12-letter words containing d, e, s, i, g, n
- disregarding — to pay no attention to; leave out of consideration; ignore: Disregard the footnotes.
- disservicing — harmful or injurious service; an ill turn.
- distress gun — a gun fired at one-minute intervals as a signal of distress.
- distringases — Plural form of distringas.
- divergencies — Plural form of divergency.
- diversifying — Present participle of diversify.
- dog's dinner — mess, failure
- doorstepping — talking to someone at the door of their home, for political canvassing or to gather information
- downwellings — Plural form of downwelling.
- drawlingness — the quality or characteristic of a drawler
- 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.
- driving test — the examination that new drivers must take in order to be officially allowed to drive when not under instruction
- droughtiness — Dryness of the weather; lack of rain.
- easting down — the passage eastward from the Cape of Good Hope, as made by a sailing ship bound for Australia or the East Indies.
- egg sandwich — two slices of bread filled with chopped egg
- enduringness — The quality of being enduring; lastingness.
- english bond — a bond used in brickwork that has a course of headers alternating with a course of stretchers
- extinguished — Cause (a fire or light) to cease to burn or shine.
- false indigo — any of several North American shrubs belonging to the genus Amorpha, of the legume family, especially A. fruticosa, having compound leaves with pinnate leaflets and long, dense clusters of purplish flowers.
- fingerboards — Plural form of fingerboard.
- folding seat — a seat that can be folded down
- freestanding — (of sculpture or architectural elements) unattached to a supporting unit or background; standing alone.
- gangliosides — Plural form of ganglioside.
- garden snail — Zoology
- gas cylinder — container for storing gas
- gendarmeries — Plural form of gendarmerie.
- gingerbreads — Plural form of gingerbread.
- glandiferous — bearing nuts or acorns
- goods engine — a railway locomotive used to haul a freight train.
- gormandizers — gourmandise1 .
- grand siècle — the 17th century in French art and literature, esp the classical period of Louis XIV
- granddaddies — Plural form of granddaddy.
- grosswardein — German name of Oradea.
- grudgingness — The state or quality of grudging.
- gynodioecism — the condition of having flowers that are only female in one example of a plant and flowers that have stamens and pistils in another example of a plant of the same species
- hairdressing — the act or process of cutting, combing out, doing up, or styling hair.
- hand setting — Also called French telephone. a telephone having a mouthpiece and earpiece mounted at opposite ends of a handle.
- hand-selling — a gift or token for good luck or as an expression of good wishes, as at the beginning of the new year or when entering upon a new situation or enterprise.
- headshakings — Plural form of headshaking.
- high density — floppy disk
- high-density — having a high concentration: entering a high-density market with a new product; high-density lipoprotein.
- hollingshead — Holinshed.
- homesteading — a dwelling with its land and buildings, occupied by the owner as a home and exempted by a homestead law from seizure or sale for debt.
- horse riding — activity: riding on a horse
- indigenising — to make indigenous.
- indigenously — originating in and characteristic of a particular region or country; native (often followed by to): the plants indigenous to Canada; the indigenous peoples of southern Africa.
- indigestible — not digestible; not easily digested.
- indigo snake — a large, deep-blue or brown harmless snake, Drymarchon corais, ranging from the southern U.S. to South America and invading burrows to prey on small mammals: the eastern subspecies D. corais couperi is now greatly reduced in number.
- indologenous — producing or causing the production of indole.
- indulgencies — indulgence.