12-letter words containing n, e, r, d, y
- garden party — a party given out of doors in a garden or yard.
- gas cylinder — container for storing gas
- gay-friendly — welcoming to gay people
- gerrymanders — Plural form of gerrymander.
- gingerbready — Resembling or characteristic of gingerbread.
- glycerinated — to impregnate with glycerin.
- glyndebourne — an estate in SE England, in East Sussex: site of a famous annual festival of opera founded in 1934 by John Christie
- golden syrup — treacle (def 2b).
- golden years — the years that follow retirement from work
- granny dress — a loose-fitting, ankle-length dress, usually with long sleeves and a high collar and sometimes having flounces, ruffles, or lace trimming.
- great sunday — Easter Sunday.
- grey gurnard — a species of scorpionfish, Eutriglia gurnardus
- groundlessly — In a groundless manner; without justification.
- handypersons — Plural form of handyperson.
- hard done by — If you feel hard done by, you feel that you have not been treated fairly.
- headstrongly — In a headstrong manner.
- henry howard — Earl of (Henry Howard) 1517?–47, English poet.
- heterodyning — Present participle of heterodyne.
- home and dry — If you say that someone is, in British English home and dry, or in American English home free, you mean that they have been successful or that they are certain to be successful.
- honey badger — ratel.
- horned poppy — any of several Eurasian papaveraceous plants of the genera Glaucium and Roemeria, having large brightly coloured flowers and long curved seed capsules
- horrendously — shockingly dreadful; horrible: a horrendous crime.
- hundred days — the period from March 20 to June 28, 1815, between the arrival of Napoleon in Paris, after his escape from Elba, and his abdication after the battle of Waterloo.
- hydnocarpate — a salt or ester of hydnocarpic acid.
- hydrastinine — a white, crystalline, poisonous alkaloid, C 11 H 13 NO 3 , synthesized from hydrastine: used to arrest bleeding, especially in the uterus.
- hydrocyclone — A hydrocyclone is a vessel used for separating two liquids with different densities, by the circular movement of fluid.
- hydrogen ion — ionized hydrogen of the form H + , found in aqueous solutions of all acids.
- hydrogenated — to combine or treat with hydrogen, especially to add hydrogen to the molecule of (an unsaturated organic compound).
- hydrogenates — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of hydrogenate.
- hydrogenized — Simple past tense and past participle of hydrogenize.
- hydrokinesis — (science fiction): The psychic ability to manipulate or control water.
- hydrokinetic — pertaining to the motion of liquids.
- hydroquinone — a white, crystalline compound, C 6 H 6 O 2 , formed by the reduction of quinone: used chiefly in photography and to inhibit autoxidation reactions.
- hydrozincite — a hydrous zinc carbonate, Zn 5 (CO 3) 2 (OH) 6 , an important ore of zinc in some localities.
- hyperdynamic — (physiology) Describing an increase in both blood pressure and pulse pressure.
- hyperendemic — manifesting a high and persistent occurrence
- inadvertency — inadvertence.
- indecorously — not decorous; violating generally accepted standards of good taste or propriety; unseemly.
- indifferency — indifference.
- indiscreetly — not discreet; lacking prudence, good judgment, or circumspection: an indiscreet remark.
- industrywide — from, covering, or affecting an entire industry: industrywide profits.
- ineradicably — not eradicable; not capable of being eradicated, rooted out, or completely removed.
- inordinately — not within proper or reasonable limits; immoderate; excessive: He drank an inordinate amount of wine.
- inquiry desk — a section of an office, business etc, which deals with inquiries nor requests for information
- interdictory — of, relating to, or noting interdiction.
- interestedly — In an interested manner.
- intermediacy — the state of being intermediate or of acting intermediately.
- intermediary — an intermediate agent or agency; a go-between or mediator.
- intertidally — in an intertidal manner
- iridescently — In an iridescent manner.