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12-letter words containing d, u, r, a, s

  • laundry list — a lengthy, especially random list of items: a laundry list of hoped-for presents; a laundry list of someone's crimes.
  • 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.
  • liquidambars — Plural form of liquidambar.
  • loudspeakers — Plural form of loudspeaker, especially a pair for a left and right channel.
  • malnourished — poorly or improperly nourished; suffering from malnutrition: thin, malnourished victims of the famine.
  • malodorously — With a bad smell.
  • masquerading — a party, dance, or other festive gathering of persons wearing masks and other disguises, and often elegant, historical, or fantastic costumes.
  • mass-produce — to produce or manufacture (goods) in large quantities, especially by machinery.
  • massaranduba — any of various evergreen trees of the genus Manilkara of the family Sapotaceae that are native to the tropics
  • media circus — excessive news coverage
  • miniaturised — Simple past tense and past participle of miniaturise.
  • misadventure — an instance of bad fortune; mishap.
  • misdemeanour — Law. a criminal offense defined as less serious than a felony.
  • mouse around — To explore public portions of a large system, especially a network such as Internet via FTP or TELNET, looking for interesting stuff to snarf.
  • mousetrapped — Simple past tense and past participle of mousetrap.
  • muckspreader — a machine for spreading manure over farmland
  • murder squad — the section of a police force that is responsible for dealing with murders
  • musical ride — a display by riders on horseback of manoeuvres to music, esp by members of the Royal Canadian Mounted Police
  • mustard bath — a supposed cure for aches, tired muscles, colds and fevers, consisting of bathing in hot water infused with mustard seeds
  • nature study — the study of plants and animals, especially by amateurs.
  • nitrous acid — an acid, HNO 2 , known only in solution.
  • non-residual — pertaining to or constituting a residue or remainder; remaining; leftover.
  • nonhazardous — Not hazardous; safe.
  • nuri as-said — 1888–1958, Iraqi soldier and statesman: prime minister of Iraq 14 times between 1930 and 1958: he died during a military coup
  • nurse's aide — a person who assists professional nurses, as in a hospital, by performing such routine tasks as making beds and serving meals.
  • nurserymaids — Plural form of nurserymaid.
  • obdurateness — The characteristic of being obdurate; stubbornness.
  • odd-man rush — an attacking move when the defence is outnumbered by the opposing team
  • old guardism — political conservatism.
  • old prussian — a Baltic language extinct since the 17th century. Abbreviation: OPruss.
  • orchard bush — open savanna country with occasional trees and scrub, as found north of the W African forest belt
  • orchidaceous — belonging to the plant family Orchidaceae.
  • outsider art — art produced by untutored artists working by themselves and for themselves
  • outspreading — Present participle of outspread.
  • overpersuade — to persuade (a person) against his or her inclination or intention: By threats and taunts they had overpersuaded him to steal the car.
  • pachydermous — any of the thick-skinned, nonruminant ungulates, as the elephant, hippopotamus, and rhinoceros.
  • pasture land — grassland used for grazing
  • postgraduate — of, pertaining to, characteristic of, or consisting of post-graduates: a postgraduate seminar.
  • praseodymium — a rare-earth, metallic, trivalent element, named from its green salts. Symbol: Pr; atomic weight: 140.91; atomic number: 59; specific gravity: 6.77 at 20°C.
  • prison guard — an officer in charge of prisoners in a jail
  • producer gas — a mixture of carbon monoxide and nitrogen produced by passing air over hot coke, used mainly as a fuel
  • 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.
  • pseudocereal — any of several plants, as buckwheat and quinoa, that produce fruits and seeds used as flour but are not of the grass family.
  • pseudography — writing that does not follow conventional spelling or usage
  • pseudomartyr — someone falsely or inaccurately called a martyr
  • 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.
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