12-letter words containing s, a, l, o, d
- long-handles — long underwear.
- long-waisted — of more than average length between the shoulders and waistline; having a low waistline.
- longstanding — existing or occurring for a long time: a longstanding feud.
- look daggers — to turn one's eyes toward something or in some direction in order to see: He looked toward the western horizon and saw the returning planes.
- lord's table — the, communion table.
- loudspeakers — Plural form of loudspeaker, especially a pair for a left and right channel.
- love handles — fat midriff
- mademoiselle — (often initial capital letter) a French title of respect equivalent to “Miss”, used in speaking to or of a girl or unmarried woman: Mademoiselle Lafitte. Abbreviation: Mlle.
- madisonville — a city in W Kentucky.
- magnoliopsid — (botany) a member of the class Magnoliopsida. Circumscription of this class will vary with the taxonomic system being used.
- maledictions — Plural form of malediction.
- malnourished — poorly or improperly nourished; suffering from malnutrition: thin, malnourished victims of the famine.
- malodorously — With a bad smell.
- manifoldness — (mathematics) multiplicity.
- mantelboards — Plural form of mantelboard.
- memorialised — Simple past tense and past participle of memorialise.
- mendaciously — In a lying or deceitful manner.
- misallocated — to allocate mistakenly or improperly: to misallocate resources.
- monadelphous — (of stamens) united into one bundle or set by their filaments.
- narcodollars — Usually, narcodollars. money obtained through illegal drug trafficking.
- nasal demons — Recognised shorthand on the Usenet group comp.std.c for any unexpected behaviour of a C compiler on encountering an undefined construct. During a discussion on that group in early 1992, a regular remarked "When the compiler encounters [a given undefined construct] it is legal for it to make demons fly out of your nose" (the implication is that the compiler may choose any arbitrarily bizarre way to interpret the code without violating the ANSI C standard). Someone else followed up with a reference to "nasal demons", which quickly became established.
- nationalised — Simple past tense and past participle of nationalise.
- neofeudalism — A theorized contemporary rebirth of policies of governance, economy and public life reminiscent of those present in many feudal societies.
- noahide laws — the seven laws given to Noah after the Flood, which decree the establishment of a fair system of justice in society, and prohibit idolatry, blasphemy, murder, adultery and incest, robbery, and the eating of flesh taken from a living animal
- non-disabled — physically or mentally impaired, injured, or incapacitated.
- non-residual — pertaining to or constituting a residue or remainder; remaining; leftover.
- noncustodial — Not having custody of one’s children after a divorce.
- nondualistic — of, relating to, or of the nature of dualism.
- nonsteroidal — of or relating to a substance that is not a steroid but has certain similar physiological effects.
- north island — the northernmost principal island of New Zealand. 44,281 sq. mi. (114,690 sq. km).
- nucleocapsid — the nucleic acid core and surrounding capsid of a virus; the basic viral structure.
- nucleosidase — any of the class of enzymes that catalyze the hydrolysis of nucleosides.
- nucleotidase — a biochemical catalyst that facilitates the process of hydrolyzing or splitting a nucleotide and turning it into a phosphate and a nucleoside
- odontoblasts — Plural form of odontoblast.
- off-islander — a temporary or seasonal resident of an island; island visitor or tourist.
- oilseed rape — Oilseed rape is a plant with yellow flowers which is grown as a crop. Its seeds are crushed to make cooking oil.
- old guardism — political conservatism.
- old prussian — a Baltic language extinct since the 17th century. Abbreviation: OPruss.
- old slavonic — Old Church Slavonic.
- old-womanish — Sometimes Offensive. having characteristics considered typical of an old woman, as excessive fussiness or timidity.
- oldfashioned — Rare spelling of old-fashioned.
- optical disc — Also, optical disc. Also called laser disk. a grooveless disk on which digital data, as text, music, or pictures, is stored as tiny pits in the surface and is read or replayed by a laser beam scanning the surface.
- optical disk — Also, optical disc. Also called laser disk. a grooveless disk on which digital data, as text, music, or pictures, is stored as tiny pits in the surface and is read or replayed by a laser beam scanning the surface.
- outlandishly — In an outlandish manner.
- outside lane — the lane on a motorway where overtaking of other vehicles is permitted and vehicles can travel fastest
- palindromist — a word, line, verse, number, sentence, etc., reading the same backward as forward, as Madam, I'm Adam or Poor Dan is in a droop.
- paludicolous — inhabiting marshland
- papadopoulos — George, 1919–99, Greek military leader and dictator (1967–74).
- peccadilloes — a very minor or slight sin or offense; a trifling fault.
- perez galdos — Benito [buh-nee-toh;; Spanish be-nee-taw] /bəˈni toʊ;; Spanish bɛˈni tɔ/ (Show IPA), 1843–1920, Spanish journalist, dramatist, and novelist.