12-letter words containing s, d, a
- credit sales — sales for which the customer does not need to pay immediately
- crocodilians — Plural form of crocodilian.
- cross-dating — a method of dating objects, remains, etc, by comparison and correlation with other sites and levels
- crossbanding — a veneer border, as on furniture, with its grain at right angles to the grain of the adjacent wood
- crossgrained — Alternative form of cross-grained.
- cryptomonads — Plural form of cryptomonad.
- crystallised — Simple past tense and past participle of crystallise.
- crystallized — Crystallized fruits and sweets are covered in sugar which has been melted and then allowed to go hard.
- crystalloids — Plural form of crystalloid.
- cuddle class — a category of airline ticket in which two passengers purchase an additional seat so that they may recline together along a row of three seats
- cupid's dart — blue succory.
- cupid's-dart — blue succory.
- curanderismo — the use of folk medicine, especially as practiced by a curandero.
- custard tart — a small pastry case filled with egg custard
- custodialism — of or relating to custody.
- cyanohydrins — Plural form of cyanohydrin.
- cylinder saw — crown saw.
- d-s particle — a positively charged meson having a mass 3852 times that of the electron and a mean lifetime of approximately 4.7 X 10 -13 seconds.
- dactyloscopy — the analysis of fingerprints for the purpose of identification
- daisy cutter — a powerful shot that moves close to the ground
- daisy-cutter — Sports Slang. a batted or served ball that skims along near the ground.
- dall's sheep — a white-haired wild sheep, Ovis dalli, of mountainous regions of northwestern North America, having curved horns.
- dallis grass — a tall, succulent, forage grass (Paspalum dilatatum), with hairy spikelets, much grown in the S U.S.
- dalton's law — the principle that the pressure exerted by a mixture of gases in a fixed volume is equal to the sum of the pressures that each gas would exert if it occupied the whole volume
- damask steel — Damascus steel
- damaskeening — Present participle of damaskeen.
- damnableness — The state or quality of being damnable.
- damselfishes — Plural form of damselfish.
- dance studio — A dance studio is a place where people pay to learn how to dance.
- dancing step — balanced step.
- daniel jones — Anson [an-suh n] /ˈæn sən/ (Show IPA), 1798–1858, president of the Republic of Texas.
- daniel shays — Daniel, 1747–1825, American Revolutionary War soldier: leader of a popular insurrection (Shays' Rebellion) in Massachusetts 1786–87.
- dark glasses — Dark glasses are glasses which have dark-coloured lenses to protect your eyes in the sunshine.
- dark tourism — tourism to sites associated with tragedies, disasters, and death
- dark-skinned — (of a person or race) having skin of a dark colour
- darmstadtium — a synthetic radioactive element produced in small quantities by cold fusion in a linear accelerator. Symbol: Ds; atomic no: 110
- dasher block — a block at the end of a yard or gaff for supporting a signal or ensign halyard.
- dastardizing — Present participle of dastardize.
- dasyphyllous — (of leaves) hairy or woolly
- data exhaust — unstructured information or data that is a by-product of the online activities of Internet users: Collecting and analyzing data exhaust can provide valuable insight into the purchasing habits of consumers.
- data segment — (memory) The range of memory locations where the initialised data of a program produced by a Unix linker is located. Executable code is located in the code segment and uninitialised data in the bss segment.
- date squares — a sweet made of a date filling on an oatmeal base with a crumble topping, cut into squares
- daughterless — Without a daughter.
- dauntingness — to overcome with fear; intimidate: to daunt one's adversaries.
- david souter — David H. born 1939, U.S. jurist: associate justice of the U.S. Supreme Court 1990–2009.
- davis strait — a strait between Baffin Island, in Canada, and Greenland
- dawson creek — a town in W Canada, in NE British Columbia: SE terminus of the Alaska Highway. Pop: 10 754 (2001)
- day hospital — part of a hospital that offers therapeutic services, where patients usually attend all day but go home or to a hospital ward at night
- de-accession — to remove (an item) from a museum or library collection preparatory to selling it
- de-designate — to mark or point out; indicate; show; specify.