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12-letter words containing d, u, s, t

  • countermands — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of countermand.
  • crop dusting — Crop dusting is the spreading of pesticides on crops, usually from an aircraft.
  • crop-dusting — the spraying of powdered fungicides or insecticides on crops, usually from an airplane.
  • cupid's dart — blue succory.
  • cupid's-dart — blue succory.
  • custard tart — a small pastry case filled with egg custard
  • custodialism — of or relating to custody.
  • custom-build — to make according to the specifications of an individual buyer
  • custom-order — to obtain by special or individual order: These wide doors have to be custom-ordered.
  • customs duty — a tax payable to customs when importing or exporting goods
  • customs shed — a large building in which customs officers carry out customs inspections
  • daisy cutter — a powerful shot that moves close to the ground
  • daisy-cutter — Sports Slang. a batted or served ball that skims along near the ground.
  • dance studio — A dance studio is a place where people pay to learn how to dance.
  • dark tourism — tourism to sites associated with tragedies, disasters, and death
  • darmstadtium — a synthetic radioactive element produced in small quantities by cold fusion in a linear accelerator. Symbol: Ds; atomic no: 110
  • data exhaust — unstructured information or data that is a by-product of the online activities of Internet users: Collecting and analyzing data exhaust can provide valuable insight into the purchasing habits of consumers.
  • date squares — a sweet made of a date filling on an oatmeal base with a crumble topping, cut into squares
  • daughterless — Without a daughter.
  • dauntingness — to overcome with fear; intimidate: to daunt one's adversaries.
  • david souter — David H. born 1939, U.S. jurist: associate justice of the U.S. Supreme Court 1990–2009.
  • death duties — Death duties were a tax which had to be paid on the money and property of someone who had died. This tax is now called inheritance tax.
  • debut single — the first single produced by a particular singer or band
  • decapsulated — Simple past tense and past participle of decapsulate.
  • declustering — Any technique that counteracts clustering (in any sense).
  • deconstructs — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of deconstruct.
  • decrustation — the act of removing a crust
  • deliquescent — the act or process of deliquescing.
  • dental nurse — a dentist's assistant, esp one who passes instruments, mixes fillings, etc
  • desaturation — the addition of white light to a pure colour to produce a paler less saturated colour
  • desmond tutu — a university degree graded 2:2 (second class lower bracket)
  • despiteously — in a despiteous or contemptuous manner
  • desquamating — Present participle of desquamate.
  • desquamation — to come off in scales, as the skin in certain diseases; peel off.
  • desquamative — tending to cause desquamation; characterized by desquamation
  • desquamatory — an obsolete surgical instrument once used for the desquamation of bones
  • dessert menu — In a restaurant or café, the dessert menu is a list of the desserts that are available.
  • destructible — capable of being or liable to be destroyed
  • destructured — mode of building, construction, or organization; arrangement of parts, elements, or constituents: a pyramidal structure.
  • desublimated — Psychology. to divert the energy of (a sexual or other biological impulse) from its immediate goal to one of a more acceptable social, moral, or aesthetic nature or use.
  • detumescence — the subsidence of a swelling, esp the return of a swollen organ, such as the penis, to the flaccid state
  • deuteroscopy — the second time of looking or considering
  • deuterostome — any member of the major group of animals defined by the fact that during early embryonic development the first opening to form becomes the anus of the animal. The opposite is protostome
  • devaluations — Plural form of devaluation.
  • dextrousness — Alternative form of dexterousness.
  • diamond dust — pulverized diamonds, used as an abrasive.
  • diatomaceous — of, relating to, consisting of, or containing diatoms or their fossil remains
  • diddly-squat — anything
  • difficulties — the fact or condition of being difficult.
  • diffusionist — the theory or principle that diffusion is the main force in cultural innovation and change.
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