0%

12-letter words containing s, l, e, d

  • editorialist — an article in a newspaper or other periodical or on a website presenting the opinion of the publisher, writer, or editor.
  • edwardsville — a town in SW Illinois.
  • elastic band — rubber strip for binding items together
  • elderberries — Plural form of elderberry.
  • electrosonde — a sonde that measures the electric potential in the atmosphere
  • ellis island — small, government-owned island in Upper New York Bay: former (1892-1943) examination center for immigrants seeking to enter the U.S.: 27 acres (11 hectares)
  • elucidations — Plural form of elucidation.
  • emerald isle — Ireland
  • encapsulated — Simple past tense and past participle of encapsulate.
  • end of steel — a point up to which railway tracks have been laid
  • endless belt — a continuous belt used in various applications, particularly to run over wheels
  • endless loop — infinite loop
  • endogenously — In an endogenous manner.
  • endonuclease — An enzyme that cleaves a polynucleotide chain by separating nucleotides other than the two end ones.
  • endophyllous — enclosed in a leaf or sheath
  • endoskeletal — (anatomy) Of or pertaining to an internal skeleton, usually of bone (an endoskeleton).
  • endoskeleton — An internal skeleton, such as the bony or cartilaginous skeleton of vertebrates.
  • endovascular — Within a blood vessel.
  • english bond — a bond used in brickwork that has a course of headers alternating with a course of stretchers
  • enlargedness — the state of being enlarged
  • enlisted man — military: male soldier
  • episodically — In an episodic manner; in episodes.
  • expostulated — Simple past tense and past participle of expostulate.
  • externalised — Simple past tense and past participle of externalise.
  • failed state — a nation in which the government has lost political authority and control and is unable to fulfill the basic responsibilities of a sovereign state.
  • false friend — a word or expression in one language that, because it resembles one in another language, is often wrongly taken to have the same meaning, for example, the French agenda which means diary, not agenda
  • false indigo — any of several North American shrubs belonging to the genus Amorpha, of the legume family, especially A. fruticosa, having compound leaves with pinnate leaflets and long, dense clusters of purplish flowers.
  • false mildew — downy mildew (def 1).
  • false-mildew — Also called false mildew. any fungus of the family Peronosporaceae, causing many plant diseases and producing a white, downy mass of conidiophores, usually on the under surface of the leaves of the host plant.
  • falsehearted — Alternative spelling of false-hearted.
  • familiarised — Simple past tense and past participle of familiarise.
  • farsightedly — In a farsighted manner.
  • fasciculated — Grouped in a fascicle; fascicled.
  • fascinatedly — In a fascinated manner; with fascination.
  • federal case — a matter that falls within the jurisdiction of a federal court or a federal law-enforcement agency.
  • federalistic — an advocate of federalism.
  • feldspathoid — Also, feldspathoidal. of or relating to a group of minerals similar in chemical composition to certain feldspars except for a lower silica content.
  • feldspathose — (mineralogy) Containing feldspar.
  • fellowshiped — Simple past tense and past participle of fellowship.
  • fiddlesticks — anything; a bit: I don't care a fiddlestick for what they say.
  • fidel castro — Cipriano [sip-ree-ah-noh;; Spanish see-pree-ah-naw] /ˌsɪp riˈɑ noʊ;; Spanish ˌsi priˈɑ nɔ/ (Show IPA), 1858?–1924, Venezuelan military and political leader: president 1901–08; exiled 1908.
  • field circus — A derogatory pun on "field service". The field service organisation of any hardware manufacturer, but especially DEC. There is an entire genre of jokes about DEC field circus engineers: Q: How can you recognise a DEC field circus engineer with a flat tire? A: He's changing one tire at a time to see which one is flat. Q: How can you recognise a DEC field circus engineer who is out of gas? A: He's changing one tire at a time to see which one is flat. See Easter egging for additional insight on these jokes. There is also the "Field Circus Cheer" (from the plan file for DEC on MIT-AI): Maynard! Maynard! Don't mess with us! We're mean and we're tough! If you get us confused We'll screw up your stuff. (DEC's service HQ is located in Maynard, Massachusetts).
  • field sports — sports carried on in the open countryside, such as hunting, shooting, or fishing
  • filibustered — Simple past tense and past participle of filibuster.
  • find oneself — to come upon by chance; meet with: He found a nickel in the street.
  • fish-bellied — (of a beam or rail) having a convex underside.
  • flabergasted — Simple past tense and past participle of flabergast.
  • flash powder — powder that could be ignited to provide a bright light to take a photograph
  • flat-chested — If you describe a woman as flat-chested, you mean that she has small breasts.
  • flemish bond — a brickwork bond having alternate stretchers and headers in each course, each header being centered above and below a stretcher.
Was this page helpful?
Yes No
Thank you for your feedback! Tell your friends about this page
Tell us why?