12-letter words containing d, u, a
- valetudinary — valetudinarian.
- varicoloured — having many colours; variegated; motley
- vascularised — (of a tissue or embryo) to develop or extend blood vessels or other fluid-bearing vessels or ducts; become vascular.
- vascularized — rendered vascular by the formation of new blood vessels.
- vaudevillian — Also, vaudevillist. a person who writes for or performs in vaudeville.
- vaudevillist — a person who writes for vaudeville
- vax document — A document preparation system from DEC.
- verd antique — a green, mottled or impure serpentine, sold as a marble and much used for decorative purposes.
- visual dbase — (language) A Rapid Application Development suite with a compiler and intranet tools to enable developers to publish data on the web. Originally a Borland product, the first version released by dBase, Inc. was Visual dBase 5.7.
- visual field — field of vision.
- vocabularied — having a vocabulary as specified
- walker hound — an American foxhound having a black, tan, and white, or, sometimes, a tan and white coat.
- wall-mounted — hung on a wall
- waste ground — an empty piece of land
- water-budget — (formerly) a leather bag suspended at each end of a pole or yoke and used for carrying water.
- watts-dunton — (Walter) Theodore (Walter Theodore Watts) 1832–1914, English poet, novelist, and critic.
- weatherbound — (often nautical) Delayed or prevented by bad weather from doing something, such as travelling.
- welfare fund — a fund set up by a union or employer, providing benefits to workers during a period of unemployment or disablement, as salary continuance while ill.
- well-guarded — cautious; careful; prudent: to be guarded in one's speech.
- wild mustard — any of several weedy plants belonging to the genus Brassica, of the mustard family, as charlock.
- william laud — William, 1573–1645, archbishop of Canterbury and opponent of Puritanism: executed for treason.
- world-famous — famous throughout the world: a world-famous film.
- would rather — in a measure; to a certain extent; somewhat: rather good.
- year-rounder — a person who is a year-round resident, as at a seasonal resort.
- younger edda — either of two old Icelandic literary works, one a collection of poems on mythical and religious subjects (or) erroneously attributed to Saemund Sigfusson (c1055–1133), the other a collection of ancient Scandinavian myths and legends, rules and theories of versification, poems, etc. (or) compiled and written in part by Snorri Sturluson (1179–1241).
- younger hand — (in piquet and similar card games) the dealer
- younghusband — Sir Francis Edward. 1863–1942, British explorer, mainly of N India and Tibet. He used military force to compel the Dalai Lama to sign (1904) a trade agreement with Britain
- youth leader — a person who has responsibility for the young people at a youth club etc
- zuid-holland — South Holland
- zuse, konrad — Konrad Zuse