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12-letter words containing o, d, e, l

  • softheadedly — in a soft-headed manner
  • soldier crab — a small blue Australian estuarine crab of the Mictyris genus usually found in large numbers
  • sole custody — custody, as of a child whose parents are separated, in which one person has sole responsibility.
  • solid figure — a figure that has three dimensions
  • solid rocket — any of various rockets using solid fuel
  • soliloquised — to utter a soliloquy; talk to oneself.
  • soufflé dish — A dish for making souffles
  • south euclid — a city in NE Ohio, near Cleveland.
  • south hadley — a city in W Massachusetts.
  • split second — a fraction of a second.
  • spot welding — fusing metal
  • spotted tail — (Sinte-galeshka) 1833?–81, Brulé Sioux leader.
  • spotted wilt — a viral disease of plants, characterized by wilting and by brown, sunken spots and streaks on the stems and leaves.
  • staddlestone — (formerly) one of several supports for a hayrick, consisting of a truncated conical stone surmounted by a flat circular stone
  • stakeholders — the holder of the stakes of a wager.
  • stock saddle — Western saddle.
  • stockholders — Also called stockowner. a holder or owner of stock in a corporation.
  • storm-lashed — badly affected by storms
  • stranglehold — Wrestling. an illegal hold by which an opponent's breath is choked off.
  • 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 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.
  • stunt double — someone who performs dangerous stunts in a film in place of an actor
  • stupendously — causing amazement; astounding; marvelous: stupendous news.
  • subdelirious — having the symptoms of subdelirium; suffering from subdelirium
  • subeditorial — of or relating to a subeditor, the work of a subeditor or a subeditorship
  • subthreshold — (of a stimulus) too weak to produce a response.
  • 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
  • superordinal — relating to the superorder
  • swallow dive — swan dive.
  • 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.
  • table d'hote — a meal of preselected courses served at a fixed time and price to the guests at a hotel or restaurant.
  • table tripod — a low mount or stand for a camera.
  • take hold of — grasp, seize sth
  • the cold war — the period (1945-91) of cold war between the Soviet Union and its Communist allies and the U.S. and its non-Communist allies
  • the good oil — true or reliable facts, information, etc
  • the lowlands — a low generally flat region of central Scotland, around the Forth and Clyde valleys, separating the Southern Uplands from the Highlands
  • the old adam — the evil supposedly inherent in human nature
  • the old bill — policemen collectively or in general
  • the old dart — England
  • the old days — the past
  • theory-laden — (of an expression) capable of being understood only within the context of a specific theory, as for example superego, which requires the apparatus of Freudian theory in explanation
  • thioaldehyde — any of a class of compounds formed by the action of hydrogen sulfide on aldehydes, and regarded as aldehydes with the oxygen replaced by sulfur.
  • throttlehold — a stifling grip; stranglehold: The new regime kept a throttlehold on academic freedom.
  • thundercloud — cumulonimbus.
  • tidal volume — the volume of water associated with a rising tide
  • timberdoodle — the American woodcock, Philohela minor.
  • tin-fluoride — stannous fluoride.
  • title-holder — The title-holder is the person who most recently won a sports competition that is held regularly.
  • toe and heel — a technique used by racing drivers while changing gear on sharp bends, in which the brake is operated by the toe (or heel) of the right foot while the heel (or toe) simultaneously operates the accelerator
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