of chopped beef suet and flour, boiled or steamed in a cloth, often with other ingredients, as raisins, spices, etc.
  • suicide note — letter left by person ending own life
  • superevident — extremely or very evident
  • synadelphite — an arsenate containing manganese and aluminium
  • tack welding — to join (pieces of metal) with a number of small welds spaced some distance apart.
  • take in hand — the terminal, prehensile part of the upper limb in humans and other primates, consisting of the wrist, metacarpal area, fingers, and thumb.
  • talking head — Television Slang. a closeup picture of a person who is talking, especially as a participant in a talk show.
  • tape editing — the process of putting the various segments of a master video or audio tape into a predetermined sequence: usually done electronically.
  • tardenoisian — of or referring to a Mesolithic culture characterized by small flint instruments
  • teaching aid — material used by a teacher to supplement classroom instruction or to stimulate the interest of students.
  • tear-stained — marked or wet with tears: a tear-stained letter.
  • technobandit — a person who steals technological secrets, as from the government or a place of employment, and sells them to agents of foreign governments or to competing firms.
  • telemedicine — the diagnosis and treatment of patients in remote areas using medical information, as x-rays or television pictures, transmitted over long distances, especially by satellite.
  • tetrodotoxin — a neurotoxin, C 11 H 17 N 3 O 3 , occurring in a species of puffer fish: ingestion of the toxin is usually rapidly fatal due to heart failure or asphyxiation; used experimentally to block impulse conduction potential in excitable cells.
  • text edition — that edition of a book prepared for use in schools or colleges
  • the devonian — the Devonian period or rock system
  • the dingbats — delirium tremens
  • the distance — the most distant or a faraway part of the visible scene or landscape
  • the divinity — God
  • the in-crowd — fashionable people; top people
  • the mainland — a particular landmass as viewed from a nearby island with which it has close links, such as Great Britain as viewed from Northern Ireland or continental Australia as viewed from Tasmania
  • the midlands — the central counties of England, including Warwickshire, Northamptonshire, Leicestershire, Nottinghamshire, Derbyshire, Staffordshire, the former West Midlands metropolitan county, and Worcestershire: characterized by manufacturing industries
  • the nearside — the side of a vehicle normally nearer the kerb (in Britain, the left side)
  • the occident — the Occident. the West; the countries of Europe and America. Western Hemisphere.
  • thermidorian — a member of the French moderate group who participated in the downfall of Robespierre and his followers on the 9th Thermidor (July 27th), 1794.
  • thin-skinned — having a thin skin.
  • thioridazine — a phenothiazine, C 21 H 26 N 2 S 2 , used as an antipsychotic chiefly in the treatment of acute psychoses and schizophrenia.
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