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

  • siderography — the art or technique of engraving on steel.
  • sixth-grader — a pupil in their sixth US school year after kindergarten, who is usually around 11 or 12 years old
  • skullduggery — skulduggery.
  • sledgehammer — a large heavy hammer wielded with both hands.
  • slide guitar — bottleneck (def 3).
  • sliding rule — (formerly) a slide rule.
  • sloop-rigged — (of a sailboat) fore-and-aft rigged with a mainsail and a jib.
  • solid figure — a figure that has three dimensions
  • sorting code — a sequence of numbers printed on a cheque or embossed on a bank or building-society card that identifies the branch holding the account
  • spearheading — the sharp-pointed head that forms the piercing end of a spear.
  • speedwriting — a system of shorthand that is based on the sound of words and utilizes letters of the alphabet rather than symbols.
  • spirit guide — type of mystical guardian
  • 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.
  • stepdaughter — a daughter of one's husband or wife by a previous marriage.
  • stone-ground — (of wheat or other grain) ground between millstones, especially those made of burstone, so as to retain the whole of the grain and preserve nutritional content.
  • 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.
  • strengthened — to make stronger; give strength to.
  • stringhalted — afflicted with stringhalt
  • stringholder — an oblong piece of wood at the lower end of the body of a viol or other stringed instrument to which the strings are attached.
  • 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.
  • superkingdom — in some systems of biological classification, either of the two major subdivisions, prokaryote or eukaryote, into which all living organisms can be placed
  • swing bridge — a bridge that can open by pivoting on a central pier to let vessels pass.
  • tenth-grader — someone who is in their tenth year of education in the US
  • the red flag — a socialist song, written by James Connell (1852–1929), Irish political activist, in 1889
  • third finger — the finger next to the little finger; ring finger.
  • third gender — a gender classification in societies that recognize a gender other than male or female.
  • third-degree — to subject to the third degree.
  • third-grader — a pupil in their third year of education, esp in the US and Canada
  • thoroughbred — of pure or unmixed breed, stock, or lineage, as a horse or other animal; bred from the purest and best blood.
  • thought-read — to read someone's mind or psychically know what someone's thoughts are
  • three-gaited — noting a horse trained to walk, trot, and canter, as for pleasure riding and showing.
  • three-legged — having three legs: a three-legged stool.
  • tidal energy — energy obtained by harnessing tidal power
  • tiger lizard — either of two lacertid lizards, Nucras intertexta and N. tessellata, of southern Africa, having a gray or brown body marked with black spots and bars.
  • top dressing — tennis court
  • tragi-comedy — A tragi-comedy is a play or other written work that is both sad and amusing.
  • transcending — to rise above or go beyond; overpass; exceed: to transcend the limits of thought; kindness transcends courtesy.
  • transgressed — to violate a law, command, moral code, etc.; offend; sin.
  • tree diagram — Mathematics, Linguistics. a diagram in which lines branch out from a central point or stem without forming any closed loops.
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