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12-letter words containing n, o, a, d, s

  • educationese — the jargon associated with the field of education.
  • educationist — a specialist in the theory and methods of education.
  • egads button — a switch that triggers the destruction in flight of a malfunctioning missile.
  • elucidations — Plural form of elucidation.
  • enamoredness — Quality of being enamored; love; infatuation.
  • endocarditis — Inflammation of the endocardium.
  • endonuclease — An enzyme that cleaves a polynucleotide chain by separating nucleotides other than the two end ones.
  • endoparasite — A parasite, such as a tapeworm, that lives inside its host.
  • endoskeletal — (anatomy) Of or pertaining to an internal skeleton, usually of bone (an endoskeleton).
  • endovascular — Within a blood vessel.
  • eradications — Plural form of eradication.
  • extraditions — Plural form of extradition.
  • 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.
  • favouredness — the quality of or extent to which something is favoured
  • fennoscandia — region in N Europe, including Scandinavia, Finland, and the part of NW Russia west of the White Sea
  • fingerboards — Plural form of fingerboard.
  • folding seat — a seat that can be folded down
  • foreadmonish — (rare, transitive) To admonish beforehand, or before the act or event.
  • fort madison — a city in SE Iowa, on the Mississippi.
  • foundry sand — silica-based sand mixed with clay, oil, etc, to improve its cohesive strength, used in moulding
  • gangliosides — Plural form of ganglioside.
  • gladsomeness — (archaic) gladness.
  • glandiferous — bearing nuts or acorns
  • godwin's law — (humour)   "As a Usenet discussion grows longer, the probability of a comparison involving Nazis or Hitler approaches one." There is a tradition in many groups that, once this occurs, that thread is over, and whoever mentioned the Nazis has automatically lost whatever argument was in progress. Godwin's Law thus practically guarantees the existence of an upper bound on thread length in those groups. However there is also a widely recognised codicil that any intentional triggering of Godwin's Law in order to invoke its thread-ending effects will be unsuccessful.
  • 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 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
  • golden stars — a plant, Bloomeria crocea, of the amaryllis family, native to southern California, having clusters of golden-orange, starlike flowers.
  • golden state — California (used as a nickname).
  • golden years — the years that follow retirement from work
  • good heavens — You say 'Good heavens!' or 'Heavens!' to express surprise or to emphasize that you agree or disagree with someone.
  • gormandising — Present participle of gormandise.
  • gormandizers — gourmandise1 .
  • grand rounds — a formal hospital meeting at which physicians discuss interesting medical cases.
  • grandmothers — Plural form of grandmother.
  • grosswardein — German name of Oradea.
  • ground glass — Optics. glass that has had its polished surface removed by fine grinding and that is used to diffuse light.
  • ground shark — any of various requiem sharks, especially of the genus Carcharhinus.
  • ground staff — The people who are paid to maintain a sports ground are called the ground staff.
  • ground state — the state of least energy of a particle, as an atom, or of a system of particles.
  • hadrosaurine — Hadrosaurid.
  • haemosiderin — Alternative form of hemosiderin.
  • halcyon days — period regarded with nostalgia
  • handsomeness — The quality of being handsome.
  • handypersons — Plural form of handyperson.
  • harrison red — a pigment consisting of a paratoluidine toner, characterized by its brilliant red color and tendency to bleed.
  • head station — the main buildings on a large sheep or cattle farm
  • headlongness — Headlong quality or speed; precipitateness.
  • headstrongly — In a headstrong manner.
  • hemodynamics — the branch of physiology dealing with the forces involved in the circulation of the blood.
  • heptahedrons — Plural form of heptahedron.
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