12-letter words containing n, o, d, c, t, r
- descriptions — a statement, picture in words, or account that describes; descriptive representation.
- desecrations — Plural form of desecration.
- detector van — a vehicle fitted with equipment that detects whether or not a house has a television. This is used to catch people who have not paid for a television licence and so are illegally using a television
- deuteronomic — of, relating to, or resembling Deuteronomy, especially the laws contained in that book.
- dictionaries — Plural form of dictionary.
- dictionarist — (rare) a person who creates dictionaries.
- dictyopteran — any insect of the order Dictyoptera, which comprises the cockroaches and mantises
- dilaceration — the act of dilacerating.
- disaccordant — not agreeing
- discarnation — without a physical body; incorporeal.
- disconcerted — disturbed, as in one's composure or self-possession; perturbed; ruffled: She was disconcerted by the sudden attack on her integrity.
- discongruity — incongruity.
- disconnector — (electrical engineering) A switching device used to open an electric circuit when there is no current through it. They are used to isolate a part of an electrical system to allow the maintenance staff a safe access to it.
- discordantly — disagreeable to the ear; dissonant; harsh.
- discoverment — (obsolete) discovery.
- discretional — discretionary.
- distractions — Plural form of distraction.
- divarication — to spread apart; branch; diverge.
- doctrinaires — Plural form of doctrinaire.
- doctrinarian — A doctrinaire.
- doctrination — (nonstandard) indoctrination.
- dominatrices — Plural form of dominatrixThe 'Concise Oxford English Dictionary' [Eleventh Edition].
- door curtain — a curtain that fills a doorway
- drift anchor — a sea anchor or drag.
- drop curtain — a curtain that is lowered into position from the flies.
- dual-control — having dual controls
- 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.
- 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.
- dynamometric — Relating to dynamometry.
- eden project — an environmental complex containing the world's largest greenhouse, built in a disused clay pit near St Austell, Cornwall, to study plant populations in a variety of environments
- edulcorating — Present participle of edulcorate.
- edulcoration — (rare) A sweetening.
- electrosonde — a sonde that measures the electric potential in the atmosphere
- end effector — The end effector of an actuator is the part that comes into contact with the object being moved or controlled.
- endocarditic — Having or relating to endocarditis.
- endocarditis — Inflammation of the endocardium.
- endotracheal — Situated or occurring within or performed by way of the trachea.
- eradications — Plural form of eradication.
- field cornet — a commander of burgher troops called up in time of war or in an emergency, esp during the 19th century
- food counter — a counter in a shop, bar, cafeteria, etc where food is sold or served
- forced entry — entry into a building by force, eg by forcing a lock
- forty-second — next after the forty-first; being the ordinal number for 42.
- fractionated — Simple past tense and past participle of fractionate.
- friend-court — amicus curiae.
- gonadotropic — pertaining to substances formed in the anterior pituitary gland that affect the activity of the ovary or testis.
- ground cloth — groundsheet.
- ground track — the path on the earth's surface below an aircraft, missile, rocket, or spacecraft.
- hydnocarpate — a salt or ester of hydnocarpic acid.
- hydrokinetic — pertaining to the motion of liquids.