12-letter words containing i, n, d, u, s
- nurse's aide — a person who assists professional nurses, as in a hospital, by performing such routine tasks as making beds and serving meals.
- nurserymaids — Plural form of nurserymaid.
- odd-sounding — sounding or seeming strange or unusual
- oil industry — petroleum-processing business
- old prussian — a Baltic language extinct since the 17th century. Abbreviation: OPruss.
- on soundings — in waters less than 100 fathoms in depth
- on your side — If something is on your side or if you have it on your side, it helps you when you are trying to achieve something.
- outbuildings — Plural form of outbuilding.
- outdistanced — Simple past tense and past participle of outdistance.
- outdistances — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of outdistance.
- outlandishly — In an outlandish manner.
- outside lane — the lane on a motorway where overtaking of other vehicles is permitted and vehicles can travel fastest
- outside line — an external telephone connection
- outsiderness — The state or condition of being an outsider.
- outspreading — Present participle of outspread.
- outstandings — Outstanding amounts; unpaid debts.
- overdiscount — to discount excessively
- pension fund — a fund created and maintained, as by a corporation, to provide benefits under a pension plan.
- pfund series — a series of lines in the infrared spectrum of hydrogen.
- pig industry — the people and activities involved in making pork products
- postdiluvian — existing or occurring after the Biblical Flood.
- pre-discount — to deduct a certain amount from (a bill, charge, etc.): All bills that are paid promptly will be discounted at two percent.
- pridefulness — a high or inordinate opinion of one's own dignity, importance, merit, or superiority, whether as cherished in the mind or as displayed in bearing, conduct, etc.
- prison guard — an officer in charge of prisoners in a jail
- pseudoanemia — Pathology. a quantitative deficiency of the hemoglobin, often accompanied by a reduced number of red blood cells and causing pallor, weakness, and breathlessness.
- pseudonymity — pseudonymous character.
- puddingstone — any conglomerate rock having dark-colored, rounded pebbles that are embedded in a light-colored, fine-grained matrix
- purblindness — the state of being purblind
- quadrillions — Plural form of quadrillion.
- quadrisonics — quadraphony.
- quindecagons — Plural form of quindecagon.
- 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.
- reinstituted — to set up; establish; organize: to institute a government.
- relinquished — to renounce or surrender (a possession, right, etc.): to relinquish the throne.
- rescheduling — the act of changing the time, date, or schedule of
- resoundingly — making an echoing sound: a resounding thud.
- ride shotgun — a smoothbore gun for firing small shots to kill birds and small quadrupeds, though often used with buckshot to kill larger animals.
- russian doll — wooden figures that nest inside one other
- rutlandshire — a former county, now part of Leicestershire, in central England.
- sago pudding — a sweet pudding made with sago and milk
- samurai bond — a bond issued in Japan and denominated in yen, available for purchase by nonresidents of Japan
- sapindaceous — belonging to the Sapindaceae, the soapberry family of plants.
- scouring pad — a small pad, as of steel wool or plastic mesh, used for scouring pots, pans, etc.
- scuba diving — deep-sea swimming
- self-induced — induced by oneself or itself.
- sendai virus — a paramyxovirus that tends to cause cell fusion: in inactive form, used in biological research to produce cells with multiple nuclei of different genetic constitutions.
- series-wound — noting a commutator motor in which the field circuit and armature circuit are connected in series.
- shipbuilding — a person whose occupation is the designing or constructing of ship.
- sigismund ii — called Sigismund Augustus. 1520–72, king of Poland (1548–72), who united Poland, Lithuania, and their dependencies by the Union of Lublin (1569)