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12-letter words containing n, a, d, o, r, s

  • screw around — a metal fastener having a tapered shank with a helical thread, and topped with a slotted head, driven into wood or the like by rotating, especially by means of a screwdriver.
  • second grade — school year: age 7-8
  • semi-dormant — lying asleep or as if asleep; inactive, as in sleep; torpid: The lecturer's sudden shout woke the dormant audience.
  • serial bonds — Serial bonds are bonds that are issued at the same time but have staggered maturity dates.
  • shareholding — a holder or owner of shares, especially in a company or corporation.
  • short-handed — not having the usual or necessary number of workers, helpers, etc.
  • shortchanged — to give less than the correct change to.
  • signal board — a board for displaying electrically transmitted signals and indicating their source.
  • sir sandford — Mount, a mountain in SE British Columbia, Canada, in the Selkirk Mountains. 11,590 feet (3533 meters).
  • sleep around — to take the rest afforded by a suspension of voluntary bodily functions and the natural suspension, complete or partial, of consciousness; cease being awake.
  • sloped roman — a roman (vertical) typeface, usually sans serif, i.e. without the small, decorative, terminal strokes with which some typefaces are designed. The typeface is made to slope (usually to the right), but not generally to the same degree as a true italic typeface
  • small wonder — (I am) hardly surprised (that)
  • snake doctor — South Midland and Southern U.S. a dragonfly.
  • sniff around — dog: try to pick up scent
  • snow leopard — a long-haired, leopardlike feline, Panthera (Uncia) uncia, of mountain ranges of central Asia, having a relatively small head and a thick, creamy-gray coat with rosette spots: an endangered species.
  • 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.
  • sonata-rondo — a musical form combining characteristics of both the sonata form and the rondo.
  • sorting yard — sorting tracks.
  • sound camera — a motion-picture camera that is capable of photographing silently at the normal speed of 24 fps and operating in synchronization with separate audio recording equipment.
  • spiral-bound — having a spiral binding.
  • sponged ware — spongeware.
  • stand in for — to substitute for
  • stand up for — (of a person) to be in an upright position on the feet.
  • stick around — to pierce or puncture with something pointed, as a pin, dagger, or spear; stab: to stick one's finger with a needle.
  • stonyhearted — unfeeling; pitiless; cruel
  • stranglehold — Wrestling. an illegal hold by which an opponent's breath is choked off.
  • stride piano — a style of jazz piano playing in which the right hand plays the melody while the left hand plays a single bass note or octave on the strong beat and a chord on the weak beat, developed in Harlem during the 1920s, partly from ragtime piano playing.
  • subarachnoid — of, relating to, or situated below the arachnoid membrane.
  • subordinated — placed in or belonging to a lower order or rank.
  • subordinator — a conjunction introducing a subordinate clause, as when in They were glad when I finished.
  • superordinal — relating to the superorder
  • support band — a band, pop group, rock group, etc not topping the bill
  • surfboarding — a long, narrow board on which a person stands or lies prone in surfboarding.
  • surinam toad — a South American aquatic frog, Pipa pipa, the female of which carries the eggs and tadpoles in small depressions on its back.
  • synarthrodia — synarthrosis.
  • tardenoisian — of or referring to a Mesolithic culture characterized by small flint instruments
  • tradesperson — a skilled worker
  • 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.
  • trans-jordan — an area east of the Jordan River, in SW Asia: a British mandate (1921–23); an emirate (1923–49); now the major part of the kingdom of Jordan.
  • 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.
  • underpassion — an underlying or subconscious passion
  • underzealous — full of, characterized by, or due to zeal; ardently active, devoted, or diligent. Synonyms: enthusiastic, eager, fervid, fervent, intense, passionate, warm. Antonyms: apathetic; lackadaisical.
  • undiscordant — not discordant; not disagreeing or disagreeable
  • unforecasted — to predict (a future condition or occurrence); calculate in advance: to forecast a heavy snowfall; to forecast lower interest rates.
  • van der post — Sir Laurens (Jan). 1906–96, South African writer and traveller. His works include the travel books Venture to the Interior (1952), The Lost World of the Kalahari (1958), and Testament to the Bushmen (1984) and the novels The Hunter and the Whale (1967) and The Admiral's Baby (1996)
  • ventrodorsal — pertaining to the ventral and dorsal aspects of the body; extending from the ventral to the dorsal side.
  • waste ground — an empty piece of land
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