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

  • subintroduce — to introduce subtly
  • subordinated — placed in or belonging to a lower order or rank.
  • sudden death — an overtime period in which a tied contest is won and play is stopped immediately after one of the contestants scores, as in football, or goes ahead, as in golf.
  • 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
  • superconduct — to conduct electricity very efficiently or without resistance, to act as a superconductor
  • superevident — extremely or very evident
  • supplemented — something added to complete a thing, supply a deficiency, or reinforce or extend a whole.
  • sweat glands — one of the minute, coiled, tubular glands of the skin that secrete sweat.
  • sweet almond — the nutlike kernel of the fruit of either of two trees, Prunus dulcis (sweet almond) or P. dulcis amara (bitter almond) which grow in warm temperate regions.
  • synadelphite — an arsenate containing manganese and aluminium
  • tardenoisian — of or referring to a Mesolithic culture characterized by small flint instruments
  • tear-stained — marked or wet with tears: a tear-stained letter.
  • the ardennes — a wooded plateau in SE Belgium, Luxembourg, and NE France: scene of heavy fighting in both World Wars
  • the dingbats — delirium tremens
  • the distance — the most distant or a faraway part of the visible scene or landscape
  • the east end — a densely populated part of E London containing former industrial and dock areas, now extensively redeveloped for offices
  • the herdsman — the constellation Boötes
  • the hundreds — the numbers 100 to 109
  • the lowlands — a low generally flat region of central Scotland, around the Forth and Clyde valleys, separating the Southern Uplands from the Highlands
  • 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 pandects — a digest of Roman civil law in fifty books, compiled for the emperor Justinian in the 6th cent. a.d.; the Digest
  • the west end — a part of W central London containing the main shopping and entertainment areas
  • thin-skinned — having a thin skin.
  • third person — the grammatical person used by the speaker of an utterance in referring to anyone or anything other than the speaker or the one (third person singular) or ones (third person plural) being addressed.
  • thunderflash — a pyrotechnic device which is noisy, but not dangerous, and which is used in military exercises
  • thunderstick — bull-roarer.
  • thunderstone — any of various stones or fossils formerly thought to be fallen thunderbolts.
  • thunderstorm — a transient storm of lightning and thunder, usually with rain and gusty winds, sometimes with hail or snow, produced by cumulonimbus clouds.
  • tinker's dam — the least value or merit; nothing or anything at all: It's not worth a tinker's damn.
  • tmj syndrome — a condition attributed to tension in or faulty articulation of the temporomandibular joint, having a wide range of symptoms that include dizziness, ringing in the ears, and pain in the head, neck, and shoulders.
  • toffee-nosed — stuck-up; conceited; pretentious: a toffee-nosed butler; a toffee-nosed shop.
  • tombstone ad — a boxed advertisement without artwork or illustrations, especially one announcing an issue of a stock or bond.
  • top dressing — tennis court
  • tradescantia — any plant of the American genus Tradescantia, widely cultivated for their striped variegated leaves: family Commelinaceae
  • tradesperson — a skilled worker
  • transcendent — going beyond ordinary limits; surpassing; exceeding.
  • transcending — to rise above or go beyond; overpass; exceed: to transcend the limits of thought; kindness transcends courtesy.
  • transdialect — to translate (speech, writing, etc.) into a different dialect.
  • transgressed — to violate a law, command, moral code, etc.; offend; sin.
  • transit shed — a building located on or near a pier (piershed) or wharf (wharf shed) used for short-term storage of cargo in transit.
  • transmundane — reaching beyond or existing outside the physical or visible world.
  • tremendously — extraordinarily great in size, amount, or intensity: a tremendous ocean liner; tremendous talent.
  • trend-setter — A trend-setter is a person or institution that starts a new fashion or trend.
  • trendsetting — establishing or influencing a new trend or fashion.
  • trepidations — tremulous fear, alarm, or agitation; perturbation.
  • typing speed — the number of words someone can accurately type in one minute
  • un-disrupted — to cause disorder or turmoil in: The news disrupted their conference.
  • un-scattered — distributed or occurring at widely spaced and usually irregular intervals: scattered villages; scattered showers.
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