12-letter words containing n, s, r, d
- considerated — Simple past tense and past participle of considerate.
- consolidator — a person or thing that consolidates
- consternated — to dismay, confuse, or terrify.
- consumerized — to make (goods or a product) suitable or available for mass consumption: to consumerize computers by making them cheaper.
- contradances — Plural form of contradance.
- coordinators — Plural form of coordinator.
- corespondent — a person charged with having committed adultery with the wife or husband from whom a divorce is being sought
- corresponded — to be in agreement or conformity (often followed by with or to): His actions do not correspond with his words.
- countermands — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of countermand.
- cowardliness — lacking courage; contemptibly timid.
- credibleness — The state or quality of being credible.
- crescendoing — Music. a gradual, steady increase in loudness or force. a musical passage characterized by such an increase. the performance of a crescendo passage: The crescendo by the violins is too abrupt.
- crocodilians — Plural form of crocodilian.
- crop dusting — Crop dusting is the spreading of pesticides on crops, usually from an aircraft.
- crop-dusting — the spraying of powdered fungicides or insecticides on crops, usually from an airplane.
- crospovidone — Crospovidone is a substance used in tablets as a binder or disintegrant.
- cross-dating — a method of dating objects, remains, etc, by comparison and correlation with other sites and levels
- crossbanding — a veneer border, as on furniture, with its grain at right angles to the grain of the adjacent wood
- crossed line — interference on a telephone line that causes more than two callers to be connected
- crossgrained — Alternative form of cross-grained.
- cryptomonads — Plural form of cryptomonad.
- curanderismo — the use of folk medicine, especially as practiced by a curandero.
- cyanohydrins — Plural form of cyanohydrin.
- cyberfriends — Plural form of cyberfriend.
- cylinder saw — crown saw.
- cyprinodonts — Plural form of cyprinodont.
- dark-skinned — (of a person or race) having skin of a dark colour
- dastardizing — Present participle of dastardize.
- dawson creek — a town in W Canada, in NE British Columbia: SE terminus of the Alaska Highway. Pop: 10 754 (2001)
- de profundis — out of the depths of misery or dejection
- dead fingers — a disease of users of pneumatic drills, characterized by anaesthesia of the fingertips and cyanosis
- deaspiration — the act of deaspirating
- debonairness — The state or quality of being debonair.
- decentralise — to distribute the administrative powers or functions of (a central authority) over a less concentrated area: to decentralize the national government.
- decentralism — A policy of favouring decentralization.
- decentralist — to distribute the administrative powers or functions of (a central authority) over a less concentrated area: to decentralize the national government.
- declarations — Plural form of declaration.
- declustering — Any technique that counteracts clustering (in any sense).
- deconsecrate — to transfer (a church) to secular use
- deconstructs — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of deconstruct.
- decorousness — characterized by dignified propriety in conduct, manners, appearance, character, etc.
- decreasingly — In a decreasing manner.
- decrescendos — Plural form of decrescendo.
- decrustation — the act of removing a crust
- deerstalking — The hunting of deer on foot, by stealing upon them unawares.
- defenestrate — to throw (a person or a thing) out of a window
- deformations — Plural form of deformation.
- degeneracies — Plural form of degeneracy.
- degradations — Plural form of degradation.
- delay screen — (in a cathode-ray tube) a sensitized screen with a phosphorescent coating that retains the image formed by the electron beam for an appreciable time.