12-letter words containing a, c, e, n, d
- fianchettoed — Simple past tense and past participle of fianchetto.
- forked chain — branched chain.
- fractionated — Simple past tense and past participle of fractionate.
- french bread — a yeast-raised bread made of dough containing water and distinguished by its thick, well-browned crust, usually made in long, slender, tapered loaves. Compare baguette (def 3).
- french broad — a river in W North Carolina and E Tennessee, flowing N and NW to join the Holston River at Knoxville to form the Tennessee River. 210 miles (338 km) long.
- french drain — a drainage trench filled to ground level with fragments of brick, rock, etc.
- french india — the five small former French territories in India, including Chandernagor, Karikal, Pondicherry, and Yanaon on the E coast, and Mahé on the W coast.
- french sudan — former name of Mali.
- gandy dancer — a member of a railroad section gang that lays or maintains track.
- garden cress — a peppergrass, Lepidium sativum, used as a salad vegetable.
- gas cylinder — container for storing gas
- genetic load — the extent to which a population deviates from the theoretically fittest genetic constitution.
- glycerinated — to impregnate with glycerin.
- go-go dancer — an entertainer who performs popular dances on a stage or platform for the patrons of a discotheque or nightclub.
- grand coulee — a dry canyon in central Washington: cut by the Columbia River in the glacial period. 52 miles (84 km) long; over 400 feet (120 meters) deep.
- grand siècle — the 17th century in French art and literature, esp the classical period of Louis XIV
- grecian bend — (especially in the late 19th century) a posture or walk, often considered fashionable, in which the body is bent forward from the waist.
- ground cable — a heavy chain for securing permanent floating moorings, as a number of mooring buoys.
- ground cedar — a ground pine, Lycopodium complanatum.
- haemodynamic — Alternative spelling of hemodynamic.
- half cadence — a cadence ending with dominant harmony.
- hallucinated — Simple past tense and past participle of hallucinate.
- hamming code — (algorithm) Extra, redundant bits added to stored or transmitted data for the purposes of error detection and correction. Named after the mathematician Richard Hamming, Hamming codes greatly improve the reliability of data, e.g. from distant space probes, where it is impractical, because of the long transmission delay, to correct errors by requesting retransmission.
- handicapable — (politically correct) disabled or handicapped.
- handicappeds — Plural form of handicapped.
- handicappers — Plural form of handicapper.
- handicrafter — One who engages in handicrafts.
- handkerchief — a small piece of linen, silk, or other fabric, usually square, and used especially for wiping one's nose, eyes, face, etc., or for decorative purposes.
- handstitched — Stitched by hand.
- hard science — any of the natural or physical sciences, as chemistry, biology, physics, or astronomy, in which aspects of the universe are investigated by means of hypotheses and experiments.
- head balance — headstand.
- hemodynamics — the branch of physiology dealing with the forces involved in the circulation of the blood.
- henceforward — from now on; from this point forward.
- hendecagonal — (geometry) Having eleven sides an angles; similar to a hendecagon.
- hexadecanoic — Of or pertaining to hexadecanoic acid or its derivatives.
- hiding place — location where sb is concealed
- huffman code — Huffman coding
- human comedy — French La Comédie Humaine. a collected edition of tales and novels in 17 volumes (1842–48) by Honoré de Balzac.
- hydnocarpate — a salt or ester of hydnocarpic acid.
- hyperdynamic — (physiology) Describing an increase in both blood pressure and pulse pressure.
- iceland moss — an edible lichen, Cetraria islandica, of arctic regions, containing a starchlike substance used in medicine.
- iceland spar — a transparent variety of calcite that is double-refracting and is used as a polarizer.
- icosahedrons — Plural form of icosahedron.
- in duplicate — in two copies, times two
- in the cards — a usually rectangular piece of stiff paper, thin pasteboard, or plastic for various uses, as to write information on or printed as a means of identifying the holder: a 3″ × 5″ file card; a membership card.
- inadequacies — Plural form of inadequacy.
- inadvertence — the quality or condition of being inadvertent; heedlessness.
- inadvertency — inadvertence.
- incandescent — (of light) produced by incandescence.
- incapsulated — Simple past tense and past participle of incapsulate.