12-letter words containing d, e, u, t, r
- 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.
- grudge match — You can call a contest between two people or groups a grudge match when they dislike each other.
- 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.
- gustave dore — (Paul) Gustave [pawl gy-stav] /pɔl güˈstav/ (Show IPA), 1832?–83, French painter, illustrator, and sculptor.
- gutturalized — pronounced with guttural coarticulation.
- hard-mouthed — of or relating to a horse not sensitive to the pressure of a bit.
- headquarters — a center of operations, as of the police or a business, from which orders are issued; the chief administrative office of an organization: The operatives were always in touch with headquarters.
- heteroduplex — having polynucleotide strands derived from two different sources
- hindquarters — the posterior end of a halved carcass of beef, lamb, etc., sectioned usually between the twelfth and thirteenth ribs.
- house doctor — a resident physician in a hospital, hotel, or other public institution.
- housetrained — Simple past tense and past participle of housetrain.
- hydroculture — A type of hydroponics in which plants are grown in a medium that allows the distribution of water and nutrients through capillary action.
- hydrosulfate — a salt formed by the direct union of sulfuric acid with an organic base, especially an alkaloid, and usually more soluble than the base.
- hydrosulfite — hyposulfite (def 1).
- idiothermous — warm-blooded
- 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.
- jeu d'esprit — a witticism.
- jitterbugged — Simple past tense and past participle of jitterbug.
- judicatories — Plural form of judicatory.
- jurisdictive — Jurisdictional.
- jurisprudent — versed in jurisprudence.
- just deserts — Usually, deserts. reward or punishment that is deserved: Death was his desert. Synonyms: due, payment, recompense, reward; justice, retaliation, retribution, penalty.
- ketoaciduria — (pathology) The presence of (excess) ketoacids in the urine.
- ladder truck — hook and ladder.
- launderettes — Plural form of launderette.
- leaf mustard — a pungent powder or paste prepared from the seed of the mustard plant, used as a food seasoning or condiment, and medicinally in plasters, poultices, etc.
- 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.
- matriculated — Be enrolled at a college or university.
- medium strip — median strip.
- middlebuster — Southern U.S. lister1 (def 1).
- miniaturised — Simple past tense and past participle of miniaturise.
- miniaturized — Simple past tense and past participle of miniaturize.