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12-letter words containing d, o, t, l, e

  • redeployment — to transfer (a unit, a person, supplies, etc.) from one theater of operations to another.
  • redoublement — the act of redoubling
  • revalidation — to make valid; substantiate; confirm: Time validated our suspicions.
  • rocket salad — rocket2 (def 2).
  • rocket-salad — any of various plants belonging to the genus Hesperis, of the mustard family, and related genera. Compare dame's rocket.
  • rodent ulcer — an ulcerating basal cell skin cancer, common on the face.
  • rolled roast — meat that has had the bones removed and been rolled and tied for roasting.
  • round-lotter — a buyer or seller of round lots.
  • rust-colored — of the color rust.
  • sacred lotus — Indian lotus.
  • saddle joint — (on a sill, coping, or the like) a vertical joint raised above the level of the washes on each side.
  • saddle point — a point at which a function of two variables has partial derivatives equal to zero but at which the function has neither a maximum nor a minimum value.
  • sand-floated — noting an exterior wall finish composed of mortar rubbed with sand and floated when it has partly set.
  • scott-closed — A set S, a subset of D, is Scott-closed if (1) If Y is a subset of S and Y is directed then lub Y is in S and (2) If y <= s in S then y is in S. I.e. a Scott-closed set contains the lubs of its directed subsets and anything less than any element. (2) says that S is downward closed (or left closed). ("<=" is written in LaTeX as \sqsubseteq).
  • scout leader — the leader of a troop of Scouts
  • self-devoted — intense devotion of oneself to an activity or to a field or profession, as art or science.
  • slide-action — (of a rifle or shotgun) having a lever that when slid back and forth ejects the empty case and cocks and reloads the piece.
  • soft-shelled — Also, soft-shelled. having a soft, flexible, or fragile shell, as a crab that has recently molted.
  • softheadedly — in a soft-headed manner
  • sole custody — custody, as of a child whose parents are separated, in which one person has sole responsibility.
  • solid rocket — any of various rockets using solid fuel
  • south euclid — a city in NE Ohio, near Cleveland.
  • south hadley — a city in W Massachusetts.
  • split second — a fraction of a second.
  • spot welding — fusing metal
  • spotted tail — (Sinte-galeshka) 1833?–81, Brulé Sioux leader.
  • spotted wilt — a viral disease of plants, characterized by wilting and by brown, sunken spots and streaks on the stems and leaves.
  • staddlestone — (formerly) one of several supports for a hayrick, consisting of a truncated conical stone surmounted by a flat circular stone
  • stakeholders — the holder of the stakes of a wager.
  • stock saddle — Western saddle.
  • stockholders — Also called stockowner. a holder or owner of stock in a corporation.
  • storm-lashed — badly affected by storms
  • stranglehold — Wrestling. an illegal hold by which an opponent's breath is choked off.
  • stringholder — an oblong piece of wood at the lower end of the body of a viol or other stringed instrument to which the strings are attached.
  • student loan — A student loan is a government loan that is available to students at a college or university in order to help them pay their expenses.
  • stunt double — someone who performs dangerous stunts in a film in place of an actor
  • stupendously — causing amazement; astounding; marvelous: stupendous news.
  • subeditorial — of or relating to a subeditor, the work of a subeditor or a subeditorship
  • subthreshold — (of a stimulus) too weak to produce a response.
  • sweet almond — the nutlike kernel of the fruit of either of two trees, Prunus dulcis (sweet almond) or P. dulcis amara (bitter almond) which grow in warm temperate regions.
  • table d'hote — a meal of preselected courses served at a fixed time and price to the guests at a hotel or restaurant.
  • table tripod — a low mount or stand for a camera.
  • take hold of — grasp, seize sth
  • the cold war — the period (1945-91) of cold war between the Soviet Union and its Communist allies and the U.S. and its non-Communist allies
  • the good oil — true or reliable facts, information, etc
  • the lowlands — a low generally flat region of central Scotland, around the Forth and Clyde valleys, separating the Southern Uplands from the Highlands
  • the old adam — the evil supposedly inherent in human nature
  • the old bill — policemen collectively or in general
  • the old dart — England
  • the old days — the past
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