12-letter words containing s, u, d, y
- dusty miller — Botany. any of several composite plants, as Centaurea cineraria, Senecio cineraria, or the beach wormwood, having pinnate leaves covered with whitish pubescence. rose campion.
- duty chemist — a dispensing chemist's that is open to the public for a specific period when other chemists are closed
- dysfluencies — disfluency.
- dysfunctions — Plural form of dysfunction.
- dysregulated — Simple past tense and past participle of dysregulate.
- endogenously — In an endogenous manner.
- endophyllous — enclosed in a leaf or sheath
- fastidiously — excessively particular, critical, or demanding; hard to please: a fastidious eater.
- fleur-de-lys — fleur-de-lis (defs 1, 2).
- flux density — the magnetic, radiant, or electric flux per unit of cross-sectional area.
- flying squad — a trained, mobile group of police officers, business executives, labor officials, or the like, capable of performing specialized tasks whenever or wherever sent, often for use in emergencies.
- food subsidy — a financial aid supplied by a government, as to industry, farmers, or consumers, in order to make low-cost food available to the poor
- foundry sand — silica-based sand mixed with clay, oil, etc, to improve its cohesive strength, used in moulding
- frustratedly — In a frustrated manner.
- fundusectomy — (surgery) The surgical removal of the fundus of an organ, such as the uterus or the stomach.
- golden syrup — treacle (def 2b).
- great sunday — Easter Sunday.
- groundlessly — In a groundless manner; without justification.
- gypsum board — wallboard composed primarily of gypsum and often used as sheathing.
- homodynamous — (biology) Pertaining to, or involving, homodynamy.
- horrendously — shockingly dreadful; horrible: a horrendous crime.
- hundred days — the period from March 20 to June 28, 1815, between the arrival of Napoleon in Paris, after his escape from Elba, and his abdication after the battle of Waterloo.
- hydromedusae — Irregular plural form of hydromedusa.
- hydronautics — (nautical) The science of the design and construction of ships, their engines, and their instrumentation.
- hydrophilous — pollinated by the agency of water.
- hydrosulfate — a salt formed by the direct union of sulfuric acid with an organic base, especially an alkaloid, and usually more soluble than the base.
- hydrosulfide — a compound containing the univalent group –HS.
- hydrosulfite — hyposulfite (def 1).
- idolatrously — In an idolatrous manner.
- indecorously — not decorous; violating generally accepted standards of good taste or propriety; unseemly.
- indigenously — originating in and characteristic of a particular region or country; native (often followed by to): the plants indigenous to Canada; the indigenous peoples of southern Africa.
- indisputably — not disputable or deniable; uncontestable. indisputable evidence.
- indissolubly — not dissoluble; incapable of being dissolved, decomposed, undone, or destroyed.
- industrially — of, pertaining to, of the nature of, or resulting from industry: industrial production; industrial waste.
- industrywide — from, covering, or affecting an entire industry: industrywide profits.
- inquiry desk — a section of an office, business etc, which deals with inquiries nor requests for information
- jeopardously — with risk or peril
- lady's-thumb — a smartweed, Polygonum persicaria, of the buckwheat family, having pink or purplish flowers and lance-shaped leaves with a spot resembling a thumbprint.
- laundry list — a lengthy, especially random list of items: a laundry list of hoped-for presents; a laundry list of someone's crimes.
- libidinously — In a libidinous manner.
- lundy's lane — a road near Niagara Falls, in Ontario, Canada: battle between the British and Americans in 1814.
- luxury goods — expensive non-essential items
- malodorously — With a bad smell.
- mendaciously — In a lying or deceitful manner.
- middy blouse — any of various loose blouses with a sailor collar, often extending below the waistline to terminate in a broad band or fold, as worn by sailors, women, or children.
- motion study — time and motion study.
- muscovy duck — a large, crested, wild duck, Cairina moschata, of tropical America, that has been widely domesticated.
- mushy-headed — inadequately thought out: mushyheaded ideas.
- myxedematous — a condition characterized by thickening of the skin, blunting of the senses and intellect, and labored speech, associated with hypothyroidism.
- nature study — the study of plants and animals, especially by amateurs.