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12-letter words containing s, a, r, d

  • truk islands — a group of islands in the W Pacific, in the E Caroline Islands: administratively part of the US Trust Territory of the Pacific Islands from 1947; became self-governing in 1979 as part of the Federated States of Micronesia; consists of 11 chief islands; a major Japanese naval base during World War II. Pop: 53 381 (2006). Area: 130 sq km (50 sq miles)
  • tryparsamide — a white, crystalline powder, C 8 H 10 O 4 N 2 AsNa·½H 2 , used chiefly in treating African sleeping sickness.
  • twisted pair — A twisted pair is a pair of wires that are twisted together to reduce interference.
  • ultradistant — extremely distant
  • un-scattered — distributed or occurring at widely spaced and usually irregular intervals: scattered villages; scattered showers.
  • unadvertised — to announce or praise (a product, service, etc.) in some public medium of communication in order to induce people to buy or use it: to advertise a new brand of toothpaste.
  • under arrest — to seize (a person) by legal authority or warrant; take into custody: The police arrested the burglar.
  • under canvas — If you are living and sleeping under canvas, you are living and sleeping in a tent.
  • underdrawers — an undergarment for the lower part of the body, typically covering at least part of the legs. Compare drawer (def 2).
  • underpassion — an underlying or subconscious passion
  • undersealing — the process of applying a coating of underseal to a motor vehicle
  • underservant — a servant of inferior or subordinate rank.
  • undersparred — having spars too small to carry the necessary sail.
  • understaffed — having an insufficient number of personnel: The hospital is understaffed.
  • understander — a person who understands
  • understating — to state or represent less strongly or strikingly than the facts would bear out; set forth in restrained, moderate, or weak terms: The casualty lists understate the extent of the disaster.
  • understratum — a substratum.
  • undersurface — underside; bottom surface.
  • undertakings — the act of a person who undertakes any task or responsibility.
  • underzealous — full of, characterized by, or due to zeal; ardently active, devoted, or diligent. Synonyms: enthusiastic, eager, fervid, fervent, intense, passionate, warm. Antonyms: apathetic; lackadaisical.
  • undesecrated — to divest of sacred or hallowed character or office.
  • undespairing — not despairing; not giving in to despair
  • undischarged — gun: not let off
  • undiscordant — not discordant; not disagreeing or disagreeable
  • undistracted — not distracted; concentrating
  • unforecasted — to predict (a future condition or occurrence); calculate in advance: to forecast a heavy snowfall; to forecast lower interest rates.
  • unfranchised — a privilege of a public nature conferred on an individual, group, or company by a government: a franchise to operate a bus system.
  • unmarshalled — a military officer of the highest rank, as in the French and some other armies. Compare field marshal.
  • unrestrained — not restrained or controlled; uncontrolled or uncontrollable: the unrestrained birthrate in some countries.
  • unsegregated — not segregated, especially not subject to racial division; integrated: an unsegregated community.
  • unseminaried — not having a seminary education
  • unserialized — to publish in serial form.
  • unstratified — not stratified; not arranged in strata or layers: unstratified rocks.
  • untranslated — to turn from one language into another or from a foreign language into one's own: to translate Spanish.
  • untransmuted — not transmuted; that has not been transmuted or transformed
  • untrespassed — Law. an unlawful act causing injury to the person, property, or rights of another, committed with force or violence, actual or implied. a wrongful entry upon the lands of another. the action to recover damages for such an injury.
  • 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)
  • vas deferens — the duct that transports the sperm from the epididymis to the penis.
  • vascularised — (of a tissue or embryo) to develop or extend blood vessels or other fluid-bearing vessels or ducts; become vascular.
  • vascularized — rendered vascular by the formation of new blood vessels.
  • vasodilatory — of or relating to the dilation of blood vessels
  • ventrodorsal — pertaining to the ventral and dorsal aspects of the body; extending from the ventral to the dorsal side.
  • veterans day — November 11, a legal holiday in the U.S. in commemoration of the end of World Wars I and II and in honor of veterans of the armed services.
  • via dolorosa — (initial capital letters) Christ's route to Golgotha.
  • vindicatress — a female vindicator
  • war of words — argument
  • wardian case — a type of terrarium having a top and sides of glass.
  • wash drawing — a watercolor painting executed by applying a series of monochrome washes one over the other.
  • washer-dryer — a washing machine and a clothes dryer combined in one unit.
  • waste ground — an empty piece of land
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