12-letter words containing s, o, n, a, d, l
- headlongness — Headlong quality or speed; precipitateness.
- headstrongly — In a headstrong manner.
- hold against — resent sb for sth
- hollingshead — Holinshed.
- hydrosalpinx — A distally blocked Fallopian tube filled with serous or clear fluid.
- iceland moss — an edible lichen, Cetraria islandica, of arctic regions, containing a starchlike substance used in medicine.
- idealisation — Alternative spelling of idealization.
- indianapolis — Robert (Robert Clarke) born 1928, U.S. painter of pop art.
- indisposable — Not disposable.
- iracundulous — easily angered or irritable
- isoflavonoid — (organic chemistry) Any compound, isomeric with the flavonoids, derived from 3-phenyl-1,4-benzopyrone.
- kalmar sound — a strait between SE Sweden and Öland Island. 85 miles (137 km) long; 14 miles (23 km) wide.
- landholdings — Plural form of landholding.
- landlordless — Without a landlord.
- latitudinous — having latitude, scope, range, breadth, etc., especially of ideas, interests, interpretations, or the like: a Renaissance man of latitudinous outlook.
- lay hands on — the terminal, prehensile part of the upper limb in humans and other primates, consisting of the wrist, metacarpal area, fingers, and thumb.
- lean towards — If you lean towards or lean toward a particular idea, belief, or type of behaviour, you have a tendency to think or act in a particular way.
- leonardesque — of, relating to, or suggesting Leonardo da Vinci or the style of his paintings.
- liquidations — Plural form of liquidation.
- locus standi — the right of a party to appear and be heard before a court
- 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.
- love handles — fat midriff
- 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.
- manifoldness — (mathematics) multiplicity.
- mantelboards — Plural form of mantelboard.
- mendaciously — In a lying or deceitful manner.
- 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.
- old prussian — a Baltic language extinct since the 17th century. Abbreviation: OPruss.
- old slavonic — Old Church Slavonic.