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12-letter words containing r, i, o, t, e, d

  • spermatocide — spermicide.
  • spermatozoid — a motile male gamete produced in an antheridium.
  • spinsterhood — Disparaging and Offensive. a woman still unmarried beyond the usual age of marrying.
  • spit-roasted — cooked on a spit
  • store credit — A store credit is a document offered by a store to a customer who returns an item not eligible for a refund. It can be used to buy other goods at the store.
  • stride piano — a style of jazz piano playing in which the right hand plays the melody while the left hand plays a single bass note or octave on the strong beat and a chord on the weak beat, developed in Harlem during the 1920s, partly from ragtime piano playing.
  • stringholder — an oblong piece of wood at the lower end of the body of a viol or other stringed instrument to which the strings are attached.
  • study period — a period of time or lesson used for studying
  • subeditorial — of or relating to a subeditor, the work of a subeditor or a subeditorship
  • subintroduce — to introduce subtly
  • subordinated — placed in or belonging to a lower order or rank.
  • table tripod — a low mount or stand for a camera.
  • takeover bid — offer to buy a company
  • tardenoisian — of or referring to a Mesolithic culture characterized by small flint instruments
  • tetrodotoxin — a neurotoxin, C 11 H 17 N 3 O 3 , occurring in a species of puffer fish: ingestion of the toxin is usually rapidly fatal due to heart failure or asphyxiation; used experimentally to block impulse conduction potential in excitable cells.
  • the in-crowd — fashionable people; top people
  • thermidorian — a member of the French moderate group who participated in the downfall of Robespierre and his followers on the 9th Thermidor (July 27th), 1794.
  • thioridazine — a phenothiazine, C 21 H 26 N 2 S 2 , used as an antipsychotic chiefly in the treatment of acute psychoses and schizophrenia.
  • third person — the grammatical person used by the speaker of an utterance in referring to anyone or anything other than the speaker or the one (third person singular) or ones (third person plural) being addressed.
  • third sector — the segment of a nation's economy that is made up of neither public nor business concerns, as nonprofit health or educational institutions.
  • timberdoodle — the American woodcock, Philohela minor.
  • time-honored — revered or respected because of antiquity and long continuance: a time-honored custom.
  • tin-fluoride — stannous fluoride.
  • title-holder — The title-holder is the person who most recently won a sports competition that is held regularly.
  • top dressing — tennis court
  • tragi-comedy — A tragi-comedy is a play or other written work that is both sad and amusing.
  • tredecillion — a cardinal number represented in the U.S. by 1 followed by 42 zeros, and in Great Britain by 1 followed by 78 zeros.
  • 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.
  • trickle-down — of, relating to, or based on the trickle-down theory: the trickle-down benefits to the local community.
  • trigger word — a word that initiates a process or course of action
  • trondhjemite — a coarse-grained igneous rock composed of quartz, plagioclase feldspar, and a small amount of biotite.
  • 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
  • tutor period — (in British secondary schools) a school period for which a tutor group comes together with their tutor
  • two-cylinder — (of an engine) having two cylinders
  • unauthorized — lacking permission; unsanctioned: unauthorized access.
  • undemocratic — pertaining to or of the nature of democracy or a democracy.
  • undercoating — a coat or jacket worn under another.
  • underexploit — to make insufficient use of
  • unimportuned — without being forced or impelled
  • unintroduced — to present (a person) to another so as to make acquainted.
  • united front — a coalition formed to oppose a force that menaces the interests of all the members: They presented a united front against the enemy.
  • unoriginated — not originated
  • unpatronized — having few or no patrons
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