12-letter words containing d, r, o, u, t
- productivity — the quality, state, or fact of being able to generate, create, enhance, or bring forth goods and services: The productivity of the group's effort surprised everyone.
- promuscidate — shaped like a proboscis
- propaedeutic — pertaining to or of the nature of preliminary instruction.
- protoduction — (jargon) A prototype that ends up in a production environment.
- proudhearted — full of pride.
- pseudomartyr — someone falsely or inaccurately called a martyr
- pseudovector — a variable quantity, such as angular momentum, that has magnitude and orientation with respect to an axis. The components are even functions of the coordinates
- punditocracy — influential media pundits collectively.
- put down for — If you put someone down for something, you write down their name and the fact that they are going to do, give, or buy that thing.
- put in order — arrange correctly
- putty powder — an abrasive consisting chiefly of stannic oxide, used for polishing hard surfaces.
- quack doctor — an unqualified person who claims medical knowledge or other skills
- quote-driven — denoting an electronic market system, esp for stock exchanges, in which prices are determined by quotations made by market makers or dealers
- radiothorium — a disintegration product of thorium.
- read-through — reading (def 1).
- rear-mounted — (of an engine, etc) fitted at the back of a vehicle
- redoublement — the act of redoubling
- reductionism — the theory that every complex phenomenon, especially in biology or psychology, can be explained by analyzing the simplest, most basic physical mechanisms that are in operation during the phenomenon.
- reductionist — the theory that every complex phenomenon, especially in biology or psychology, can be explained by analyzing the simplest, most basic physical mechanisms that are in operation during the phenomenon.
- refoundation — an act of refounding
- reproduction — the act or process of reproducing.
- reproductive — serving to reproduce.
- ride shotgun — a smoothbore gun for firing small shots to kill birds and small quadrupeds, though often used with buckshot to kill larger animals.
- rodent ulcer — an ulcerating basal cell skin cancer, common on the face.
- rogue trader — A rogue trader is an employee of a financial institution who carries out business without the knowledge or approval of his or her bosses.
- round-lotter — a buyer or seller of round lots.
- roundaboutly — in a roundabout manner
- rust-colored — of the color rust.
- sacred lotus — Indian lotus.
- sandrocottus — Greek name of Chandragupta.
- scout around — search
- scout leader — the leader of a troop of Scouts
- send out for — If you send out for food, for example pizzas or sandwiches, you phone and ask for it to be delivered to you.
- short radius — the perpendicular distance from the centre of a regular polygon to a side
- southernwood — a woody-stemmed wormwood, Artemisia abrotanum, of southern Europe, having aromatic, finely dissected leaves.
- stand up for — (of a person) to be in an upright position on the feet.
- stereo sound — reproduction of sound using two or more separate microphones to feed two or more loudspeakers through separate channels in order to give a spatial effect to the sound
- stick around — to pierce or puncture with something pointed, as a pin, dagger, or spear; stab: to stick one's finger with a needle.
- stone-ground — (of wheat or other grain) ground between millstones, especially those made of burstone, so as to retain the whole of the grain and preserve nutritional content.
- stouthearted — brave and resolute; dauntless.
- stressed out — afflicted with or incapacitated by stress.
- stressed-out — afflicted with or incapacitated by stress.
- study period — a period of time or lesson used for studying
- subeditorial — of or relating to a subeditor, the work of a subeditor or a subeditorship
- subfeudatory — of or relating to subfeu
- subintroduce — to introduce subtly
- subordinated — placed in or belonging to a lower order or rank.
- subordinator — a conjunction introducing a subordinate clause, as when in They were glad when I finished.
- subthreshold — (of a stimulus) too weak to produce a response.
- sugar-coated — Sugar-coated food is covered with a sweet substance made of sugar.