12-letter words that end in en
- fountain pen — a pen with a refillable reservoir that provides a continuous supply of usually fluid ink to its point.
- frontiersmen — a person, especially a man, who lives on the frontier, especially in sparsely settled regions.
- fulton sheen — Fulton (John) 1895–1979, U.S. Roman Catholic clergyman, writer, and teacher.
- gambling den — a building operating as a business where money can be staked on playing games of chance
- ghostwritten — Written by a ghostwriter.
- gretna green — a village in S Scotland, near the English border, to which many English couples formerly eloped to be married.
- group of ten — the ten nations who met in Paris in 1961 to arrange the special drawing rights of the IMF: Belgium, Canada, France, Italy, Japan, Netherlands, Sweden, UK, US, and West Germany
- guilt-ridden — If a person is guilt-ridden, they feel very guilty about something.
- gulf of aden — a waterway in the Arabian sea between Yemen and Somalia and connecting with the Red Sea
- half a dozen — six
- hallucinogen — a substance that produces hallucinations.
- hamantaschen — a small triangular cake often made with yeast and filled with a mixture of poppy seeds and honey or with prune paste, prepared especially for the festival of Purim.
- hand-written — to write (something) by hand.
- heavy oxygen — either of the two stable isotopes of oxygen having mass numbers of 17 and 18.
- hohenstaufen — a member of the royal family that ruled in Germany from 1138 to 1208 and from 1215 to 1254, and in Sicily from 1194 to 1266.
- house-broken — (of a pet) trained to avoid excreting inside the house or in improper places.
- hunter green — a dark green color of yellowish cast.
- ian maclaren — James Dewey, born 1928, U.S. biologist: Nobel Prize in medicine 1962.
- isak dinesen — Isak [ee-sahk] /ˈi sɑk/ (Show IPA), (pen name of Baroness Karen Blixen) 1885–1962, Danish author.
- kendal green — a coarse woolen cloth, green in color.
- kindergarden — (non-standard) misspelling of kindergarten.
- kindergarten — a school or class for young children between the ages of four and six years.
- kintergarden — Misspelling of kindergarten.
- lake mälaren — a lake in S Sweden, extending 121 km (75 miles) west from Stockholm, where it joins with an inlet of the Baltic Sea (the Saltsjön). Area: 1140 sq km (440 sq miles)
- laundrywomen — Plural form of laundrywoman.
- lemminkainen — (in the Kalevala) a young, jovial hero who has many adventures in which he is sometimes helped by his mother.
- little women — a novel (1868) by Louisa May Alcott.
- longshoremen — Plural form of longshoreman.
- longyearbyen — a village on Spitsbergen island, administrative centre of the Svalbard archipelago: coal-mining
- ludwigshafen — a city in SW Germany, on the Rhine opposite Mannheim.
- manna lichen — any of several crustose lichens of the genus Lecanora, especially L. esculenta, found in the African and Arabian deserts, used for food by humans and other animals.
- māori warden — a person appointed to exercise advisory and minor disciplinary powers in Māori communities
- men-children — plural of man-child.
- militiawomen — Plural form of militiawoman.
- monohydrogen — relating to a molecule in which there is a single hydrogen ion for each combining ion
- moonstricken — Moonstruck.
- motor-driven — propelled or made to function by means of a motor
- newspapermen — a person employed by a newspaper or wire service as a reporter, writer, editor, etc.
- ninety-seven — a cardinal number, 90 plus 7.
- nonforbidden — Unforbidden.
- north bergen — a township in NE New Jersey.
- now and then — occasionally
- nurserywomen — Plural form of nurserywoman.
- order-driven — denoting an electronic market system, esp for stock exchanges, in which prices are determined by the publication of orders to buy or sell
- organ screen — an ornamental screen closing off an organ chamber in a church.
- overlengthen — to extend excessively
- paracyanogen — a polymer of cyanogen
- parahydrogen — the form of molecular hydrogen in which the nuclei of the two hydrogen atoms contained in the molecule have spins in opposite directions.
- pearly queen — the female London costermonger whose ceremonial clothes display the most lavish collection of pearl buttons
- pidyon haben — the rite of relieving the first male child born to parents not descended from Aaron or Levi of certain religious obligations by redeeming him from a member of the priestly class, celebrated 30 days after the child's birth.