12-letter words containing n, e, d, a
- 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.
- dreamfulness — the quality of being full of dreams
- 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.
- 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 gangrene — death of tissue owing to arterial obstruction without subsequent bacterial decomposition and putrefaction.
- 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.
- dual citizen — a person who is a citizen or subject of two or more nations; one having dual citizenship.
- dual in-line — (hardware) Dual In-Line Package.
- duncan phyfe — of, relating to, or resembling the furniture made by Duncan Phyfe, especially the earlier pieces in the Sheraton and Directoire styles.
- dunderheaded — Stupid, foolish.
- duodecennial — relating to twelve years
- duplex chain — a roller chain having two sets of rollers linked together, used for heavy-duty applications
- durante vita — during life.
- duty manager — A duty manager is a person who is in charge at a particular time.
- dwarf cornel — the bunchberry.
- dwarf planet — a spherical celestial body revolving about the sun, similar to a planet but not large enough to gravitationally clear its orbital region of most or all other celestial bodies. Pluto is a dwarf planet.
- dye transfer — a photographic printing method by which a full-color image is produced by the printing of separate cyan, magenta, and yellow images from individual gelatin relief matrices.
- dynamometers — Plural form of dynamometer.
- dynamometric — Relating to dynamometry.
- dysenterical — Alternative form of dysenteric.
- dysmenorrhea — painful menstruation.
- early modern — designating or of the period of European history from the end of the Middle Ages (c. 1450) to c. 1750
- earth almond — chufa.
- easting down — the passage eastward from the Cape of Good Hope, as made by a sailing ship bound for Australia or the East Indies.
- ebb and flow — tidal movement
- 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.
- edible canna — a South American and West Indian herb, Canna edulis, having large sheathing leaves, red flowers, and edible rhizomes.
- edifications — Plural form of edification.
- educatedness — the quality of being educated
- educationese — the jargon associated with the field of education.
- educationist — a specialist in the theory and methods of education.
- edulcorating — Present participle of edulcorate.
- edulcoration — (rare) A sweetening.
- edvard munch — Edvard [ed-vahrd] /ˈɛd vɑrd/ (Show IPA), 1863–1944, Norwegian painter and graphic artist.
- egads button — a switch that triggers the destruction in flight of a malfunctioning missile.
- egg and dart — a design for enriching an ovolo or echinus, consisting of a closely set, alternating series of oval and pointed forms.
- egg sandwich — two slices of bread filled with chopped egg
- elastic band — rubber strip for binding items together
- elephantbird — Alternative form of elephant bird.
- ellis island — small, government-owned island in Upper New York Bay: former (1892-1943) examination center for immigrants seeking to enter the U.S.: 27 acres (11 hectares)
- elucidations — Plural form of elucidation.
- empty-handed — carrying nothing
- en attendant — in the meantime; while waiting
- enamoredness — Quality of being enamored; love; infatuation.
- enarthrodial — Relating to an enarthrosis.
- encapsulated — Simple past tense and past participle of encapsulate.
- encaptivated — Simple past tense and past participle of encaptivate.