12-letter words containing d, o, t, l
- pot marigold — calendula (def 1).
- potato salad — potato chunks in mayonnaise
- predilection — a tendency to think favorably of something in particular; partiality; preference: a predilection for Bach.
- procathedral — a church used temporarily as a cathedral.
- product line — all of the products carried by a manufacturer, wholesaler, or retailer.
- productional — the act of producing; creation; manufacture.
- productively — having the power of producing; generative; creative: a productive effort.
- providential — of, relating to, or resulting from divine providence: providential care.
- pyritohedral — of or relating to a pyritohedron
- radioelement — a radioactive element.
- radiolocator — radar.
- randallstown — a city in N Maryland, near Baltimore.
- re-solicited — to seek for (something) by entreaty, earnest or respectful request, formal application, etc.: He solicited aid from the minister.
- redelegation — a group or body of delegates: Our club sent a delegation to the rally.
- 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.
- roundaboutly — in a roundabout manner
- 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.
- scalding hot — that scalds; burning; too hot
- scarlatinoid — resembling scarlatina or its eruptions.
- scot and lot — British History. a municipal tax assessed proportionately upon the members of a community.
- 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.
- sodium light — the light produced by a sodium lamp
- soft landing — space vehicle
- 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
- solidaristic — relating to solidarism
- solitudinous — the state of being or living alone; seclusion: to enjoy one's solitude.
- south euclid — a city in NE Ohio, near Cleveland.
- south hadley — a city in W Massachusetts.
- south island — the largest island of New Zealand. 58,093 sq. mi. (150,460 sq. km).
- 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.