12-letter words containing e, s, d, r
- breed's hill — a hill in E Massachusetts, adjoining Bunker Hill: the true site of the Battle of Bunker Hill (1775)
- bridal suite — a room or set of rooms in a hotel for newly married couples
- bridge house — a deckhouse including a bridge or bridges for navigation.
- brush border — a layer of tightly packed minute finger-like protuberances on cells that line absorptive surfaces, such as those of the intestine and kidney
- burmese jade — jadeite of the finest quality: a true jade.
- cadaverously — In a cadaverous manner.
- caesar salad — Caesar salad is a type of salad containing lettuce, eggs, cheese, and small pieces of fried bread, served with a dressing of oil, vinegar, and herbs.
- caked breast — a painful hardening of one or more lobules of a lactating breast, caused by stagnation of milk in the secreting ducts and accumulation of blood in the expanded veins; stagnation mastitis.
- camaraderies — comradeship; good-fellowship.
- camelopardus — a faint extensive constellation in the N hemisphere close to Ursa Major and Cassiopeia
- candy stripe — a pattern of bright stripes of one color against a plain background, used chiefly in fabrics.
- cankeredness — spitefulness or crabbedness
- caraway seed — the pungent aromatic one-seeded fruit of this plant, used in cooking and in medicine
- carbohydrase — a digestive enzyme that breaks down carbohydrates through hydrolysis
- card stacker — the part of a card punch or card reader that collects into a pile those cards that have been processed
- cardinalates — Plural form of cardinalate.
- casehardened — Simple past tense and past participle of caseharden.
- cash-starved — A cash-starved company or organization does not have enough money to operate properly, usually because another organization, such as the government, is not giving them the money that they need.
- cat's cradle — a game played by making intricate patterns with a loop of string between the fingers
- catbird seat — an enviable position, as of power
- cathode rays — a stream of electrons emitted from the surface of a cathode in a valve
- cecil rhodes — Cecil John, 1853–1902, English colonial capitalist and government administrator in southern Africa.
- cedar rapids — a city in the US, in E Iowa. Pop: 122 542 (2003 est)
- cedrelaceous — resembling or having the characteristics of a citron fruit
- centerboards — Plural form of centerboard.
- centeredness — The state of being centered.
- cerebrosides — Plural form of cerebroside.
- chambermaids — Plural form of chambermaid.
- charles drew — Charles Richard, 1904–50, U.S. physician: developer of blood-bank technique.
- cheerleaders — Plural form of cheerleader.
- cheese board — A cheese board is a board from which cheese is served at a meal.
- cheeseboards — Plural form of cheeseboard.
- chesterfield — a man's knee-length overcoat, usually with a fly front to conceal the buttons and having a velvet collar
- child abuser — someone who abuses a child, esp someone convicted of this
- chondriosome — mitochondrion
- chordophones — Plural form of chordophone.
- chorus pedal — an electronic device that creates the effect of more than one sound from a single source by combining a short delay with slight deviations in pitch
- chowderheads — Plural form of chowderhead.
- chrysomelids — Plural form of chrysomelid.
- cigar-shaped — resembling a cigar in shape
- circularised — Simple past tense and past participle of circularise.
- clam diggers — casual pants that end slightly below the knee.
- clam-diggers — calf-length trousers
- clear as mud — not at all clear
- clearsighted — seeing clearly
- close-reefed — having most or all of the sail reefs taken in.
- closegrained — having a fine, compact grain or texture
- 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
- cloudberries — Plural form of cloudberry.