12-letter words containing d, e, t, r, u, n
- good-natured — having or showing a pleasant, kindly disposition; amiable: a warm, good-natured person.
- grandaughter — Alternative spelling of granddaughter.
- great sunday — Easter Sunday.
- grid current — the current that moves within the vacuum tube from the grid to the cathode.
- ground alert — the state of waiting for orders in or near combat airplanes ready to take to the air at once.
- ground plate — Electricity. a metal plate for making a ground connection to the earth.
- ground state — the state of least energy of a particle, as an atom, or of a system of particles.
- ground water — the water beneath the surface of the ground, consisting largely of surface water that has seeped down: the source of water in springs and wells.
- groundsheets — Plural form of groundsheet.
- groundstroke — A stroke played after the ball has bounced, as opposed to a volley.
- guide center — a command to a marching formation to align itself behind a guide marching at the head of the formation.
- guilt-ridden — If a person is guilt-ridden, they feel very guilty about something.
- hindquarters — the posterior end of a halved carcass of beef, lamb, etc., sectioned usually between the twelfth and thirteenth ribs.
- housetrained — Simple past tense and past participle of housetrain.
- imprest fund — a fund of petty cash.
- in the round — having a flat, circular surface, as a disk.
- in-and-outer — a person who is by turns in and out of a particular situation, condition, venture, investment, etc.
- industrywide — from, covering, or affecting an entire industry: industrywide profits.
- ingurgitated — Simple past tense and past participle of ingurgitate.
- instrumented — equipped with instruments to perform specified functions, as testing, measurement, or control: an instrumented railroad car.
- interdiffuse — (of two or more fluids) to diffuse mutually
- intermundane — existing in the space between worlds or heavenly bodies: intermundane space.
- intertissued — interwoven
- intramundane — existing or occurring within the material world.
- introductive — serving or used to introduce; preliminary; beginning: an introductory course; an introductory paragraph.
- jurisprudent — versed in jurisprudence.
- launderettes — Plural form of launderette.
- leatherbound — Bound in leather.
- manufactured — the making of goods or wares by manual labor or by machinery, especially on a large scale: the manufacture of television sets.
- miniaturised — Simple past tense and past participle of miniaturise.
- miniaturized — Simple past tense and past participle of miniaturize.
- misadventure — an instance of bad fortune; mishap.
- misconstrued — Simple past tense and past participle of misconstrue.
- mount desert — island off the S coast of Me.: resort: c. 100 sq mi (259 sq km)
- multicentred — Having multiple centres.
- multipronged — having or composed of several prongs: a multipronged electric plug.
- muttonbirder — a person who hunts muttonbirds
- nature study — the study of plants and animals, especially by amateurs.
- nefud desert — a desert in N Saudi Arabia: areas of reddish sand. About 50,000 sq. mi. (129,500 sq. km).
- neuropeptide — any of various short-chain peptides, as endorphins, that function as neuromodulators in the nervous system and as hormones in the endocrine system.
- non-graduate — a person who has received a degree or diploma on completing a course of study, as in a university, college, or school.
- nonredundant — not redundant
- nonregulated — Alternative spelling of non-regulated.
- nuee ardente — (in a volcanic eruption) a swiftly flowing, dense cloud of hot gases, ashes, and lava fragments.
- obdurateness — The characteristic of being obdurate; stubbornness.
- orthodonture — orthodontia (def 2).
- outer london — the group of London Boroughs that form a ring around the city of London in the UK
- outgeneraled — Simple past tense and past participle of outgeneral.
- outsiderness — The state or condition of being an outsider.
- outspreading — Present participle of outspread.