0%

12-letter words containing d, e, s, o

  • rhode island — US state
  • rhodes grass — a grass, Chloris gayana, native to Africa, used as pasturage and fodder in warm climates.
  • ride shotgun — a smoothbore gun for firing small shots to kill birds and small quadrupeds, though often used with buckshot to kill larger animals.
  • road surface — the surface of the road, often asphalt
  • road sweeper — a person who sweeps roads
  • rocket salad — rocket2 (def 2).
  • rocket-salad — any of various plants belonging to the genus Hesperis, of the mustard family, and related genera. Compare dame's rocket.
  • rolled glass — a sheet of glass made by the extrusion of molten glass between two rollers.
  • rolled roast — meat that has had the bones removed and been rolled and tied for roasting.
  • 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
  • rose-colored — of rose color; rosy.
  • rosewood oil — a fragrant oil extracted from the wood of a South American tree, Aniba rosaeodora, and used in the manufacture of perfumes.
  • rosh chodesh — the beginning of a new month in the Jewish calendar, celebrated in a specified manner during the morning service in the synagogue.
  • rubber goods — contraceptives; condoms
  • rust-colored — of the color rust.
  • sacred lotus — Indian lotus.
  • sacred order — Roman Catholic Church. major order.
  • saddle block — a type of spinal anaesthesia producing sensory loss in the buttocks, inner sides of the thighs, and perineum
  • saddle horse — a horse bred, trained, or used for riding.
  • 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.
  • saddle shoes — shoes with a midsection (where the laces are) that is darker in colour, usually black, to the rest of the shoe, which is usually white
  • safe conduct — If you are given safe conduct, the authorities officially allow you to travel somewhere, guaranteeing that you will not be arrested or harmed while doing so.
  • safe-conduct — a document authorizing safe passage through a region, especially in time of war.
  • safe-deposit — providing safekeeping for valuables: a safe-deposit vault.
  • san bernardo — a city in central Chile, S of Santiago.
  • san fernando — a city in E Argentina, near Buenos Aires.
  • sand-floated — noting an exterior wall finish composed of mortar rubbed with sand and floated when it has partly set.
  • sandbox tree — a tropical American tree, Hura crepitans, of the spurge family, bearing a furrowed, roundish fruit about the size of an orange that when ripe and dry bursts with a sharp report and scatters the seeds.
  • sapindaceous — belonging to the Sapindaceae, the soapberry family of plants.
  • sarcoadenoma — adenosarcoma.
  • sausage code — (humour, programming)   Code which, once you know the details of how it's made, you'll never want to use again.
  • say the word — If someone says the word, they give their approval as a sign that something should start to happen.
  • sclerodermic — of or relating to a scleroderm or to sclerodermia; hard-skinned
  • scolopendrid — any myriapod of the order Scolopendrida, including many large, poisonous centipedes.
  • scott-closed — A set S, a subset of D, is Scott-closed if (1) If Y is a subset of S and Y is directed then lub Y is in S and (2) If y <= s in S then y is in S. I.e. a Scott-closed set contains the lubs of its directed subsets and anything less than any element. (2) says that S is downward closed (or left closed). ("<=" is written in LaTeX as \sqsubseteq).
  • scout leader — the leader of a troop of Scouts
  • scraperboard — scratchboard.
  • screw around — a metal fastener having a tapered shank with a helical thread, and topped with a slotted head, driven into wood or the like by rotating, especially by means of a screwdriver.
  • scrieveboard — the drawing board of a shipbuilder
  • scrive board — a floorlike construction on which the lines of a vessel can be drawn or scribed at full size.
  • search order — an injunction allowing a person to enter the premises of another to search for and take copies of evidence required for a court case, used esp in cases of infringement of copyright
  • second birth — spiritual rebirth.
  • second floor — the floor or story above the ground floor.
  • second grade — school year: age 7-8
  • second reich — the German Empire 1871–1919.
  • second sheet — a sheet of blank stationery, used in a letter as the second and following pages to a sheet having a letterhead.
  • second sight — the faculty of seeing future events; clairvoyance.
  • second teeth — the teeth which replace the milk teeth
  • second world — the world's industrialized nations other than the U.S. and the U.S.S.R.
Was this page helpful?
Yes No
Thank you for your feedback! Tell your friends about this page
Tell us why?