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12-letter words containing e, r, u, d

  • boulevardier — (originally in Paris) a fashionable man, esp one who frequents public places
  • bound charge — any electric charge that is bound to an atom or molecule (opposed to free charge).
  • bradmanesque — (of a batsman or innings) reminiscent of Sir Don Bradman in terms of dominance over the opposing bowlers
  • brassfounder — a person who makes things from brass
  • break ground — to do something that has not been done before
  • brevicaudate — having a short tail.
  • bridal suite — a room or set of rooms in a hotel for newly married couples
  • bridge house — a deckhouse including a bridge or bridges for navigation.
  • broad jumper — a participant in the long jump.
  • brush border — a layer of tightly packed minute finger-like protuberances on cells that line absorptive surfaces, such as those of the intestine and kidney
  • bubble under — to remain just beneath a particular level
  • buckle under — If you buckle under to a person or a situation, you do what they want you to do, even though you do not want to do it.
  • bumper guard — either of two vertical crosspieces attached to a bumper of a motor vehicle to prevent it from locking bumpers with another vehicle.
  • burmese jade — jadeite of the finest quality: a true jade.
  • buying order — an order to buy a certain security
  • cadaverously — In a cadaverous manner.
  • camelopardus — a faint extensive constellation in the N hemisphere close to Ursa Major and Cassiopeia
  • card counter — a casino player who memorizes or records which cards have been played in previous hands in order to calculate the odds on receiving winning cards or combinations from those remaining to be dealt, the practice often being held as illegal.
  • carunculated — Alternative form of carunculate.
  • cattle guard — A cattle guard is the same as a cattle grid.
  • cattleduffer — a cattle thief.
  • cedrelaceous — resembling or having the characteristics of a citron fruit
  • change round — to place in or adopt a different or opposite position
  • changearound — the act of changing to a different position
  • chequerboard — Alternative spelling of checkerboard.
  • child abuser — someone who abuses a child, esp someone convicted of this
  • chorus pedal — an electronic device that creates the effect of more than one sound from a single source by combining a short delay with slight deviations in pitch
  • churchwarden — In the Anglican Church, a churchwarden is the person who has been chosen by a congregation to help the vicar of a parish with administration and other duties.
  • circularised — Simple past tense and past participle of circularise.
  • circularized — Simple past tense and past participle of circularize.
  • circumflexed — (linguistics, of a written word) exhibiting circumflex accent.
  • circumvented — to go around or bypass: to circumvent the lake; to circumvent the real issues.
  • circumvolved — Simple past tense and past participle of circumvolve.
  • clairaudient — the power to hear sounds said to exist beyond the reach of ordinary experience or capacity, as the voices of the dead.
  • clear as mud — not at all clear
  • clerodendrum — any of numerous tropical trees or shrubs of the genus Clerodendrum, having clusters of variously colored flowers.
  • cloud banner — banner cloud.
  • cloud forest — a forest, usually near coastal mountain peaks in tropical regions, that has an almost constant cloud cover, even during the dry season
  • cloudberries — Plural form of cloudberry.
  • coachbuilder — (historical) A builder of horse-drawn coaches.
  • colour depth — bits per pixel
  • colour index — the difference between the apparent magnitude of a star measured in one standard waveband and in a longer standard waveband, indicating its colour and temperature
  • colour model — (graphics)   Any system for representing colours as ordered sets of numbers. The most common colour models are RGB, CMYK, and HSB. There are several others, e.g. CMY, and the "Lab" system(?). See also: Pantone.
  • colour slide — a colour transparency
  • colour-coded — Things that are colour-coded use colours to represent different features or functions.
  • column dress — a very straight, close-fitting dress.
  • columnarized — columnar (def 3).
  • comes around — to approach or move toward a particular person or place: Come here. Don't come any closer!
  • compte rendu — a short review or notice, esp of a book
  • computerised — to control, perform, process, or store (a system, operation, or information) by means of or in an electronic computer or computers.
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