12-letter words containing a, d, r, s
- countermands — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of countermand.
- cowardliness — lacking courage; contemptibly timid.
- cradleboards — Plural form of cradleboard.
- credit sales — sales for which the customer does not need to pay immediately
- crocodilians — Plural form of crocodilian.
- cross-dating — a method of dating objects, remains, etc, by comparison and correlation with other sites and levels
- crossbanding — a veneer border, as on furniture, with its grain at right angles to the grain of the adjacent wood
- crossgrained — Alternative form of cross-grained.
- cryptomonads — Plural form of cryptomonad.
- crystallised — Simple past tense and past participle of crystallise.
- crystallized — Crystallized fruits and sweets are covered in sugar which has been melted and then allowed to go hard.
- crystalloids — Plural form of crystalloid.
- cupid's dart — blue succory.
- cupid's-dart — blue succory.
- curanderismo — the use of folk medicine, especially as practiced by a curandero.
- custard tart — a small pastry case filled with egg custard
- cyanohydrins — Plural form of cyanohydrin.
- cylinder saw — crown saw.
- d-s particle — a positively charged meson having a mass 3852 times that of the electron and a mean lifetime of approximately 4.7 X 10 -13 seconds.
- daisy cutter — a powerful shot that moves close to the ground
- daisy-cutter — Sports Slang. a batted or served ball that skims along near the ground.
- dallis grass — a tall, succulent, forage grass (Paspalum dilatatum), with hairy spikelets, much grown in the S U.S.
- dark glasses — Dark glasses are glasses which have dark-coloured lenses to protect your eyes in the sunshine.
- dark tourism — tourism to sites associated with tragedies, disasters, and death
- dark-skinned — (of a person or race) having skin of a dark colour
- darmstadtium — a synthetic radioactive element produced in small quantities by cold fusion in a linear accelerator. Symbol: Ds; atomic no: 110
- dasher block — a block at the end of a yard or gaff for supporting a signal or ensign halyard.
- dastardizing — Present participle of dastardize.
- date squares — a sweet made of a date filling on an oatmeal base with a crumble topping, cut into squares
- daughterless — Without a daughter.
- david souter — David H. born 1939, U.S. jurist: associate justice of the U.S. Supreme Court 1990–2009.
- davis strait — a strait between Baffin Island, in Canada, and Greenland
- dawson creek — a town in W Canada, in NE British Columbia: SE terminus of the Alaska Highway. Pop: 10 754 (2001)
- dead fingers — a disease of users of pneumatic drills, characterized by anaesthesia of the fingertips and cyanosis
- 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.
- deaspiration — the act of deaspirating
- death spiral — a period of continuous deterioration that leads ultimately to catastrophic failure or destruction
- 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.
- decahydrates — Plural form of decahydrate.
- 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.
- 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.
- 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.