12-letter words containing n, e, r, d, y
- iskander bey — Scanderbeg.
- kidney donor — someone who donates one of their kidneys to be transplanted into another person
- la verendrye — Pierre Gaultier de Varenne [French pyer goh-tyey duh va-ren] /French pyɛr goʊˈtyeɪ də vaˈrɛn/ (Show IPA), Sieur de, 1685–1749, Canadian explorer of North America.
- landlubberly — Like a landlubber.
- laundrywomen — Plural form of laundrywoman.
- liberty bond — a single Liberty loan bond.
- linked rhyme — a rhyme in which the end of one line together with the first sound of the next line forms a rhyme with the end of another line.
- meanderingly — In a meandering or winding manner.
- meridianally — Along lines of meridian, longitudinally.
- meridionally — In a meridional manner.
- merry-andrew — a clown; buffoon.
- misery index — an unofficial indication of a nation's economic health, derived by adding the percentage rate of inflation to the percentage of unemployed workers: With inflation running at 15 percent and unemployment at 8 percent, the misery index is 23 percent.
- money spider — any of certain small shiny brownish spiders of the family Linyphiidae
- moneylenders — Plural form of moneylender.
- monkey bread — the gourdlike fruit of the baobab, eaten by monkeys.
- monohydrates — Plural form of monohydrate.
- monohydrogen — relating to a molecule in which there is a single hydrogen ion for each combining ion
- nature study — the study of plants and animals, especially by amateurs.
- neoorthodoxy — a movement in Protestant theology, beginning after World War I, stressing the absolute sovereignty of God and chiefly characterized by a reaction against liberal theology and a reaffirmation of certain doctrines of the Reformation.
- ninety-third — next after the ninety-second; being the ordinal number for 93.
- non-hydrated — chemically combined with water in its molecular form.
- nordkyn cape — Cape, a cape in N Norway, E of North Cape: northernmost point of the European mainland.
- nurserymaids — Plural form of nurserymaid.
- obedientiary — The holder of a monastic rank or office below that of superior.
- on your side — If something is on your side or if you have it on your side, it helps you when you are trying to achieve something.
- overanalyzed — Simple past tense and past participle of overanalyze.
- overidentify — to identify with someone else to an excessive degree
- panty girdle — women's control pants
- parahydrogen — the form of molecular hydrogen in which the nuclei of the two hydrogen atoms contained in the molecule have spins in opposite directions.
- payment card — A payment card is a plastic card which you use like a credit card, but which takes the money directly from your bank account.
- peach brandy — brandy distilled from the fermented juice of peaches.
- pedantocracy — rule by pedants; a system of government by pedants
- penny arcade — an amusement hall or area that contains coin-operated entertainment devices, originally operated for a penny a play.
- pentahydrate — a hydrate that contains five molecules of water, as potassium molybdate, KMoO 4 ⋅5H 2 O.
- pentahydroxy — (of a molecule) containing five hydroxyl groups.
- play reading — the activity when a group of people read the parts of a play
- pretendingly — falsely
- pronouncedly — strongly marked: a pronounced fishy taste.
- prudentially — of, pertaining to, characterized by, or resulting from prudence.
- pyrazinamide — a substance, C 5 H 5 N 3 O, used in the treatment of tuberculosis.
- pyridoxamine — a metabolic form of pyridoxine
- pyritohedron — a crystal form of 12 pentagonal faces.
- radiolucency — almost entirely transparent to radiation; almost entirely invisible in x-ray photographs and under fluoroscopy.
- red nose day — a fund-raising day on behalf of the British charity organization Comic Relief, which culminates in a live telethon on BBC One
- redeployment — to transfer (a unit, a person, supplies, etc.) from one theater of operations to another.
- residentiary — residing; resident.
- resoundingly — making an echoing sound: a resounding thud.
- resyndicated — a group of individuals or organizations combined or making a joint effort to undertake some specific duty or carry out specific transactions or negotiations: The local furniture store is individually owned, but is part of a buying syndicate.
- reynoldsburg — a town in central Ohio.
- rock and rye — a bottled drink made with rye whiskey, rock candy, and fruit.