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12-letter words containing u, n, d, r, o

  • jurisdiction — the right, power, or authority to administer justice by hearing and determining controversies.
  • k/t boundary — Cretaceous/Tertiary boundary: the time zone comprising the end of the Cretaceous and the beginning of the Tertiary periods
  • kalmar sound — a strait between SE Sweden and Öland Island. 85 miles (137 km) long; 14 miles (23 km) wide.
  • kindred soul — like-minded person
  • kluge around — (jargon)   To avoid a bug or difficult condition by inserting a kluge. Compare workaround.
  • knock around — to strike a sounding blow with the fist, knuckles, or anything hard, especially on a door, window, or the like, as in seeking admittance, calling attention, or giving a signal: to knock on the door before entering.
  • laundry room — utility room
  • laundrywoman — laundress.
  • laundrywomen — Plural form of laundrywoman.
  • leatherbound — Bound in leather.
  • leonardesque — of, relating to, or suggesting Leonardo da Vinci or the style of his paintings.
  • ligniperdous — (of insects) wood-destroying
  • linux loader — (operating system)   (LILO) A boot loader for Linux. LILO does not depend on a specific file system, it can boot Linux kernel images from floppy disks and hard disks and can even boot other operating systems. One of up to sixteen differernt images can be selected at boot time. Various parameters, such as the root device, can be set independently for each kernel. LILO can even be used as the master boot record.
  • liopleurodon — Any of the genus Liopleurodon of large carnivorous marine plesiosaurs, apex predators of the Middle to Late Jurassic seas that covered Europe.
  • lodging turn — a period of work or duty, esp among railway workers, which involves sleeping away from home
  • long residue — Long residue is the heaviest fraction from the crude oil distillation process.
  • lunar module — the portion of the Apollo spacecraft in which two astronauts landed on the moon's surface and then returned to the orbiting command module. Abbreviation: LM.
  • malnourished — poorly or improperly nourished; suffering from malnutrition: thin, malnourished victims of the famine.
  • misconstrued — Simple past tense and past participle of misconstrue.
  • misdemeanour — Law. a criminal offense defined as less serious than a felony.
  • modularizing — to form or organize into modules, as for flexibility.
  • monofluoride — (chemistry) any fluoride containing a single fluorine atom in each molecule.
  • mooch around — If you mooch around or mooch about a place, you move around there slowly with no particular purpose.
  • mount desert — island off the S coast of Me.: resort: c. 100 sq mi (259 sq km)
  • mountainward — Towards a mountain or mountains.
  • mouse around — To explore public portions of a large system, especially a network such as Internet via FTP or TELNET, looking for interesting stuff to snarf.
  • 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
  • natural food — Natural food is food which has not been processed much and has not had artificial ingredients added to it.
  • naughty word — a word that is considered to be rude
  • neo-freudian — of or relating to a group of psychoanalytic thinkers whose modifications of Freudian analytic theory place increased emphasis on ego functions and interpersonal relationships.
  • neurodiverse — Exhibiting neurodiversity; varying in mental configuration.
  • 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.
  • non-graduate — a person who has received a degree or diploma on completing a course of study, as in a university, college, or school.
  • 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.
  • nonconductor — a substance that does not readily conduct heat, sound, or electricity.
  • nonhazardous — Not hazardous; safe.
  • nonproducing — that does not produce
  • nonredundant — not redundant
  • nonregulated — Alternative spelling of non-regulated.
  • norton sound — an arm of the Bering Sea on the W coast of Alaska, S of the Seward Peninsula. About 150 miles (240 km) long and 125 miles (200 km) wide.
  • nuevo laredo — a city in NE Mexico, on the Rio Grande opposite Laredo, Texas.
  • obdurateness — The characteristic of being obdurate; stubbornness.
  • odd-man rush — an attacking move when the defence is outnumbered by the opposing team
  • oil industry — petroleum-processing business
  • old prussian — a Baltic language extinct since the 17th century. Abbreviation: OPruss.
  • ombudsperson — ombudsman (def 2).
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