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12-letter words containing n, e, u, t

  • desmond tutu — a university degree graded 2:2 (second class lower bracket)
  • desquamating — Present participle of desquamate.
  • desquamation — to come off in scales, as the skin in certain diseases; peel off.
  • dessert menu — In a restaurant or café, the dessert menu is a list of the desserts that are available.
  • detumescence — the subsidence of a swelling, esp the return of a swollen organ, such as the penis, to the flaccid state
  • deuteranopia — a form of colour blindness in which there is a tendency to confuse blues and greens, and greens and reds, and in which sensitivity to green is reduced
  • deuteronomic — of, relating to, or resembling Deuteronomy, especially the laws contained in that book.
  • devaluations — Plural form of devaluation.
  • dextrousness — Alternative form of dexterousness.
  • diminutively — In a diminutive manner.
  • dinucleotide — a molecule composed of two nucleotide subunits.
  • direct input — a device, such as a keyboard, used to insert data directly into a computerized system
  • disadventure — misfortune; bad luck
  • disbursement — the act or an instance of disbursing.
  • disburthened — Simple past tense and past participle of disburthen.
  • discontinued — to put an end to; stop; terminate: to discontinue nuclear testing.
  • discontinues — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of discontinue.
  • discountable — That can be discounted (in all senses).
  • disgruntedly — In a disgruntled manner.
  • disguisement — Disguise (deceptive appearance).
  • disingenuity — (obsolete) disingenuousness.
  • disjunctives — Plural form of disjunctive.
  • disjunctures — Plural form of disjuncture.
  • distress gun — a gun fired at one-minute intervals as a signal of distress.
  • disturbances — Plural form of disturbance.
  • do one's nut — to be extremely angry; go into a rage
  • documentable — a written or printed paper furnishing information or evidence, as a passport, deed, bill of sale, or bill of lading; a legal or official paper.
  • docutainment — infotainment (def 2).
  • double agent — a person who spies on a country while pretending to spy for it.
  • double entry — a method in which each transaction is entered twice in the ledger, once to the debit of one account, and once to the credit of another.
  • double-think — illogical or deliberately perverse thinking in terms that distort or reverse the truth to make it more acceptable
  • doubtfulness — of uncertain outcome or result.
  • doughnutlike — Resembling a doughnut.
  • downregulate — To decrease the number of cell receptors by using downregulation.
  • drawn butter — melted butter, clarified and often seasoned with herbs or lemon juice.
  • dreadnoughts — Plural form of dreadnought.
  • droughtiness — Dryness of the weather; lack of rain.
  • drum printer — a line printer that uses a rotating drum with raised characters, against which the paper is pressed.
  • dual citizen — a person who is a citizen or subject of two or more nations; one having dual citizenship.
  • ductile iron — any of various cast irons strengthened by having the graphite content in the form of nodules rather than flakes, and containing cerium or magnesium as well as other additives.
  • dulcet tones — People often use the expression dulcet tones to refer to someone's voice.
  • duodenectomy — a complete or incomplete removal of the duodenum
  • durante vita — during life.
  • dust counter — any instrument used to measure the size and number of dust particles per unit volume in the atmosphere.
  • dutch borneo — the former name of the southern and larger part of the island of Borneo: now part of Indonesia.
  • duty manager — A duty manager is a person who is in charge at a particular time.
  • earth return — the return path for an electrical circuit made by connections to earth at each end
  • earth tongue — any of a group of fungi of the phylum Ascomycota, characterized by a tongue-shaped fruiting body, found on decaying logs and damp soil.
  • easter bunny — rabbit: brings chocolate eggs
  • eating house — a restaurant or other place where one can eat
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