12-letter words containing s, u, r, d, i
- jurisdiction — the right, power, or authority to administer justice by hearing and determining controversies.
- jurisdictive — Jurisdictional.
- jurisprudent — versed in jurisprudence.
- kindred soul — like-minded person
- laser-guided — (of a missile, etc) guided with the use of a laser beam
- laundry list — a lengthy, especially random list of items: a laundry list of hoped-for presents; a laundry list of someone's crimes.
- ligniperdous — (of insects) wood-destroying
- liquidambars — Plural form of liquidambar.
- long residue — Long residue is the heaviest fraction from the crude oil distillation process.
- malnourished — poorly or improperly nourished; suffering from malnutrition: thin, malnourished victims of the famine.
- masquerading — a party, dance, or other festive gathering of persons wearing masks and other disguises, and often elegant, historical, or fantastic costumes.
- media circus — excessive news coverage
- medium strip — median strip.
- middlebuster — Southern U.S. lister1 (def 1).
- miniaturised — Simple past tense and past participle of miniaturise.
- misadventure — an instance of bad fortune; mishap.
- misconstrued — Simple past tense and past participle of misconstrue.
- misdemeanour — Law. a criminal offense defined as less serious than a felony.
- multistoried — Multi-storey.
- musical ride — a display by riders on horseback of manoeuvres to music, esp by members of the Royal Canadian Mounted Police
- neurodiverse — Exhibiting neurodiversity; varying in mental configuration.
- nitrous acid — an acid, HNO 2 , known only in solution.
- non-industry — the aggregate of manufacturing or technically productive enterprises in a particular field, often named after its principal product: the automobile industry; the steel industry.
- non-residual — pertaining to or constituting a residue or remainder; remaining; leftover.
- nuri as-said — 1888–1958, Iraqi soldier and statesman: prime minister of Iraq 14 times between 1930 and 1958: he died during a military coup
- nurse's aide — a person who assists professional nurses, as in a hospital, by performing such routine tasks as making beds and serving meals.
- nurserymaids — Plural form of nurserymaid.
- oil industry — petroleum-processing business
- old guardism — political conservatism.
- old prussian — a Baltic language extinct since the 17th century. Abbreviation: OPruss.
- on your side — If something is on your side or if you have it on your side, it helps you when you are trying to achieve something.
- orchidaceous — belonging to the plant family Orchidaceae.
- outside work — work done off the premises of a business
- outsider art — art produced by untutored artists working by themselves and for themselves
- outsiderness — The state or condition of being an outsider.
- outspreading — Present participle of outspread.
- overdiscount — to discount excessively
- perfidiously — deliberately faithless; treacherous; deceitful: a perfidious lover.
- pfund series — a series of lines in the infrared spectrum of hydrogen.
- picture desk — the department at a magazine or newspaper publisher, that deals with photographs for the paper or magazine
- picture disc — a phonograph record with a picture on the vinyl.
- pig industry — the people and activities involved in making pork products
- praseodymium — a rare-earth, metallic, trivalent element, named from its green salts. Symbol: Pr; atomic weight: 140.91; atomic number: 59; specific gravity: 6.77 at 20°C.
- pre-discount — to deduct a certain amount from (a bill, charge, etc.): All bills that are paid promptly will be discounted at two percent.
- prediscourse — communication of thought by words; talk; conversation: earnest and intelligent discourse.
- prepublished — to publish in advance of a scheduled date.
- pridefulness — a high or inordinate opinion of one's own dignity, importance, merit, or superiority, whether as cherished in the mind or as displayed in bearing, conduct, etc.
- prison guard — an officer in charge of prisoners in a jail
- prodigiously — extraordinary in size, amount, extent, degree, force, etc.: a prodigious research grant.
- proditorious — traitorous