12-letter words containing e, l, d
- drawlingness — the quality or characteristic of a drawler
- dreadfulness — The characteristic of being dreadful.
- dreamfulness — the quality of being full of dreams
- dress circle — a circular or curving division of seats in a theater, opera house, etc., usually the first gallery, originally set apart for spectators in evening dress.
- dress length — a piece of material that is big enough to make a dress from
- dress shield — a fabric or plastic pad for attaching to the inside of the underarm of a woman's garment to protect the garment from being soiled by perspiration.
- drillmasters — Plural form of drillmaster.
- driveability — the degree of smoothness and steadiness of acceleration of an automotive vehicle: The automatic transmission has been improved to give the new model better drivability.
- driving belt — a belt that carries movement from an engine or moving part to another moving part
- drizzle cake — a sponge cake that has syrup drizzled over it immediately after baking
- dropped sole — a condition in which the foot of a horse is convex instead of concave
- drove chisel — a chisel with a broad edge used for dressing stone
- dry-cleaning — Dry-cleaning is the action or work of dry-cleaning things such as clothes.
- dual citizen — a person who is a citizen or subject of two or more nations; one having dual citizenship.
- dual in-line — (hardware) Dual In-Line Package.
- dual-purpose — serving two functions.
- dual-release — A dual-release medicine or preparation delivers two drugs simultaneously.
- dubitatively — in a dubitative manner
- ductile iron — any of various cast irons strengthened by having the graphite content in the form of nodules rather than flakes, and containing cerium or magnesium as well as other additives.
- duke of alba — Duke of, Alva, Fernando Alvarez de Toledo.
- dulcet tones — People often use the expression dulcet tones to refer to someone's voice.
- duodecastyle — dodecastyle.
- duodecennial — relating to twelve years
- duodecillion — a cardinal number represented in the U.S. by 1 followed by 39 zeros, and in Great Britain by 1 followed by 72 zeros.
- duple rhythm — a rhythmic pattern created by a succession of disyllabic feet.
- duplex chain — a roller chain having two sets of rollers linked together, used for heavy-duty applications
- duplex house — a house having separate apartments for two families, especially a two-story house having a complete apartment on each floor and two separate entrances.
- duplex paper — paper with a different finish or colour on each of the sides
- duplicatable — capable of being duplicated.
- dusty clover — a bush clover, Lespedeza capitata.
- dusty miller — Botany. any of several composite plants, as Centaurea cineraria, Senecio cineraria, or the beach wormwood, having pinnate leaves covered with whitish pubescence. rose campion.
- dutch belted — one of a breed of black dairy cattle, raised originally in the Netherlands, having a broad white band encircling the body.
- dutch clover — white clover.
- dutch settle — a settle having a back so hinged that it can be lowered onto the arms to form a table.
- dwarf cornel — the bunchberry.
- dwarf laurel — a low North American shrub, Kalmia angustifolia, of the heath family, having oblong leaves poisonous to grazing animals.
- dwarf planet — a spherical celestial body revolving about the sun, similar to a planet but not large enough to gravitationally clear its orbital region of most or all other celestial bodies. Pluto is a dwarf planet.
- dyotheletism — the teaching that Christ had both a divine will and a human will
- dysenterical — Alternative form of dysenteric.
- dysfluencies — disfluency.
- dyslipidemia — (medicine) an inbalance of lipids (especially cholesterol) in the blood; hypercholesterolemia.
- dysregulated — Simple past tense and past participle of dysregulate.
- dysteleology — Philosophy. a doctrine denying the existence of a final cause or purpose.
- early modern — designating or of the period of European history from the end of the Middle Ages (c. 1450) to c. 1750
- earth almond — chufa.
- ebb and flow — tidal movement
- echinodermal — (zoology) Relating or belonging to the echinoderms.
- eco-friendly — environmentally safe
- ectrodactyly — the congenital absence of part or all of one or more fingers or toes.
- edge molding — a convexly rounded molding having a fillet or concavity at or near its centerline.