12-letter words containing a, r, e, n, d
- standardized — to bring to or make of an established standard size, weight, quality, strength, or the like: to standardize manufactured parts.
- standardless — having no standard or standards
- starchedness — the condition or quality of being starched
- steam-driven — powered by steam
- stellar wind — the radial outflow of ionized gas from a star.
- stickhandler — a hockey or lacrosse player, esp. one who is talented at stickhandling.
- stonyhearted — unfeeling; pitiless; cruel
- strandedness — composed of a specified number or kind of strands (usually used in combination): a five-stranded rope.
- stranglehold — Wrestling. an illegal hold by which an opponent's breath is choked off.
- stride piano — a style of jazz piano playing in which the right hand plays the melody while the left hand plays a single bass note or octave on the strong beat and a chord on the weak beat, developed in Harlem during the 1920s, partly from ragtime piano playing.
- strike hands — to show agreement by clasping hands
- stringhalted — afflicted with stringhalt
- student card — a card verifying somebody's identity as a university student and entitling them to services, discounts, etc
- stun grenade — a nonlethal grenade which is used to disturb the senses of enemies by its loud noise and its bright light
- subordinated — placed in or belonging to a lower order or rank.
- sulfarsenide — any compound containing an arsenide and a sulfide.
- sunday paper — a newspaper which is only published on Sundays
- supermundane — above and beyond the nature or character of the worldly or terrestrial.
- superordinal — relating to the superorder
- supramundane — transcending the world
- tardenoisian — of or referring to a Mesolithic culture characterized by small flint instruments
- tear-stained — marked or wet with tears: a tear-stained letter.
- tenth-grader — someone who is in their tenth year of education in the US
- the ardennes — a wooded plateau in SE Belgium, Luxembourg, and NE France: scene of heavy fighting in both World Wars
- the herdsman — the constellation Boötes
- the nearside — the side of a vehicle normally nearer the kerb (in Britain, the left side)
- the ordnance — a department of an army or government dealing with military supplies
- theory-laden — (of an expression) capable of being understood only within the context of a specific theory, as for example superego, which requires the apparatus of Freudian theory in explanation
- thermidorian — a member of the French moderate group who participated in the downfall of Robespierre and his followers on the 9th Thermidor (July 27th), 1794.
- thioridazine — a phenothiazine, C 21 H 26 N 2 S 2 , used as an antipsychotic chiefly in the treatment of acute psychoses and schizophrenia.
- thread count — thread density of a woven fabric
- three-handed — involving three hands or players, as a game at cards.
- thunderflash — a pyrotechnic device which is noisy, but not dangerous, and which is used in military exercises
- tidal energy — energy obtained by harnessing tidal power
- tinker's dam — the least value or merit; nothing or anything at all: It's not worth a tinker's damn.
- tornado belt — the part of the U.S. in which tornadoes occur most frequently, roughly the area within a 500-mile (805-km) radius of southern Missouri.
- tracker fund — finance: type of savings account
- tradescantia — any plant of the American genus Tradescantia, widely cultivated for their striped variegated leaves: family Commelinaceae
- tradesperson — a skilled worker
- transcendent — going beyond ordinary limits; surpassing; exceeding.
- transcending — to rise above or go beyond; overpass; exceed: to transcend the limits of thought; kindness transcends courtesy.
- transdialect — to translate (speech, writing, etc.) into a different dialect.
- transgressed — to violate a law, command, moral code, etc.; offend; sin.
- transit shed — a building located on or near a pier (piershed) or wharf (wharf shed) used for short-term storage of cargo in transit.
- transmundane — reaching beyond or existing outside the physical or visible world.
- trepidations — tremulous fear, alarm, or agitation; perturbation.
- tribute band — A tribute band is a pop group that plays the music and copies the style of another, much more famous, pop group.
- trudeaumania — obsessional enthusiasm for Pierre Trudeau
- turacoverdin — a green pigment found in certain feathers of the touraco
- turned comma — quotation mark.