12-letter words containing d, r, y, n
- inquiry desk — a section of an office, business etc, which deals with inquiries nor requests for information
- interdictory — of, relating to, or noting interdiction.
- interestedly — In an interested manner.
- intermediacy — the state of being intermediate or of acting intermediately.
- intermediary — an intermediate agent or agency; a go-between or mediator.
- intertidally — in an intertidal manner
- intimidatory — to make timid; fill with fear.
- introductory — serving or used to introduce; preliminary; beginning: an introductory course; an introductory paragraph.
- iridescently — In an iridescent manner.
- iron foundry — ironworks, forgery
- iskander bey — Scanderbeg.
- k/t boundary — Cretaceous/Tertiary boundary: the time zone comprising the end of the Cretaceous and the beginning of the Tertiary periods
- kidney donor — someone who donates one of their kidneys to be transplanted into another person
- la verendrye — Pierre Gaultier de Varenne [French pyer goh-tyey duh va-ren] /French pyɛr goʊˈtyeɪ də vaˈrɛn/ (Show IPA), Sieur de, 1685–1749, Canadian explorer of North America.
- landlubberly — Like a landlubber.
- laundry list — a lengthy, especially random list of items: a laundry list of hoped-for presents; a laundry list of someone's crimes.
- laundry mark — a symbol on a label on an article of clothing, bed-linen, etc, which specifies how the item should be washed and cared for, for example, at which temperature it should be washed at, whether it should be ironed, dry-cleaned, etc
- laundry room — utility room
- laundrywoman — laundress.
- laundrywomen — Plural form of laundrywoman.
- liberty bond — a single Liberty loan bond.
- linked rhyme — a rhyme in which the end of one line together with the first sound of the next line forms a rhyme with the end of another line.
- meanderingly — In a meandering or winding manner.
- meridianally — Along lines of meridian, longitudinally.
- meridionally — In a meridional manner.
- merry-andrew — a clown; buffoon.
- misery index — an unofficial indication of a nation's economic health, derived by adding the percentage rate of inflation to the percentage of unemployed workers: With inflation running at 15 percent and unemployment at 8 percent, the misery index is 23 percent.
- money spider — any of certain small shiny brownish spiders of the family Linyphiidae
- moneylenders — Plural form of moneylender.
- monkey bread — the gourdlike fruit of the baobab, eaten by monkeys.
- monohydrates — Plural form of monohydrate.
- monohydrogen — relating to a molecule in which there is a single hydrogen ion for each combining ion
- nature study — the study of plants and animals, especially by amateurs.
- naughty word — a word that is considered to be rude
- neoorthodoxy — a movement in Protestant theology, beginning after World War I, stressing the absolute sovereignty of God and chiefly characterized by a reaction against liberal theology and a reaffirmation of certain doctrines of the Reformation.
- ninety-third — next after the ninety-second; being the ordinal number for 93.
- non-hydrated — chemically combined with water in its molecular form.
- non-industry — the aggregate of manufacturing or technically productive enterprises in a particular field, often named after its principal product: the automobile industry; the steel industry.
- nonmandatory — Not mandatory.
- nordkyn cape — Cape, a cape in N Norway, E of North Cape: northernmost point of the European mainland.
- nurserymaids — Plural form of nurserymaid.
- obedientiary — The holder of a monastic rank or office below that of superior.
- odontography — a treatise regarding the teeth
- oil industry — petroleum-processing business
- on your mind — If something is on your mind, you are worried or concerned about it and think about it a lot.
- on your side — If something is on your side or if you have it on your side, it helps you when you are trying to achieve something.
- ordinary lay — the form of lay found in a cable-laid rope
- ordinary ray — Optics, Crystallography. the part of a doubly refracted ray whose velocity within a crystal is the same in any direction.
- overanalyzed — Simple past tense and past participle of overanalyze.
- overidentify — to identify with someone else to an excessive degree