12-letter words containing i, o, d, u, s
- duplications — Plural form of duplication.
- dysfunctions — Plural form of dysfunction.
- educationese — the jargon associated with the field of education.
- educationist — a specialist in the theory and methods of education.
- eisteddfodau — Plural form of eisteddfod.
- elucidations — Plural form of elucidation.
- ethosuximide — A particular anticonvulsant drug.
- eunuchoidism — A syndrome in males with a lack of sex characteristics due to lack of proper male sex hormones.
- fastidiously — excessively particular, critical, or demanding; hard to please: a fastidious eater.
- flindermouse — (obsolete) A bat (the mammal).
- food subsidy — a financial aid supplied by a government, as to industry, farmers, or consumers, in order to make low-cost food available to the poor
- fourdriniers — Plural form of fourdrinier.
- frondiferous — Producing fronds.
- glandiferous — bearing nuts or acorns
- guide fossil — index fossil.
- hadrosaurine — Hadrosaurid.
- hebetudinous — the state of being dull; lethargy.
- homebuilders — Plural form of homebuilder.
- house spider — any largish dark spider of the genus Tegenaria that is common in houses, such as the cardinal spider
- house wizard — (Probably from ad-agency tradetalk, "house freak") A hacker occupying a technical-specialist, R&D, or systems position at a commercial shop. A really effective house wizard can have influence out of all proportion to his/her ostensible rank and still not have to wear a suit. Used especially of Unix wizards. The term "house guru" is equivalent.
- housebuilder — One who builds houses, particularly one who does so professionally.
- housetrained — Simple past tense and past participle of housetrain.
- hudson river — Henry, died 1611? English navigator and explorer.
- hunting dogs — the constellation Canes Venatici.
- hydronautics — (nautical) The science of the design and construction of ships, their engines, and their instrumentation.
- hydrophilous — pollinated by the agency of water.
- hydrosulfide — a compound containing the univalent group –HS.
- hydrosulfite — hyposulfite (def 1).
- ibm discount — A price increase. Outside IBM, this derives from the common perception that IBM products are generally overpriced (see clone); inside, it is said to spring from a belief that large numbers of IBM employees living in an area cause prices to rise.
- idiothermous — warm-blooded
- idolatrously — In an idolatrous manner.
- impoundments — Plural form of impoundment.
- in our midst — among us
- incommodious — inconvenient, as not affording sufficient space or room; uncomfortable: incommodious hotel accommodations.
- indecorously — not decorous; violating generally accepted standards of good taste or propriety; unseemly.
- indigenously — originating in and characteristic of a particular region or country; native (often followed by to): the plants indigenous to Canada; the indigenous peoples of southern Africa.
- indissoluble — not dissoluble; incapable of being dissolved, decomposed, undone, or destroyed.
- indissolubly — not dissoluble; incapable of being dissolved, decomposed, undone, or destroyed.
- indologenous — producing or causing the production of indole.
- ins and outs — details
- iracundulous — easily angered or irritable
- jodo shinshu — the largest sect of Jodo, stressing simple trust rather than ritual as the means to salvation.
- judicatories — Plural form of judicatory.
- juris doctor — lawyer's degree
- jurisdiction — the right, power, or authority to administer justice by hearing and determining controversies.
- kindred soul — like-minded person
- lapidicolous — living under stones
- latitudinous — having latitude, scope, range, breadth, etc., especially of ideas, interests, interpretations, or the like: a Renaissance man of latitudinous outlook.
- leukopedesis — an outward flow of white blood cells through a blood-vessel wall.
- libidinously — In a libidinous manner.