12-letter words containing s, e, n, d, a
- dissertation — a written essay, treatise, or thesis, especially one written by a candidate for the degree of Doctor of Philosophy.
- disseverance — The act of dissevering; separation.
- distanceless — without distance
- distrainable — Capable of being, or liable to be, distrained.
- distringases — Plural form of distringas.
- disturbances — Plural form of disturbance.
- ditransitive — noting or pertaining to a verb taking both a direct and an indirect object, as give in “I gave him the package.”.
- diversionary — tending to divert or distract the attention: diversionary tactics of the guerrilla fighters.
- dna sequence — the order of base pairs in a section of DNA
- doctrinaires — Plural form of doctrinaire.
- dodecagynous — (of a plant) having eleven or twelve pistils
- dodecandrous — (of a plant) having twelve stamens
- dog's chance — little likelihood; small chance (usually used in the negative): That project didn't have a dog's chance of succeeding.
- dominatrices — Plural form of dominatrixThe 'Concise Oxford English Dictionary' [Eleventh Edition].
- don't ask me — You reply 'don't ask me' when you do not know the answer to a question, usually when you are annoyed or surprised that you have been asked.
- donets basin — a river rising in the SW Russian Federation near Belgorod, flowing SE through Ukraine to the Don River. About 650 miles (1045 km) long.
- 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.
- downcastness — The quality of being downcast.
- draftsperson — a person employed in making mechanical drawings, especially in an architectural or engineering firm.
- dragonslayer — One who slays a dragon.
- 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
- 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.
- 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.
- dynamometers — Plural form of dynamometer.
- dysenterical — Alternative form of dysenteric.
- dysmenorrhea — painful menstruation.
- easting down — the passage eastward from the Cape of Good Hope, as made by a sailing ship bound for Australia or the East Indies.
- edifications — Plural form of edification.
- educatedness — the quality of being educated
- educationese — the jargon associated with the field of education.
- educationist — a specialist in the theory and methods of education.
- egads button — a switch that triggers the destruction in flight of a malfunctioning missile.
- egg sandwich — two slices of bread filled with chopped egg
- elastic band — rubber strip for binding items together
- ellis island — small, government-owned island in Upper New York Bay: former (1892-1943) examination center for immigrants seeking to enter the U.S.: 27 acres (11 hectares)
- elucidations — Plural form of elucidation.
- enamoredness — Quality of being enamored; love; infatuation.
- encapsulated — Simple past tense and past participle of encapsulate.
- endocarditis — Inflammation of the endocardium.
- endonuclease — An enzyme that cleaves a polynucleotide chain by separating nucleotides other than the two end ones.
- endoparasite — A parasite, such as a tapeworm, that lives inside its host.
- endoskeletal — (anatomy) Of or pertaining to an internal skeleton, usually of bone (an endoskeleton).
- endovascular — Within a blood vessel.
- enfranchised — Simple past tense and past participle of enfranchise.
- enlargedness — the state of being enlarged