12-letter words containing i, o, n, s, d
- resoundingly — making an echoing sound: a resounding thud.
- respondentia — a loan upon a ship's cargo, which is repaid with interest if the ship reaches its destination, and if the ship does not, the loan is not repaid
- rhode island — US state
- ride shotgun — a smoothbore gun for firing small shots to kill birds and small quadrupeds, though often used with buckshot to kill larger animals.
- riding boots — long boots worn for horse-riding
- rose diamond — a diamond, one side of which is flat, and the other cut into twenty-four triangular facets in two ranges which form a convex face pointed at the top
- russian doll — wooden figures that nest inside one other
- saddle joint — (on a sill, coping, or the like) a vertical joint raised above the level of the washes on each side.
- saddle point — a point at which a function of two variables has partial derivatives equal to zero but at which the function has neither a maximum nor a minimum value.
- sago pudding — a sweet pudding made with sago and milk
- sailboarding — windsurfing.
- salamandroid — an amphibian of the genus Salamandra
- 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.
- sardonically — characterized by bitter or scornful derision; mocking; cynical; sneering: a sardonic grin.
- savings bond — a U.S. government bond with principal amounts up to $10,000.
- scalding hot — that scalds; burning; too hot
- scarlatinoid — resembling scarlatina or its eruptions.
- scolopendrid — any myriapod of the order Scolopendrida, including many large, poisonous centipedes.
- scott domain — An algebraic, boundedly complete, complete partial order. Often simply called a domain.
- scouring pad — a small pad, as of steel wool or plastic mesh, used for scouring pots, pans, etc.
- second birth — spiritual rebirth.
- second reich — the German Empire 1871–1919.
- second sight — the faculty of seeing future events; clairvoyance.
- section hand — a person who works on a section gang.
- self-loading — noting or pertaining to an automatic or semiautomatic firearm.
- semi-dormant — lying asleep or as if asleep; inactive, as in sleep; torpid: The lecturer's sudden shout woke the dormant audience.
- semi-nomadic — of, relating to, or characteristic of nomads.
- semideponent — (of a Latin verb) active in meaning but passive in form in the perfect tense
- semidominant — producing an intermediate, heterozygous phenotype
- serial bonds — Serial bonds are bonds that are issued at the same time but have staggered maturity dates.
- series-wound — noting a commutator motor in which the field circuit and armature circuit are connected in series.
- severodvinsk — a city in the N Russian Federation in Europe, on Dvina Gulf, E of Archangel.
- sexdecillion — a cardinal number represented in the U.S. by 1 followed by 51 zeros, and in Great Britain by 1 followed by 96 zeros.
- shareholding — a holder or owner of shares, especially in a company or corporation.
- shore dinner — a meal consisting chiefly of seafood.
- short-winded — short of breath; liable to difficulty in breathing.
- signal board — a board for displaying electrically transmitted signals and indicating their source.
- silver mound — a perennial Japanese herb, Artemisia schmidtiana, having silver-green leaves forming a moundlike shape.
- sindonophany — the periodic exhibiting to the public of the shroud that the body of Christ is thought to have been wrapped in
- single modal — modal (def 3).
- sinusoidally — Mathematics. of or relating to a sinusoid.
- sir sandford — Mount, a mountain in SE British Columbia, Canada, in the Selkirk Mountains. 11,590 feet (3533 meters).
- sixty-second — next after the sixty-first; being the ordinal number for 62.
- slide-action — (of a rifle or shotgun) having a lever that when slid back and forth ejects the empty case and cocks and reloads the piece.
- sliding door — door which opens on a runner
- smallholding — a piece of land rented or sold to a farmer by county authorities for purposes of cultivation.
- sniff around — dog: try to pick up scent
- snow pudding — a pudding, prepared by folding egg whites into a lemon gelatin mixture.
- snowboarding — a board for gliding on snow, resembling a wide ski, to which both feet are secured and that one rides in an upright position.