12-letter words containing n, u, d, e
- reacquainted — to make more or less familiar, aware, or conversant (usually followed by with): to acquaint the mayor with our plan.
- read up (on) — to become well informed (about) by reading
- readjustment — an act of readjusting or the state of being readjusted.
- rear-mounted — (of an engine, etc) fitted at the back of a vehicle
- recrudescent — breaking out afresh or into renewed activity; revival or reappearance in active existence.
- redoublement — the act of redoubling
- reductionism — the theory that every complex phenomenon, especially in biology or psychology, can be explained by analyzing the simplest, most basic physical mechanisms that are in operation during the phenomenon.
- reductionist — the theory that every complex phenomenon, especially in biology or psychology, can be explained by analyzing the simplest, most basic physical mechanisms that are in operation during the phenomenon.
- reed bunting — an Old World bunting, Emberiza schoeniclus, inhabiting marshy areas.
- refoundation — an act of refounding
- 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.
- reproduction — the act or process of reproducing.
- rescheduling — the act of changing the time, date, or schedule of
- resoundingly — making an echoing sound: a resounding thud.
- returned man — a member of the armed forces discharged in Canada after service overseas.
- revenue bond — a bond issued, as by a municipal utility, to finance a specific project, the income from which will be used for repaying the bond.
- reynoldsburg — a town in central Ohio.
- rice pudding — dessert made from rice and milk
- ride shotgun — a smoothbore gun for firing small shots to kill birds and small quadrupeds, though often used with buckshot to kill larger animals.
- rideau canal — a waterway in SE Ontario, Canada, connecting the Ottawa Riverin Ottawa to Lake Ontario in Kingston. 125 miles (202 km) long.
- rodent ulcer — an ulcerating basal cell skin cancer, common on the face.
- rouge dragon — a pursuivant at the English college of arms
- round-lotter — a buyer or seller of round lots.
- ruby wedding — a fortieth wedding anniversary
- ruling elder — an elder in a Presbyterian church.
- ruling grade — the steepest grade on a given stretch of track, which determines the maximum tonnage that can be hauled in a train having a given horsepower at a stated minimum speed.
- running head — a descriptive word, phrase, title, or the like, usually repeated at the top of each page of a book, periodical, etc.
- rutlandshire — a former county, now part of Leicestershire, in central England.
- safe conduct — If you are given safe conduct, the authorities officially allow you to travel somewhere, guaranteeing that you will not be arrested or harmed while doing so.
- safe-conduct — a document authorizing safe passage through a region, especially in time of war.
- 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.
- sapindaceous — belonging to the Sapindaceae, the soapberry family of plants.
- 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-guess — to use hindsight in criticizing or correcting.
- secunderabad — a city in N Andhra Pradesh, in central India, part of Hyderabad: a former British military cantonment.
- self-induced — induced by oneself or itself.
- send out for — If you send out for food, for example pizzas or sandwiches, you phone and ask for it to be delivered to you.
- sendai virus — a paramyxovirus that tends to cause cell fusion: in inactive form, used in biological research to produce cells with multiple nuclei of different genetic constitutions.
- series-wound — noting a commutator motor in which the field circuit and armature circuit are connected in series.
- silver mound — a perennial Japanese herb, Artemisia schmidtiana, having silver-green leaves forming a moundlike shape.
- 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.
- sliding rule — (formerly) a slide rule.
- snowed under — If you say that you are snowed under, you are emphasizing that you have a lot of work or other things to deal with.
- 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.
- sound change — any phonetic or phonological change in spoken language, for example the replacement of one speech sound with another, or the loss of a particular sound
- sound effect — any sound, other than music or speech, artificially reproduced to create an effect in a dramatic presentation, as the sound of a storm or a creaking door.
- sound system — equipment for playing music
- sounion head — the tip of the Attica peninsula, E central Greece: site of ancient temple ruins.