12-letter words containing e, d, r, y
- intertidally — in an intertidal manner
- iridescently — In an iridescent manner.
- irredeemably — not redeemable; incapable of being bought back or paid off.
- irremediably — not admitting of remedy, cure, or repair: irremediable conduct.
- iskander bey — Scanderbeg.
- jeopardously — with risk or peril
- jerry-rigged — jury-rig.
- keyboardists — Plural form of keyboardist.
- 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.
- lady teacher — a teacher who is a woman
- lady-slipper — cypripedium
- lampadedromy — (in ancient Greece) a relay race in which the runners or riders carried a lighted torch
- landlubberly — Like a landlubber.
- laundrywomen — Plural form of laundrywoman.
- lauraldehyde — lauric aldehyde.
- lead crystal — cut glass containing lead oxide
- leopard lily — a tall lily, Lilium pardalinum, of California, having drooping, orange-red flowers with purple speckles, a yellow base, and recurved petal tips.
- liberty bond — a single Liberty loan bond.
- lily-livered — weak or lacking in courage; cowardly; pusillanimous.
- 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.
- little rhody — Rhode Island (used as a nickname).
- lloyd george — David, 1st Earl of Dwyfor [doo-vawr] /ˈdu vɔr/ (Show IPA), 1863–1945, British statesman: prime minister 1916–22.
- lloyd webber — (Sir) Andrew, born 1948, English composer of musical theater.
- lorry driver — a person who drives a lorry; a truck driver
- may-december — of or designating a marriage or romantic relationship between a young person and a person who is considerably older
- meanderingly — In a meandering or winding manner.
- media player — Digital Technology. a portable electronic device or a software program that plays and stores digital audio or video files in various formats.
- medley relay — Track. a relay race in which individual members of a team usually run an unequal portion of the total distance. Compare distance medley, sprint medley.
- memorial day — Also called Decoration Day. a day, May 30, set aside in most states of the U.S. for observances in memory of dead members of the armed forces of all wars: now officially observed on the last Monday in May.
- meridianally — Along lines of meridian, longitudinally.
- meridionally — In a meridional manner.
- merry-andrew — a clown; buffoon.
- methysergide — an ergot alkaloid derivative, C 2 1 H 2 7 N 3 O 2 , used in the prophylaxis and treatment of migraine and cluster headaches.
- mis-delivery — the carrying and turning over of letters, goods, etc., to a designated recipient or recipients.
- 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.
- model theory — the branch of logic that deals with the properties of models; the semantic study of formal systems
- mollycoddler — One who mollycoddles.
- 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
- mother's day — a day, usually the second Sunday in May, set aside in honor of mothers.
- multilayered — having two or more layers.
- nature study — the study of plants and animals, especially by amateurs.
- 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.
- nordkyn cape — Cape, a cape in N Norway, E of North Cape: northernmost point of the European mainland.