12-letter words containing d, u, s, t, o, r
- ground staff — The people who are paid to maintain a sports ground are called the ground staff.
- ground state — the state of least energy of a particle, as an atom, or of a system of particles.
- groundbursts — Plural form of groundburst.
- groundsheets — Plural form of groundsheet.
- groundstroke — A stroke played after the ball has bounced, as opposed to a volley.
- gustave dore — (Paul) Gustave [pawl gy-stav] /pɔl güˈstav/ (Show IPA), 1832?–83, French painter, illustrator, and sculptor.
- house doctor — a resident physician in a hospital, hotel, or other public institution.
- housetrained — Simple past tense and past participle of housetrain.
- hydronautics — (nautical) The science of the design and construction of ships, their engines, and their instrumentation.
- hydrosulfate — a salt formed by the direct union of sulfuric acid with an organic base, especially an alkaloid, and usually more soluble than the base.
- hydrosulfite — hyposulfite (def 1).
- idiothermous — warm-blooded
- idolatrously — In an idolatrous manner.
- in our midst — among us
- judicatories — Plural form of judicatory.
- juris doctor — lawyer's degree
- jurisdiction — the right, power, or authority to administer justice by hearing and determining controversies.
- misconstrued — Simple past tense and past participle of misconstrue.
- mount desert — island off the S coast of Me.: resort: c. 100 sq mi (259 sq km)
- mousetrapped — Simple past tense and past participle of mousetrap.
- multistoried — Multi-storey.
- nitrous acid — an acid, HNO 2 , known only in solution.
- non-industry — the aggregate of manufacturing or technically productive enterprises in a particular field, often named after its principal product: the automobile industry; the steel industry.
- norton sound — an arm of the Bering Sea on the W coast of Alaska, S of the Seward Peninsula. About 150 miles (240 km) long and 125 miles (200 km) wide.
- obdurateness — The characteristic of being obdurate; stubbornness.
- oil industry — petroleum-processing business
- out of doors — outside, outdoors
- out-of-doors — Also, out-of-door. outdoor.
- outside work — work done off the premises of a business
- outsider art — art produced by untutored artists working by themselves and for themselves
- outsiderness — The state or condition of being an outsider.
- outspreading — Present participle of outspread.
- outstretched — to stretch forth; extend: to outstretch one's hand in welcome.
- over-stuffed — stuffed or filled to excess.
- overdiscount — to discount excessively
- overscutched — overworked; worn out
- phosphureted — combined with phosphorus, especially in its lowest valence state.
- postgraduate — of, pertaining to, characteristic of, or consisting of post-graduates: a postgraduate seminar.
- pre-discount — to deduct a certain amount from (a bill, charge, etc.): All bills that are paid promptly will be discounted at two percent.
- proditorious — traitorous
- promuscidate — shaped like a proboscis
- pseudomartyr — someone falsely or inaccurately called a martyr
- 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
- reductionism — the theory that every complex phenomenon, especially in biology or psychology, can be explained by analyzing the simplest, most basic physical mechanisms that are in operation during the phenomenon.
- reductionist — the theory that every complex phenomenon, especially in biology or psychology, can be explained by analyzing the simplest, most basic physical mechanisms that are in operation during the phenomenon.
- ride shotgun — a smoothbore gun for firing small shots to kill birds and small quadrupeds, though often used with buckshot to kill larger animals.
- rust-colored — of the color rust.
- sacred lotus — Indian lotus.
- sandrocottus — Greek name of Chandragupta.
- scout around — search