12-letter words containing s, i, d, e, r
- double first — a first in two subjects.
- drawlingness — the quality or characteristic of a drawler
- 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.
- 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 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.
- 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
- drop shipper — a wholesaler or distributor who conducts business in drop shipments.
- 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.
- 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.
- dysenterical — Alternative form of dysenteric.
- east detroit — a city in SE Michigan.
- 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.
- editorialise — Alternative spelling of editorialize.
- editorialist — an article in a newspaper or other periodical or on a website presenting the opinion of the publisher, writer, or editor.
- edwardsville — a town in SW Illinois.
- elderberries — Plural form of elderberry.
- embroiderers — Plural form of embroiderer.
- embroideries — Plural form of embroidery.
- emerald isle — Ireland
- enchiridions — Plural form of enchiridion.
- endocarditis — Inflammation of the endocardium.
- endometritis — Inflammation of the endometrium.
- endomorphism — changes in a cooling body of igneous rock brought about by assimilation of fragments of, or chemical reaction with, the surrounding country rock
- endoparasite — A parasite, such as a tapeworm, that lives inside its host.
- enduringness — The quality of being enduring; lastingness.
- enfranchised — Simple past tense and past participle of enfranchise.
- entertissued — interwoven
- eradications — Plural form of eradication.
- erciyas daği — an extinct volcano in central Turkey. Height 3916 m (12 848 ft)
- erciyes daği — an extinct volcano in central Turkey. Height 3916 m (12 848 ft)
- ex-president — a former chief executive or head of state of a republic
- expenditures — Plural form of expenditure.
- extemporised — Simple past tense and past participle of extemporise.
- externalised — Simple past tense and past participle of externalise.
- extraditions — Plural form of extradition.
- fair-skinned — having pale skin; pale-complexioned
- faits divers — brief news stories, as those typically found in some French newspapers, that are sensational, lurid, etc.
- false friend — a word or expression in one language that, because it resembles one in another language, is often wrongly taken to have the same meaning, for example, the French agenda which means diary, not agenda
- familiarised — Simple past tense and past participle of familiarise.
- farsightedly — In a farsighted manner.
- federalistic — an advocate of federalism.
- fidel castro — Cipriano [sip-ree-ah-noh;; Spanish see-pree-ah-naw] /ˌsɪp riˈɑ noʊ;; Spanish ˌsi priˈɑ nɔ/ (Show IPA), 1858?–1924, Venezuelan military and political leader: president 1901–08; exiled 1908.
- field circus — A derogatory pun on "field service". The field service organisation of any hardware manufacturer, but especially DEC. There is an entire genre of jokes about DEC field circus engineers: Q: How can you recognise a DEC field circus engineer with a flat tire? A: He's changing one tire at a time to see which one is flat. Q: How can you recognise a DEC field circus engineer who is out of gas? A: He's changing one tire at a time to see which one is flat. See Easter egging for additional insight on these jokes. There is also the "Field Circus Cheer" (from the plan file for DEC on MIT-AI): Maynard! Maynard! Don't mess with us! We're mean and we're tough! If you get us confused We'll screw up your stuff. (DEC's service HQ is located in Maynard, Massachusetts).
- field sports — sports carried on in the open countryside, such as hunting, shooting, or fishing
- figured bass — a bass part in which the notes have numbers under them indicating the chords to be played.