12-letter words containing d, i, s, g, l
- discerningly — showing good or outstanding judgment and understanding: a discerning critic of French poetry.
- disciplining — Present participle of discipline.
- disco lights — coloured lights that flash on and off in time to the music at a disco etc
- disculpating — Present participle of disculpate.
- disembrangle — to disentangle (a person or thing)
- disenrolling — to dismiss or cause to become removed from a program of training, care, etc.: The academy disenrolled a dozen cadets.
- disentangled — Simple past tense and past participle of disentangle.
- disgavelling — the act or quality of being without gavelkind
- disgracefull — Archaic form of disgraceful.
- disgruntedly — In a disgruntled manner.
- disgruntling — Present participle of disgruntle.
- disguiseless — the quality of being without disguise
- disgustfully — in a disgustful manner
- disgustingly — causing disgust; offensive to the physical, moral, or aesthetic taste.
- dishevelling — Present participle of dishevel.
- disinclining — Present participle of disincline.
- dislodgement — to remove or force out of a particular place: to dislodge a stone with one's foot.
- dismissingly — In a dismissing manner; dismissively.
- disprivilege — to deprive of privilege
- disregardful — neglectful; careless.
- distraughtly — distracted; deeply agitated.
- disturbingly — upsetting or disquieting; dismaying: a disturbing increase in the crime rate.
- downwellings — Plural form of downwelling.
- drawlingness — the quality or characteristic of a drawler
- drill string — (on a drill rig) the assemblage of drill pipes that link the drill bit to the mechanism that imparts rotary or reciprocating motion.
- driving sail — a sail that, when filled, tends to force the hull of a vessel downward (opposed to lifting sail).
- dzhugashvili — Iosif Vissarionovich [Russian yaw-syif-vyi-suh-ryi-aw-nuh-vyich] /Russian ˈyɔ syɪf vyɪ sə ryɪˈɔ nə vyɪtʃ/ (Show IPA), Stalin, Joseph.
- english bond — a bond used in brickwork that has a course of headers alternating with a course of stretchers
- 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.
- farsightedly — In a farsighted manner.
- 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.
- 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 seat — a seat that can be folded down
- galactosides — Plural form of galactoside.
- galahad, sir — Sir Arthurian Romance. the noblest and purest knight of the Round Table, son of Lancelot and Elaine: gained the Holy Grail.
- gallows bird — a person who deserves to be hanged.
- gangliosides — Plural form of ganglioside.
- garden snail — Zoology
- gas cylinder — container for storing gas
- gesticulated — to make or use gestures, especially in an animated or excited manner with or instead of speech.
- glad tidings — Glad tidings means good news.
- glandiferous — bearing nuts or acorns
- glass lizard — any limbless, snakelike lizard of the genus Ophisaurus, inhabiting the eastern U.S., Europe, and Asia, having external ear openings and the ability to regenerate its long, fragile tail.
- glycosidases — Plural form of glycosidase.
- godwin's law — (humour) "As a Usenet discussion grows longer, the probability of a comparison involving Nazis or Hitler approaches one." There is a tradition in many groups that, once this occurs, that thread is over, and whoever mentioned the Nazis has automatically lost whatever argument was in progress. Godwin's Law thus practically guarantees the existence of an upper bound on thread length in those groups. However there is also a widely recognised codicil that any intentional triggering of Godwin's Law in order to invoke its thread-ending effects will be unsuccessful.
- goldsmithery — the occupation of a goldsmith
- goldsmithing — The work of a goldsmith; the forging of gold.
- gradualistic — Of or pertaining to gradualism.
- grand island — a city in S Nebraska.
- grand siècle — the 17th century in French art and literature, esp the classical period of Louis XIV