12-letter words containing r, e, s
- drawlingness — the quality or characteristic of a drawler
- dreadfulness — The characteristic of being dreadful.
- dreadnoughts — Plural form of dreadnought.
- dream vision — a conventional device used in narrative verse, employed especially by medieval poets, that presents a story as told by one who falls asleep and dreams the events of the poem: Dante's Divine Comedy exemplifies the dream vision in its most developed form.
- dreamfulness — the quality of being full of dreams
- dress circle — a circular or curving division of seats in a theater, opera house, etc., usually the first gallery, originally set apart for spectators in evening dress.
- dress length — a piece of material that is big enough to make a dress from
- dress parade — a formal parade of sufficient ceremonial importance for the wearing of dress uniform
- dress shield — a fabric or plastic pad for attaching to the inside of the underarm of a woman's garment to protect the garment from being soiled by perspiration.
- dressed crab — cooked crabmeat that has been taken out of the shell
- drillmasters — Plural form of drillmaster.
- drive sb mad — If you say that someone or something drives you mad, you mean that you find them extremely annoying.
- driving seat — In a vehicle such as a car or a bus, the driving seat is the seat where the person who is driving the vehicle sits.
- driving test — the examination that new drivers must take in order to be officially allowed to drive when not under instruction
- dromaeosaurs — Plural form of dromaeosaur.
- drop shipper — a wholesaler or distributor who conducts business in drop shipments.
- dropped seat — a seat of a chair or the like, having a front dished so as to be lower than the sides or back.
- dropped sole — a condition in which the foot of a horse is convex instead of concave
- droseraceous — of or relating to the genus of plants Drosera
- droughtiness — Dryness of the weather; lack of rain.
- drove chisel — a chisel with a broad edge used for dressing stone
- dryopithecus — an extinct genus of generalized hominoids that lived in Europe and Africa during the Miocene Epoch and whose members are characterized by small molars and incisors.
- dual-purpose — serving two functions.
- dual-release — A dual-release medicine or preparation delivers two drugs simultaneously.
- dusky grouse — blue grouse.
- dust catcher — Informal. a knickknack or other household object that is little used.
- dust counter — any instrument used to measure the size and number of dust particles per unit volume in the atmosphere.
- dust wrapper — dust jacket (sense 1)
- dusty clover — a bush clover, Lespedeza capitata.
- dusty miller — Botany. any of several composite plants, as Centaurea cineraria, Senecio cineraria, or the beach wormwood, having pinnate leaves covered with whitish pubescence. rose campion.
- dutch master — one of a number of renowned and influential Dutch painters
- dye transfer — a photographic printing method by which a full-color image is produced by the printing of separate cyan, magenta, and yellow images from individual gelatin relief matrices.
- dyer's-broom — woadwaxen.
- dynamometers — Plural form of dynamometer.
- dysenterical — Alternative form of dysenteric.
- dysmenorrhea — painful menstruation.
- dysregulated — Simple past tense and past participle of dysregulate.
- e-thrombosis — a clot in the bloodstream caused by long periods spent being physically inactive at a computer
- earl marshal — an officer of the English peerage who presides over the College of Heralds and organizes royal processions and other important ceremonies
- earless seal — any seal of the family Phocidae, comprising seals that lack external ears and that use the hind flippers for swimming: land locomotion is accomplished by wriggling and by propelling with the front flippers.
- earsplitting — ear-piercing: an earsplitting explosion.
- earth closet — a type of lavatory in which earth is used to cover excreta
- earth summit — a summit conference of 100 or more earth leaders debating global environmental and development issues, specifically the summit held in Rio de Janeiro in 1992, but the term is also applied e.g. to a projected similar event in 2012
- earthshaking — imperiling, challenging, or affecting basic beliefs, attitudes, relationships, etc.
- east african — of or relating to East Africa or its inhabitants
- east detroit — a city in SE Michigan.
- east germany — a former country in central Europe: created in 1949 from the Soviet zone of occupied Germany established in 1945: reunited with West Germany in 1990. 41,827 sq. mi. (108,333 sq. km). Capital: East Berlin.
- east prussia — a former province in NE Germany: an enclave separated from Germany by the Polish Corridor; now divided between Poland and the Russian Federation. 14,283 sq. mi. (36,993 sq. km). Capital: Königsberg.
- easter bunny — rabbit: brings chocolate eggs
- easter daisy — a nearly stemless composite plant, Townsendia exscapa, of the Rocky Mountain regions, having stalkless purplish or white flowers in a rosette of narrow leaves.