12-letter words containing r, u, d, e, l
- colour-coded — Things that are colour-coded use colours to represent different features or functions.
- column dress — a very straight, close-fitting dress.
- columnarized — columnar (def 3).
- counterplead — to plead the opposite of
- counterworld — an alternative world opposite to the virtual world
- cradle vault — barrel vault.
- crowd-puller — If you describe a performer or event as a crowd-puller, you mean that they attract a large audience.
- cruelhearted — having a cruel heart; lacking kindness, compassion, etc.
- culturalized — to expose or subject to the influence of culture.
- culvertailed — dove-tailed
- curly-haired — having hair that forms curls
- curmudgeonly — If you describe someone as curmudgeonly, you do not like them because they are mean or bad-tempered.
- dandrufflike — Resembling or characteristic of dandruff.
- daughterless — Without a daughter.
- daughterlike — Resembling a daughter.
- daughterling — a small daughter
- day labourer — an unskilled worker hired and paid by the day
- deambulatory — a place for walking often with a covering overhead
- dearticulate — to disjoint, dislocate, or separate (something)
- debrouillard — (one who is) skilled or resourceful at handling any difficulty
- declustering — Any technique that counteracts clustering (in any sense).
- decluttering — Present participle of declutter.
- deli counter — a display case in a delicatessen, or one in a supermarket that sells delicatessen
- denaturalize — to deprive of nationality
- dental nurse — a dentist's assistant, esp one who passes instruments, mixes fillings, etc
- denuclearize — to deprive (a country, state, etc) of nuclear weapons
- deregulating — Present participle of deregulate.
- deregulation — Deregulation is the removal of controls and restrictions in a particular area of business or trade.
- deregulatory — Of or pertaining to deregulation.
- destructible — capable of being or liable to be destroyed
- desulfurized — Simple past tense and past participle of desulfurize.
- desulphurize — to free or become free from sulphur
- discursively — In a discursive manner.
- disgracefull — Archaic form of disgraceful.
- disgruntedly — In a disgruntled manner.
- disqualifier — One who, or that which, disqualifies.
- disregardful — neglectful; careless.
- disreputable — not reputable; having a bad reputation: a disreputable barroom.
- disreputably — In a disreputable manner.
- disruptively — In a disruptive manner.
- distrustless — without suspicion or distrust
- diuretically — In a diuretic way.
- diverticular — Of or relating to diverticula.
- diverticulum — a blind, tubular sac or process branching off from a canal or cavity, especially an abnormal, saclike herniation of the mucosal layer through the muscular wall of the colon.
- djebel druze — Jebel ed Druz.
- dole bludger — a person who collects unemployment benefits but makes no serious effort to get work.
- doloriferous — causing pain or sadness, dolorific
- dolorousness — The quality of being dolorous.
- double altar — an altar on which the Eucharist may be celebrated from either the liturgical east or the liturgical west side.
- double cream — (in France) a fresh, soft cheese with at least 60 percent fat, made from cow's milk enriched with cream.