12-letter words containing d, s, n
- goods siding — a short railway track beside the main tracks where goods trains or goods wagons are left when they are not being used
- gormandising — Present participle of gormandise.
- gormandizers — gourmandise1 .
- grand island — a city in S Nebraska.
- grand master — the head of a military order of knighthood, a lodge, fraternal order, or the like.
- grand rapids — a city in SW Michigan: furniture factories.
- grand rounds — a formal hospital meeting at which physicians discuss interesting medical cases.
- grand siècle — the 17th century in French art and literature, esp the classical period of Louis XIV
- granddaddies — Plural form of granddaddy.
- grandfathers — Plural form of grandfather.
- grandmasters — Plural form of grandmaster.
- grandmothers — Plural form of grandmother.
- grandnephews — Plural form of grandnephew.
- grandparents — a parent of a parent.
- grandstanded — Simple past tense and past participle of grandstand.
- grandstander — the main seating area of a stadium, racetrack, parade route, or the like, usually consisting of tiers with rows of individual seats.
- granny dress — a loose-fitting, ankle-length dress, usually with long sleeves and a high collar and sometimes having flounces, ruffles, or lace trimming.
- great sunday — Easter Sunday.
- grosswardein — German name of Oradea.
- ground frost — the condition resulting from a temperature reading of 0°C or below on a thermometer in contact with a grass surface
- ground glass — Optics. glass that has had its polished surface removed by fine grinding and that is used to diffuse light.
- ground rules — Usually, ground rules. basic or governing principles of conduct in any situation or field of endeavor: the ground rules of press conferences.
- ground shark — any of various requiem sharks, especially of the genus Carcharhinus.
- ground sloth — any of various extinct large, edentate mammals from the Pleistocene Epoch of North and South America resembling modern sloths but living on the ground rather than in trees.
- ground staff — The people who are paid to maintain a sports ground are called the ground staff.
- ground state — the state of least energy of a particle, as an atom, or of a system of particles.
- groundbursts — Plural form of groundburst.
- groundedness — the solid surface of the earth; firm or dry land: to fall to the ground.
- groundlessly — In a groundless manner; without justification.
- groundsheets — Plural form of groundsheet.
- groundstroke — A stroke played after the ball has bounced, as opposed to a volley.
- grudgingness — The state or quality of grudging.
- guardianista — a reader of the Guardian newspaper, seen as being typically left-wing, liberal, and politically correct
- guardianship — the position and responsibilities of a guardian, especially toward a ward.
- gynodioecism — the condition of having flowers that are only female in one example of a plant and flowers that have stamens and pistils in another example of a plant of the same species
- hadrosaurine — Hadrosaurid.
- haemosiderin — Alternative form of hemosiderin.
- hairdressing — the act or process of cutting, combing out, doing up, or styling hair.
- halcyon days — period regarded with nostalgia
- hand setting — Also called French telephone. a telephone having a mouthpiece and earpiece mounted at opposite ends of a handle.
- hand-selling — a gift or token for good luck or as an expression of good wishes, as at the beginning of the new year or when entering upon a new situation or enterprise.
- handbreadths — Plural form of handbreadth.
- handicappeds — Plural form of handicapped.
- handicappers — Plural form of handicapper.
- handies peak — a peak in SW Colorado, in the San Juan Mountains. 14,048 feet (4285 meters).
- handsbreadth — A small distance.
- handsomeness — The quality of being handsome.
- handstitched — Stitched by hand.
- handypersons — Plural form of handyperson.
- hard science — any of the natural or physical sciences, as chemistry, biology, physics, or astronomy, in which aspects of the universe are investigated by means of hypotheses and experiments.