12-letter words containing d, u, t, e, o
- thunderstorm — a transient storm of lightning and thunder, usually with rain and gusty winds, sometimes with hail or snow, produced by cumulonimbus clouds.
- tidal volume — the volume of water associated with a rising tide
- tin-fluoride — stannous fluoride.
- tongue-blade — a broad, thin piece of wood used by doctors to hold down the patient's tongue during an examination of the mouth and throat.
- torpedo tube — a tube through which a self-propelled torpedo is launched, usually by the explosion of a charge of powder.
- torso murder — a murder in which the body of the victim is dismembered at the torso.
- tough-minded — characterized by a practical, unsentimental attitude or point of view.
- tow-coloured — pale yellow; flaxen
- tremendously — extraordinarily great in size, amount, or intensity: a tremendous ocean liner; tremendous talent.
- trepidatious — tremulous fear, alarm, or agitation; perturbation.
- triadelphous — (of stamens) united by the filaments into three sets or bundles.
- trou-de-loup — a conical or pyramidal pit with a pointed stake fixed vertically in the center, rows of which are dug in front of a fortification to hinder an enemy's approach, formerly used chiefly against cavalry.
- tuberculosed — tuberculous
- tuckered out — exhausted
- tunnel diode — an extremely stable semiconductor diode, having a very narrow highly doped p-n junction, in which electrons travel across the junction by means of the tunnel effect
- turacoverdin — a green pigment found in certain feathers of the touraco
- turbocharged — with additional power from turbine
- turned comma — quotation mark.
- tutor period — (in British secondary schools) a school period for which a tutor group comes together with their tutor
- type founder — a person engaged in the making of metallic types for printers.
- unaccustomed — not accustomed or habituated: to be unaccustomed to hardships.
- unassociated — to connect or bring into relation, as thought, feeling, memory, etc.: Many people associate dark clouds with depression and gloom.
- unauthorized — lacking permission; unsanctioned: unauthorized access.
- uncatalogued — not added to or detailed in a catalogue
- uncoagulated — Obsolete. coagulated.
- unconductive — having the property or capability of conducting.
- unconfronted — to face in hostility or defiance; oppose: The feuding factions confronted one another.
- unconjugated — Grammar. to inflect (a verb). to recite or display all or some subsets of the inflected forms of (a verb), in a fixed order: One conjugates the present tense of the verb “be” as “I am, you are, he is, we are, you are, they are.”.
- uncontracted — drawn together; reduced in compass or size; made smaller; shrunken.
- uncontrolled — to exercise restraint or direction over; dominate; command: The car is difficult to control at high speeds. That zone is controlled by enemy troops.
- uncorrelated — to place in or bring into mutual or reciprocal relation; establish in orderly connection: to correlate expenses and income.
- uncovenanted — not agreed to or promised by covenant.
- undefoliated — having the leaves left intact
- undemocratic — pertaining to or of the nature of democracy or a democracy.
- under escort — with armed accompaniment
- under-report — to give an insufficient account or report of
- underclothes — clothes worn under outer clothes.
- undercoating — a coat or jacket worn under another.
- underexploit — to make insufficient use of
- understocked — to provide an insufficient quantity, as of merchandise, supplies, or livestock.
- underwrought — to do less work on than is necessary or required: to underwork an idea.
- undocumented — lacking documentation or authentication.
- unelaborated — not elaborated
- unforecasted — to predict (a future condition or occurrence); calculate in advance: to forecast a heavy snowfall; to forecast lower interest rates.
- unformulated — to express in precise form; state definitely or systematically: He finds it extremely difficult to formulate his new theory.
- unimportuned — without being forced or impelled
- uninoculated — to implant (a disease agent or antigen) in a person, animal, or plant to produce a disease for study or to stimulate disease resistance.
- unintroduced — to present (a person) to another so as to make acquainted.
- united front — a coalition formed to oppose a force that menaces the interests of all the members: They presented a united front against the enemy.
- unmethodical — characterized by lack of method or disorderliness