12-letter words containing a, d, r, e, s
- imperialised — Simple past tense and past participle of imperialise.
- impersonated — to assume the character or appearance of; pretend to be: He was arrested for impersonating a police officer.
- in readiness — prepared and waiting
- 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.
- incendiaries — Plural form of incendiary.
- incendiarism — the act or practice of an arsonist; malicious burning.
- indian cress — a nasturtium, Tropaeolum majus, of South America, having red-spotted or red-striped, yellow-orange flowers, the young flower buds and fruits being used as seasoning.
- inside track — the inner, or shorter, track of a racecourse.
- interdentals — Plural form of interdental.
- internalised — Simple past tense and past participle of internalise.
- interstadial — a period of temporary retreat of ice during a glacial stage; a warming period.
- irregardless — regardless.
- iskander bey — Scanderbeg.
- isodiametric — having equal diameters or axes.
- james edward — Stuart, James Francis Edward.
- jameson raid — an expedition into the Transvaal in 1895 led by Sir Leander Starr Jameson (1853–1917) in an unsuccessful attempt to topple its Boer regime
- jeopardising — Present participle of jeopardise.
- jeopardously — with risk or peril
- judicatories — Plural form of judicatory.
- kavir desert — Dasht-e-Kavir.
- keyboardists — Plural form of keyboardist.
- ladies' room — a public lavatory for women.
- lady-slipper — cypripedium
- land measure — any system of measurement for measuring land.
- land plaster — finely ground gypsum, used chiefly as a fertilizer.
- landgrabbers — Plural form of landgrabber.
- landgravines — Plural form of landgravine.
- landlordless — Without a landlord.
- laser-guided — (of a missile, etc) guided with the use of a laser beam
- launderettes — Plural form of launderette.
- lead crystal — cut glass containing lead oxide
- leaderboards — Plural form of leaderboard.
- leaf mustard — a pungent powder or paste prepared from the seed of the mustard plant, used as a food seasoning or condiment, and medicinally in plasters, poultices, etc.
- lean towards — If you lean towards or lean toward a particular idea, belief, or type of behaviour, you have a tendency to think or act in a particular way.
- leatherwoods — Plural form of leatherwood.
- leonardesque — of, relating to, or suggesting Leonardo da Vinci or the style of his paintings.
- leopard seal — a yellowish-gray, spotted seal, Hydrurga leptonyx, of the Antarctic.
- leopardesses — Plural form of leopardess.
- lesser panda — panda (def 2).
- lisle thread — a fine, high-twisted and hard-twisted cotton thread, at least two-ply, used for hosiery, gloves, etc.
- look daggers — to turn one's eyes toward something or in some direction in order to see: He looked toward the western horizon and saw the returning planes.
- lord's table — the, communion table.
- loudspeakers — Plural form of loudspeaker, especially a pair for a left and right channel.
- madreporites — Plural form of madreporite.
- maid service — cleaner, cleaning business
- maidservants — Plural form of maidservant.
- mainstreamed — Simple past tense and past participle of mainstream.
- major orders — the degree or grade of priesthood, diaconate, or subdiaconate.
- make friends — get to know people
- make inroads — If one thing makes inroads into another, the first thing starts affecting or destroying the second.