12-letter words containing d, s, n
- dosing strip — (in New Zealand) an area set aside for treating dogs suspected of having hydatid disease
- doubtfulness — of uncertain outcome or result.
- downcastness — The quality of being downcast.
- downshifting — to shift an automotive transmission or vehicle into a lower gear.
- downwellings — Plural form of downwelling.
- draftsperson — a person employed in making mechanical drawings, especially in an architectural or engineering firm.
- dragonslayer — One who slays a dragon.
- drawlingness — the quality or characteristic of a drawler
- 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
- dress length — a piece of material that is big enough to make a dress from
- drill string — (on a drill rig) the assemblage of drill pipes that link the drill bit to the mechanism that imparts rotary or reciprocating motion.
- drinks party — a cocktail party
- driving sail — a sail that, when filled, tends to force the hull of a vessel downward (opposed to lifting sail).
- 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.
- driving test — the examination that new drivers must take in order to be officially allowed to drive when not under instruction
- droughtiness — Dryness of the weather; lack of rain.
- duck-shoving — the evasion of responsibility by someone
- dulcet tones — People often use the expression dulcet tones to refer to someone's voice.
- duncan smith — (George) Iain. born 1954, British politician; leader of the Conservative Party (2001–03); secretary of state for work and pensions (2010–2016)
- duplications — Plural form of duplication.
- dust counter — any instrument used to measure the size and number of dust particles per unit volume in the atmosphere.
- 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.
- dynamic dbms — dynamic database management system
- dynamometers — Plural form of dynamometer.
- dynastically — In a dynastic (or dynastical) way.
- dysenterical — Alternative form of dysenteric.
- dysfluencies — disfluency.
- dysfunctions — Plural form of dysfunction.
- dysmenorrhea — painful menstruation.
- dystopianism — a society characterized by human misery, as squalor, oppression, disease, and overcrowding.
- easting down — the passage eastward from the Cape of Good Hope, as made by a sailing ship bound for Australia or the East Indies.
- echo sounder — a sonar instrument that uses echolocation to measure depths under water.
- edifications — Plural form of edification.
- educatedness — the quality of being educated
- educationese — the jargon associated with the field of education.
- educationist — a specialist in the theory and methods of education.
- egads button — a switch that triggers the destruction in flight of a malfunctioning missile.
- egg sandwich — two slices of bread filled with chopped egg
- elastic band — rubber strip for binding items together
- electrosonde — a sonde that measures the electric potential in the atmosphere
- ellis island — small, government-owned island in Upper New York Bay: former (1892-1943) examination center for immigrants seeking to enter the U.S.: 27 acres (11 hectares)
- elucidations — Plural form of elucidation.
- embeddedness — The property of being embedded.
- enamoredness — Quality of being enamored; love; infatuation.
- encapsulated — Simple past tense and past participle of encapsulate.
- enchiridions — Plural form of enchiridion.
- end of steel — a point up to which railway tracks have been laid