12-letter words containing d, s, u
- seo de urgel — Urgel.
- sequestrated — Law. to sequester (property). to confiscate.
- series-wound — noting a commutator motor in which the field circuit and armature circuit are connected in series.
- serous fluid — any of various clear, watery fluids in the body.
- shipbuilding — a person whose occupation is the designing or constructing of ship.
- short radius — the perpendicular distance from the centre of a regular polygon to a side
- shoulder bag — a handbag with shoulder strap attached.
- shoulder pad — clothing: insert in shoulder
- shoulder-bag — A shoulder-bag is a bag that has a long strap so that it can be carried on a person's shoulder.
- shuffleboard — a game in which standing players shove or push wooden or plastic disks with a long cue toward numbered scoring sections marked on a floor or deck.
- shut-out bid — a pre-emptive bid
- side circuit — a circuit derived from two suitably arranged pairs of wires, each pair being a circuit (side circuit) and also acting as one half of an additional derived circuit, the entire system providing the capabilities of three circuits while requiring wires for only two.
- sigismund ii — called Sigismund Augustus. 1520–72, king of Poland (1548–72), who united Poland, Lithuania, and their dependencies by the Union of Lublin (1569)
- silver mound — a perennial Japanese herb, Artemisia schmidtiana, having silver-green leaves forming a moundlike shape.
- sinking fund — a fund to extinguish an indebtedness, usually a bond issue.
- sinus iridum — (Bay of Rainbows) a semicircular dark plain in the second quadrant of the face of the moon.
- sinusoidally — Mathematics. of or relating to a sinusoid.
- sitting duck — a helpless or easy target or victim: a sitting duck for shady financial schemes.
- skullduggery — skulduggery.
- skutterudite — a mineral, chiefly cobalt and nickel arsenide, (Co,Ni)As 3 , with some iron, occurring in the form of gray cubic crystals, usually in masses: a source of cobalt and nickel.
- sleep around — to take the rest afforded by a suspension of voluntary bodily functions and the natural suspension, complete or partial, of consciousness; cease being awake.
- slide guitar — bottleneck (def 3).
- sliding rule — (formerly) a slide rule.
- slum-dweller — a person who lives in a slum.
- slumbershade — sleep shade.
- smooth hound — a smooth dogfish, especially Mustelus mustelus, inhabiting waters along the coast of Europe.
- snatch squad — a squad of soldiers or police trained to deal with demonstrations by picking out and arresting the alleged ringleaders
- sniff around — dog: try to pick up scent
- snow pudding — a pudding, prepared by folding egg whites into a lemon gelatin mixture.
- snowed under — If you say that you are snowed under, you are emphasizing that you have a lot of work or other things to deal with.
- soda biscuit — a biscuit having soda and sour milk or buttermilk as leavening agents.
- sodium amide — a white, crystalline, water-insoluble, flammable powder, NaNH 2 , used chiefly in the manufacture of sodium cyanide and in organic synthesis.
- sodium light — the light produced by a sodium lamp
- solar radius — the unit, equivalent to the radius of the sun, in which the radii of stars and other celestial objects are given.
- sole custody — custody, as of a child whose parents are separated, in which one person has sole responsibility.
- solid figure — a figure that has three dimensions
- soliloquised — to utter a soliloquy; talk to oneself.
- solitudinous — the state of being or living alone; seclusion: to enjoy one's solitude.
- soufflé dish — A dish for making souffles
- sound camera — a motion-picture camera that is capable of photographing silently at the normal speed of 24 fps and operating in synchronization with separate audio recording equipment.
- sound change — any phonetic or phonological change in spoken language, for example the replacement of one speech sound with another, or the loss of a particular sound
- sound effect — any sound, other than music or speech, artificially reproduced to create an effect in a dramatic presentation, as the sound of a storm or a creaking door.
- sound system — equipment for playing music
- sounion head — the tip of the Attica peninsula, E central Greece: site of ancient temple ruins.
- soup du jour — the soup featured by a restaurant on a particular day.
- south dakota — a state in the N central United States: a part of the Midwest. 77,047 sq. mi. (199,550 sq. km). Capital: Pierre. Abbreviation: SD (for use with zip code), S. Dak.
- 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).
- southernwood — a woody-stemmed wormwood, Artemisia abrotanum, of southern Europe, having aromatic, finely dissected leaves.