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12-letter words containing d, t, l, r

  • body bolster — the lower transverse member of a car body to which the body center plate is attached.
  • boiled shirt — a dress shirt with a stiff front
  • border light — a striplight hung upstage of a border, for lighting the stage.
  • born-digital — relating to or noting documents, images, etc., that are created and managed in electronic form: electronic preservation of born-digital content; a born-digital e-book that will not be available in print.
  • bottle gourd — an Old World cucurbitaceous climbing plant, Lagenaria siceraria, having large hard-shelled gourds as fruits
  • bottled beer — beer in a bottle, rather than from a barrel
  • breast drill — a geared drill that can be braced against the chest for additional leverage.
  • bridal party — the people who accompany the bride as she comes to her wedding
  • bridal suite — a room or set of rooms in a hotel for newly married couples
  • bridge cloth — a tablecloth for a bridge table.
  • bridge table — a square card table with folding legs.
  • bridle joint — a heading joint in which the end of one member, notched to form two parallel tenons, is fitted into two gains cut into the edges of a second member.
  • bright-field — of or relating to the illuminated region about the object of a microscope.
  • burnt almond — a sweet consisting of an almond enclosed in burnt sugar
  • calendar art — a type of sentimental, picturesque, or sexually titillating picture used on some calendars.
  • cantilevered — A cantilevered structure is constructed using cantilevers.
  • carboxylated — Simple past tense and past participle of carboxylate.
  • card catalog — a file of cards of uniform size arranged in some definite order and listing the items in the collection of a library or group of libraries, each card typically identifying a single item.
  • cardinalates — Plural form of cardinalate.
  • cardiologist — A cardiologist is a doctor who specializes in the heart and its diseases.
  • carload rate — a special low rate for shipment by carloads
  • carunculated — Alternative form of carunculate.
  • cat's cradle — a game played by making intricate patterns with a loop of string between the fingers
  • cattle drive — the process of moving cattle across country, often carried out by cowboys on horseback
  • cattle guard — A cattle guard is the same as a cattle grid.
  • cattleduffer — a cattle thief.
  • center field — the middle area of the outfield
  • centrolinead — a drafting instrument for drawing lines converging on a vanishing point outside the drawing.
  • chesterfield — a man's knee-length overcoat, usually with a fly front to conceal the buttons and having a velvet collar
  • chondroblast — a type of cell that develops into a chondrocyte or cartilage cell
  • city dweller — a resident or inhabitant of a city
  • clairaudient — the power to hear sounds said to exist beyond the reach of ordinary experience or capacity, as the voices of the dead.
  • clearsighted — seeing clearly
  • closet drama — drama suitable for reading rather than performing
  • cloud forest — a forest, usually near coastal mountain peaks in tropical regions, that has an almost constant cloud cover, even during the dry season
  • cold comfort — If you say that a slightly encouraging fact or event is cold comfort to someone, you mean that it gives them little or no comfort because their situation is so difficult or unpleasant.
  • cold storage — If something such as food is put in cold storage, it is kept in an artificially-cooled place in order to preserve it.
  • cold-hearted — A cold-hearted person does not feel any affection or sympathy towards other people.
  • collaborated — to work, one with another; cooperate, as on a literary work: They collaborated on a novel.
  • colour depth — bits per pixel
  • concordantly — agreeing; harmonious.
  • conductorial — relating to a conductor
  • conflagrated — Simple past tense and past participle of conflagrate.
  • consolidator — a person or thing that consolidates
  • contractedly — in a shortened manner
  • control code — (character)   A character code for a control character, normally including the values 0..31 or 127, inherited from ASCII, possibly extended to include other characters by the operating system or application program.
  • coordinately — of the same order or degree; equal in rank or importance.
  • cordialities — cordial quality or feeling.
  • cotyledonary — the primary or rudimentary leaf of the embryo of seed plants.
  • counterplead — to plead the opposite of
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