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.