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12-letter words containing n, e, r, d, o

  • 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.).
  • 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.
  • 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
  • droughtiness — Dryness of the weather; lack of rain.
  • dry-bone ore — a porous variety of smithsonite found near the surface of the earth.
  • 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.
  • 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.
  • dwarf cornel — the bunchberry.
  • dynamometers — Plural form of dynamometer.
  • dynamometric — Relating to dynamometry.
  • 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.
  • echinodermal — (zoology) Relating or belonging to the echinoderms.
  • echo sounder — a sonar instrument that uses echolocation to measure depths under water.
  • eco-friendly — environmentally safe
  • eden project — an environmental complex containing the world's largest greenhouse, built in a disused clay pit near St Austell, Cornwall, to study plant populations in a variety of environments
  • editing room — a room in which a film or television programme is prepared by selecting, rearranging, or rejecting previously filmed material
  • edulcorating — Present participle of edulcorate.
  • edulcoration — (rare) A sweetening.
  • electrosonde — a sonde that measures the electric potential in the atmosphere
  • embroidering — Present participle of embroider.
  • enamoredness — Quality of being enamored; love; infatuation.
  • enarthrodial — Relating to an enarthrosis.
  • enchiridions — Plural form of enchiridion.
  • end effector — The end effector of an actuator is the part that comes into contact with the object being moved or controlled.
  • endeavorment — Act of endeavouring; effort.
  • endeavouring — Present participle of endeavour.
  • endocarditic — Having or relating to endocarditis.
  • endocarditis — Inflammation of the endocardium.
  • endocervical — Within a cervix.
  • endochondral — occurring, or present, in cartilage
  • endomembrane — (biology) All the membraneous components inside a eukaryotic cell, including the nuclear envelope, endoplastic reticulum, and Golgi apparatus.
  • endometrioma — An ovarian cyst caused by endometriosis.
  • endometritis — Inflammation of the endometrium.
  • endomorphism — changes in a cooling body of igneous rock brought about by assimilation of fragments of, or chemical reaction with, the surrounding country rock
  • endoparasite — A parasite, such as a tapeworm, that lives inside its host.
  • endoperoxide — one of the substances formed in the biosynthesis of prostaglandins
  • endorsements — Plural form of endorsement.
  • endosmometer — an instrument for measuring the action of endosmosis
  • endotracheal — Situated or occurring within or performed by way of the trachea.
  • endovascular — Within a blood vessel.
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