12-letter words containing d, i, s, u, e
- frondiferous — Producing fronds.
- fused silica — glass made entirely from silica, having a very low rate of thermal expansion.
- gesticulated — to make or use gestures, especially in an animated or excited manner with or instead of speech.
- glandiferous — bearing nuts or acorns
- graduateship — the time or condition of being a graduate
- grudgingness — The state or quality of grudging.
- guesstimated — Simple past tense and past participle of guesstimate.
- guide fossil — index fossil.
- hadrosaurine — Hadrosaurid.
- hebetudinous — the state of being dull; lethargy.
- hepadnavirus — Any member of the virus family Hepadnaviridae, capable of causing liver infections in humans and animals.
- high hurdles — a race in which runners leap over hurdles 42 inches (107 cm) high.
- hindquarters — the posterior end of a halved carcass of beef, lamb, etc., sectioned usually between the twelfth and thirteenth ribs.
- homebuilders — Plural form of homebuilder.
- 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.
- huddersfield — a town in West Yorkshire, in N central England.
- hudson river — Henry, died 1611? English navigator and explorer.
- human shield — a person or group of people located or intentionally placed in a potential line of fire or in an area likely to be attacked.
- hydrosulfide — a compound containing the univalent group –HS.
- hydrosulfite — hyposulfite (def 1).
- idiothermous — warm-blooded
- Îles du vent — a group of islands in the S Pacific, in French Polynesia in the W Society Archipelago: Moorea, Maio (Tubuai Manu), and Mehetia and Tetiaroa. Pop: 184 222 (2002)
- impoundments — Plural form of impoundment.
- imprest fund — a fund of petty cash.
- impudentness — Quality of being impudent.
- in spadefuls — in an extreme or emphatic way
- in the dumps — a depressed state of mind (usually preceded by in the): to be in the dumps over money problems.
- inadequacies — Plural form of inadequacy.
- incapsulated — Simple past tense and past participle of incapsulate.
- indecorously — not decorous; violating generally accepted standards of good taste or propriety; unseemly.
- indigenously — originating in and characteristic of a particular region or country; native (often followed by to): the plants indigenous to Canada; the indigenous peoples of southern Africa.
- indisputable — not disputable or deniable; uncontestable. indisputable evidence.
- indissoluble — not dissoluble; incapable of being dissolved, decomposed, undone, or destroyed.
- individuates — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of individuate.
- indologenous — producing or causing the production of indole.
- indulgencies — indulgence.
- industrywide — from, covering, or affecting an entire industry: industrywide profits.
- inquiry desk — a section of an office, business etc, which deals with inquiries nor requests for information
- 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.
- jurisdictive — Jurisdictional.
- jurisprudent — versed in jurisprudence.
- kindred soul — like-minded person
- laser-guided — (of a missile, etc) guided with the use of a laser beam