12-letter words containing r, a, d, i, o, s
- fingerboards — Plural form of fingerboard.
- florida keys — chain of small islands extending southwest from the S tip of Fla.
- florida moss — Spanish moss.
- foolhardiest — Superlative form of foolhardy.
- foreadmonish — (rare, transitive) To admonish beforehand, or before the act or event.
- fort madison — a city in SE Iowa, on the Mississippi.
- forward bias — a voltage applied to a circuit or device, esp a semiconductor device, in the direction that produces the larger current
- gallows bird — a person who deserves to be hanged.
- gastrodermis — the inner cell layer of the body of an invertebrate.
- glandiferous — bearing nuts or acorns
- gormandising — Present participle of gormandise.
- gormandizers — gourmandise1 .
- grosswardein — German name of Oradea.
- hadrosaurine — Hadrosaurid.
- haemorrhoids — Plural form of haemorrhoid.
- haemosiderin — Alternative form of hemosiderin.
- harpsichords — Plural form of harpsichord.
- harrison red — a pigment consisting of a paratoluidine toner, characterized by its brilliant red color and tendency to bleed.
- hidrocystoma — An adenoma of the sweat glands.
- house wizard — (Probably from ad-agency tradetalk, "house freak") A hacker occupying a technical-specialist, R&D, or systems position at a commercial shop. A really effective house wizard can have influence out of all proportion to his/her ostensible rank and still not have to wear a suit. Used especially of Unix wizards. The term "house guru" is equivalent.
- housetrained — Simple past tense and past participle of housetrain.
- hydroelastic — undergoing a change in elasticity as a result of the flow of water or another fluid
- hydronautics — (nautical) The science of the design and construction of ships, their engines, and their instrumentation.
- hydrosalpinx — A distally blocked Fallopian tube filled with serous or clear fluid.
- hydrostatics — the branch of hydrodynamics that deals with the statics of fluids, usually confined to the equilibrium and pressure of liquids.
- icosahedrons — Plural form of icosahedron.
- idiosyncracy — Alternative spelling of idiosyncrasy.
- idiosyncrasy — A mode of behavior or way of thought peculiar to an individual.
- idolatrously — In an idolatrous manner.
- ill-assorted — badly matched; incompatible
- immortalised — to bestow unending fame upon; perpetuate.
- impersonated — to assume the character or appearance of; pretend to be: He was arrested for impersonating a police officer.
- intimidators — Plural form of intimidator.
- iracundulous — easily angered or irritable
- isodiametric — having equal diameters or axes.
- jameson raid — an expedition into the Transvaal in 1895 led by Sir Leander Starr Jameson (1853–1917) in an unsuccessful attempt to topple its Boer regime
- jeopardising — Present participle of jeopardise.
- judicatories — Plural form of judicatory.
- keyboardists — Plural form of keyboardist.
- ladies' room — a public lavatory for women.
- madreporites — Plural form of madreporite.
- make inroads — If one thing makes inroads into another, the first thing starts affecting or destroying the second.
- malnourished — poorly or improperly nourished; suffering from malnutrition: thin, malnourished victims of the famine.
- marsh orchid — any of various orchids of the genus Dactylorhiza, growing in damp places and having mostly purplish flowers
- media person — a person who works in the mass media
- mediatorship — the position of a mediator
- memorialised — Simple past tense and past participle of memorialise.
- microreaders — Plural form of microreader.
- misdemeanors — Plural form of misdemeanor.
- misdemeanour — Law. a criminal offense defined as less serious than a felony.