12-letter words containing i, o, n, s, d
- trading post — a store established in an unsettled or thinly settled region by a trader or trading company to obtain furs and local products in exchange for supplies, clothing, other goods, or for cash.
- traditionist — a traditionalist.
- transduction — the transfer of genetic material from one cell to another by means of a virus.
- transudation — the act or process of transuding.
- trepidations — tremulous fear, alarm, or agitation; perturbation.
- unadmonished — not admonished, counselled, or warned
- unassociated — to connect or bring into relation, as thought, feeling, memory, etc.: Many people associate dark clouds with depression and gloom.
- unconsidered — thought about or decided upon with care: a considered opinion.
- undernourish — to deprive of or fail to provide with nutrients essential for health and growth
- underpassion — an underlying or subconscious passion
- underscoring — the practice of drawing or scoring a line or mark under
- undiscordant — not discordant; not disagreeing or disagreeable
- undiscovered — to see, get knowledge of, learn of, find, or find out; gain sight or knowledge of (something previously unseen or unknown): to discover America; to discover electricity. Synonyms: detect, espy, descry, discern, ascertain, unearth, ferret out, notice.
- undisordered — not disordered or disturbed; in order
- undissolving — not dissolving; remaining in solid form; not melting
- unfastidious — not fastidious; not fussy; not appropriately concerned with detail or cleanliness
- unfossilized — not fossilized
- unillusioned — having or manifesting no illusions; free from illusions: to be unillusioned about one's chances for success.
- unimprisoned — not confined in a prison
- unlibidinous — not libidinous
- unquestioned — not open to doubt or question; undisputed: Dante's poetic mastery remains unquestioned.
- unresponding — to reply or answer in words: to respond briefly to a question.
- unsanctioned — authoritative permission or approval, as for an action.
- unsaponified — to convert (a fat) into soap by treating with an alkali.
- unscottified — not Scottish; taken out of a Scottish context
- unsocialized — to make social; make fit for life in companionship with others.
- unsolidified — to unite firmly or consolidate.
- unstockinged — not wearing or covered by stockings
- unwished-for — undesired; unwelcome: an unwished-for occurrence.
- unworshipped — not worshipped; not admired or revered
- vasodilation — dilatation of the blood vessels, as by the action of a nerve.
- video porn's — pornographic movies available on videocassette or optical disk, on the Internet, or on subscription television.
- video screen — screen (def 5).
- vienna woods — Wienerwald.
- washing soda — sodium carbonate (def 2).
- wedding vows — promises made by bride and groom
- wind erosion — the erosion, transportation, and deposition of topsoil by the wind, especially in dust storms.
- window glass — glass used in windows
- window shade — a shade or blind for a window, as a sheet of cloth or paper on a spring roller.
- windows 2000 — (operating system) (Win2k, W2k, NT5, Windows NT 5.0) An operating system developed by Microsoft Corporation for PCs and servers, as the successor to Windows NT 4.0. Early beta versions were referred to as "Windows NT 5.0". Windows 2000 was officially released on 2000-02-17. Windows 2000 is most commonly used on Intel x86 and Pentium processors, with a DEC Alpha version rumoured. Unlike Windows NT 4.0, Windows 2000 is not available for PowerPC or MIPS. Windows 2000's user interface is very similar to Windows 95 or Windows NT 4.0 with integrated Internet Explorer, or to Windows 98. It is available in four flavours: - Professional: the client version, meant for desktop workstations, successor to Windows NT Workstation. - Server: "entry-level" server, designed for small deployments, and departmental file, print, or intranet servers. - Advanced Server: high throughput, larger scale servers and applications, and small to medium scale websites. - Data Center Server: software for large-scale server clusters (in development as of 2000-03-14). New features in Windows 2000 include: - Active Directory. - Greatly improved built-in security mechanisms, including Kerberos-based authentication, public key support, an encrypting file system, and IPsec support. - Integrated web browser - Internet Explorer 5.0. - Integrated web server - IIS 5.0 - Terminal services for displaying application interfaces on remote computers (similar to X-Windows). - File protection that prevents user programs from accidentally deleting or overwriting critical system files. - Improved hardware support, including Plug-and-Play, DVD, IEEE-1394 (FireWire), USB, infra-red, PCMCIA, ACPI, laptop computers. - Improved user interface, including a single point to control the entire system. - Improved management tools, including remote administration. Minimum system requirements, according to Microsoft, are Pentium-133 MHz CPU, 64 MB RAM, 650 MB of hard disk space. These are for W2K Professional, others require more. Many operating systems compete with Windows 2000, including the Apple MacOS, Linux, FreeBSD, OpenBSD, NetBSD, Sun Solaris, IBM AIX, Hewlett-Packard HP-UX, SGI Irix. Novell's NDS also provides a service similar to Active Directory. Windows 2000 will be followed by Windows XP Professional and Windows 2002.
- windows 3.11 — (operating system) A free minor bug-fix for Windows 3.1.
- windows nt 4 — (operating system) A version of Microsoft's Windows NT operating system, originally code named "Cairo". It was supposed to ship in the first half of 1995. Details are scarce, but it is intended to provide an object-oriented version of Windows.
- windows nt 5 — Windows 2000
- windsor knot — a wide, triangular knot for tying a four-in-hand necktie.
- winged horse — the constellation Pegasus.
- withholdings — Plural form of withholding.
- woodcarvings — Plural form of woodcarving.
- woodshedding — Present participle of woodshed.
- wordsmithing — Present participle of wordsmith.