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12-letter words containing d, i, s, o, r

  • food service — the preparation, delivery, serving, etc., of ready-to-eat foods: The cafeteria employs over 20 people in food service.
  • foolhardiest — Superlative form of foolhardy.
  • foot soldier — an infantryman.
  • footsoldiers — Plural form of footsoldier.
  • foreadmonish — (rare, transitive) To admonish beforehand, or before the act or event.
  • foredestined — Simple past tense and past participle of foredestine.
  • fort madison — a city in SE Iowa, on the Mississippi.
  • forward bias — a voltage applied to a circuit or device, esp a semiconductor device, in the direction that produces the larger current
  • foster child — a child raised by someone who is not its natural or adoptive parent.
  • fourdriniers — Plural form of fourdrinier.
  • frondiferous — Producing fronds.
  • gallows bird — a person who deserves to be hanged.
  • gastrodermis — the inner cell layer of the body of an invertebrate.
  • gersdorffite — a mineral, sulfide-arsenide of nickel, NiAsS, occurring in metallic, light-gray cubes.
  • glandiferous — bearing nuts or acorns
  • goldsmithery — the occupation of a goldsmith
  • gormandising — Present participle of gormandise.
  • gormandizers — gourmandise1 .
  • grosswardein — German name of Oradea.
  • hadrosaurine — Hadrosaurid.
  • haemorrhoids — Plural form of haemorrhoid.
  • haemosiderin — Alternative form of hemosiderin.
  • harpsichords — Plural form of harpsichord.
  • harrison red — a pigment consisting of a paratoluidine toner, characterized by its brilliant red color and tendency to bleed.
  • hemispheroid — half of a spheroid.
  • heterodoxies — Plural form of heterodoxy.
  • hidrocystoma — An adenoma of the sweat glands.
  • hidropoiesis — the production of sweat.
  • hindforemost — with the back part in the front place
  • his-lordship — (often initial capital letter) a term of respect used when speaking of or to certain noblemen (usually preceded by his or your).
  • historicized — Simple past tense and past participle of historicize.
  • homebuilders — Plural form of homebuilder.
  • horse riding — activity: riding on a horse
  • horsewhipped — Simple past tense and past participle of horsewhip.
  • house spider — any largish dark spider of the genus Tegenaria that is common in houses, such as the cardinal spider
  • house wizard — (Probably from ad-agency tradetalk, "house freak") A hacker occupying a technical-specialist, R&D, or systems position at a commercial shop. A really effective house wizard can have influence out of all proportion to his/her ostensible rank and still not have to wear a suit. Used especially of Unix wizards. The term "house guru" is equivalent.
  • housebuilder — One who builds houses, particularly one who does so professionally.
  • housetrained — Simple past tense and past participle of housetrain.
  • hudson riverHenry, died 1611? English navigator and explorer.
  • hydroelastic — undergoing a change in elasticity as a result of the flow of water or another fluid
  • hydrokinesis — (science fiction): The psychic ability to manipulate or control water.
  • hydrologists — Plural form of hydrologist.
  • hydronautics — (nautical) The science of the design and construction of ships, their engines, and their instrumentation.
  • hydrophilous — pollinated by the agency of water.
  • hydrosalpinx — A distally blocked Fallopian tube filled with serous or clear fluid.
  • hydrostatics — the branch of hydrodynamics that deals with the statics of fluids, usually confined to the equilibrium and pressure of liquids.
  • hydrosulfide — a compound containing the univalent group –HS.
  • hydrosulfite — hyposulfite (def 1).
  • hydrotropism — oriented growth in response to water.
  • hyperbolised — to use hyperbole; exaggerate.
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