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12-letter words containing i, s, n, a, d

  • endoparasite — A parasite, such as a tapeworm, that lives inside its host.
  • enfranchised — Simple past tense and past participle of enfranchise.
  • enlisted man — military: male soldier
  • equidistance — (uncountable) Equal distance.
  • eradications — Plural form of eradication.
  • externalised — Simple past tense and past participle of externalise.
  • extraditions — Plural form of extradition.
  • fair-skinned — having pale skin; pale-complexioned
  • false friend — a word or expression in one language that, because it resembles one in another language, is often wrongly taken to have the same meaning, for example, the French agenda which means diary, not agenda
  • false indigo — any of several North American shrubs belonging to the genus Amorpha, of the legume family, especially A. fruticosa, having compound leaves with pinnate leaflets and long, dense clusters of purplish flowers.
  • fascinatedly — In a fascinated manner; with fascination.
  • fennoscandia — region in N Europe, including Scandinavia, Finland, and the part of NW Russia west of the White Sea
  • fingerboards — Plural form of fingerboard.
  • firing squad — a military detachment assigned to execute a condemned person by shooting.
  • flash drying — Flash drying is a stage in a process to make something bigger, in which a paste-like feed is broken up and dried at the same time.
  • flinders bar — a bar of soft iron, mounted vertically beneath a compass to compensate for vertical magnetic currents.
  • flying squad — a trained, mobile group of police officers, business executives, labor officials, or the like, capable of performing specialized tasks whenever or wherever sent, often for use in emergencies.
  • folding seat — a seat that can be folded down
  • foreadmonish — (rare, transitive) To admonish beforehand, or before the act or event.
  • fort madison — a city in SE Iowa, on the Mississippi.
  • freestanding — (of sculpture or architectural elements) unattached to a supporting unit or background; standing alone.
  • fund-raising — the act or process of raising funds, as for nonprofit organizations or for a political cause.
  • gangliosides — Plural form of ganglioside.
  • garden snail — Zoology
  • gas cylinder — container for storing gas
  • gas dynamics — the study of the dynamic properties of gases and their thermal effects.
  • gastric band — A gastric band is a device that is fitted inside someone's stomach to make it smaller in order to help them lose weight.
  • gendarmeries — Plural form of gendarmerie.
  • gingerbreads — Plural form of gingerbread.
  • glad tidings — Glad tidings means good news.
  • glandiferous — bearing nuts or acorns
  • godwin's law — (humour)   "As a Usenet discussion grows longer, the probability of a comparison involving Nazis or Hitler approaches one." There is a tradition in many groups that, once this occurs, that thread is over, and whoever mentioned the Nazis has automatically lost whatever argument was in progress. Godwin's Law thus practically guarantees the existence of an upper bound on thread length in those groups. However there is also a widely recognised codicil that any intentional triggering of Godwin's Law in order to invoke its thread-ending effects will be unsuccessful.
  • gormandising — Present participle of gormandise.
  • gormandizers — gourmandise1 .
  • grand island — a city in S Nebraska.
  • grand rapids — a city in SW Michigan: furniture factories.
  • grand siècle — the 17th century in French art and literature, esp the classical period of Louis XIV
  • granddaddies — Plural form of granddaddy.
  • grosswardein — German name of Oradea.
  • guardianista — a reader of the Guardian newspaper, seen as being typically left-wing, liberal, and politically correct
  • guardianship — the position and responsibilities of a guardian, especially toward a ward.
  • hadrosaurine — Hadrosaurid.
  • haemosiderin — Alternative form of hemosiderin.
  • hairdressing — the act or process of cutting, combing out, doing up, or styling hair.
  • hand setting — Also called French telephone. a telephone having a mouthpiece and earpiece mounted at opposite ends of a handle.
  • hand-selling — a gift or token for good luck or as an expression of good wishes, as at the beginning of the new year or when entering upon a new situation or enterprise.
  • handicappeds — Plural form of handicapped.
  • handicappers — Plural form of handicapper.
  • handies peak — a peak in SW Colorado, in the San Juan Mountains. 14,048 feet (4285 meters).
  • handstitched — Stitched by hand.
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