12-letter words containing d, g, l
- sales ledger — record of business accounts
- 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
- sedge family — the plant family Cyperaceae, characterized by herbaceous plants, often found in wet areas, having solid stems, narrow, grasslike leaves with closed sheaths, spikes of very small flowers set in a scalelike bract, and a dry, flattened, convex fruit, and including the bulrush, chufa, cotton grass, papyrus, and umbrella plant.
- see daylight — the light of day: At the end of the tunnel they could see daylight.
- 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-denying — the sacrifice of one's own desires; unselfishness.
- self-drawing — the act of a person or thing that draws.
- self-driving — (of a machine) operating without the guidance of a human.
- self-feeding — automatically supplying itself with what is needed, as a machine
- self-loading — noting or pertaining to an automatic or semiautomatic firearm.
- self-reading — the action or practice of a person who reads.
- self-winding — kept wound or wound periodically by a mechanism, as an electric motor or a system of weighted levers, so that winding by hand is not necessary.
- seo de urgel — Urgel.
- 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.
- shepherdling — a young or little shepherd
- shipbuilding — a person whose occupation is the designing or constructing of ship.
- 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.
- signal board — a board for displaying electrically transmitted signals and indicating their source.
- single blind — of or relating to an experiment or clinical trial in which the researchers but not the subjects know which subjects are receiving the active medication or treatment and which are not: a technique for eliminating subjective bias, as the placebo effect, from the test results.
- single modal — modal (def 3).
- single-blind — of or relating to an experiment or clinical trial in which the researchers but not the subjects know which subjects are receiving the active medication or treatment and which are not: a technique for eliminating subjective bias, as the placebo effect, from the test results.
- single-digit — of or denoting a percentage smaller than ten, especially with reference to rates below that level: single-digit rates of inflation.
- single-ended — (of a boiler) fired from one end only.
- skip welding — a technique of spacing welds on thin structural members in order to balance and minimize internal stresses due to heat.
- skullduggery — skulduggery.
- 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.
- sledgehammer — a large heavy hammer wielded with both hands.
- slide guitar — bottleneck (def 3).
- sliding door — door which opens on a runner
- sliding rule — (formerly) a slide rule.
- 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
- sloop-rigged — (of a sailboat) fore-and-aft rigged with a mainsail and a jib.
- smallholding — a piece of land rented or sold to a farmer by county authorities for purposes of cultivation.
- sodium light — the light produced by a sodium lamp
- soft landing — space vehicle
- solid figure — a figure that has three dimensions
- span loading — the act of a person or thing that loads.
- speedballing — the practice of taking cocaine and heroin together intravenously
- spellbinding — to hold or bind by or as if by a spell; enchant; entrance; fascinate.
- splash guard — a large flap behind a rear tire to prevent mud, water, etc., from being splashed on the following vehicle.
- spoil ground — an area within a body of water, especially in the sea, where dredged material is deposited.
- spot welding — fusing metal