12-letter words containing r, e, s, d, a
- tradescantia — any plant of the American genus Tradescantia, widely cultivated for their striped variegated leaves: family Commelinaceae
- tradespeople — people engaged in trade, esp shopkeepers
- tradesperson — a skilled worker
- transcendent — going beyond ordinary limits; surpassing; exceeding.
- transcending — to rise above or go beyond; overpass; exceed: to transcend the limits of thought; kindness transcends courtesy.
- transdialect — to translate (speech, writing, etc.) into a different dialect.
- transgressed — to violate a law, command, moral code, etc.; offend; sin.
- transit shed — a building located on or near a pier (piershed) or wharf (wharf shed) used for short-term storage of cargo in transit.
- transmundane — reaching beyond or existing outside the physical or visible world.
- 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.
- tricuspidate — having three cusps or flaps.
- tropicalised — to make tropical, as in character or appearance.
- tryparsamide — a white, crystalline powder, C 8 H 10 O 4 N 2 AsNa·½H 2 , used chiefly in treating African sleeping sickness.
- twisted pair — A twisted pair is a pair of wires that are twisted together to reduce interference.
- un-scattered — distributed or occurring at widely spaced and usually irregular intervals: scattered villages; scattered showers.
- unadvertised — to announce or praise (a product, service, etc.) in some public medium of communication in order to induce people to buy or use it: to advertise a new brand of toothpaste.
- under arrest — to seize (a person) by legal authority or warrant; take into custody: The police arrested the burglar.
- under canvas — If you are living and sleeping under canvas, you are living and sleeping in a tent.
- underdrawers — an undergarment for the lower part of the body, typically covering at least part of the legs. Compare drawer (def 2).
- underpassion — an underlying or subconscious passion
- undersealing — the process of applying a coating of underseal to a motor vehicle
- underservant — a servant of inferior or subordinate rank.
- undersparred — having spars too small to carry the necessary sail.
- understaffed — having an insufficient number of personnel: The hospital is understaffed.
- understander — a person who understands
- understating — to state or represent less strongly or strikingly than the facts would bear out; set forth in restrained, moderate, or weak terms: The casualty lists understate the extent of the disaster.
- understratum — a substratum.
- undersurface — underside; bottom surface.
- undertakings — the act of a person who undertakes any task or responsibility.
- underzealous — full of, characterized by, or due to zeal; ardently active, devoted, or diligent. Synonyms: enthusiastic, eager, fervid, fervent, intense, passionate, warm. Antonyms: apathetic; lackadaisical.
- undesecrated — to divest of sacred or hallowed character or office.
- undespairing — not despairing; not giving in to despair
- undischarged — gun: not let off
- undistracted — not distracted; concentrating
- unforecasted — to predict (a future condition or occurrence); calculate in advance: to forecast a heavy snowfall; to forecast lower interest rates.
- unfranchised — a privilege of a public nature conferred on an individual, group, or company by a government: a franchise to operate a bus system.
- unmarshalled — a military officer of the highest rank, as in the French and some other armies. Compare field marshal.
- unrestrained — not restrained or controlled; uncontrolled or uncontrollable: the unrestrained birthrate in some countries.
- unsegregated — not segregated, especially not subject to racial division; integrated: an unsegregated community.
- unseminaried — not having a seminary education
- unserialized — to publish in serial form.
- unstratified — not stratified; not arranged in strata or layers: unstratified rocks.
- untranslated — to turn from one language into another or from a foreign language into one's own: to translate Spanish.
- untransmuted — not transmuted; that has not been transmuted or transformed
- untrespassed — Law. an unlawful act causing injury to the person, property, or rights of another, committed with force or violence, actual or implied. a wrongful entry upon the lands of another. the action to recover damages for such an injury.
- 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)
- vas deferens — the duct that transports the sperm from the epididymis to the penis.