12-letter words containing d, i, o, e, s
- respondentia — a loan upon a ship's cargo, which is repaid with interest if the ship reaches its destination, and if the ship does not, the loan is not repaid
- rhode island — US state
- ride shotgun — a smoothbore gun for firing small shots to kill birds and small quadrupeds, though often used with buckshot to kill larger animals.
- 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
- rosewood oil — a fragrant oil extracted from the wood of a South American tree, Aniba rosaeodora, and used in the manufacture of perfumes.
- 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.
- safe-deposit — providing safekeeping for valuables: a safe-deposit vault.
- sapindaceous — belonging to the Sapindaceae, the soapberry family of plants.
- sclerodermic — of or relating to a scleroderm or to sclerodermia; hard-skinned
- scolopendrid — any myriapod of the order Scolopendrida, including many large, poisonous centipedes.
- 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.
- second birth — spiritual rebirth.
- second reich — the German Empire 1871–1919.
- second sight — the faculty of seeing future events; clairvoyance.
- section hand — a person who works on a section gang.
- self-imposed — imposed on one by oneself: a self-imposed task.
- self-loading — noting or pertaining to an automatic or semiautomatic firearm.
- semi-dormant — lying asleep or as if asleep; inactive, as in sleep; torpid: The lecturer's sudden shout woke the dormant audience.
- semi-nomadic — of, relating to, or characteristic of nomads.
- semideponent — (of a Latin verb) active in meaning but passive in form in the perfect tense
- semidominant — producing an intermediate, heterozygous phenotype
- serial bonds — Serial bonds are bonds that are issued at the same time but have staggered maturity dates.
- series-wound — noting a commutator motor in which the field circuit and armature circuit are connected in series.
- serous fluid — any of various clear, watery fluids in the body.
- service road — frontage road.
- severodvinsk — a city in the N Russian Federation in Europe, on Dvina Gulf, E of Archangel.
- sexdecillion — a cardinal number represented in the U.S. by 1 followed by 51 zeros, and in Great Britain by 1 followed by 96 zeros.
- shadow price — the calculated price of a good or service for which no market price exists
- shared logic — the sharing of a central processing unit and associated software among several terminals
- shareholding — a holder or owner of shares, especially in a company or corporation.
- shore dinner — a meal consisting chiefly of seafood.
- short-haired — having short hair
- short-winded — short of breath; liable to difficulty in breathing.
- shortsighted — unable to see far; nearsighted; myopic.
- siderochrome — any of various chemical compounds functioning in the transport of iron in bacteria.
- siderography — the art or technique of engraving on steel.
- siderophilic — having characteristics of siderophile
- silver mound — a perennial Japanese herb, Artemisia schmidtiana, having silver-green leaves forming a moundlike shape.
- single modal — modal (def 3).
- six-year-old — being six years in age
- sixty-second — next after the sixty-first; being the ordinal number for 62.
- slide-action — (of a rifle or shotgun) having a lever that when slid back and forth ejects the empty case and cocks and reloads the piece.
- sloop-rigged — (of a sailboat) fore-and-aft rigged with a mainsail and a jib.
- sober-minded — rational; sensible.
- social media — websites and other online means of communication that are used by large groups of people to share information and to develop social and professional contacts: Many businesses are utilizing social media to generate sales.
- social order — structure or hierarchy of society
- sodium amide — a white, crystalline, water-insoluble, flammable powder, NaNH 2 , used chiefly in the manufacture of sodium cyanide and in organic synthesis.
- soldier crab — a small blue Australian estuarine crab of the Mictyris genus usually found in large numbers