12-letter words containing s, o, n, a, d
- malnourished — poorly or improperly nourished; suffering from malnutrition: thin, malnourished victims of the famine.
- manifoldness — (mathematics) multiplicity.
- mansard-roof — Also called mansard roof. a hip roof, each face of which has a steeper lower part and a shallower upper part. Compare French roof.
- mantelboards — Plural form of mantelboard.
- mastoid bone — a large, bony prominence on the base of the skull behind the ear, containing air spaces that connect with the middle ear cavity.
- media person — a person who works in the mass media
- mendaciously — In a lying or deceitful manner.
- mesoappendix — the mesentery of the vermiform appendix.
- misdemeanors — Plural form of misdemeanor.
- misdemeanour — Law. a criminal offense defined as less serious than a felony.
- misdiagnosed — Simple past tense and past participle of misdiagnose.
- misdiagnoses — to make an incorrect diagnosis.
- misdiagnosis — an incorrect diagnosis.
- miseducation — to educate improperly.
- misfashioned — Simple past tense and past participle of misfashion.
- moderateness — The quality of being moderate.
- monadelphous — (of stamens) united into one bundle or set by their filaments.
- monohydrates — Plural form of monohydrate.
- morris dance — a rural folk dance of north English origin, performed in costume traditionally by men who originally represented characters of the Robin Hood legend, especially in May Day festivities.
- mountainside — The sloping surface of a mountain.
- mouse around — To explore public portions of a large system, especially a network such as Internet via FTP or TELNET, looking for interesting stuff to snarf.
- 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.
- newfashioned — Alternative form of new-fashioned.
- newspaperdom — The realm or sphere of newspaper publishing or journalism.
- nitrous acid — an acid, HNO 2 , known only in solution.
- 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 standard — not standard.
- non-disabled — physically or mentally impaired, injured, or incapacitated.
- non-residual — pertaining to or constituting a residue or remainder; remaining; leftover.
- non-standard — not standard.
- nonadmission — Lack or absence of admission; failure to admit.
- nonbroadcast — not broadcast to a wide audience, supplied on a hidden or private network
- noncustodial — Not having custody of one’s children after a divorce.
- nondualistic — of, relating to, or of the nature of dualism.
- nonhazardous — Not hazardous; safe.
- nonstandards — Plural form of nonstandard.
- nonsteroidal — of or relating to a substance that is not a steroid but has certain similar physiological effects.
- nootka sound — an inlet of the Pacific Ocean, inside Nootka Island on the W coast of Vancouver Island, SW British Columbia, Canada.
- normed space — any vector space on which a norm is defined.
- north island — the northernmost principal island of New Zealand. 44,281 sq. mi. (114,690 sq. km).
- noticeboards — Plural form of noticeboard.
- 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
- obdurateness — The characteristic of being obdurate; stubbornness.
- odd-man rush — an attacking move when the defence is outnumbered by the opposing team
- odontoblasts — Plural form of odontoblast.