12-letter words containing n, s, r, d
- favouredness — the quality of or extent to which something is favoured
- finder's fee — a fee paid to a finder or agent who initiates a business transaction, usually a percentage of the money earned.
- fingerboards — Plural form of fingerboard.
- firing squad — a military detachment assigned to execute a condemned person by shooting.
- flash drying — Flash drying is a stage in a process to make something bigger, in which a paste-like feed is broken up and dried at the same time.
- flindermouse — (obsolete) A bat (the mammal).
- flinders bar — a bar of soft iron, mounted vertically beneath a compass to compensate for vertical magnetic currents.
- foreadmonish — (rare, transitive) To admonish beforehand, or before the act or event.
- foredestined — Simple past tense and past participle of foredestine.
- fort madison — a city in SE Iowa, on the Mississippi.
- forty-second — next after the forty-first; being the ordinal number for 42.
- foundry sand — silica-based sand mixed with clay, oil, etc, to improve its cohesive strength, used in moulding
- fourdriniers — Plural form of fourdrinier.
- fourfoldness — the quality of consisting of four parts
- freestanding — (of sculpture or architectural elements) unattached to a supporting unit or background; standing alone.
- french doors — a door having glass panes throughout or nearly throughout its length.
- french sudan — former name of Mali.
- friendliness — characteristic of or befitting a friend; showing friendship: a friendly greeting.
- frondescence — the process or period of putting forth leaves, as a tree, plant, or the like.
- frondiferous — Producing fronds.
- fund-raising — the act or process of raising funds, as for nonprofit organizations or for a political cause.
- gangsterland — an area controlled by gangsters
- garden cress — a peppergrass, Lepidium sativum, used as a salad vegetable.
- garden snail — Zoology
- garden state — New Jersey (used as a nickname).
- gas cylinder — container for storing gas
- gastric band — A gastric band is a device that is fitted inside someone's stomach to make it smaller in order to help them lose weight.
- gendarmeries — Plural form of gendarmerie.
- gerrymanders — Plural form of gerrymander.
- gingerbreads — Plural form of gingerbread.
- glandiferous — bearing nuts or acorns
- 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 syrup — treacle (def 2b).
- golden years — the years that follow retirement from work
- gormandising — Present participle of gormandise.
- gormandizers — gourmandise1 .
- grand island — a city in S Nebraska.
- grand master — the head of a military order of knighthood, a lodge, fraternal order, or the like.
- grand rapids — a city in SW Michigan: furniture factories.
- grand rounds — a formal hospital meeting at which physicians discuss interesting medical cases.
- grand siècle — the 17th century in French art and literature, esp the classical period of Louis XIV
- granddaddies — Plural form of granddaddy.
- grandfathers — Plural form of grandfather.
- grandmasters — Plural form of grandmaster.
- grandmothers — Plural form of grandmother.
- grandnephews — Plural form of grandnephew.
- grandparents — a parent of a parent.
- grandstanded — Simple past tense and past participle of grandstand.