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11-letter words containing n, a, d, s

  • dressmaking — a person whose occupation is the making or alteration of women's dresses, coats, etc.
  • drop astern — to fall back to the stern (of another vessel)
  • drum'n'bass — a type of electronic dance music using mainly bass guitar and drum sounds
  • dry-cleanse — to dry-clean.
  • dues-paying — gaining experience, especially by hard and often unpleasant or uncongenial work: He spent his dues-paying years as a cocktail pianist.
  • dunderheads — Plural form of dunderhead.
  • dundrearies — an expression for long whiskers or side-burns on the side of the face when present without a beard
  • duniewassal — a gentleman, especially a cadet of a ranking family, among the Highlanders of Scotland.
  • duplex scan — a scan that uses sound waves to show how well the blood is flowing in arteries
  • durableness — Durability.
  • dustbin man — (in British English) a man that is employed to collect domestic refuse
  • dynasticism — a system of government in which the rulers are all drawn from the same family
  • dysharmonic — relating to abnormal bone development
  • dyspareunia — painful coitus.
  • dyssynergia — (medicine) Failure of parts of the anatomy to work together correctly.
  • dysthanasia — (medicine, rare) The undue prolongation of life by artificial means in a person who cannot otherwise survive.
  • east indian — Indonesian: of the East Indies
  • east indies — Indonesia
  • east london — a seaport in the SE Cape of Good Hope province, in the S Republic of South Africa.
  • east riding — a former administrative division of Yorkshire, in NE England, now part of Humberside.
  • edi analyst — (job)   A person who introduces EDI standards and technology. An EDI analyst makes decisions for information construction and selects resources for EDI processing and application expansion. He coordinates processing and transmission schedules and mapping of standard data formats. He generally serves as a key contact for trading partners and value-added network consultants.
  • eglandulose — eglandular
  • eicosanoids — Plural form of eicosanoid.
  • eisenstaedt — Alfred. 1898–1995, US photographer, born in Germany; noted for his photograph of a sailor kissing a woman in Times Square, New York on V-J Day in 1945
  • emendations — Plural form of emendation.
  • encompassed — Simple past tense and past participle of encompass.
  • endearments — Plural form of endearment.
  • endophagous — relating to endophagy
  • endoplasmic — (cytology) of, or relating to endoplasm.
  • endorsation — approval or support
  • endosteally — in the manner of the endosteum
  • engagedness — The state of being deeply interested; earnestness; zeal.
  • enough said — understood
  • ensanguined — Simple past tense and past participle of ensanguine.
  • epaminondas — ?418–362 bc, Greek Theban statesman and general: defeated the Spartans at Leuctra (371) and Mantinea (362) and restored power in Greece to Thebes
  • equidistant — At equal distances.
  • eudaemonism — A system of ethics that bases moral value on the likelihood that good actions will produce happiness.
  • eudaemonist — A supporter of eudaemonism.
  • exaltedness — The state of being exalted.
  • exceedances — Plural form of exceedance.
  • expandables — Plural form of expandable.
  • expendables — Plural form of expendable.
  • exsanguined — without blood; anaemic
  • faddishness — The state or condition of being faddish.
  • fairgrounds — Alternative spelling of fairground; the grounds where a fair is held.
  • fanaticised — Simple past tense and past participle of fanaticise.
  • fancy dress — a costume for a ball, masquerade, etc., chosen to please the fancy, usually a costume characteristic of a particular period or place, class of persons, or historical or fictitious character.
  • fancy goods — small decorative gifts; knick-knacks
  • fanny adams — absolutely nothing at all
  • fantasyland — a place or circumstance existing only in the imagination or as an ideal; dream world.
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