12-letter words containing d, i, g, s
- crescendoing — Music. a gradual, steady increase in loudness or force. a musical passage characterized by such an increase. the performance of a crescendo passage: The crescendo by the violins is too abrupt.
- crop dusting — Crop dusting is the spreading of pesticides on crops, usually from an aircraft.
- crop-dusting — the spraying of powdered fungicides or insecticides on crops, usually from an airplane.
- cross-dating — a method of dating objects, remains, etc, by comparison and correlation with other sites and levels
- crossbanding — a veneer border, as on furniture, with its grain at right angles to the grain of the adjacent wood
- crossgrained — Alternative form of cross-grained.
- dallis grass — a tall, succulent, forage grass (Paspalum dilatatum), with hairy spikelets, much grown in the S U.S.
- damaskeening — Present participle of damaskeen.
- dancing step — balanced step.
- dastardizing — Present participle of dastardize.
- dauntingness — to overcome with fear; intimidate: to daunt one's adversaries.
- de-designate — to mark or point out; indicate; show; specify.
- de-licensing — formal permission from a governmental or other constituted authority to do something, as to carry on some business or profession.
- dead fingers — a disease of users of pneumatic drills, characterized by anaesthesia of the fingertips and cyanosis
- debut single — the first single produced by a particular singer or band
- declustering — Any technique that counteracts clustering (in any sense).
- decongesting — Present participle of decongest.
- decongestion — the act of decongesting
- decongestive — having the ability to ease crowding or clogging in busy locations
- decreasingly — In a decreasing manner.
- deep kissing — the act of taking part in a deep kiss
- deerstalking — The hunting of deer on foot, by stealing upon them unawares.
- deescalating — Present participle of deescalate.
- degeneracies — Plural form of degeneracy.
- degradations — Plural form of degradation.
- degressively — in a degressive fashion
- dehumanising — Present participle of dehumanise.
- delegitimise — Alternative spelling of delegitimize.
- deliquescing — Present participle of deliquesce.
- deltiologist — the hobby of collecting post cards.
- demagnetizes — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of demagnetize.
- demographics — data resulting from the science of demography; population statistics
- demographies — the science of vital and social statistics, as of the births, deaths, diseases, marriages, etc., of populations.
- demonologist — An expert in the study of demonology.
- demoralising — to deprive (a person or persons) of spirit, courage, discipline, etc.; destroy the morale of: The continuous barrage demoralized the infantry.
- demulsifying — to break down (an emulsion) into separate substances incapable of re-forming the emulsion that was broken down.
- demystifying — Present participle of demystify.
- denbighshire — a county of N Wales: split between Clwyd and Gwynedd in 1974; reinstated with different boundaries in 1996: borders the Irish Sea, with the Cambrian Mountains in the south: chiefly agricultural. Administrative centre: Ruthin. Pop: 94 900 (2003 est). Area: 844 sq km (327 sq miles)
- dendrologist — the branch of botany dealing with trees and shrubs.
- denigrations — Plural form of denigration.
- deontologist — ethics, especially that branch dealing with duty, moral obligation, and right action.
- depressingly — In a depressing manner.
- deregistered — Simple past tense and past participle of deregister.
- desalinating — Present participle of desalinate.
- desalinizing — Present participle of desalinize.
- descendingly — In a descending manner.
- desiderating — Present participle of desiderate.
- designations — Plural form of designation.
- desolatingly — in a way that desolates, in a desolating fashion
- despairingly — given to despair or hopelessness.