allsorts
/ˈɔːlsɔːts/noun
1 Informal. All kinds or varieties of things; miscellaneous items.
2A general mixture; a miscellaneous collection; a salmagundi.
3A mixture of sweets; especially (frequently more fully liquorice allsorts) one of typically black-and-white or brightly coloured sweets containing liquorice. Also in singular: a sweet of this type.
Origin
Late 18th century; earliest use found in Ann Radcliffe (1764–1823), novelist. From all + the plural of sort.
- destructive distillation
- destructively
- destructiveness
- destructor
- desuetude
- desulfurize
- desulphurise
- desulphurization
- desulphurize
- desulphurizer
- desultorily
- desultoriness
- desultory
- desuperheater
- desynchronise
- desynchronization
- desynchronize
- Det.
- detach
- detachability
- detachable
- detached
- detachedly
- detached retina
- detachment