12-letter words containing d, i, n, g, u
- disgustingly — causing disgust; offensive to the physical, moral, or aesthetic taste.
- dishonouring — Present participle of dishonour.
- disingenuine — (proscribed) Disingenuous.
- disingenuity — (obsolete) disingenuousness.
- disingenuous — lacking in frankness, candor, or sincerity; falsely or hypocritically ingenuous; insincere: Her excuse was rather disingenuous.
- distress gun — a gun fired at one-minute intervals as a signal of distress.
- distributing — to divide and give out in shares; deal out; allot.
- disturbingly — upsetting or disquieting; dismaying: a disturbing increase in the crime rate.
- doughnutlike — Resembling a doughnut.
- drilling mud — a water-based or oil-based suspension of clays pumped into an oil well during drilling in order to seal off porous rock layers, equalize the pressure, cool the bit, and flush out the cuttings.
- droughtiness — Dryness of the weather; lack of rain.
- drug-driving — driving while under the influence of drugs, esp illegal drugs
- drug-induced — caused by recreational or medical drugs
- drug-running — the activity of illegally taking recreational drugs into a country
- dry mounting — the technique of fastening a print, photograph, or the like to a board by using a heated thermoplastic tissue as an adhesive.
- dry puddling — puddling in a furnace with a bottom of sand.
- duck-shoving — the evasion of responsibility by someone
- dumbfounding — Present participle of dumbfound.
- dumbing down — the act or process of making something less intellectually demanding; a pejorative use
- dunny budgie — a blowfly
- dutch guiana — former name of Suriname.
- edulcorating — Present participle of edulcorate.
- endeavouring — Present participle of endeavour.
- enduringness — The quality of being enduring; lastingness.
- extinguished — Cause (a fire or light) to cease to burn or shine.
- faultfinding — the act of pointing out faults, especially faults of a petty nature; carping.
- feeding tube — nasogastric tubing
- firing squad — a military detachment assigned to execute a condemned person by shooting.
- fluoridating — Present participle of fluoridate.
- flying squad — a trained, mobile group of police officers, business executives, labor officials, or the like, capable of performing specialized tasks whenever or wherever sent, often for use in emergencies.
- folding rule — a rule composed of light strips of wood joined by rivets so as to be foldable, all the opening and closing parts being in parallel planes.
- forebuilding — (architecture,historical) An outer defense work of a castle used to protect the entrance to the keep.
- four-engined — (of an aircraft) having four engines
- fuddling cup — an English earthenware drinking vessel of the 17th and 18th centuries, having the form of a cluster of three or more cups communicating at their bottoms in such a way that the entire vessel can be drained from any of them.
- full binding — a complete binding of a volume in any one material, generally leather.
- fund-raising — the act or process of raising funds, as for nonprofit organizations or for a political cause.
- fungicidally — in a fungicidal manner
- gender-fluid — noting or relating to a person whose gender identity or gender expression is not fixed and shifts over time or depending on the situation.
- generic drug — medicine: not sold under brand name
- glandiferous — bearing nuts or acorns
- glutaredoxin — (enzyme) Any of a family of small redox enzymes that use glutathione as a cofactor.
- gourmandizer — One who gourmandizes.
- grand kabuki — kabuki (def 2).
- grid current — the current that moves within the vacuum tube from the grid to the cathode.
- ground robin — towhee.
- grudgingness — The state or quality of grudging.
- 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
- guardianship — the position and responsibilities of a guardian, especially toward a ward.
- guide center — a command to a marching formation to align itself behind a guide marching at the head of the formation.