12-letter words containing n, o, s, e, d
- stone-washed — Stone-washed jeans are jeans which have been specially washed with small pieces of stone so that when you buy them they are fairly pale and soft.
- 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.
- 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.
- student body — all the students enrolled at an educational institution.
- student loan — A student loan is a government loan that is available to students at a college or university in order to help them pay their expenses.
- studiousness — disposed or given to diligent study: a studious boy.
- stunt double — someone who performs dangerous stunts in a film in place of an actor
- stupendously — causing amazement; astounding; marvelous: stupendous news.
- subdeaconate — subdiaconate.
- subdiaconate — the office or dignity of a subdeacon.
- subintroduce — to introduce subtly
- subordinated — placed in or belonging to a lower order or rank.
- succedaneous — a substitute.
- suicide note — letter left by person ending own life
- sulphadoxine — an antibiotic drug of the sulphonamide group, commonly used in combination with pyrimethamine to treat malaria, and in combination with various drugs to treat certain infections
- sulphonamide — any of a class of organic compounds that are amides of sulphonic acids containing the group –SO2NH2 or a group derived from this. An important class of sulphonamides are the sulfa drugs
- superconduct — to conduct electricity very efficiently or without resistance, to act as a superconductor
- superkingdom — in some systems of biological classification, either of the two major subdivisions, prokaryote or eukaryote, into which all living organisms can be placed
- superordinal — relating to the superorder
- surrejoinder — a plaintiff's reply to a defendant's rejoinder.
- sweep-second — (on a timepiece) a second hand that is a sweep hand.
- sweet almond — the nutlike kernel of the fruit of either of two trees, Prunus dulcis (sweet almond) or P. dulcis amara (bitter almond) which grow in warm temperate regions.
- synecdochism — the use of synecdoche
- tardenoisian — of or referring to a Mesolithic culture characterized by small flint instruments
- the lowlands — a low generally flat region of central Scotland, around the Forth and Clyde valleys, separating the Southern Uplands from the Highlands
- third person — the grammatical person used by the speaker of an utterance in referring to anyone or anything other than the speaker or the one (third person singular) or ones (third person plural) being addressed.
- thunderstone — any of various stones or fossils formerly thought to be fallen thunderbolts.
- thunderstorm — a transient storm of lightning and thunder, usually with rain and gusty winds, sometimes with hail or snow, produced by cumulonimbus clouds.
- tmj syndrome — a condition attributed to tension in or faulty articulation of the temporomandibular joint, having a wide range of symptoms that include dizziness, ringing in the ears, and pain in the head, neck, and shoulders.
- toffee-nosed — stuck-up; conceited; pretentious: a toffee-nosed butler; a toffee-nosed shop.
- tombstone ad — a boxed advertisement without artwork or illustrations, especially one announcing an issue of a stock or bond.
- top dressing — tennis court
- tradesperson — a skilled worker
- tremendously — extraordinarily great in size, amount, or intensity: a tremendous ocean liner; tremendous talent.
- trepidations — tremulous fear, alarm, or agitation; perturbation.
- unaccustomed — not accustomed or habituated: to be unaccustomed to hardships.
- 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.
- unburdensome — oppressively heavy; onerous.
- unconfusedly — in an unconfused manner
- unconsidered — thought about or decided upon with care: a considered opinion.
- uncounselled — lacking counsel
- undecomposed — not reduced to constituent elements
- under escort — with armed accompaniment
- under orders — If you are under orders to do something, you have been told to do it by someone in authority.
- underclothes — clothes worn under outer clothes.
- underexposed — If a photograph is underexposed, it is darker than it should be because the film was not exposed to enough light.
- undernourish — to deprive of or fail to provide with nutrients essential for health and growth