12-letter words containing u, n, d, a, r
- clairaudient — the power to hear sounds said to exist beyond the reach of ordinary experience or capacity, as the voices of the dead.
- cloud banner — banner cloud.
- columnarized — columnar (def 3).
- comes around — to approach or move toward a particular person or place: Come here. Don't come any closer!
- conduct mark — (in school) a mark for behaviour
- conductorial — relating to a conductor
- configurated — to give a configuration, form, or design to.
- conquistador — The conquistadors were the sixteenth-century Spanish conquerors of Central and South America.
- contractured — a shortening or distortion of muscular or connective tissue due to spasm, scar, or paralysis of the antagonist of the contracting muscle.
- counter hand — a person who works behind a counter; assistant
- counter-raid — a sudden assault or attack, as upon something to be seized or suppressed: a police raid on a gambling ring.
- counteracted — Simple past tense and past participle of counteract.
- countermands — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of countermand.
- counterplead — to plead the opposite of
- countertrade — international trade in which payment is made in goods rather than currency
- country road — a road in the country
- county board — the governing body of a U.S. county consisting usually of three or more elected members.
- craniocaudal — (anatomy) From the cranial to the caudal end of a structure.
- crater mound — huge, circular depression in central Ariz., believed to have been made by a meteorite: depth, 600 ft (183 m); diameter, 0.75 mi (1.2 km)
- curanderismo — the use of folk medicine, especially as practiced by a curandero.
- d'anjou pear — Anjou pear
- dame fortune — the personification of fortune as a woman
- dandrufflike — Resembling or characteristic of dandruff.
- danube river — a river in central and SE Europe, flowing E from southern Germany to the Black Sea. 1725 miles (2775 km) long.
- dark current — the residual current produced by a photoelectric device when not illuminated
- darwin tulip — a class of tulips having a tall stem and broad, bright-colored flowers with a flat, rectangular base.
- daughterling — a small daughter
- david turner — (person) Professor David A Turner. One of the pioneers of functional languages. He designed several languages, including, SASL (1976), KRC (1981), and Miranda, many of which were implemented using combinators and the S-K reduction machine which he defined. He coined the name "ZF expression" for the list comprehension. He worked at UKC and set up a company, Research Software Limited to market Miranda.
- day in court — an opportunity to present one's side of a matter, as in a court of law
- decrustation — the act of removing a crust
- defraudation — (obsolete) The act of defrauding; a taking by fraud.
- demand curve — A demand curve is a graph showing the price of an item and the amount consumers want to buy.
- denaturalize — to deprive of nationality
- denaturation — to deprive (something) of its natural character, properties, etc.
- dental nurse — a dentist's assistant, esp one who passes instruments, mixes fillings, etc
- denuclearize — to deprive (a country, state, etc) of nuclear weapons
- denunciatory — characterized by or given to denunciation.
- deregulating — Present participle of deregulate.
- deregulation — Deregulation is the removal of controls and restrictions in a particular area of business or trade.
- desaturation — the addition of white light to a pure colour to produce a paler less saturated colour
- deuteranopia — a form of colour blindness in which there is a tendency to confuse blues and greens, and greens and reds, and in which sensitivity to green is reduced
- dibenzofuran — an organic compound (C12H8O) composed of two benzene rings fused to a central furan ring
- dinosaur pen — A traditional mainframe computer room complete with raised flooring, special power, its own ultra-heavy-duty air conditioning, and a side order of Halon fire extinguishers. See boa.
- disadventure — misfortune; bad luck
- discouraging — to deprive of courage, hope, or confidence; dishearten; dispirit.
- disenamoured — to disillusion; disenchant (usually used in the passive and followed by of or with): He was disenamored of working in the city.
- disinvoltura — Self-assurance; lack of constraint.
- disturbances — Plural form of disturbance.
- dodecandrous — (of a plant) having twelve stamens
- dolphinarium — An aquarium in which dolphins are kept and trained for public entertainment.