12-letter words containing a, g, d, i, r
- marriage bed — the bed in which a married couple sleep together
- masquerading — a party, dance, or other festive gathering of persons wearing masks and other disguises, and often elegant, historical, or fantastic costumes.
- meanderingly — In a meandering or winding manner.
- meat grinder — machine: minces meat
- megalocardia — hypertrophy of the heart.
- micromanaged — Simple past tense and past participle of micromanage.
- middle guard — a defensive lineman positioned opposite the offensive center and between the defensive tackles, as in a three- or five-man line.
- mimeographed — Simple past tense and past participle of mimeograph.
- mind reading — the ability to discern the thoughts of others without the normal means of communication, especially by means of a preternatural power.
- miracle drug — wonder drug.
- mockingboard — (hardware) A sound and speech board for the Apple II computer, on sale in 1978. See also zxnrbl.
- modularizing — to form or organize into modules, as for flexibility.
- multigravida — a pregnant woman who has been pregnant two or more times.
- near-sighted — seeing distinctly at a short distance only; myopic.
- new paradigm — a set of beliefs that replaces another set which is believed no longer to apply
- night dancer — (in Uganda) a person believed to employ the help of the dead in destroying other people
- night lizard — any of several nocturnal lizards of the family Xantusiidae, of southwestern North America and Cuba, which bear live young.
- ninth-grader — a student in their ninth year at school
- nonirrigated — not irrigated; dry
- nonladdering — (of garments made of knitted material) designed so that the interconnected stitches will not come undone if snagged
- nulligravida — A female who has never been pregnant.
- old guardism — political conservatism.
- organic mode — (programming) A term used by COCOMO to describe a project that is developed in a familiar, stable environment. The product is similar to previously developed products. Most people connected with the project have extensive experience in working with related systems and have a thorough understanding of the project. The project contains a minimum of innovative data processing architectures or algorithms. The product requires little innovation and is relatively small, rarely greater than 50,000 DSIs.
- outspreading — Present participle of outspread.
- overdiagnose — (medicine) To diagnose something more often than it actually occurs.
- overdrafting — the removal of more water from ground and surface basins than is replaced by rain and melting snow.
- overfatigued — excessively fatigued
- paint bridge — a structure spanning and providing passage over a river, chasm, road, or the like.
- panty girdle — women's control pants
- paradigmatic — of or relating to a paradigm.
- parascending — parasailing
- pearl diving — the act of diving for the precious gems pearls
- philandering — (of a man) to make love with a woman one cannot or will not marry; carry on flirtations.
- pig islander — a New Zealander
- plagiohedral — (of a crystal) having faces arranged obliquely in a helix.
- plate girder — an iron or steel beam built up from plates and shapes welded or riveted together, usually including a plate or plates for a web, four angle irons forming two flanges, and a pair of plates to reinforce the flanges.
- play reading — the activity when a group of people read the parts of a play
- playing card — one of the conventional set of 52 cards in four suits, as diamonds, hearts, spades, and clubs, used in playing various games of chance and skill.
- pot marigold — calendula (def 1).
- pre-assigned — Law. to transfer: to assign a contract.
- predesignate — to designate beforehand.
- prediagnosis — Medicine/Medical. the process of determining by examination the nature and circumstances of a diseased condition. the decision reached from such an examination. Abbreviation: Dx.
- predischarge — of or pertaining to the period prior to discharge, esp prior to discharge from hospital or from employment
- prerogatived — possessing a prerogative
- primigravida — a woman pregnant for the first time.
- prison guard — an officer in charge of prisoners in a jail
- prodigal son — a figure in a parable of Jesus (Luke 15:11–32); a wayward son who squanders his inheritance but returns home to find that his father forgives him.
- profile drag — the sum of the surface friction drag and the form drag for a body moving subsonically through a fluid
- progradation — seaward growth of a beach, delta, fan, etc., by progressive deposition of sediment by rivers or shoreline processes.
- prolog-linda — 1. Prolog extended with Linda-style parallelism. Proc 4th Australian Conf on Artif Intell. 2. Neil MacDonald, U Edinburgh 1989. Another Prolog extended with Linda, implemented on a Computing Surface.