12-letter words containing o, r, a, t, e, d
- thioridazine — a phenothiazine, C 21 H 26 N 2 S 2 , used as an antipsychotic chiefly in the treatment of acute psychoses and schizophrenia.
- thought-read — to read someone's mind or psychically know what someone's thoughts are
- thread count — thread density of a woven fabric
- to drop dead — If you tell someone to drop dead, you are insulting them, rudely disagreeing with them, or refusing to do something, or telling them to stop bothering you.
- tornado belt — the part of the U.S. in which tornadoes occur most frequently, roughly the area within a 500-mile (805-km) radius of southern Missouri.
- torpedo boat — a small, fast, highly maneuverable boat used for torpedoing enemy shipping.
- track record — a record of achievements or performance: an executive with a good track record.
- tractor feed — Computers. a mechanism for aligning and transporting paper for a printer by means of pins that catch in perforations along the edges of the paper.
- trade dollar — a silver coin of the U.S., containing slightly more silver than the standard dollar, issued from 1873 to 1885 for trade with Asia.
- trade school — a high school giving instruction chiefly in the skilled trades.
- tradespeople — people engaged in trade, esp shopkeepers
- tradesperson — a skilled worker
- tragi-comedy — A tragi-comedy is a play or other written work that is both sad and amusing.
- traverse rod — a horizontal rod upon which drapes slide to open or close when pulled by cords.
- trepidations — tremulous fear, alarm, or agitation; perturbation.
- trepidatious — tremulous fear, alarm, or agitation; perturbation.
- triadelphous — (of stamens) united by the filaments into three sets or bundles.
- trial docket — docket (def 1).
- trial period — time during which sth can be evaluated
- trial-docket — Also called trial docket. a list of cases in court for trial, or the names of the parties who have cases pending.
- tropicalised — to make tropical, as in character or appearance.
- tropicalized — to make tropical, as in character or appearance.
- turacoverdin — a green pigment found in certain feathers of the touraco
- turbocharged — with additional power from turbine
- turned comma — quotation mark.
- unauthorized — lacking permission; unsanctioned: unauthorized access.
- uncontracted — drawn together; reduced in compass or size; made smaller; shrunken.
- uncorrelated — to place in or bring into mutual or reciprocal relation; establish in orderly connection: to correlate expenses and income.
- undemocratic — pertaining to or of the nature of democracy or a democracy.
- undercoating — a coat or jacket worn under another.
- unelaborated — not elaborated
- unforecasted — to predict (a future condition or occurrence); calculate in advance: to forecast a heavy snowfall; to forecast lower interest rates.
- unformulated — to express in precise form; state definitely or systematically: He finds it extremely difficult to formulate his new theory.
- unoriginated — not originated
- unornamented — not decorated; unadorned
- unpatronized — having few or no patrons
- unperforated — pierced with a hole or holes: Punch out along the perforated line.
- van der post — Sir Laurens (Jan). 1906–96, South African writer and traveller. His works include the travel books Venture to the Interior (1952), The Lost World of the Kalahari (1958), and Testament to the Bushmen (1984) and the novels The Hunter and the Whale (1967) and The Admiral's Baby (1996)
- ventrodorsal — pertaining to the ventral and dorsal aspects of the body; extending from the ventral to the dorsal side.
- ventromedial — relating to both the ventral and medial surfaces, or to the front and to the middle
- video rental — the system of renting films on video or DVD for a period of time in exchange for payment
- waste ground — an empty piece of land
- water meadow — a meadow kept fertile by flooding.
- water-cooled — kept from overheating by having water circulated around or through it, as in pipes or a water jacket
- water-locked — enclosed entirely, or almost entirely, by water: a waterlocked nation.
- waterboarded — Simple past tense and past participle of waterboard.
- watered-down — made weaker or less effective from or as from dilution with water: a watered-down cocktail; Spectators saw a watered-down version of the famous opera.
- waterproofed — Having been made waterproof.
- weatherboard — an early type of board used as a siding for a building.
- weatherbound — (often nautical) Delayed or prevented by bad weather from doing something, such as travelling.