12-letter words containing d, i, s, t, r, u
- distributing — to divide and give out in shares; deal out; allot.
- distribution — an act or instance of distributing.
- distributism — a socioeconomic theory and system advocating widespread ownership of private property and the means of production: based on late 19th-century Catholic teachings on economic and social justice.
- distributive — serving to distribute, assign, allot, or divide; characterized by or pertaining to distribution.
- distributors — Plural form of distributor.
- distrustless — without suspicion or distrust
- disturbances — Plural form of disturbance.
- disturbative — capable of disturbing
- disturbingly — upsetting or disquieting; dismaying: a disturbing increase in the crime rate.
- divestitures — Plural form of divestiture.
- double first — a first in two subjects.
- dramaturgist — A person who composes a drama and directs its representation; a playwright.
- drop biscuit — a biscuit made by dropping baking powder biscuit dough from a spoon onto a pan for baking.
- droughtiness — Dryness of the weather; lack of rain.
- dryopithecus — an extinct genus of generalized hominoids that lived in Europe and Africa during the Miocene Epoch and whose members are characterized by small molars and incisors.
- dusty miller — Botany. any of several composite plants, as Centaurea cineraria, Senecio cineraria, or the beach wormwood, having pinnate leaves covered with whitish pubescence. rose campion.
- entertissued — interwoven
- expenditures — Plural form of expenditure.
- filibustered — Simple past tense and past participle of filibuster.
- gradualistic — Of or pertaining to gradualism.
- graduateship — the time or condition of being a graduate
- guardianista — a reader of the Guardian newspaper, seen as being typically left-wing, liberal, and politically correct
- 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.
- hydronautics — (nautical) The science of the design and construction of ships, their engines, and their instrumentation.
- hydrosulfite — hyposulfite (def 1).
- idiothermous — warm-blooded
- idolatrously — In an idolatrous manner.
- imprest fund — a fund of petty cash.
- in our midst — among us
- industrially — of, pertaining to, of the nature of, or resulting from industry: industrial production; industrial waste.
- industrywide — from, covering, or affecting an entire industry: industrywide profits.
- 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
- intertissued — interwoven
- jeu d'esprit — a witticism.
- judicatories — Plural form of judicatory.
- juris doctor — lawyer's degree
- jurisdiction — the right, power, or authority to administer justice by hearing and determining controversies.
- jurisdictive — Jurisdictional.
- jurisprudent — versed in jurisprudence.
- laundry list — a lengthy, especially random list of items: a laundry list of hoped-for presents; a laundry list of someone's crimes.
- medium strip — median strip.
- middlebuster — Southern U.S. lister1 (def 1).
- miniaturised — Simple past tense and past participle of miniaturise.
- misadventure — an instance of bad fortune; mishap.
- misconstrued — Simple past tense and past participle of misconstrue.
- multistoried — Multi-storey.
- nitrous acid — an acid, HNO 2 , known only in solution.
- non-industry — the aggregate of manufacturing or technically productive enterprises in a particular field, often named after its principal product: the automobile industry; the steel industry.