12-letter words containing d, u, e, l, s
- launderettes — Plural form of launderette.
- leaf mustard — a pungent powder or paste prepared from the seed of the mustard plant, used as a food seasoning or condiment, and medicinally in plasters, poultices, etc.
- leonardesque — of, relating to, or suggesting Leonardo da Vinci or the style of his paintings.
- leukopedesis — an outward flow of white blood cells through a blood-vessel wall.
- ligniperdous — (of insects) wood-destroying
- logodaedalus — a person who uses words with skill or cunning
- long residue — Long residue is the heaviest fraction from the crude oil distillation process.
- loudspeakers — Plural form of loudspeaker, especially a pair for a left and right channel.
- ludwigshafen — a city in SW Germany, on the Rhine opposite Mannheim.
- lundy's lane — a road near Niagara Falls, in Ontario, Canada: battle between the British and Americans in 1814.
- maladjustive — Exhibiting or relating to maladjustment.
- malnourished — poorly or improperly nourished; suffering from malnutrition: thin, malnourished victims of the famine.
- masculinized — Simple past tense and past participle of masculinize.
- mendaciously — In a lying or deceitful manner.
- middle stump — the stump inside of the leg stump and the off stump; the second of the three stumps of a wicket.
- middlebuster — Southern U.S. lister1 (def 1).
- middy blouse — any of various loose blouses with a sailor collar, often extending below the waistline to terminate in a broad band or fold, as worn by sailors, women, or children.
- midlatitudes — Areas lying between 35 and 55 (or more broadly, between 30 and 60) degrees north or south of the equator.
- molluscicide — A substance that kills molluscs.
- monadelphous — (of stamens) united into one bundle or set by their filaments.
- mullet dress — a dress whose skirt is cut short at the front but long at the back
- multiskilled — having skill; trained or experienced in work that requires skill.
- multistemmed — having two or more stems or trunks
- multistoried — Multi-storey.
- muscle-bound — having enlarged and inelastic muscles, as from excessive exercise.
- musical ride — a display by riders on horseback of manoeuvres to music, esp by members of the Royal Canadian Mounted Police
- neofeudalism — A theorized contemporary rebirth of policies of governance, economy and public life reminiscent of those present in many feudal societies.
- non-residual — pertaining to or constituting a residue or remainder; remaining; leftover.
- nonscheduled — not scheduled; not entered on or having a schedule; unscheduled: nonscheduled activities.
- nucleocapsid — the nucleic acid core and surrounding capsid of a virus; the basic viral structure.
- nucleosidase — any of the class of enzymes that catalyze the hydrolysis of nucleosides.
- nucleotidase — a biochemical catalyst that facilitates the process of hydrolyzing or splitting a nucleotide and turning it into a phosphate and a nucleoside
- nun's fiddle — trumpet marine.
- old chestnut — old saying, cliché
- outside lane — the lane on a motorway where overtaking of other vehicles is permitted and vehicles can travel fastest
- outside line — an external telephone connection
- outside loop — a loop during which the back of the airplane is on the outer side of the curve described by the course of flight.
- outside-left — a footballer who plays on the outside left wing of the field
- pasture land — grassland used for grazing
- perfidiously — deliberately faithless; treacherous; deceitful: a perfidious lover.
- philadelphus — (Philadelphus) king of Pergamum c159–138 b.c.
- plattdeutsch — the Low German vernacular dialects spoken in northern Germany.
- pollutedness — the state of being polluted
- polysulphide — any sulphide of a metal containing divalent anions in which there are chains of sulphur atoms, as in the polysulphides of sodium, Na2S2, Na2S3, Na2S4, etc
- prepublished — to publish in advance of a scheduled date.
- prescheduled — a plan of procedure, usually written, for a proposed objective, especially with reference to the sequence of and time allotted for each item or operation necessary to its completion: The schedule allows three weeks for this stage.
- pridefulness — a high or inordinate opinion of one's own dignity, importance, merit, or superiority, whether as cherished in the mind or as displayed in bearing, conduct, etc.
- pseudoallele — a false allele
- 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.