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13-letter words containing a, n, d, e, r, s

  • dressing sack — a woman's dressing gown.
  • drinkableness — the quality of being drinkable, the capacity to be drunk, drinkability
  • dwarf ginseng — a plant, Panax trifolius, of eastern North America, having globe-shaped clusters of small, white flowers and yellow fruit.
  • dysmenorrheal — painful menstruation.
  • dysmenorrhoea — painful menstruation.
  • dysregulation — A failure to regulate properly.
  • east flanders — a province in W Belgium. 1150 sq. mi. (2980 sq. km). Capital: Ghent.
  • easter candle — a tall candle, symbolizing Christ, that is sometimes blessed and placed on the gospel side of an altar on Holy Saturday and kept burning until Ascension Day.
  • easter island — an island in the S Pacific, W of and belonging to Chile. About 45 sq. mi. (117 sq. km): gigantic statues.
  • easter monday — the day after Easter, observed as a holiday in some places.
  • easter sunday — Easter (def 2).
  • eastern hindi — the vernacular of the eastern half of the Hindi-speaking area in India.
  • eavesdropping — to listen secretly to a private conversation.
  • edging shears — shears that are used to trim the edges of a lawn
  • edmund androsSir Edmund, 1637–1714, British governor in the American colonies, 1686–89, 1692–98.
  • edwardsianism — a modified form of Calvinism taught by Jonathan Edwards.
  • elephantbirds — Plural form of elephantbird.
  • endearingness — The quality of being endearing.
  • endoparasites — Plural form of endoparasite.
  • endoparasitic — Of or pertaining to endoparasites.
  • endurableness — (rare) The state of being endurable; endurability.
  • estrangedness — the state of being estranged
  • faroe islands — islands in Atlantic Ocean
  • fine adjuster — (jargon, tool, humour)   A tool used for percussive maintenance, also known as a "hammer".
  • finisher card — (in manufacturing fibers) the last card in the carding process, for converting stock into roving.
  • first reading — the reading of a bill when it is first introduced in a legislative body.
  • fool's errand — a completely absurd, pointless, or useless errand.
  • foolhardiness — recklessly or thoughtlessly bold; foolishly rash or venturesome.
  • foreshadowing — to show or indicate beforehand; prefigure: Political upheavals foreshadowed war.
  • fort sheridan — a military reservation in NE Illinois, on W shore of Lake Michigan S of Lake Forest.
  • fraser island — an island off the south-east coast of Queensland and the largest sand island in the world; contains rainforests, heathlands, and freshwater lakes; a national park (since 1976) and a World Heritage site (since 1992). Area: 1840 sq km (710 sq miles). Pop: 194 (2011)
  • free and easy — enjoying personal rights or liberty, as a person who is not in slavery: a land of free people.
  • free-and-easy — enjoying personal rights or liberty, as a person who is not in slavery: a land of free people.
  • free-standing — A free-standing piece of furniture or other object is not fixed to anything, or stands on its own away from other things.
  • freudian slip — (in Freudian psychology) an inadvertent mistake in speech or writing that is thought to reveal a person's unconscious motives, wishes, or attitudes.
  • garden balsam — a fleshy annual garden impatiens (Impatiens balsamina) with roselike white, lavender, yellow, pink, or red blossoms borne along the main stem in leaf axils
  • garden shears — shears used for gardening
  • garden suburb — a suburb of a large established town or city, planned along the lines of a garden city
  • gelandesprung — a jump, usually over an obstacle, in which one plants both poles in the snow in advance of the skis, bends close to the ground, and propels oneself chiefly by the use of the poles.
  • general synod — the governing body, under Parliament, of the Church of England, made up of the bishops and elected clerical and lay representatives
  • germinal disk — blastodisk.
  • glucuronidase — an enzyme that catalyzes glucuronide hydrolysis
  • gourmandizers — Plural form of gourmandizer.
  • gradient post — a small white post beside a railway line at a point where the gradient changes having arms set at angles representing the gradients
  • grand duchess — the wife or widow of a grand duke.
  • grand slammer — Bridge. the winning of all thirteen tricks of a deal. Compare little slam.
  • grandioseness — affectedly grand or important; pompous: grandiose words.
  • grandma mosesAnna Mary Robertson ("Grandma Moses") 1860–1961, U.S. painter.
  • greenland sea — a part of the Arctic Ocean, NE of Greenland and N of Iceland.
  • hairdressings — Plural form of hairdressing.
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