12-letter words containing i, n, d, a, r
- diving board — a springboard.
- doctrinaires — Plural form of doctrinaire.
- doctrinarian — A doctrinaire.
- doctrination — (nonstandard) indoctrination.
- dolphinarium — An aquarium in which dolphins are kept and trained for public entertainment.
- dominatrices — Plural form of dominatrixThe 'Concise Oxford English Dictionary' [Eleventh Edition].
- domino paper — a marbleized or figured decorative paper, used for wallpaper, end papers, etc., printed from wood blocks and colored by hand.
- donationware — (Internet) A variant of freeware that offers an option to its user to donate money to the program's author.
- door curtain — a curtain that fills a doorway
- dopaminergic — activated by or sensitive to dopamine.
- dorsiventral — Botany. having distinct dorsal and ventral sides, as most foliage leaves.
- draconically — (often lowercase) Draconian.
- draft animal — an animal used for pulling heavy loads.
- dragon light — a herbal remedy for impotence
- drapetomania — (dated) an overwhelming urge to run away (from home, a bad situation, responsibility, etc.).
- draw curtain — a curtain, opening at the middle, that can be drawn to the sides of a stage.
- drawing card — a person who or thing that attracts attention or patrons.
- drawing room — a formal reception room, especially in an apartment or private house.
- drawlingness — the quality or characteristic of a drawler
- dream vision — a conventional device used in narrative verse, employed especially by medieval poets, that presents a story as told by one who falls asleep and dreams the events of the poem: Dante's Divine Comedy exemplifies the dream vision in its most developed form.
- drift anchor — a sea anchor or drag.
- drinkability — The state or property of being drinkable.
- drinks party — a cocktail party
- dripping pan — a shallow pan placed under roasting meat to catch the dripping
- driving sail — a sail that, when filled, tends to force the hull of a vessel downward (opposed to lifting sail).
- 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.
- drop curtain — a curtain that is lowered into position from the flies.
- drop initial — inset initial.
- drum machine — a device that simulates percussion sounds in various combinations and rhythms, and can alter digitally stored drum sounds or make digital recordings of drum sounds.
- dry-cleaning — Dry-cleaning is the action or work of dry-cleaning things such as clothes.
- drying agent — A drying agent is used in an absorption column (= a tall vessel) to remove water from fractions.
- durante vita — during life.
- dynamometric — Relating to dynamometry.
- dysenterical — Alternative form of dysenteric.
- echinodermal — (zoology) Relating or belonging to the echinoderms.
- eden prairie — a town in SE Minnesota.
- edgar adrian — Edgar Douglas, 1889–1977, English physiologist: Nobel Prize in Medicine 1932.
- edulcorating — Present participle of edulcorate.
- edulcoration — (rare) A sweetening.
- elephantbird — Alternative form of elephant bird.
- enarthrodial — Relating to an enarthrosis.
- endeavouring — Present participle of endeavour.
- endocarditic — Having or relating to endocarditis.
- endocarditis — Inflammation of the endocardium.
- endocervical — Within a cervix.
- endometrioma — An ovarian cyst caused by endometriosis.
- endoparasite — A parasite, such as a tapeworm, that lives inside its host.
- endurability — The state or quality of being endurable.
- enfranchised — Simple past tense and past participle of enfranchise.
- ephemeridian — relating to ephemera