12-letter words containing s, e, a, u, r
- desquamatory — an obsolete surgical instrument once used for the desquamation of bones
- diégo-suarez — a seaport on N Madagascar.
- dinosaur pen — A traditional mainframe computer room complete with raised flooring, special power, its own ultra-heavy-duty air conditioning, and a side order of Halon fire extinguishers. See boa.
- disadventure — misfortune; bad luck
- disauthorize — to take authority away from (a person or organization)
- disenamoured — to disillusion; disenchant (usually used in the passive and followed by of or with): He was disenamored of working in the city.
- disgracefull — Archaic form of disgraceful.
- dispauperize — to free (a person) from the state of being a pauper
- 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.
- disturbances — Plural form of disturbance.
- disturbative — capable of disturbing
- dodecandrous — (of a plant) having twelve stamens
- double sharp — a symbol (× or ) that raises by two semitones the pitch of the following note.
- double sugar — disaccharide.
- dreadfulness — The characteristic of being dreadful.
- dreadnoughts — Plural form of dreadnought.
- dreamfulness — the quality of being full of dreams
- dromaeosaurs — Plural form of dromaeosaur.
- droseraceous — of or relating to the genus of plants Drosera
- dual-purpose — serving two functions.
- dual-release — A dual-release medicine or preparation delivers two drugs simultaneously.
- dust catcher — Informal. a knickknack or other household object that is little used.
- dust wrapper — dust jacket (sense 1)
- dutch master — one of a number of renowned and influential Dutch painters
- dysregulated — Simple past tense and past participle of dysregulate.
- earth summit — a summit conference of 100 or more earth leaders debating global environmental and development issues, specifically the summit held in Rio de Janeiro in 1992, but the term is also applied e.g. to a projected similar event in 2012
- east prussia — a former province in NE Germany: an enclave separated from Germany by the Polish Corridor; now divided between Poland and the Russian Federation. 14,283 sq. mi. (36,993 sq. km). Capital: Königsberg.
- easter bunny — rabbit: brings chocolate eggs
- edaphosaurus — Any of several dinosaurs of the family Edaphosauridae, from the Carboniferous and Permian periods, that had a distinctive dorsal sail or crest.
- encrustation — The action of encrusting or state of being encrusted.
- encumbrances — Plural form of encumbrance.
- endovascular — Within a blood vessel.
- entablatures — Plural form of entablature.
- enumerations — Plural form of enumeration.
- epicureanism — An ancient school of philosophy founded in Athens by Epicurus. The school rejected determinism and advocated hedonism (pleasure as the highest good), but of a restrained kind: mental pleasure was regarded more highly than physical, and the ultimate pleasure was held to be freedom from anxiety and mental pain, esp. that arising from needless fear of death and of the gods.
- equilaterals — Plural form of equilateral.
- equilibrants — Plural form of equilibrant.
- erythematous — Of or pertaining to erythema.
- escape route — way out: of situation
- exclusionary — restrictive or elitist
- extramusical — outside the field or scope of music
- extraneously — In an extraneous manner.
- false cirrus — a type of thick cirrus cloud spreading from the top of a cumulonimbus cloud
- false colour — colour used in a computer or photographic display to help in interpreting the image, as in the use of red to show high temperatures and blue to show low temperatures in an infrared image converter
- fast neutron — a neutron produced by nuclear fission that has lost little energy by collision; a neutron with a kinetic energy in excess of 0.1 MeV
- favouredness — the quality of or extent to which something is favoured
- fergus falls — a city in W central Minnesota.