12-letter words containing a, g, r, n, d
- dragonslayer — One who slays a dragon.
- drawing card — a person who or thing that attracts attention or patrons.
- drawing room — a formal reception room, especially in an apartment or private house.
- drawlingness — the quality or characteristic of a drawler
- dreadnoughts — Plural form of dreadnought.
- dripping pan — a shallow pan placed under roasting meat to catch the dripping
- driving sail — a sail that, when filled, tends to force the hull of a vessel downward (opposed to lifting sail).
- driving seat — In a vehicle such as a car or a bus, the driving seat is the seat where the person who is driving the vehicle sits.
- dry gangrene — death of tissue owing to arterial obstruction without subsequent bacterial decomposition and putrefaction.
- dry-cleaning — Dry-cleaning is the action or work of dry-cleaning things such as clothes.
- drying agent — A drying agent is used in an absorption column (= a tall vessel) to remove water from fractions.
- duty manager — A duty manager is a person who is in charge at a particular time.
- edgar adrian — Edgar Douglas, 1889–1977, English physiologist: Nobel Prize in Medicine 1932.
- edulcorating — Present participle of edulcorate.
- egg and dart — a design for enriching an ovolo or echinus, consisting of a closely set, alternating series of oval and pointed forms.
- endangerment — The act of putting someone into danger, or the condition of being in danger.
- endeavouring — Present participle of endeavour.
- enlargedness — the state of being enlarged
- falling door — flap door (def 1).
- fare-dodging — the practice of trying to travel on public transport without paying the fare
- farthingdale — (British, dated, 13th-19th C.) A unit of area equal to one quarter of an acre.
- farthingland — a unit of land area, sometimes described as being equivalent to thirty acres
- federalizing — Present participle of federalize.
- fine-grained — being of fine grain or texture, as certain types of wood, leather, etc.
- fingerboards — Plural form of fingerboard.
- firing squad — a military detachment assigned to execute a condemned person by shooting.
- flash drying — Flash drying is a stage in a process to make something bigger, in which a paste-like feed is broken up and dried at the same time.
- flat-grained — (of sawed lumber) having the annual rings at an angle of less than 45° with the broader surfaces.
- fluoridating — Present participle of fluoridate.
- footdragging — the act or practice of acting with deliberate slowness
- fragmentized — fragmented.
- freestanding — (of sculpture or architectural elements) unattached to a supporting unit or background; standing alone.
- fund manager — A fund manager is someone whose job involves investing the money contained in a fund, for example, a mutual fund, on behalf of another person or organization.
- fund-raising — the act or process of raising funds, as for nonprofit organizations or for a political cause.
- gandy dancer — a member of a railroad section gang that lays or maintains track.
- gangsterland — an area controlled by gangsters
- garand rifle — M-1.
- garde manger — a cool room used for storing foods and for preparing certain dishes, especially cold buffet dishes.
- garde-manger — a cool room used for storing foods and for preparing certain dishes, especially cold buffet dishes.
- garden cress — a peppergrass, Lepidium sativum, used as a salad vegetable.
- garden grove — a city in SW California.
- garden party — a party given out of doors in a garden or yard.
- garden snail — Zoology
- garden state — New Jersey (used as a nickname).
- gas cylinder — container for storing gas
- gastric band — A gastric band is a device that is fitted inside someone's stomach to make it smaller in order to help them lose weight.
- gay-friendly — welcoming to gay people
- gendarmeries — Plural form of gendarmerie.
- gerrymanders — Plural form of gerrymander.
- giant lizard — a monitor lizard, Varanus komodoensis, of certain Indonesian islands E of Java, that grows to a length of 10 feet (3 meters): the largest lizard in the world; now rare.