12-letter words containing a, r, e, n, d
- dreadfulness — The characteristic of being dreadful.
- dreadnoughts — Plural form of dreadnought.
- dream vision — a conventional device used in narrative verse, employed especially by medieval poets, that presents a story as told by one who falls asleep and dreams the events of the poem: Dante's Divine Comedy exemplifies the dream vision in its most developed form.
- dreamfulness — the quality of being full of dreams
- 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.
- drum machine — a device that simulates percussion sounds in various combinations and rhythms, and can alter digitally stored drum sounds or make digital recordings of drum sounds.
- 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.
- dunderheaded — Stupid, foolish.
- durante vita — during life.
- duty manager — A duty manager is a person who is in charge at a particular time.
- dwarf cornel — the bunchberry.
- dwarf planet — a spherical celestial body revolving about the sun, similar to a planet but not large enough to gravitationally clear its orbital region of most or all other celestial bodies. Pluto is a dwarf planet.
- dye transfer — a photographic printing method by which a full-color image is produced by the printing of separate cyan, magenta, and yellow images from individual gelatin relief matrices.
- dynamometers — Plural form of dynamometer.
- dynamometric — Relating to dynamometry.
- dysenterical — Alternative form of dysenteric.
- dysmenorrhea — painful menstruation.
- early modern — designating or of the period of European history from the end of the Middle Ages (c. 1450) to c. 1750
- earth almond — chufa.
- echinodermal — (zoology) Relating or belonging to the echinoderms.
- eden prairie — a town in SE Minnesota.
- edgar adrian — Edgar Douglas, 1889–1977, English physiologist: Nobel Prize in Medicine 1932.
- edulcorating — Present participle of edulcorate.
- edulcoration — (rare) A sweetening.
- edvard munch — Edvard [ed-vahrd] /ˈɛd vɑrd/ (Show IPA), 1863–1944, Norwegian painter and graphic artist.
- egg and dart — a design for enriching an ovolo or echinus, consisting of a closely set, alternating series of oval and pointed forms.
- elephantbird — Alternative form of elephant bird.
- enamoredness — Quality of being enamored; love; infatuation.
- enarthrodial — Relating to an enarthrosis.
- enculturated — Simple past tense and past participle of enculturate.
- endangerment — The act of putting someone into danger, or the condition of being in danger.
- endeavorment — Act of endeavouring; effort.
- endeavouring — Present participle of endeavour.
- enderby land — part of the coastal region of Antarctica, between Kemp Land and Queen Maud Land: the westernmost part of the Australian Antarctic Territory (claims are suspended under the Antarctic Treaty); discovered in 1831
- endocarditic — Having or relating to endocarditis.
- endocarditis — Inflammation of the endocardium.
- endocervical — Within a cervix.
- endochondral — occurring, or present, in cartilage
- endomembrane — (biology) All the membraneous components inside a eukaryotic cell, including the nuclear envelope, endoplastic reticulum, and Golgi apparatus.
- endometrioma — An ovarian cyst caused by endometriosis.
- endoparasite — A parasite, such as a tapeworm, that lives inside its host.
- endotracheal — Situated or occurring within or performed by way of the trachea.
- endovascular — Within a blood vessel.
- endurability — The state or quality of being endurable.
- enfranchised — Simple past tense and past participle of enfranchise.
- enlargedness — the state of being enlarged
- ephemeridian — relating to ephemera
- eradications — Plural form of eradication.