12-letter words containing l, i, e, d, r
- road haulier — a person who owns or works for a road haulage company; a trucker
- roller blind — a blind consisting of a length of fabric rolled around a pole and fitted to the top of a window
- rosewood oil — a fragrant oil extracted from the wood of a South American tree, Aniba rosaeodora, and used in the manufacture of perfumes.
- ruling elder — an elder in a Presbyterian church.
- ruling grade — the steepest grade on a given stretch of track, which determines the maximum tonnage that can be hauled in a train having a given horsepower at a stated minimum speed.
- rutlandshire — a former county, now part of Leicestershire, in central England.
- salamandrine — any tailed amphibian of the order Caudata, having a soft, moist, scaleless skin, typically aquatic as a larva and semiterrestrial as an adult: several species are endangered.
- scalar field — a region with a number assigned at each point.
- sclerodermic — of or relating to a scleroderm or to sclerodermia; hard-skinned
- scolopendrid — any myriapod of the order Scolopendrida, including many large, poisonous centipedes.
- self-drawing — the act of a person or thing that draws.
- self-driving — (of a machine) operating without the guidance of a human.
- self-reading — the action or practice of a person who reads.
- semicylinder — half of a cylinder divided lengthwise.
- serial bonds — Serial bonds are bonds that are issued at the same time but have staggered maturity dates.
- serous fluid — any of various clear, watery fluids in the body.
- shared logic — the sharing of a central processing unit and associated software among several terminals
- shareholding — a holder or owner of shares, especially in a company or corporation.
- shepherdling — a young or little shepherd
- shirt-tailed — (of a garment) having a shirt-tail
- shirtsleeved — not wearing a jacket or coat
- side-wheeler — having a paddle wheel on each side, as a steamboat.
- sidereal day — the interval between two successive passages of the vernal equinox over the meridian, being about four minutes shorter than a mean solar day.
- siderophilic — having characteristics of siderophile
- sidesplitter — something that is uproariously funny, as a joke or a situation.
- silver medal — a medal, traditionally of silver or silver in color, awarded to a person or team finishing second in a competition, meet, or tournament.
- silver mound — a perennial Japanese herb, Artemisia schmidtiana, having silver-green leaves forming a moundlike shape.
- six-cylinder — having six chambers in a reciprocating internal-combustion engine, pump, or compressor within which the pistons move
- six-year-old — being six years in age
- slave driver — an overseer of slaves.
- slave-driver — an overseer of slaves.
- sliced bread — bread: sold pre-sliced
- slide guitar — bottleneck (def 3).
- sliding rule — (formerly) a slide rule.
- slippery dip — a long slide at a playground or funfair
- sloop-rigged — (of a sailboat) fore-and-aft rigged with a mainsail and a jib.
- snail darter — a tan, striped, snail-eating perch, Percina tanasi, 3 inches (7.5 cm) long, occurring only in the Tennessee River: a threatened species.
- social order — structure or hierarchy of society
- soldier crab — a small blue Australian estuarine crab of the Mictyris genus usually found in large numbers
- solid figure — a figure that has three dimensions
- solid rocket — any of various rockets using solid fuel
- spider plant — Also called ribbon plant. a plant, Chlorophytum comosum, of the lily family, native to southern Africa, that has long, narrow leaves and clusters of white flowers and is widely cultivated as a houseplant.
- spindle tree — any of various shrubs or trees of the genus Euonymus, esp E. europaeus, of Europe and W Asia, typically having red fruits and yielding a hard wood formerly used in making spindles: family Celastraceae
- stellar wind — the radial outflow of ionized gas from a star.
- stickhandler — a hockey or lacrosse player, esp. one who is talented at stickhandling.
- strait-laced — excessively strict in conduct or morality; puritanical; prudish: strait-laced censors.
- street child — Street children are homeless children who live outdoors in a city and live by begging or stealing.
- stringhalted — afflicted with stringhalt
- stringholder — an oblong piece of wood at the lower end of the body of a viol or other stringed instrument to which the strings are attached.
- subdelirious — having the symptoms of subdelirium; suffering from subdelirium