12-letter words containing s, o, u, n, d
- discongruity — incongruity.
- discontinued — to put an end to; stop; terminate: to discontinue nuclear testing.
- discontinues — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of discontinue.
- discountable — That can be discounted (in all senses).
- discouraging — to deprive of courage, hope, or confidence; dishearten; dispirit.
- discussional — an act or instance of discussing; consideration or examination by argument, comment, etc., especially to explore solutions; informal debate.
- disenamoured — to disillusion; disenchant (usually used in the passive and followed by of or with): He was disenamored of working in the city.
- dishonouring — Present participle of dishonour.
- disillusions — Plural form of disillusion.
- disingenuous — lacking in frankness, candor, or sincerity; falsely or hypocritically ingenuous; insincere: Her excuse was rather disingenuous.
- disinvoltura — Self-assurance; lack of constraint.
- disjunctions — Plural form of disjunction.
- disputations — Plural form of disputation.
- disquisition — a formal discourse or treatise in which a subject is examined and discussed; dissertation.
- dissolutions — Plural form of dissolution.
- distribution — an act or instance of distributing.
- do one's nut — to be extremely angry; go into a rage
- dockominiums — Plural form of dockominium.
- dodecagynous — (of a plant) having eleven or twelve pistils
- dodecandrous — (of a plant) having twelve stamens
- dolorousness — The quality of being dolorous.
- doubtfulness — of uncertain outcome or result.
- dreadnoughts — Plural form of dreadnought.
- droughtiness — Dryness of the weather; lack of rain.
- duck-shoving — the evasion of responsibility by someone
- dulcet tones — People often use the expression dulcet tones to refer to someone's voice.
- duplications — Plural form of duplication.
- dust counter — any instrument used to measure the size and number of dust particles per unit volume in the atmosphere.
- dysfunctions — Plural form of dysfunction.
- echo sounder — a sonar instrument that uses echolocation to measure depths under water.
- educationese — the jargon associated with the field of education.
- educationist — a specialist in the theory and methods of education.
- egads button — a switch that triggers the destruction in flight of a malfunctioning missile.
- elucidations — Plural form of elucidation.
- 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
- endovascular — Within a blood vessel.
- eunuchoidism — A syndrome in males with a lack of sex characteristics due to lack of proper male sex hormones.
- favouredness — the quality of or extent to which something is favoured
- flindermouse — (obsolete) A bat (the mammal).
- foundry sand — silica-based sand mixed with clay, oil, etc, to improve its cohesive strength, used in moulding
- fourdriniers — Plural form of fourdrinier.
- fourfoldness — the quality of consisting of four parts
- frondiferous — Producing fronds.
- fundusectomy — (surgery) The surgical removal of the fundus of an organ, such as the uterus or the stomach.
- glandiferous — bearing nuts or acorns
- golden syrup — treacle (def 2b).
- grand rounds — a formal hospital meeting at which physicians discuss interesting medical cases.
- ground frost — the condition resulting from a temperature reading of 0°C or below on a thermometer in contact with a grass surface