12-letter words containing d, e, n, r, a
- freestanding — (of sculpture or architectural elements) unattached to a supporting unit or background; standing alone.
- french bread — a yeast-raised bread made of dough containing water and distinguished by its thick, well-browned crust, usually made in long, slender, tapered loaves. Compare baguette (def 3).
- french broad — a river in W North Carolina and E Tennessee, flowing N and NW to join the Holston River at Knoxville to form the Tennessee River. 210 miles (338 km) long.
- french drain — a drainage trench filled to ground level with fragments of brick, rock, etc.
- french india — the five small former French territories in India, including Chandernagor, Karikal, Pondicherry, and Yanaon on the E coast, and Mahé on the W coast.
- french sudan — former name of Mali.
- from day one — from the very beginning
- front loader — a washing machine with a door at the front which opens one side of the drum into which washing is placed
- front-loaded — Also, front-loaded. front-loading (def 1).
- front-loader — a machine or appliance, as a washing machine, loaded and unloaded through an opening in the front (as distinguished from a top loader).
- 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.
- furazolidone — a nitrofuran, C 8 H 7 N 3 O 5 , that is used in the treatment of giardiasis, and bacterial gastroenteritis and dysentery.
- 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
- gay-friendly — welcoming to gay people
- gendarmeries — Plural form of gendarmerie.
- gerrymanders — Plural form of gerrymander.
- giant powder — dynamite composed of nitroglycerin and kieselguhr.
- gingerbreads — Plural form of gingerbread.
- gingerbready — Resembling or characteristic of gingerbread.
- glandiferous — bearing nuts or acorns
- glutaredoxin — (enzyme) Any of a family of small redox enzymes that use glutathione as a cofactor.
- gluten bread — bread made from gluten flour.
- glycerinated — to impregnate with glycerin.
- go-go dancer — an entertainer who performs popular dances on a stage or platform for the patrons of a discotheque or nightclub.
- golden aster — any North American, asterlike, composite plant of the genus Chrysopsis, having bright, golden-yellow flower heads, as C. mariana, of the eastern U.S.
- golden ratio — the ratio of two lengths, equal in value to (1 + √5)/2, and given by b/a = (b + a)/b; it is the reciprocal of the golden section and also equal to (1 + golden section)
- golden share — a share in a company that controls at least 51% of the voting rights, esp one retained by the UK government in some privatization issues
- golden stars — a plant, Bloomeria crocea, of the amaryllis family, native to southern California, having clusters of golden-orange, starlike flowers.
- golden years — the years that follow retirement from work
- good-natured — having or showing a pleasant, kindly disposition; amiable: a warm, good-natured person.
- gormandizers — gourmandise1 .
- gourmandizer — One who gourmandizes.
- gradeflation — grade inflation.
- grand coulee — a dry canyon in central Washington: cut by the Columbia River in the glacial period. 52 miles (84 km) long; over 400 feet (120 meters) deep.
- grand finale — the concluding portion of a performance or entertainment, as a musical show, rodeo, etc., usually spectacular and involving most or all of the prior participants.
- grand master — the head of a military order of knighthood, a lodge, fraternal order, or the like.
- grand siècle — the 17th century in French art and literature, esp the classical period of Louis XIV
- grand vizier — the chief officer of state of various Muslim countries, as in the former Ottoman Empire.
- grandaughter — Alternative spelling of granddaughter.
- granddaddies — Plural form of granddaddy.