12-letter words containing d, a, n, g, l
- redelegation — a group or body of delegates: Our club sent a delegation to the rally.
- right-angled — A right-angled triangle has one angle that is a right angle.
- rolling road — A rolling road is a piece of machinery on which the wheels of a vehicle can ride in order to test how well the vehicle works under road conditions that are created artificially.
- ruling grade — the steepest grade on a given stretch of track, which determines the maximum tonnage that can be hauled in a train having a given horsepower at a stated minimum speed.
- sailboarding — windsurfing.
- sailing date — the date that a ship or boat departs on a sailing voyage
- sandblasting — the act or process of using a sandblast to clean, grind, or decorate a surface
- sandy blight — trachoma.
- scalding hot — that scalds; burning; too hot
- self-damning — causing incrimination: damning evidence.
- self-dealing — financial transaction conducted on a personal, nonbusinesslike basis, as lending or borrowing of corporate money by a director.
- 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.
- shareholding — a holder or owner of shares, especially in a company or corporation.
- signal board — a board for displaying electrically transmitted signals and indicating their source.
- single modal — modal (def 3).
- slab dashing — the act or process of covering an exterior wall with roughcast.
- slam dancing — the act of hurling oneself repeatedly into or through a crowd at a rock-music concert
- slap dashing — slab dashing.
- 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.
- slimming aid — food or food supplements that can help you lose weight
- smallholding — a piece of land rented or sold to a farmer by county authorities for purposes of cultivation.
- soft landing — space vehicle
- span loading — the act of a person or thing that loads.
- speedballing — the practice of taking cocaine and heroin together intravenously
- stranglehold — Wrestling. an illegal hold by which an opponent's breath is choked off.
- stringhalted — afflicted with stringhalt
- studdingsail — a light sail, sometimes set outboard of either of the leeches of a square sail and extended by booms.
- 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.
- thymus gland — a ductless, butterfly-shaped gland lying at the base of the neck, formed mostly of lymphatic tissue and aiding in the production of T cells of the immune system: after puberty, the lymphatic tissue gradually degenerates.
- tidal energy — energy obtained by harnessing tidal power
- tone dialing — a system of calling telephone numbers wherein tones of differing pitch corresponding to the digits in the number called are electronically generated by manipulating pushbuttons (contrasted with pulse dialing).
- tongue-blade — a broad, thin piece of wood used by doctors to hold down the patient's tongue during an examination of the mouth and throat.
- unbridgeable — a structure spanning and providing passage over a river, chasm, road, or the like.
- uncatalogued — not added to or detailed in a catalogue
- unchallenged — a euphemism for disabled (usually preceded by an adverb): physically challenged.
- uncoagulated — Obsolete. coagulated.
- underlapping — to extend partly under.
- undersealing — the process of applying a coating of underseal to a motor vehicle
- undervaluing — to value below the real worth; put too low a value on.
- undulatingly — in an undulating manner
- ungalvanized — to stimulate by or as if by a galvanic current.
- unglamorized — not glamorized
- unguiculated — clawed, clawlike
- unjudgmental — involving the use or exercise of judgment.
- urban legend — a modern story of obscure origin and with little or no supporting evidence that spreads spontaneously in varying forms and often has elements of humor, moralizing, or horror: Are there alligators living in the New York City sewer system, or is that just an urban legend?
- waggle dance — a series of patterned movements performed by a scouting bee, communicating to other bees of the colony the direction and distance of a food source or hive site.