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