12-letter words containing d, a, t, r, e
- stand surety — to act as a surety
- standardbred — one of an American breed of trotting and pacing horses used chiefly for harness racing.
- 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
- star-crossed — thwarted or opposed by the stars; ill-fated: star-crossed lovers.
- star-studded — lighted by or full of stars; bright: a star-studded night.
- starchedness — the condition or quality of being starched
- stated clerk — an administrative official in the Presbyterian Church and certain other Protestant churches
- steam-driven — powered by steam
- stearic acid — a colorless, waxlike, sparingly water-soluble, odorless solid, C 1 8 H 3 6 O 2 , the most common fatty acid, occurring as the glyceride in tallow and other animal fats and in some animal oils: used chiefly in the manufacture of soaps, stearates, candles, cosmetics, and in medicine in suppositories and pill coatings.
- stellar wind — the radial outflow of ionized gas from a star.
- stepdaughter — a daughter of one's husband or wife by a previous marriage.
- stickhandler — a hockey or lacrosse player, esp. one who is talented at stickhandling.
- stonyhearted — unfeeling; pitiless; cruel
- storm-lashed — badly affected by storms
- stouthearted — brave and resolute; dauntless.
- straddleback — astride, on horseback
- straightbred — (of animals) purebred; having parents of the same breed
- straightedge — a bar or strip of wood, plastic, or metal having at least one long edge of sufficiently reliable straightness for use in drawing or testing straight lines, plane surfaces, etc.
- strait-laced — excessively strict in conduct or morality; puritanical; prudish: strait-laced censors.
- 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
- striped bass — an important American game fish, Morone saxatilis, having blackish stripes along each side.
- 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
- subeditorial — of or relating to a subeditor, the work of a subeditor or a subeditorship
- subfeudatory — of or relating to subfeu
- subordinated — placed in or belonging to a lower order or rank.
- subsaturated — soaked, impregnated, or imbued thoroughly; charged thoroughly or completely; brought to a state of saturation.
- sugar-coated — Sugar-coated food is covered with a sweet substance made of sugar.
- superstardom — a person, as a performer or athlete, who enjoys wide recognition, is esteemed for exceptional talent, and is eagerly sought after for his or her services.
- sweaterdress — a knitted, woollen dress
- sweet dreams — sleep well
- table tripod — a low mount or stand for a camera.
- takeover bid — offer to buy a company
- tardenoisian — of or referring to a Mesolithic culture characterized by small flint instruments
- tax-deferred — noting or providing income that is not taxed until a later time.
- teacher bird — the ovenbird, Seiurus aurocapillus, a songbird that builds a nest shaped like a dome.
- 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
- terebic acid — an acid, C 7 H 10 O 4 , formed by the oxidation of certain terpenes and historically important in the discovery of the structures of many terpenes.
- tetradactyly — the condition of having four fingers or toes
- tetradrachma — a silver coin of ancient Greece, equal to four drachmas.
- tetrahedrite — a steel-gray or blackish mineral with a brilliant metallic luster, essentially copper and antimony sulfide, (Cu, Fe, Zn, Ag,) 12 Sb 4 S 13 , an end member of a series of solid solutions into which arsenic enters to form tennantite: mined as an ore of copper and silver.
- tetrahydrate — a hydrate that contains four molecules of water, as potassium sodium tartrate, KNaC 4 H 4 O 6 ·4H 2 O.
- tetrahydroxy — (of a molecule) containing four hydroxyl groups.
- the ardennes — a wooded plateau in SE Belgium, Luxembourg, and NE France: scene of heavy fighting in both World Wars