12-letter words containing a, s, r, i, g
- disgregation — the separation of components from a whole, esp of people from a company
- disintegrant — A disintegrant is an agent, used in the preparation of tablets, which causes them to disintegrate and release their medicinal substances on contact with moisture.
- disintegrate — to separate into parts or lose intactness or solidness; break up; deteriorate: The old book is gradually disintegrating with age.
- disk storage — space for storing information on a disk
- disorganised — Lacking order or organisation; confused; chaotic.
- disorganized — functioning without adequate order, systemization, or planning; uncoordinated: a woefully disorganized enterprise.
- disregardful — neglectful; careless.
- disregarding — to pay no attention to; leave out of consideration; ignore: Disregard the footnotes.
- distraughtly — distracted; deeply agitated.
- distringases — Plural form of distringas.
- dramaturgist — A person who composes a drama and directs its representation; a playwright.
- drawlingness — the quality or characteristic of a drawler
- driving sail — a sail that, when filled, tends to force the hull of a vessel downward (opposed to lifting sail).
- 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.
- earsplitting — ear-piercing: an earsplitting explosion.
- earthshaking — imperiling, challenging, or affecting basic beliefs, attitudes, relationships, etc.
- egalitarians — Plural form of egalitarian.
- ellipsograph — an instrument that draws ellipses
- embarrassing — Causing embarrassment.
- 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)
- evening star — Venus as seen after sunset
- everlastings — Plural form of everlasting.
- eviscerating — Present participle of eviscerate.
- exasperating — Intensely irritating; infuriating.
- fair housing — the sale and rental of private housing free of discriminatory practices or policies.
- fairy lights — Fairy lights are small, coloured electric lights that are hung up as decorations, for example on a Christmas tree.
- falling star — an incandescent meteor; a shooting star.
- farsightedly — In a farsighted manner.
- farthingales — Plural form of farthingale.
- farthingless — without a farthing, having no money
- fast-growing — growing very quickly
- festivalgoer — A person attending a festival.
- figure skate — a shoe skate used in figure skating, especially one having a blade shorter than that of a racing skate, usually not extending beyond the toe or heel, and with notches or sawteeth on the curved forward edge.
- figure-skate — to take part in figure skating
- figured bass — a bass part in which the notes have numbers under them indicating the chords to be played.
- file-sharing — File-sharing is a method of distributing computer files, for example files containing music, among a large number of users.
- finger grass — any of various grasses of the genus Chloris, having several narrow spikes in a terminal cluster.
- finger lakes — group of long, narrow glacial lakes in WC N.Y.
- fingerboards — Plural form of fingerboard.
- firing glass — a drinking glass of the 18th century having a conical, rounded body on a thick stem and a heavy spreading foot.
- firing squad — a military detachment assigned to execute a condemned person by shooting.
- first-grader — a child in the first grade
- fish farming — the job of rearing fish for commercial purposes
- flash drying — Flash drying is a stage in a process to make something bigger, in which a paste-like feed is broken up and dried at the same time.
- flooring saw — a saw having a curved edge.
- flying shear — (in a continuous rolling mill) a shear that moves with the piece being cut.
- flying start — a start, as in sailboat racing, in which the entrants begin moving before reaching the starting line.
- forestalling — Present participle of forestall.
- fraternising — to associate in a fraternal or friendly way.