12-letter words containing o, d, s, u
- cloudberries — Plural form of cloudberry.
- colour slide — a colour transparency
- columbus day — Oct 12, a legal holiday in most states of the US: the date of Columbus' landing in the West Indies (Caribbean) in 1492
- column dress — a very straight, close-fitting dress.
- comes around — to approach or move toward a particular person or place: Come here. Don't come any closer!
- commodiously — In a commodious manner.
- computerised — to control, perform, process, or store (a system, operation, or information) by means of or in an electronic computer or computers.
- condominiums — Plural form of condominium.
- conductances — Plural form of conductance.
- confusedness — The state or quality of being confused.
- conquistador — The conquistadors were the sixteenth-century Spanish conquerors of Central and South America.
- consanguined — Of kindred blood; related.
- consequenced — Simple past tense and past participle of consequence.
- consumerized — to make (goods or a product) suitable or available for mass consumption: to consumerize computers by making them cheaper.
- countermands — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of countermand.
- coup d'essai — a first attempt.
- crop dusting — Crop dusting is the spreading of pesticides on crops, usually from an aircraft.
- crop-dusting — the spraying of powdered fungicides or insecticides on crops, usually from an airplane.
- crowdsourced — Obtained by crowdsourcing.
- curanderismo — the use of folk medicine, especially as practiced by a curandero.
- custodialism — of or relating to custody.
- custom-build — to make according to the specifications of an individual buyer
- custom-order — to obtain by special or individual order: These wide doors have to be custom-ordered.
- customs duty — a tax payable to customs when importing or exporting goods
- customs shed — a large building in which customs officers carry out customs inspections
- dance studio — A dance studio is a place where people pay to learn how to dance.
- dark tourism — tourism to sites associated with tragedies, disasters, and death
- dasyphyllous — (of leaves) hairy or woolly
- david souter — David H. born 1939, U.S. jurist: associate justice of the U.S. Supreme Court 1990–2009.
- de profundis — out of the depths of misery or dejection
- debaucherous — tending toward or involving debauchery, or excessive indulgence in sensual pleasures: a night of debaucherous fun.
- deconstructs — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of deconstruct.
- decorousness — characterized by dignified propriety in conduct, manners, appearance, character, etc.
- decrustation — the act of removing a crust
- delusionally — In a delusional way.
- desaturation — the addition of white light to a pure colour to produce a paler less saturated colour
- desirousness — The state of being desirous.
- desmond tutu — a university degree graded 2:2 (second class lower bracket)
- despiteously — in a despiteous or contemptuous manner
- desquamation — to come off in scales, as the skin in certain diseases; peel off.
- desquamatory — an obsolete surgical instrument once used for the desquamation of bones
- deuteroscopy — the second time of looking or considering
- deuterostome — any member of the major group of animals defined by the fact that during early embryonic development the first opening to form becomes the anus of the animal. The opposite is protostome
- devaluations — Plural form of devaluation.
- dextrousness — Alternative form of dexterousness.
- diamond dust — pulverized diamonds, used as an abrasive.
- diaphanously — In a diaphanous manner or to a diaphanous extent.
- diatomaceous — of, relating to, consisting of, or containing diatoms or their fossil remains
- diégo-suarez — a seaport on N Madagascar.
- diffusionism — the theory or principle that diffusion is the main force in cultural innovation and change.