12-letter words containing n, e, d, l, s
- downwellings — Plural form of downwelling.
- dragonslayer — One who slays a dragon.
- drawlingness — the quality or characteristic of a drawler
- dreadfulness — The characteristic of being dreadful.
- dreamfulness — the quality of being full of dreams
- dress length — a piece of material that is big enough to make a dress from
- dulcet tones — People often use the expression dulcet tones to refer to someone's voice.
- dysenterical — Alternative form of dysenteric.
- dysfluencies — disfluency.
- elastic band — rubber strip for binding items together
- electrosonde — a sonde that measures the electric potential in the atmosphere
- 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.
- encapsulated — Simple past tense and past participle of encapsulate.
- end of steel — a point up to which railway tracks have been laid
- endless belt — a continuous belt used in various applications, particularly to run over wheels
- endless loop — infinite loop
- endogenously — In an endogenous manner.
- endonuclease — An enzyme that cleaves a polynucleotide chain by separating nucleotides other than the two end ones.
- endophyllous — enclosed in a leaf or sheath
- endoskeletal — (anatomy) Of or pertaining to an internal skeleton, usually of bone (an endoskeleton).
- endoskeleton — An internal skeleton, such as the bony or cartilaginous skeleton of vertebrates.
- endovascular — Within a blood vessel.
- english bond — a bond used in brickwork that has a course of headers alternating with a course of stretchers
- enlargedness — the state of being enlarged
- enlisted man — military: male soldier
- externalised — Simple past tense and past participle of externalise.
- 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.
- find oneself — to come upon by chance; meet with: He found a nickel in the street.
- flemish bond — a brickwork bond having alternate stretchers and headers in each course, each header being centered above and below a stretcher.
- flindermouse — (obsolete) A bat (the mammal).
- flinders bar — a bar of soft iron, mounted vertically beneath a compass to compensate for vertical magnetic currents.
- flux density — the magnetic, radiant, or electric flux per unit of cross-sectional area.
- folding seat — a seat that can be folded down
- foodlessness — Absence of food.
- fourfoldness — the quality of consisting of four parts
- friendliness — characteristic of or befitting a friend; showing friendship: a friendly greeting.
- fundamentals — serving as, or being an essential part of, a foundation or basis; basic; underlying: fundamental principles; the fundamental structure.
- gangliosides — Plural form of ganglioside.
- gangsterland — an area controlled by gangsters
- garden snail — Zoology
- gas cylinder — container for storing gas
- gladsomeness — (archaic) gladness.
- glandiferous — bearing nuts or acorns
- god's plenty — an abundant or overabundant quantity.
- golden aster — any North American, asterlike, composite plant of the genus Chrysopsis, having bright, golden-yellow flower heads, as C. mariana, of the eastern U.S.
- golden goose — a legendary goose that laid one golden egg a day and was killed by its impatient owner, who wanted all the gold immediately.
- golden share — a share in a company that controls at least 51% of the voting rights, esp one retained by the UK government in some privatization issues