12-letter words containing e, n, t, r, i, d
- disturbances — Plural form of disturbance.
- ditransitive — noting or pertaining to a verb taking both a direct and an indirect object, as give in “I gave him the package.”.
- diversionist — a person engaged in activities that divert attention from a primary focus.
- divertimento — an instrumental composition in several movements, light and diverting in character, similar to a serenade.
- divine right — doctrine that king's power was ordained by God
- doctrinaires — Plural form of doctrinaire.
- dominatrices — Plural form of dominatrixThe 'Concise Oxford English Dictionary' [Eleventh Edition].
- donationware — (Internet) A variant of freeware that offers an option to its user to donate money to the program's author.
- doorstepping — talking to someone at the door of their home, for political canvassing or to gather information
- dorsiventral — Botany. having distinct dorsal and ventral sides, as most foliage leaves.
- drapetomania — (dated) an overwhelming urge to run away (from home, a bad situation, responsibility, etc.).
- drift netter — a person who uses a drift net in fishing.
- drinker moth — a large yellowish-brown bombycid eggar moth, Philudoria potatoria, having a stout hairy body, the larvae of which drink dew and feed on grasses
- dripping wet — If you are dripping wet, you are so wet that water is dripping from you.
- driving belt — a belt that carries movement from an engine or moving part to another moving part
- 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
- driving time — the time or estimated time to drive between two points or to one's destination.
- droughtiness — Dryness of the weather; lack of rain.
- drum printer — a line printer that uses a rotating drum with raised characters, against which the paper is pressed.
- drying agent — A drying agent is used in an absorption column (= a tall vessel) to remove water from fractions.
- 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.
- durante vita — during life.
- dynamometric — Relating to dynamometry.
- dysenterical — Alternative form of dysenteric.
- editing room — a room in which a film or television programme is prepared by selecting, rearranging, or rejecting previously filmed material
- edulcorating — Present participle of edulcorate.
- edulcoration — (rare) A sweetening.
- elephantbird — Alternative form of elephant bird.
- enarthrodial — Relating to an enarthrosis.
- endocarditic — Having or relating to endocarditis.
- endocarditis — Inflammation of the endocardium.
- endometrioma — An ovarian cyst caused by endometriosis.
- endometritis — Inflammation of the endometrium.
- endoparasite — A parasite, such as a tapeworm, that lives inside its host.
- endurability — The state or quality of being endurable.
- entertissued — interwoven
- eradications — Plural form of eradication.
- event-driven — (programming) A kind of program, such as a graphical user interface, with a main loop which just waits for events to occur. Each event has an associated handler which is passed the details of the event, e.g. mouse button 3 pressed at position (355, 990). For example, X window system and most Visual Basic application programs are event-driven. See also callback.
- ex-president — a former chief executive or head of state of a republic
- exheredation — A disinheriting; disherison.
- expenditures — Plural form of expenditure.
- experimented — Simple past tense and past participle of experiment.
- exterminated — Simple past tense and past participle of exterminate.
- externalised — Simple past tense and past participle of externalise.
- externalized — Simple past tense and past participle of externalize.
- extraditions — Plural form of extradition.
- extrordinary — Misspelling of extraordinary.
- fainthearted — lacking courage; cowardly; timorous.
- farthingdale — (British, dated, 13th-19th C.) A unit of area equal to one quarter of an acre.