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12-letter words containing d, s, u

  • profoundness — penetrating or entering deeply into subjects of thought or knowledge; having deep insight or understanding: a profound thinker.
  • promuscidate — shaped like a proboscis
  • prussic acid — weakly acidic extremely poisonous aqueous solution of hydrogen cyanide
  • pseudamphora — a Mycenaean vase having a spherical body, a spout on the shoulder, and a handle, curving across the top, supported by a solid conical neck.
  • pseudo force — any force that is postulated to account for apparent deviations from Newton's laws of motion appearing in an accelerated reference system.
  • pseudo-event — an event that is staged primarily so that it can be reported in the media.
  • pseudoallele — a false allele
  • pseudoanemia — Pathology. a quantitative deficiency of the hemoglobin, often accompanied by a reduced number of red blood cells and causing pallor, weakness, and breathlessness.
  • pseudocereal — any of several plants, as buckwheat and quinoa, that produce fruits and seeds used as flour but are not of the grass family.
  • pseudocoelom — the body cavity of certain invertebrate metazoan animals between the body wall and the intestine, which is not lined with a mesodermal epithelium.
  • pseudocyesis — false pregnancy.
  • pseudography — writing that does not follow conventional spelling or usage
  • pseudomartyr — someone falsely or inaccurately called a martyr
  • pseudonymity — pseudonymous character.
  • pseudonymous — bearing a false or fictitious name.
  • pseudopodial — a temporary protrusion of the protoplasm, as of certain protozoans, usually serving as an organ of locomotion or prehension.
  • pseudopodium — pseudopod.
  • pseudorabies — a highly contagious, usually fatal disease of cattle, sheep, and other animals, caused by the herpesvirus Herpes suis, and characterized by severe pruritus and progressive central nervous system involvement sometimes including an aggressive excitement phase.
  • pseudorandom — noting or pertaining to random numbers generated by a definite computational process to satisfy a statistical test.
  • pseudoscalar — a scalar quantity that changes sign when the sense of the orientation of the coordinate system is changed.
  • pseudoscheme — A translator from Scheme to Common Lisp by Jonathan Rees <[email protected]>. Version 2.8. It conforms to all of R3RS except call/cc and requires Common Lisp. Runs on Lucid, Symbolics CL, VAX Lisp, Explorer CL. Mailing list: [email protected]
  • pseudosphere — a surface generated by revolving a tractrix about its asymptote.
  • 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
  • public goods — services such as national defence, law enforcement, and road building, that are for the benefit of, and available to, all members of the public
  • puddingstone — any conglomerate rock having dark-colored, rounded pebbles that are embedded in a light-colored, fine-grained matrix
  • purblindness — the state of being purblind
  • push forward — keep advancing
  • puy de sancy — a mountain in S central France: highest peak of the Monts Dore. Height: 1886 m (6188 ft)
  • quadragesima — the first Sunday in Lent.
  • quadrillions — Plural form of quadrillion.
  • quadrisected — Simple past tense and past participle of quadrisect.
  • quadrisonics — quadraphony.
  • quadrumanous — four-handed; having all four feet adapted for use as hands, as monkeys.
  • quadruplexes — Plural form of quadruplex.
  • quai d'orsay — the quay along the south bank of the Seine in Paris, on which are located the Ministry of Foreign Affairs and other French government offices.
  • quarterdecks — Plural form of quarterdeck.
  • quasi-feudal — of, relating to, or of the nature of a fief or fee: a feudal estate.
  • queenslander — a native or inhabitant of Queensland
  • quickstepped — Simple past tense and past participle of quickstep.
  • quindecagons — Plural form of quindecagon.
  • race suicide — the extinction of a racial or ethnic population that tends to result when, through the unwillingness or forbearance of its members to have children, the birthrate falls below the death rate.
  • radicicolous — living on the roots of plants
  • radicivorous — feeding on the roots of plants
  • radio source — a cosmic object or phenomenon, as a galaxy, pulsar, quasar, or the remnant of a supernova or of a galactic collision, that emits radio waves.
  • re-submitted — to give over or yield to the power or authority of another (often used reflexively).
  • readjustment — an act of readjusting or the state of being readjusted.
  • recrudescent — breaking out afresh or into renewed activity; revival or reappearance in active existence.
  • red larkspur — a plant, Delphinium nudicaule, of the buttercup family, native to the western coast of the U.S., having orange-red or sometimes yellow flowers.
  • red squirrel — a reddish squirrel, Tamiasciurus hudsonicus, of North America.
  • redistribute — to distribute again or anew: The corporation will redistribute its share of the profits to its stockholders.
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