12-letter words containing r, e, t, o, d
- unobstructed — to block or close up with an obstacle; make difficult to pass: Debris obstructed the road.
- 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.
- unproductive — having the power of producing; generative; creative: a productive effort.
- unprohibited — to forbid (an action, activity, etc.) by authority or law: Smoking is prohibited here.
- unpropertied — owning property: the propertied class.
- unsurmounted — to mount upon; get on the top of; mount upon and cross over: to surmount a hill.
- untremendous — not tremendous or marvellous; not astounding or inspiring awe
- untroubledly — in an untroubled manner
- 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)
- vector field — a region, domain, set, etc., with a vector assigned at each point; vector function.
- 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
- video verite — a technique, derived from cinéma vérité, in which people in real life are portrayed as they actually are without rehearsal.
- vortex depth — The vortex depth is the depth below an impeller at which its influence can still be seen in a mixed fluid.
- 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.
- well-trodden — a past participle of tread.
- westmoreland — William Childs [chahyldz] /tʃaɪldz/ (Show IPA), 1914–2005, U.S. army officer: commander of U.S. forces in Vietnam and Thailand 1964–68.
- white-ground — pertaining to or designating a style of vase painting developed in Greece from the 6th to the 4th centuries b.c., characterized chiefly by a white background of slip onto which were painted polychromatic figures.
- wholehearted — fully or completely sincere, enthusiastic, energetic, etc.; hearty; earnest: a wholehearted attempt to comply.
- wonderstruck — (of a person) experiencing a sudden feeling of awed delight or wonder.
- woodburytype — a process using gelatine film exposed to the negative, which is then pressed into lead and processed, or a print of this type
- word picture — a description in words, especially one that is unusually vivid: She drew a word picture of a South Pacific sunset.
- word-perfect — correct in every detail
- wordsmithery — the craft or skill of a wordsmith
- world beater — If you describe a person or thing as a world beater, you mean that they are better than most other people or things of their kind.
- world-beater — a person or thing that surpasses all others of like kind, as in quality, ability, or endurance.
- would rather — in a measure; to a certain extent; somewhat: rather good.
- written word — You use the written word to refer to language expressed in writing, especially when contrasted with speech or with other forms of expression such as painting or film.
- youth leader — a person who has responsibility for the young people at a youth club etc
- zero defects — quality control that strives for a perfect production process, resulting in flawless products.