12-letter words containing s, t, a, u, r, e
- daisy-cutter — Sports Slang. a batted or served ball that skims along near the ground.
- date squares — a sweet made of a date filling on an oatmeal base with a crumble topping, cut into squares
- daughterless — Without a daughter.
- david souter — David H. born 1939, U.S. jurist: associate justice of the U.S. Supreme Court 1990–2009.
- decrustation — the act of removing a crust
- dental nurse — a dentist's assistant, esp one who passes instruments, mixes fillings, etc
- desaturation — the addition of white light to a pure colour to produce a paler less saturated colour
- desquamatory — an obsolete surgical instrument once used for the desquamation of bones
- disadventure — misfortune; bad luck
- disauthorize — to take authority away from (a person or organization)
- disreputable — not reputable; having a bad reputation: a disreputable barroom.
- disreputably — In a disreputable manner.
- disturbances — Plural form of disturbance.
- disturbative — capable of disturbing
- dreadnoughts — Plural form of dreadnought.
- 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
- encrustation — The action of encrusting or state of being encrusted.
- entablatures — Plural form of entablature.
- enumerations — Plural form of enumeration.
- equilaterals — Plural form of equilateral.
- equilibrants — Plural form of equilibrant.
- erythematous — Of or pertaining to erythema.
- escape route — way out: of situation
- extramusical — outside the field or scope of music
- extraneously — In an extraneous manner.
- 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
- figure skate — a shoe skate used in figure skating, especially one having a blade shorter than that of a racing skate, usually not extending beyond the toe or heel, and with notches or sawteeth on the curved forward edge.
- figure-skate — to take part in figure skating
- flatterously — in a flatterous manner
- flusteration — (colloquial, dated) The act of flustering, or the state of being flustered.
- flutterballs — Plural form of flutterball.
- forequarters — the forward end of half of a carcass, as of beef or lamb.
- frankfurters — Plural form of frankfurter.
- fructosamine — (organic compound) A chemical compound that can be considered the result of a reaction between fructose and ammonia or an amine (with a molecule of water being released).
- fruit basket — a basket containing a variety of fruits sent as a gift
- frustratedly — In a frustrated manner.
- fused quartz — glass made entirely from quartz: a form of silica glass.
- gaithersburg — a town in central Maryland.
- gear cluster — an assembly of gears permanently attached to a shaft
- gesticulator — to make or use gestures, especially in an animated or excited manner with or instead of speech.
- glass cutter — a tool for cutting glass.
- goddaughters — Plural form of goddaughter.
- gracefullest — Superlative form of graceful.
- graduateship — the time or condition of being a graduate