12-letter words containing n, s, r, d
- reinstituted — to set up; establish; organize: to institute a government.
- relinquished — to renounce or surrender (a possession, right, etc.): to relinquish the throne.
- rendezvouses — an agreement between two or more persons to meet at a certain time and place.
- renownedness — celebrated; famous.
- rescheduling — the act of changing the time, date, or schedule of
- reservedness — kept or set apart for some particular use or purpose.
- residentiary — residing; resident.
- residentship — a person who resides in a place.
- resoundingly — making an echoing sound: a resounding thud.
- resplendence — a resplendent quality or state; splendor.
- respondentia — a loan upon a ship's cargo, which is repaid with interest if the ship reaches its destination, and if the ship does not, the loan is not repaid
- resyndicated — a group of individuals or organizations combined or making a joint effort to undertake some specific duty or carry out specific transactions or negotiations: The local furniture store is individually owned, but is part of a buying syndicate.
- reynoldsburg — a town in central Ohio.
- rhadamanthus — Classical Mythology. a son of Zeus and Europa, rewarded for the justice he exemplified on earth by being made, after his death, a judge in the Underworld, where he served with his brothers Minos and Aeacus.
- rhadamanthys — Classical Mythology. a son of Zeus and Europa, rewarded for the justice he exemplified on earth by being made, after his death, a judge in the Underworld, where he served with his brothers Minos and Aeacus.
- rhode island — US state
- ride shotgun — a smoothbore gun for firing small shots to kill birds and small quadrupeds, though often used with buckshot to kill larger animals.
- riding boots — long boots worn for horse-riding
- rose diamond — a diamond, one side of which is flat, and the other cut into twenty-four triangular facets in two ranges which form a convex face pointed at the top
- run commands — (operating system) The expansion of the file name suffix, "rc", common to many Unix configuration files, e.g. .newsrc, .cshrc, .twmrc, elmrc, etc. Always abbreviated to /R C/ when spoken. Note, "rc" is not a typical filename extension as it doesn't start with a dot. The suffix "rc" derives from a script-creation utility in CTSS called "runcom".
- russian doll — wooden figures that nest inside one other
- rutlandshire — a former county, now part of Leicestershire, in central England.
- sailboarding — windsurfing.
- salad burnet — a plant, Poterium sanguisorba, of the rose family, native to Eurasia, having rounded heads of small, greenish flowers in short spikes and edible leaves.
- salamandrian — a salamander of the order Batrachia
- 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.
- salamandroid — an amphibian of the genus Salamandra
- samurai bond — a bond issued in Japan and denominated in yen, available for purchase by nonresidents of Japan
- san bernardo — a city in central Chile, S of Santiago.
- san fernando — a city in E Argentina, near Buenos Aires.
- san salvador — a republic in NW Central America. 13,176 sq. mi. (34,125 sq. km). Capital: San Salvador.
- sand cricket — Jerusalem cricket.
- sand springs — a town in NE Oklahoma.
- sand verbena — any of several low, mostly trailing plants of the genus Abronia, of the western U.S., having showy, verbenalike flowers.
- sand-sprayed — noting an exterior wall finish composed of mortar to which is added a mixture of sand and cement in equal parts while the mortar is still wet.
- sandbox tree — a tropical American tree, Hura crepitans, of the spurge family, bearing a furrowed, roundish fruit about the size of an orange that when ripe and dry bursts with a sharp report and scatters the seeds.
- sandpapering — the act or process of polishing or grinding a surface with or as if with sandpaper
- sandrocottus — Greek name of Chandragupta.
- sandwich bar — a place where sandwiches are sold
- sarcoadenoma — adenosarcoma.
- sardonically — characterized by bitter or scornful derision; mocking; cynical; sneering: a sardonic grin.
- scarlatinoid — resembling scarlatina or its eruptions.
- schneiderman — Rose, 1884–1972, U.S. labor leader, born in Poland.
- scolopendrid — any myriapod of the order Scolopendrida, including many large, poisonous centipedes.
- scouring pad — a small pad, as of steel wool or plastic mesh, used for scouring pots, pans, etc.
- scout around — search
- 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.
- scrimshander — a person who makes scrimshaw objects.
- sea lavender — an Old World, maritime plant, Limonium vulgare, of the leadwort family, having one-sided spikes of small, lavender-colored flowers.
- second birth — spiritual rebirth.