12-letter words containing d, r, e, a, n, o
- forehandedly — Prudently, with thrift and foresight.
- foreordained — to ordain or appoint beforehand.
- foreordinate — foreordain.
- forked chain — branched chain.
- forward line — the soldiers at the forward most position in an army force
- foundationer — a person supported by funds from a foundation, or serving as a member of a foundation
- fractionated — Simple past tense and past participle of fractionate.
- 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.
- 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).
- furazolidone — a nitrofuran, C 8 H 7 N 3 O 5 , that is used in the treatment of giardiasis, and bacterial gastroenteritis and dysentery.
- garden grove — a city in SW California.
- giant powder — dynamite composed of nitroglycerin and kieselguhr.
- glandiferous — bearing nuts or acorns
- glutaredoxin — (enzyme) Any of a family of small redox enzymes that use glutathione as a cofactor.
- 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.
- grandmothers — Plural form of grandmother.
- granodiorite — a coarse-grained acid igneous rock containing almost twice as much plagioclase as orthoclase: intermediate in composition between granite and diorite
- green dragon — a mythical monster generally represented as a huge, winged reptile with crested head and enormous claws and teeth, and often spouting fire.
- grosswardein — German name of Oradea.
- ground alert — the state of waiting for orders in or near combat airplanes ready to take to the air at once.
- ground cable — a heavy chain for securing permanent floating moorings, as a number of mooring buoys.
- ground cedar — a ground pine, Lycopodium complanatum.
- ground plane — (in perspective drawing) the theoretical horizontal plane receding from the picture plane to the horizon, beginning at the level of the base line.
- ground plate — Electricity. a metal plate for making a ground connection to the earth.
- ground state — the state of least energy of a particle, as an atom, or of a system of particles.
- ground water — the water beneath the surface of the ground, consisting largely of surface water that has seeped down: the source of water in springs and wells.
- hadrosaurine — Hadrosaurid.
- haemosiderin — Alternative form of hemosiderin.
- half-drowned — to die under water or other liquid of suffocation.
- handypersons — Plural form of handyperson.
- hard done by — If you feel hard done by, you feel that you have not been treated fairly.
- harrison red — a pigment consisting of a paratoluidine toner, characterized by its brilliant red color and tendency to bleed.
- headstrongly — In a headstrong manner.
- henceforward — from now on; from this point forward.
- henry howard — Earl of (Henry Howard) 1517?–47, English poet.
- heptahedrons — Plural form of heptahedron.
- here and now — in this place; in this spot or locality (opposed to there): Put the pen here.