12-letter words containing r, e, l, a, n, d
- grand siècle — the 17th century in French art and literature, esp the classical period of Louis XIV
- gravel-blind — more blind or dim-sighted than sand-blind and less than stone-blind.
- ground alert — the state of waiting for orders in or near combat airplanes ready to take to the air at once.
- ground cable — a heavy chain for securing permanent floating moorings, as a number of mooring buoys.
- ground plane — (in perspective drawing) the theoretical horizontal plane receding from the picture plane to the horizon, beginning at the level of the base line.
- ground plate — Electricity. a metal plate for making a ground connection to the earth.
- half-drowned — to die under water or other liquid of suffocation.
- hand leather — a piece of leather wrapped around the hand of a shoemaker in order to protect it from being cut while pulling thread
- hand-deliver — to deliver in person or by messenger.
- hand-launder — hand-wash.
- hard feeling — resentment; ill will
- harlequinade — a pantomime, farce, or similar play in which Harlequin plays the principal part.
- headstrongly — In a headstrong manner.
- health drink — a drink that claims to be beneficial to health
- hinterlander — One who lives in the hinterland.
- iceland spar — a transparent variety of calcite that is double-refracting and is used as a polarizer.
- ill-mannered — having bad or poor manners; impolite; discourteous; rude.
- impardonable — (obsolete) unpardonable.
- imponderable — not ponderable; that cannot be precisely determined, measured, or evaluated.
- increditable — (rare) Incapable of being believed; not creditable.
- indeliberate — done without care; special planning or deliberation; unintentional.
- ineradicable — not eradicable; not capable of being eradicated, rooted out, or completely removed.
- ineradicably — not eradicable; not capable of being eradicated, rooted out, or completely removed.
- informidable — (obsolete) Not formidable; not to be feared or dreaded.
- inordinately — not within proper or reasonable limits; immoderate; excessive: He drank an inordinate amount of wine.
- inter-allied — between or among allied nations, especially the Allies of World War I.
- intercalated — to interpolate; interpose.
- interdentals — Plural form of interdental.
- interdigital — Between the fingers or toes.
- interlarding — Present participle of interlard.
- internalised — Simple past tense and past participle of internalise.
- internalized — Simple past tense and past participle of internalize.
- interpleaded — Simple past tense and past participle of interplead.
- interpleader — a party who interpleads.
- interpolated — to introduce (something additional or extraneous) between other things or parts; interject; interpose; intercalate.
- interrelated — reciprocally or mutually related: an interrelated series of experiments.
- interstadial — a period of temporary retreat of ice during a glacial stage; a warming period.
- intertidally — in an intertidal manner
- jodrell bank — site of a radio astronomy observatory (Nuffield Radio Astronomy Laboratories) in NE Cheshire, England, that operates a 250-foot (76-meter) radio telescope.
- kendal green — a coarse woolen cloth, green in color.
- kluge around — (jargon) To avoid a bug or difficult condition by inserting a kluge. Compare workaround.
- 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.
- land measure — any system of measurement for measuring land.
- land plaster — finely ground gypsum, used chiefly as a fertilizer.
- land-grabber — a person who seizes land illegally or underhandedly.
- landed price — the price when delivered
- landgrabbers — Plural form of landgrabber.
- landgraviate — the office, jurisdiction, or territory of a landgrave.
- landgravines — Plural form of landgravine.
- landing gear — the wheels, floats, etc., of an aircraft, upon which it lands and moves on ground or water.