12-letter words containing n, e, d, r
- doorknockers — Plural form of doorknocker.
- doorstepping — talking to someone at the door of their home, for political canvassing or to gather information
- dopaminergic — activated by or sensitive to dopamine.
- doppelganger — a ghostly double or counterpart of a living person.
- doppleganger — Misspelling of doppelganger.
- dorsiflexion — flexion toward the back.
- dorsiventral — Botany. having distinct dorsal and ventral sides, as most foliage leaves.
- dorsoventral — Zoology. pertaining to the dorsal and ventral aspects of the body; extending from the dorsal to the ventral side: the dorsoventral axis.
- double crown — a size of printing paper, 20 × 30 inches (51 × 76 cm).
- double ender — a double-ended vessel.
- double entry — a method in which each transaction is entered twice in the ledger, once to the debit of one account, and once to the credit of another.
- doubleganger — doppelgänger.
- down-hearted — dejected; depressed; discouraged.
- downregulate — To decrease the number of cell receptors by using downregulation.
- draftsperson — a person employed in making mechanical drawings, especially in an architectural or engineering firm.
- dragonslayer — One who slays a dragon.
- drapetomania — (dated) an overwhelming urge to run away (from home, a bad situation, responsibility, etc.).
- drawlingness — the quality or characteristic of a drawler
- drawn butter — melted butter, clarified and often seasoned with herbs or lemon juice.
- dreadfulness — The characteristic of being dreadful.
- dreadnoughts — Plural form of dreadnought.
- 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
- dress length — a piece of material that is big enough to make a dress from
- drift netter — a person who uses a drift net in fishing.
- drink-driver — A drink-driver is someone who drives after drinking more than the amount of alcohol that is legally allowed.
- drinker moth — a large yellowish-brown bombycid eggar moth, Philudoria potatoria, having a stout hairy body, the larvae of which drink dew and feed on grasses
- dripping wet — If you are dripping wet, you are so wet that water is dripping from you.
- driving belt — a belt that carries movement from an engine or moving part to another moving part
- 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.
- driving test — the examination that new drivers must take in order to be officially allowed to drive when not under instruction
- driving time — the time or estimated time to drive between two points or to one's destination.
- droughtiness — Dryness of the weather; lack of rain.
- drug-induced — caused by recreational or medical drugs
- 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.
- drum printer — a line printer that uses a rotating drum with raised characters, against which the paper is pressed.
- drunk driver — A drunk driver is someone who drives after drinking more than the amount of alcohol that is legally allowed.
- dry gangrene — death of tissue owing to arterial obstruction without subsequent bacterial decomposition and putrefaction.
- dry-bone ore — a porous variety of smithsonite found near the surface of the earth.
- 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.
- ductile iron — any of various cast irons strengthened by having the graphite content in the form of nodules rather than flakes, and containing cerium or magnesium as well as other additives.
- dunderheaded — Stupid, foolish.
- durante vita — during life.
- dust counter — any instrument used to measure the size and number of dust particles per unit volume in the atmosphere.
- dutch borneo — the former name of the southern and larger part of the island of Borneo: now part of Indonesia.
- 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.