12-letter words containing d, i, g, t, u
- ethical drug — a drug which is only available legally with a doctor's prescription or consent
- extinguished — Cause (a fire or light) to cease to burn or shine.
- fatigue duty — any of the mainly domestic duties performed by military personnel, esp as a punishment
- faultfinding — the act of pointing out faults, especially faults of a petty nature; carping.
- feeding tube — nasogastric tubing
- fluoridating — Present participle of fluoridate.
- gaillard cut — an artificial cutting in the Panama Canal Zone, NW of the city of Panama: excavated for the Panama Canal. 8 miles (13 km) long.
- gesticulated — to make or use gestures, especially in an animated or excited manner with or instead of speech.
- glutaredoxin — (enzyme) Any of a family of small redox enzymes that use glutathione as a cofactor.
- glutethimide — a white, crystalline, water-insoluble powder, C 13 H 15 NO 2 , used as a hypnotic and sedative.
- gradualistic — Of or pertaining to gradualism.
- graduateship — the time or condition of being a graduate
- grid circuit — that part of a circuit that contains the cathode and the grid of a vacuum tube.
- grid current — the current that moves within the vacuum tube from the grid to the cathode.
- guanethidine — a potent adrenergic neuron blocking agent, C 10 H 22 N 4 , used in the treatment of hypertension.
- guardianista — a reader of the Guardian newspaper, seen as being typically left-wing, liberal, and politically correct
- guesstimated — Simple past tense and past participle of guesstimate.
- guide center — a command to a marching formation to align itself behind a guide marching at the head of the formation.
- guilt-ridden — If a person is guilt-ridden, they feel very guilty about something.
- gutturalized — pronounced with guttural coarticulation.
- head-hunting — a headhunting expedition: The men left the village to go on a headhunt.
- hunting dogs — the constellation Canes Venatici.
- ingurgitated — Simple past tense and past participle of ingurgitate.
- jitterbugged — Simple past tense and past participle of jitterbug.
- lodging turn — a period of work or duty, esp among railway workers, which involves sleeping away from home
- longicaudate — having a long posterior or tail
- longitudinal — of or relating to longitude or length: longitudinal measurement.
- midnight sun — the sun visible at midnight in mid-summer in arctic and antarctic regions.
- misjudgement — Alternative form of misjudgment.
- misjudgments — Plural form of misjudgment.
- multigravida — a pregnant woman who has been pregnant two or more times.
- multipronged — having or composed of several prongs: a multipronged electric plug.
- out-building — a detached building subordinate to a main building.
- outbuildings — Plural form of outbuilding.
- outspreading — Present participle of outspread.
- outstandings — Outstanding amounts; unpaid debts.
- overfatigued — excessively fatigued
- pig industry — the people and activities involved in making pork products
- plead guilty — defendant: declare guilt
- puddingstone — any conglomerate rock having dark-colored, rounded pebbles that are embedded in a light-colored, fine-grained matrix
- reed bunting — an Old World bunting, Emberiza schoeniclus, inhabiting marshy areas.
- regurgitated — to give back or repeat, especially something not fully understood or assimilated: to regurgitate the teacher's lectures on the exam.
- ride shotgun — a smoothbore gun for firing small shots to kill birds and small quadrupeds, though often used with buckshot to kill larger animals.
- sitting duck — a helpless or easy target or victim: a sitting duck for shady financial schemes.
- slide guitar — bottleneck (def 3).
- sodium light — the light produced by a sodium lamp
- spirit guide — type of mystical guardian
- standing cup — a tall decorative cup of the Middle Ages and Renaissance, having a raised cover.
- stud welding — the semiautomatic welding of a stud or similar piece of metal to a flat part, usually by means of an electric arc
- studdingsail — a light sail, sometimes set outboard of either of the leeches of a square sail and extended by booms.