12-letter words containing i, n, d, o, r, u
- droughtiness — Dryness of the weather; lack of rain.
- dry mounting — the technique of fastening a print, photograph, or the like to a board by using a heated thermoplastic tissue as an adhesive.
- ductile iron — any of various cast irons strengthened by having the graphite content in the form of nodules rather than flakes, and containing cerium or magnesium as well as other additives.
- edulcorating — Present participle of edulcorate.
- edulcoration — (rare) A sweetening.
- endeavouring — Present participle of endeavour.
- flindermouse — (obsolete) A bat (the mammal).
- fluoridating — Present participle of fluoridate.
- fluoridation — the addition of fluorides to the public water supply to reduce the incidence of tooth decay.
- folding rule — a rule composed of light strips of wood joined by rivets so as to be foldable, all the opening and closing parts being in parallel planes.
- forebuilding — (architecture,historical) An outer defense work of a castle used to protect the entrance to the keep.
- foundationer — a person supported by funds from a foundation, or serving as a member of a foundation
- four-engined — (of an aircraft) having four engines
- four-in-hand — a long necktie to be tied in a slipknot with the ends left hanging.
- fourdriniers — Plural form of fourdrinier.
- friend-court — amicus curiae.
- frondiferous — Producing fronds.
- furazolidone — a nitrofuran, C 8 H 7 N 3 O 5 , that is used in the treatment of giardiasis, and bacterial gastroenteritis and dysentery.
- glandiferous — bearing nuts or acorns
- glutaredoxin — (enzyme) Any of a family of small redox enzymes that use glutathione as a cofactor.
- gourmandizer — One who gourmandizes.
- ground robin — towhee.
- hadrosaurine — Hadrosaurid.
- housetrained — Simple past tense and past participle of housetrain.
- hudson river — Henry, died 1611? English navigator and explorer.
- hydronautics — (nautical) The science of the design and construction of ships, their engines, and their instrumentation.
- hydroquinone — a white, crystalline compound, C 6 H 6 O 2 , formed by the reduction of quinone: used chiefly in photography and to inhibit autoxidation reactions.
- in our midst — among us
- in the round — having a flat, circular surface, as a disk.
- in-and-outer — a person who is by turns in and out of a particular situation, condition, venture, investment, etc.
- indecorously — not decorous; violating generally accepted standards of good taste or propriety; unseemly.
- infraduction — (medicine) The turning downward of a part, especially of the eye.
- introduction — the act of introducing or the state of being introduced.
- introductive — serving or used to introduce; preliminary; beginning: an introductory course; an introductory paragraph.
- introductory — serving or used to introduce; preliminary; beginning: an introductory course; an introductory paragraph.
- iracundulous — easily angered or irritable
- iron foundry — ironworks, forgery
- jurisdiction — the right, power, or authority to administer justice by hearing and determining controversies.
- kindred soul — like-minded person
- ligniperdous — (of insects) wood-destroying
- linux loader — (operating system) (LILO) A boot loader for Linux. LILO does not depend on a specific file system, it can boot Linux kernel images from floppy disks and hard disks and can even boot other operating systems. One of up to sixteen differernt images can be selected at boot time. Various parameters, such as the root device, can be set independently for each kernel. LILO can even be used as the master boot record.
- liopleurodon — Any of the genus Liopleurodon of large carnivorous marine plesiosaurs, apex predators of the Middle to Late Jurassic seas that covered Europe.
- lodging turn — a period of work or duty, esp among railway workers, which involves sleeping away from home
- long residue — Long residue is the heaviest fraction from the crude oil distillation process.
- malnourished — poorly or improperly nourished; suffering from malnutrition: thin, malnourished victims of the famine.
- misconstrued — Simple past tense and past participle of misconstrue.
- misdemeanour — Law. a criminal offense defined as less serious than a felony.
- modularizing — to form or organize into modules, as for flexibility.
- monofluoride — (chemistry) any fluoride containing a single fluorine atom in each molecule.
- mountainward — Towards a mountain or mountains.