12-letter words containing t, r, e, s, d
- bread basket — If an area or region is described as the bread basket of a country, it provides a lot of the food for that country because crops grow very easily there. It therefore produces wealth for the country.
- bread-basket — a basket or similar container for bread or rolls.
- breast drill — a geared drill that can be braced against the chest for additional leverage.
- bridal suite — a room or set of rooms in a hotel for newly married couples
- caked breast — a painful hardening of one or more lobules of a lactating breast, caused by stagnation of milk in the secreting ducts and accumulation of blood in the expanded veins; stagnation mastitis.
- candy stripe — a pattern of bright stripes of one color against a plain background, used chiefly in fabrics.
- card stacker — the part of a card punch or card reader that collects into a pile those cards that have been processed
- cardinalates — Plural form of cardinalate.
- cash-starved — A cash-starved company or organization does not have enough money to operate properly, usually because another organization, such as the government, is not giving them the money that they need.
- cat's cradle — a game played by making intricate patterns with a loop of string between the fingers
- catbird seat — an enviable position, as of power
- cathode rays — a stream of electrons emitted from the surface of a cathode in a valve
- centerboards — Plural form of centerboard.
- centeredness — The state of being centered.
- chesterfield — a man's knee-length overcoat, usually with a fly front to conceal the buttons and having a velvet collar
- clearsighted — seeing clearly
- closet drama — drama suitable for reading rather than performing
- cloud forest — a forest, usually near coastal mountain peaks in tropical regions, that has an almost constant cloud cover, even during the dry season
- co-president — a person who shares the highest position in an organization with another person
- cold storage — If something such as food is put in cold storage, it is kept in an artificially-cooled place in order to preserve it.
- commiserated — Simple past tense and past participle of commiserate.
- computerised — to control, perform, process, or store (a system, operation, or information) by means of or in an electronic computer or computers.
- conditioners — Plural form of conditioner.
- confederates — Plural form of confederate.
- considerated — Simple past tense and past participle of considerate.
- consternated — to dismay, confuse, or terrify.
- contradances — Plural form of contradance.
- cordialities — cordial quality or feeling.
- corespondent — a person charged with having committed adultery with the wife or husband from whom a divorce is being sought
- countermands — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of countermand.
- credit sales — sales for which the customer does not need to pay immediately
- credit score — A borrower's credit score is a number calculated by a credit bureau to express how likely they are to be able to pay back their loans.
- credit terms — the terms and conditions under which an institution extends credit to a person
- crested iris — a low iris, Iris cristata, of the eastern and central U.S., having faintly fragrant, yellow-crested, lilac-dotted flowers.
- crystallised — Simple past tense and past participle of crystallise.
- crystallized — Crystallized fruits and sweets are covered in sugar which has been melted and then allowed to go hard.
- custom-order — to obtain by special or individual order: These wide doors have to be custom-ordered.
- cysticercoid — the larva of any of certain tapeworms, which resembles a cysticercus but has a smaller bladder
- d-s particle — a positively charged meson having a mass 3852 times that of the electron and a mean lifetime of approximately 4.7 X 10 -13 seconds.
- daisy cutter — a powerful shot that moves close to the ground
- daisy-cutter — Sports Slang. a batted or served ball that skims along near the ground.
- date squares — a sweet made of a date filling on an oatmeal base with a crumble topping, cut into squares
- daughterless — Without a daughter.
- david souter — David H. born 1939, U.S. jurist: associate justice of the U.S. Supreme Court 1990–2009.
- dead storage — the storage of furniture, files, or other unused or seldom used items in a warehouse or other location for an indefinite period of time.
- deaspiration — the act of deaspirating
- death spiral — a period of continuous deterioration that leads ultimately to catastrophic failure or destruction
- death throes — The death throes of something are its final stages, just before it fails completely or ends.
- debt service — the amount set aside annually in a fund to pay the interest and the part of the principal due on a debt.
- decahydrates — Plural form of decahydrate.