12-letter words containing n, e, d, a
- countertrade — international trade in which payment is made in goods rather than currency
- coup de main — an attack that achieves complete surprise
- cowardliness — lacking courage; contemptibly timid.
- crackbrained — insane, idiotic, or crazy
- crane driver — a person who drives a crane
- crater mound — huge, circular depression in central Ariz., believed to have been made by a meteorite: depth, 600 ft (183 m); diameter, 0.75 mi (1.2 km)
- credentialed — Usually, credentials. evidence of authority, status, rights, entitlement to privileges, or the like, usually in written form: Only those with the proper credentials are admitted.
- criminalized — Simple past tense and past participle of criminalize.
- crossgrained — Alternative form of cross-grained.
- crowned head — a monarch
- curanderismo — the use of folk medicine, especially as practiced by a curandero.
- cyber monday — the Monday after Thanksgiving, one of the busiest online shopping days.
- cyclandelate — a medicine for relaxing smooth muscle and encouraging blood cell dilation
- cylinder saw — crown saw.
- d'anjou pear — Anjou pear
- dad and dave — stereotypes of the unsophisticated rural dweller before World War II
- dail eireann — (in the Republic of Ireland) the lower chamber of parliament
- damaskeening — Present participle of damaskeen.
- dame fortune — the personification of fortune as a woman
- damnableness — The state or quality of being damnable.
- dance on air — to move one's feet or body, or both, rhythmically in a pattern of steps, especially to the accompaniment of music.
- dance studio — A dance studio is a place where people pay to learn how to dance.
- dancing step — balanced step.
- dandrufflike — Resembling or characteristic of dandruff.
- danger angle — a horizontal or vertical angle, subtended by two points on shore, that provides a maximum or minimum angle between the points as observed from a vessel if it is to steer a safe course.
- danger money — extra money paid to compensate for the risks involved in certain dangerous jobs
- danger point — the point at which something ceases to be safe
- daniel boone — Daniel, 1734–1820, American pioneer, especially in Kentucky.
- daniel jones — Anson [an-suh n] /ˈæn sən/ (Show IPA), 1798–1858, president of the Republic of Texas.
- daniel shays — Daniel, 1747–1825, American Revolutionary War soldier: leader of a popular insurrection (Shays' Rebellion) in Massachusetts 1786–87.
- daniell cell — a type of cell having a zinc anode in dilute sulphuric acid separated by a porous barrier from a copper cathode in copper sulphate solution. It has an emf of 1.1 volts
- danube river — a river in central and SE Europe, flowing E from southern Germany to the Black Sea. 1725 miles (2775 km) long.
- daphnephoria — an ancient Greek festival in honor of Apollo.
- dark current — the residual current produced by a photoelectric device when not illuminated
- dark lantern — a lantern having a sliding shutter or panel to dim or hide the light
- dark mineral — any rock-forming mineral that has a specific gravity greater than 2.8 and that is generally dark in color.
- dark-skinned — (of a person or race) having skin of a dark colour
- data channel — (communications) A channel (on a BRI or PRI line) used to carry control information, to set up connections on the associated bearer channels. The name wasn't too bad back when users were sending voice (not data) over the bearer channels, but in 1997 it's quite a misnomer.
- data general — (company) A US computer manufacturer. Responsible for the Nova minicomputer. Quarterly sales $284M, profits -$12M (Aug 1994).
- data segment — (memory) The range of memory locations where the initialised data of a program produced by a Unix linker is located. Executable code is located in the code segment and uninitialised data in the bss segment.
- daughterling — a small daughter
- dauntingness — to overcome with fear; intimidate: to daunt one's adversaries.
- david turner — (person) Professor David A Turner. One of the pioneers of functional languages. He designed several languages, including, SASL (1976), KRC (1981), and Miranda, many of which were implemented using combinators and the S-K reduction machine which he defined. He coined the name "ZF expression" for the list comprehension. He worked at UKC and set up a company, Research Software Limited to market Miranda.
- dawn redwood — a deciduous conifer, Metasequoia glyptostroboides, native to China but planted in other regions as an ornamental tree: family Taxodiaceae. Until the 1940s it was known only as a fossil
- dawson creek — a town in W Canada, in NE British Columbia: SE terminus of the Alaska Highway. Pop: 10 754 (2001)
- de havilland — Sir Geoffrey. 1882–1965, British aircraft designer. He produced many military aircraft and the first jet airliners
- de-accession — to remove (an item) from a museum or library collection preparatory to selling it
- de-designate — to mark or point out; indicate; show; specify.
- de-integrate — to bring together or incorporate (parts) into a whole.
- de-stalinize — to eliminate the influence of Stalin from