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  • adjective having twelve sides

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Examples

  • My shopping list includes two pillows shaped like twelve-sided dice, Greg Egan's Oceanic, a Viper Pilot Helmet, an accurate set of blueprints for Moonbase Alpha, and a chain-mail loin cloth.

    7 Reasons to Attend Worldcon 2009

  • Another way to think of it is as the twelve-sided die to your standard six.

    Open source design and the OpenOfficeMouse | FactoryCity 2009

  • First, the red Calantina dice, twelve-sided wooden curiosities from Estwilde.

    Virginity Sydney Kilgore 2010

  • “Each one is a perfect twelve-sided polyhedron, yet less than half a micron in diameter.”

    Delta Anomaly Rick Barba 2010

  • “Each one is a perfect twelve-sided polyhedron, yet less than half a micron in diameter.”

    Delta Anomaly Rick Barba 2010

  • There were dice of every size and description: some twelve-sided, some shaped like pyramids, and some ordinary cubical ones made of odd materials.

    THE FORBIDDEN GAME L.J. SMITH 2010

  • There were dice of every size and description: some twelve-sided, some shaped like pyramids, and some ordinary cubical ones made of odd materials.

    THE FORBIDDEN GAME L.J. SMITH 2010

  • “Each one is a perfect twelve-sided polyhedron, yet less than half a micron in diameter.”

    Delta Anomaly Rick Barba 2010

  • My father is in the parlor, standing by a small, round, twelve-sided table under a window.

    Pies & Prejudice Heather Vogel Frederick 2010

  • I suddenly have an urge to locate my twelve-sided die and roll up some hit points.

    Chuck Klosterman on Film and Television Chuck Klosterman 2009

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