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12-letter words containing a, d, r, e

  • date squares — a sweet made of a date filling on an oatmeal base with a crumble topping, cut into squares
  • daughtercard — daughterboard
  • daughterless — Without a daughter.
  • daughterlike — Resembling a daughter.
  • daughterling — a small daughter
  • david souterDavid H. born 1939, U.S. jurist: associate justice of the U.S. Supreme Court 1990–2009.
  • david turner — (person)   Professor David A Turner. One of the pioneers of functional languages. He designed several languages, including, SASL (1976), KRC (1981), and Miranda, many of which were implemented using combinators and the S-K reduction machine which he defined. He coined the name "ZF expression" for the list comprehension. He worked at UKC and set up a company, Research Software Limited to market Miranda.
  • dawn redwood — a deciduous conifer, Metasequoia glyptostroboides, native to China but planted in other regions as an ornamental tree: family Taxodiaceae. Until the 1940s it was known only as a fossil
  • dawson creek — a town in W Canada, in NE British Columbia: SE terminus of the Alaska Highway. Pop: 10 754 (2001)
  • day labourer — an unskilled worker hired and paid by the day
  • daydreamlike — resembling a daydream
  • de-integrate — to bring together or incorporate (parts) into a whole.
  • dead fingers — a disease of users of pneumatic drills, characterized by anaesthesia of the fingertips and cyanosis
  • dead freight — an amount owed by a contractor who charters space in a ship but fails to occupy it fully.
  • dead soldier — an empty beer or spirit bottle
  • dead storage — the storage of furniture, files, or other unused or seldom used items in a warehouse or other location for an indefinite period of time.
  • deafferented — Simple past tense and past participle of deafferent.
  • dealing room — A dealing room is a place where shares, currencies, or commodities are bought and sold.
  • deambulatory — a place for walking often with a covering overhead
  • dearticulate — to disjoint, dislocate, or separate (something)
  • deaspiration — the act of deaspirating
  • death rattle — If you say that one thing is the death rattle of another, you mean that the first thing is a sign that very soon the second thing will come to an end.
  • death spiral — a period of continuous deterioration that leads ultimately to catastrophic failure or destruction
  • death threat — a threat to kill someone
  • death throes — The death throes of something are its final stages, just before it fails completely or ends.
  • debaucheries — Plural form of debauchery.
  • debaucherous — tending toward or involving debauchery, or excessive indulgence in sensual pleasures: a night of debaucherous fun.
  • debonairness — The state or quality of being debonair.
  • debrouillard — (one who is) skilled or resourceful at handling any difficulty
  • decahydrates — Plural form of decahydrate.
  • decarbonated — Simple past tense and past participle of decarbonate.
  • decarbonized — Simple past tense and past participle of decarbonize.
  • decarbonizer — One who, or that which, decarbonizes a substance.
  • decarburized — Simple past tense and past participle of decarburize.
  • decategorize — to arrange in categories or classes; classify.
  • decay series — a succession of elements initiated in the radioactive decay of a parent, as thorium or uranium, each of which decays into the next until a stable element, usually lead, is produced.
  • decelerating — Present participle of decelerate.
  • deceleration — to decrease the velocity of: He decelerates the bobsled when he nears a curve.
  • decemvirates — Plural form of decemvirate.
  • decentralise — to distribute the administrative powers or functions of (a central authority) over a less concentrated area: to decentralize the national government.
  • decentralism — A policy of favouring decentralization.
  • decentralist — to distribute the administrative powers or functions of (a central authority) over a less concentrated area: to decentralize the national government.
  • decentralize — To decentralize government or a large organization means to move some departments away from the main administrative area, or to give more power to local departments.
  • decentration — The removal of something from a centre.
  • decerebrated — Simple past tense and past participle of decerebrate.
  • dechlorinate — to remove chlorine from (a substance)
  • decipherable — to make out the meaning of (poor or partially obliterated writing, etc.): to decipher a hastily scribbled note.
  • deckle strap — a strap on each edge of the moving web of paper on a paper-making machine that fixes the width of the paper
  • declarations — Plural form of declaration.
  • decoloration — appearance with regard to color arrangement or use of colors; coloring: the bold coloration of some birds.
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