12-letter words containing t, u, n, d, r
- groundbursts — Plural form of groundburst.
- groundsheets — Plural form of groundsheet.
- groundstroke — A stroke played after the ball has bounced, as opposed to a volley.
- guardianista — a reader of the Guardian newspaper, seen as being typically left-wing, liberal, and politically correct
- guide center — a command to a marching formation to align itself behind a guide marching at the head of the formation.
- guilt-ridden — If a person is guilt-ridden, they feel very guilty about something.
- hindquarters — the posterior end of a halved carcass of beef, lamb, etc., sectioned usually between the twelfth and thirteenth ribs.
- housetrained — Simple past tense and past participle of housetrain.
- hydronautics — (nautical) The science of the design and construction of ships, their engines, and their instrumentation.
- imprest fund — a fund of petty cash.
- in our midst — among us
- in the round — having a flat, circular surface, as a disk.
- in-and-outer — a person who is by turns in and out of a particular situation, condition, venture, investment, etc.
- 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.
- infraduction — (medicine) The turning downward of a part, especially of the eye.
- ingurgitated — Simple past tense and past participle of ingurgitate.
- instrumented — equipped with instruments to perform specified functions, as testing, measurement, or control: an instrumented railroad car.
- interdiffuse — (of two or more fluids) to diffuse mutually
- intermundane — existing in the space between worlds or heavenly bodies: intermundane space.
- intertissued — interwoven
- intramundane — existing or occurring within the material world.
- introduction — the act of introducing or the state of being introduced.
- introductive — serving or used to introduce; preliminary; beginning: an introductory course; an introductory paragraph.
- introductory — serving or used to introduce; preliminary; beginning: an introductory course; an introductory paragraph.
- jurisdiction — the right, power, or authority to administer justice by hearing and determining controversies.
- jurisprudent — versed in jurisprudence.
- k/t boundary — Cretaceous/Tertiary boundary: the time zone comprising the end of the Cretaceous and the beginning of the Tertiary periods
- launderettes — Plural form of launderette.
- laundry list — a lengthy, especially random list of items: a laundry list of hoped-for presents; a laundry list of someone's crimes.
- leatherbound — Bound in leather.
- lodging turn — a period of work or duty, esp among railway workers, which involves sleeping away from home
- manufactured — the making of goods or wares by manual labor or by machinery, especially on a large scale: the manufacture of television sets.
- miniaturised — Simple past tense and past participle of miniaturise.
- miniaturized — Simple past tense and past participle of miniaturize.
- misadventure — an instance of bad fortune; mishap.
- misconstrued — Simple past tense and past participle of misconstrue.
- mount desert — island off the S coast of Me.: resort: c. 100 sq mi (259 sq km)
- mountainward — Towards a mountain or mountains.
- multicentred — Having multiple centres.
- multinodular — of, relating to, or characterized by nodules.
- multipronged — having or composed of several prongs: a multipronged electric plug.
- muttonbirder — a person who hunts muttonbirds
- nand circuit — Computers. a circuit that is energized when any one of its inputs is not energized.
- natural food — Natural food is food which has not been processed much and has not had artificial ingredients added to it.
- nature study — the study of plants and animals, especially by amateurs.
- naughty word — a word that is considered to be rude
- nefud desert — a desert in N Saudi Arabia: areas of reddish sand. About 50,000 sq. mi. (129,500 sq. km).
- neuropeptide — any of various short-chain peptides, as endorphins, that function as neuromodulators in the nervous system and as hormones in the endocrine system.
- nitrous acid — an acid, HNO 2 , known only in solution.