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12-letter words containing a, g, e, d

  • self-drawing — the act of a person or thing that draws.
  • self-loading — noting or pertaining to an automatic or semiautomatic firearm.
  • self-reading — the action or practice of a person who reads.
  • send packing — to dismiss peremptorily
  • shared logic — the sharing of a central processing unit and associated software among several terminals
  • shareholding — a holder or owner of shares, especially in a company or corporation.
  • sherardizing — to coat (steel) with a thin cladding of zinc by heating in a mixture of sand and powdered zinc.
  • shortchanged — to give less than the correct change to.
  • shoulder bag — a handbag with shoulder strap attached.
  • shoulder-bag — A shoulder-bag is a bag that has a long strap so that it can be carried on a person's shoulder.
  • side against — one of the surfaces forming the outside of or bounding a thing, or one of the lines bounding a geometric figure.
  • siderography — the art or technique of engraving on steel.
  • single modal — modal (def 3).
  • sixth-grader — a pupil in their sixth US school year after kindergarten, who is usually around 11 or 12 years old
  • sledgehammer — a large heavy hammer wielded with both hands.
  • slide guitar — bottleneck (def 3).
  • sliding seat — a rower's seat that rides on wheels in metal tracks fastened to the boat's frame, allowing the seat to slide back and forth, thereby tapping the rower's leg strength to maximize the stroke.
  • sound change — any phonetic or phonological change in spoken language, for example the replacement of one speech sound with another, or the loss of a particular sound
  • spade guinea — a guinea decorated with a spade-shaped shield, coined during the reign of George III
  • spearheading — the sharp-pointed head that forms the piercing end of a spear.
  • speed dating — an organized social event in which participants have one-on-one conversations typically limited to less than ten minutes, for the purpose of meeting people they would like to date.
  • speedballing — the practice of taking cocaine and heroin together intravenously
  • speedboating — the act, practice, or sport of traveling in a speedboat.
  • speedskating — a form of ice skating in which contestants race against each other or the clock over various distances
  • sponged ware — spongeware.
  • spread eagle — the representation of an eagle with outstretched wings, used as an emblem of the US
  • spread-eagle — having or suggesting the form of a spread eagle.
  • spreadeagled — Someone who is spreadeagled is lying with their arms and legs spread out.
  • squared ring — boxing ring.
  • stage-driver — the driver of a stagecoach.
  • stagger head — dropline.
  • steady-going — steadfast; faithful; unchanging: steady-going service to the cause of justice.
  • stepdaughter — a daughter of one's husband or wife by a previous marriage.
  • straightbred — (of animals) purebred; having parents of the same breed
  • straightedge — a bar or strip of wood, plastic, or metal having at least one long edge of sufficiently reliable straightness for use in drawing or testing straight lines, plane surfaces, etc.
  • stranglehold — Wrestling. an illegal hold by which an opponent's breath is choked off.
  • stringhalted — afflicted with stringhalt
  • stun grenade — a nonlethal grenade which is used to disturb the senses of enemies by its loud noise and its bright light
  • sugar glider — a gliding possum, Petaurus breviceps, inhabiting open forests of New Guinea, Tasmania, and Australia.
  • sugar-coated — Sugar-coated food is covered with a sweet substance made of sugar.
  • supercharged — equipped with a supercharger.
  • sweat glands — one of the minute, coiled, tubular glands of the skin that secrete sweat.
  • tack welding — to join (pieces of metal) with a number of small welds spaced some distance apart.
  • talking head — Television Slang. a closeup picture of a person who is talking, especially as a participant in a talk show.
  • tape editing — the process of putting the various segments of a master video or audio tape into a predetermined sequence: usually done electronically.
  • teaching aid — material used by a teacher to supplement classroom instruction or to stimulate the interest of students.
  • tenth-grader — someone who is in their tenth year of education in the US
  • the dingbats — delirium tremens
  • the go-ahead — permission to proceed
  • the red flag — a socialist song, written by James Connell (1852–1929), Irish political activist, in 1889
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