12-letter words containing d, o, r, t, u
- country road — a road in the country
- country-bred — brought up in the country
- county board — the governing body of a U.S. county consisting usually of three or more elected members.
- court record — (in the US) a record of court proceedings
- crater mound — huge, circular depression in central Ariz., believed to have been made by a meteorite: depth, 600 ft (183 m); diameter, 0.75 mi (1.2 km)
- creaturehood — the state of being a creature
- credit union — A credit union is a financial institution that offers its members low-interest loans.
- crop dusting — Crop dusting is the spreading of pesticides on crops, usually from an aircraft.
- crop-dusting — the spraying of powdered fungicides or insecticides on crops, usually from an airplane.
- custom-order — to obtain by special or individual order: These wide doors have to be custom-ordered.
- daguerrotype — Misspelling of daguerreotype.
- dame fortune — the personification of fortune as a woman
- dark tourism — tourism to sites associated with tragedies, disasters, and death
- david souter — David H. born 1939, U.S. jurist: associate justice of the U.S. Supreme Court 1990–2009.
- day in court — an opportunity to present one's side of a matter, as in a court of law
- deambulatory — a place for walking often with a covering overhead
- deconstructs — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of deconstruct.
- decrustation — the act of removing a crust
- defraudation — (obsolete) The act of defrauding; a taking by fraud.
- deinotherium — any member of the genus Deinotherium, consisting of mammals resembling elephants that existed during the Miocene, Pliocene, and Pleistocene epochs
- deli counter — a display case in a delicatessen, or one in a supermarket that sells delicatessen
- denaturation — to deprive (something) of its natural character, properties, etc.
- denunciatory — characterized by or given to denunciation.
- deregulation — Deregulation is the removal of controls and restrictions in a particular area of business or trade.
- deregulatory — Of or pertaining to deregulation.
- desaturation — the addition of white light to a pure colour to produce a paler less saturated colour
- desquamatory — an obsolete surgical instrument once used for the desquamation of bones
- deuteranopia — a form of colour blindness in which there is a tendency to confuse blues and greens, and greens and reds, and in which sensitivity to green is reduced
- deuteronomic — of, relating to, or resembling Deuteronomy, especially the laws contained in that book.
- deuteropathy — any abnormality that is secondary to another pathological condition.
- deuteroscopy — the second time of looking or considering
- deuterostome — any member of the major group of animals defined by the fact that during early embryonic development the first opening to form becomes the anus of the animal. The opposite is protostome
- dextrousness — Alternative form of dexterousness.
- disastrously — causing great distress or injury; ruinous; very unfortunate; calamitous: The rain and cold proved disastrous to his health.
- disauthorize — to take authority away from (a person or organization)
- discomfiture — Archaic. defeat in battle; rout.
- discongruity — incongruity.
- discourteous — not courteous; impolite; uncivil; rude: a discourteous salesman.
- discoverture — the state of being discovert; freedom from coverture.
- disinvoltura — Self-assurance; lack of constraint.
- disquisitory — of or relating to disquisition
- dissimulator — One who dissimulates.
- distribution — an act or instance of distributing.
- distributors — Plural form of distributor.
- do honour to — to pay homage to
- do your part — contribute
- docudramatic — Of or relating to docudrama.
- door curtain — a curtain that fills a doorway
- double altar — an altar on which the Eucharist may be celebrated from either the liturgical east or the liturgical west side.
- double drift — a method of calculating wind direction and velocity by observing the direction of drift of an aircraft on two or more headings.