12-letter words containing d, i, s, t, o
- fifty-second — next after the fifty-first; being the ordinal number for 52.
- folding seat — a seat that can be folded down
- food fascist — a person who shows extreme, intolerant views in relation to food
- food stylist — a person whose job is to arrange food in an attractive way for professional photographs or broadcasts.
- foolhardiest — Superlative form of foolhardy.
- foot soldier — an infantryman.
- footsoldiers — Plural form of footsoldier.
- foredestined — Simple past tense and past participle of foredestine.
- fort madison — a city in SE Iowa, on the Mississippi.
- foster child — a child raised by someone who is not its natural or adoptive parent.
- galactosides — Plural form of galactoside.
- 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.
- goldsmithery — the occupation of a goldsmith
- goldsmithing — The work of a goldsmith; the forging of gold.
- head station — the main buildings on a large sheep or cattle farm
- hebetudinous — the state of being dull; lethargy.
- heterodoxies — Plural form of heterodoxy.
- hidrocystoma — An adenoma of the sweat glands.
- hindforemost — with the back part in the front place
- historicized — Simple past tense and past participle of historicize.
- hold against — resent sb for sth
- homesteading — a dwelling with its land and buildings, occupied by the owner as a home and exempted by a homestead law from seizure or sale for debt.
- hospital bed — a bed having side rails that can be raised or lowered and a mattress base in three jointed sections so that the head, foot, or middle may be raised by a crank or motor, allowing a patient to lie in various positions, as a therapeutic aid or for comfort.
- hospitalised — to place in a hospital for medical care or observation: The doctor hospitalized grandfather as soon as she checked his heart.
- hospitalized — to place in a hospital for medical care or observation: The doctor hospitalized grandfather as soon as she checked his heart.
- housetrained — Simple past tense and past participle of housetrain.
- hunting dogs — the constellation Canes Venatici.
- hydroelastic — undergoing a change in elasticity as a result of the flow of water or another fluid
- hydrologists — Plural form of hydrologist.
- hydronautics — (nautical) The science of the design and construction of ships, their engines, and their instrumentation.
- hydrostatics — the branch of hydrodynamics that deals with the statics of fluids, usually confined to the equilibrium and pressure of liquids.
- hydrosulfite — hyposulfite (def 1).
- hydrotropism — oriented growth in response to water.
- hypostasised — to assume the reality of (an idea, proposition, etc.); hypostatize.
- hypostatised — to treat or regard (a concept, idea, etc.) as a distinct substance or reality.
- hypostatized — Simple past tense and past participle of hypostatize.
- hypothesised — to form a hypothesis.
- hypothesized — Simple past tense and past participle of hypothesize.
- ibm discount — A price increase. Outside IBM, this derives from the common perception that IBM products are generally overpriced (see clone); inside, it is said to spring from a belief that large numbers of IBM employees living in an area cause prices to rise.
- idealisation — Alternative spelling of idealization.
- idiot savant — a mentally defective person with an exceptional skill or talent in a special field, as a highly developed ability to play music or to solve complex mathematical problems mentally at great speed.
- idiothermous — warm-blooded
- idolatrously — In an idolatrous manner.
- ill-assorted — badly matched; incompatible
- immortalised — to bestow unending fame upon; perpetuate.
- impersonated — to assume the character or appearance of; pretend to be: He was arrested for impersonating a police officer.
- impoundments — Plural form of impoundment.
- in our midst — among us
- in two minds — If you are in two minds, you are uncertain about what to do, especially when you have to choose between two courses of action. The expression of two minds is also used, especially in American English.