12-letter words containing o, l, d, e, n
- documentable — a written or printed paper furnishing information or evidence, as a passport, deed, bill of sale, or bill of lading; a legal or official paper.
- dogleg fence — snake fence.
- dolly varden — a woman's costume of the late 19th century, including a flower-trimmed, broad-brimmed hat and a dress consisting of a tight bodice and bouffant panniers in a flower print over a calf-length quilted petticoat.
- dolorousness — The quality of being dolorous.
- domain model — (systems analysis) 1. A definition of the functions, objects, data, requirements, relationships and variations in a particular domain. 2. A product of domain analysis which provides a representation of the requirements of the domain. The domain model identifies and describes the structure of data, flow of information, functions, constraints and controls within the Domain that are included in software systems in the domain. The Domain Model describes commonalities and variabilities among requirements for software systems in the domain.
- donald budge — (John) Donald, 1915–2000, U.S. tennis player.
- doppelganger — a ghostly double or counterpart of a living person.
- doppleganger — Misspelling of doppelganger.
- dorsiflexion — flexion toward the back.
- dorsiventral — Botany. having distinct dorsal and ventral sides, as most foliage leaves.
- dorsoventral — Zoology. pertaining to the dorsal and ventral aspects of the body; extending from the dorsal to the ventral side: the dorsoventral axis.
- double agent — a person who spies on a country while pretending to spy for it.
- double crown — a size of printing paper, 20 × 30 inches (51 × 76 cm).
- double ender — a double-ended vessel.
- double entry — a method in which each transaction is entered twice in the ledger, once to the debit of one account, and once to the credit of another.
- double-blind — of or relating to an experiment or clinical trial in which neither the subjects nor the researchers know which subjects are receiving the active medication, treatment, etc., and which are not: a technique for eliminating subjective bias from the test results.
- double-ended — having the two ends alike.
- double-think — illogical or deliberately perverse thinking in terms that distort or reverse the truth to make it more acceptable
- doubleganger — doppelgänger.
- doubtfulness — of uncertain outcome or result.
- doughnutlike — Resembling a doughnut.
- down-at-heel — of a shabby, run-down appearance; seedy: He is rapidly becoming a down-at-heel drifter and a drunk.
- downloadable — Capable of being downloaded.
- downregulate — To decrease the number of cell receptors by using downregulation.
- downwellings — Plural form of downwelling.
- downy mildew — Also called false mildew. any fungus of the family Peronosporaceae, causing many plant diseases and producing a white, downy mass of conidiophores, usually on the under surface of the leaves of the host plant.
- dragonslayer — One who slays a dragon.
- ductile iron — any of various cast irons strengthened by having the graphite content in the form of nodules rather than flakes, and containing cerium or magnesium as well as other additives.
- dulcet tones — People often use the expression dulcet tones to refer to someone's voice.
- duodecennial — relating to twelve years
- duodecillion — a cardinal number represented in the U.S. by 1 followed by 39 zeros, and in Great Britain by 1 followed by 72 zeros.
- dwarf cornel — the bunchberry.
- early modern — designating or of the period of European history from the end of the Middle Ages (c. 1450) to c. 1750
- earth almond — chufa.
- ebb and flow — tidal movement
- echinodermal — (zoology) Relating or belonging to the echinoderms.
- eco-friendly — environmentally safe
- edge molding — a convexly rounded molding having a fillet or concavity at or near its centerline.
- edulcorating — Present participle of edulcorate.
- edulcoration — (rare) A sweetening.
- electrosonde — a sonde that measures the electric potential in the atmosphere
- elucidations — Plural form of elucidation.
- enarthrodial — Relating to an enarthrosis.
- enciclopedia — Misspelling of encyclopedia.
- encyclopedia — An encyclopedia is a book or set of books in which facts about many different subjects or about one particular subject are arranged for reference, usually in alphabetical order.
- encyclopedic — Comprehensive in terms of information.
- end of steel — a point up to which railway tracks have been laid
- endless loop — infinite loop
- endocervical — Within a cervix.
- endochondral — occurring, or present, in cartilage