12-letter words containing r, o, s
- distemperoid — resembling distemper.
- distractions — Plural form of distraction.
- distribution — an act or instance of distributing.
- distributors — Plural form of distributor.
- diversionary — tending to divert or distract the attention: diversionary tactics of the guerrilla fighters.
- diversionist — a person engaged in activities that divert attention from a primary focus.
- doctrinaires — Plural form of doctrinaire.
- dodecandrous — (of a plant) having twelve stamens
- dog's dinner — mess, failure
- dog's letter — the letter r, especially when representing a trill.
- doloriferous — causing pain or sadness, dolorific
- dolorousness — The quality of being dolorous.
- dominatrices — Plural form of dominatrixThe 'Concise Oxford English Dictionary' [Eleventh Edition].
- door scraper — a small horizontal bar fixed to the ground near a door where visitors can scrape mud from their shoes before entering
- doorknockers — Plural form of doorknocker.
- doorstepping — talking to someone at the door of their home, for political canvassing or to gather information
- dorsiflexion — flexion toward the back.
- dorsiventral — Botany. having distinct dorsal and ventral sides, as most foliage leaves.
- dorsolateral — of, relating to, or affecting the back and the side.
- dorsoventral — Zoology. pertaining to the dorsal and ventral aspects of the body; extending from the dorsal to the ventral side: the dorsoventral axis.
- dosing strip — (in New Zealand) an area set aside for treating dogs suspected of having hydatid disease
- double doors — set of 2 doors side by side
- double first — a first in two subjects.
- double sharp — a symbol (× or ) that raises by two semitones the pitch of the following note.
- double sugar — disaccharide.
- double-cross — to prove treacherous to; betray or swindle, as by a double cross.
- douglas hurd — a third-class university degree
- draftsperson — a person employed in making mechanical drawings, especially in an architectural or engineering firm.
- dragonslayer — One who slays a dragon.
- drama school — a college which trains students (who are generally 18+) to act
- drapery shop — a shop selling fabrics and sewing materials
- dreadnoughts — Plural form of dreadnought.
- dream vision — a conventional device used in narrative verse, employed especially by medieval poets, that presents a story as told by one who falls asleep and dreams the events of the poem: Dante's Divine Comedy exemplifies the dream vision in its most developed form.
- dromaeosaurs — Plural form of dromaeosaur.
- drop biscuit — a biscuit made by dropping baking powder biscuit dough from a spoon onto a pan for baking.
- drop shipper — a wholesaler or distributor who conducts business in drop shipments.
- dropped seat — a seat of a chair or the like, having a front dished so as to be lower than the sides or back.
- dropped sole — a condition in which the foot of a horse is convex instead of concave
- droseraceous — of or relating to the genus of plants Drosera
- droughtiness — Dryness of the weather; lack of rain.
- drove chisel — a chisel with a broad edge used for dressing stone
- dry tortugas — a group of eight coral islands at the entrance to the Gulf of Mexico: part of Florida
- dryopithecus — an extinct genus of generalized hominoids that lived in Europe and Africa during the Miocene Epoch and whose members are characterized by small molars and incisors.
- dual-purpose — serving two functions.
- dusky grouse — blue grouse.
- dust counter — any instrument used to measure the size and number of dust particles per unit volume in the atmosphere.
- dusty clover — a bush clover, Lespedeza capitata.
- dyer's-broom — woadwaxen.
- dynamometers — Plural form of dynamometer.
- dysmenorrhea — painful menstruation.