12-letter words containing d, i, n, g
- dry puddling — puddling in a furnace with a bottom of sand.
- dry-cleaning — Dry-cleaning is the action or work of dry-cleaning things such as clothes.
- drying agent — A drying agent is used in an absorption column (= a tall vessel) to remove water from fractions.
- 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.
- easting down — the passage eastward from the Cape of Good Hope, as made by a sailing ship bound for Australia or the East Indies.
- edgar adrian — Edgar Douglas, 1889–1977, English physiologist: Nobel Prize in Medicine 1932.
- edge molding — a convexly rounded molding having a fillet or concavity at or near its centerline.
- editing room — a room in which a film or television programme is prepared by selecting, rearranging, or rejecting previously filmed material
- edulcorating — Present participle of edulcorate.
- egg sandwich — two slices of bread filled with chopped egg
- embroidering — Present participle of embroider.
- endeavouring — Present participle of endeavour.
- enduringness — The quality of being enduring; lastingness.
- energy drink — beverage: added vitamins, etc.
- 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.
- fact-finding — a person who searches impartially for the facts or actualities of a subject or situation, especially one appointed to conduct an official investigation, as in a labor-management conflict.
- falling band — a large, flat collar, usually trimmed with lace, worn by men in the 17th century.
- falling door — flap door (def 1).
- 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.
- fancy diving — diving competition from a springboard into water, the contestants being judged chiefly by their grace and control in executing a specified series of dives in a prescribed manner.
- fare-dodging — the practice of trying to travel on public transport without paying the fare
- farthingdale — (British, dated, 13th-19th C.) A unit of area equal to one quarter of an acre.
- farthingland — a unit of land area, sometimes described as being equivalent to thirty acres
- faultfinding — the act of pointing out faults, especially faults of a petty nature; carping.
- federalizing — Present participle of federalize.
- feeding time — the regular time at which babies or animals are fed
- feeding tube — nasogastric tubing
- field magnet — a magnet for producing a magnetic field, as in a particle accelerator or an electric motor.
- fine-grained — being of fine grain or texture, as certain types of wood, leather, etc.
- fingerboards — Plural form of fingerboard.
- firing order — the sequence of ignition in the cylinders of an internal-combustion engine
- firing squad — a military detachment assigned to execute a condemned person by shooting.
- fixed-length — referring to a field, record, computer word, or other entity whose length does not vary.
- flash drying — Flash drying is a stage in a process to make something bigger, in which a paste-like feed is broken up and dried at the same time.
- flat-grained — (of sawed lumber) having the annual rings at an angle of less than 45° with the broader surfaces.
- fluoridating — Present participle of fluoridate.
- flying field — a small landing field with short runways and facilities for servicing airplanes on a lesser scale than an airport.
- 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.
- flying wedge — a fast-moving group of law-enforcement officers in a compact, wedge-shaped formation that can infiltrate crowds or protect someone effectively.
- folding door — a door with hinged sections that can be folded flat against one another when opened.
- 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.
- folding seat — a seat that can be folded down
- foot-binding — (formerly in China) the act or practice of tightly binding the feet of infant girls to keep the feet as small as possible.
- footdragging — the act or practice of acting with deliberate slowness
- forbiddingly — In a forbidding manner.