11-letter words containing d, i, s, g, u
- figureheads — Plural form of figurehead.
- fundraising — to collect by fund-raising: The charity needs to fund-raise more than a million dollars.
- giant squid — any squid of the genus Architeuthis, inhabiting deep ocean bottoms and sometimes attaining an arm span of 65 feet (20 meters) or more.
- glucosidase — (enzyme) Any enzyme that hydrolyses glucosides.
- gourmandise — unrestrained enjoyment of fine foods, wines, and the like.
- gourmandism — a person who is fond of good eating, often indiscriminatingly and to excess.
- graduations — Plural form of graduation.
- grind house — a burlesque house, especially one providing continuous entertainment at reduced prices.
- grind-house — a burlesque house, especially one providing continuous entertainment at reduced prices.
- ground-fish — bottom-fish.
- groundlings — Plural form of groundling.
- groundsills — Plural form of groundsill.
- guide vanes — fixed aerofoils that direct air, gas, or water into the moving blades of a turbine or into or around bends in ducts with minimum loss of energy
- guildswoman — a woman who is a member of a guild
- gum disease — dental infection
- indulgences — Plural form of indulgence.
- inky smudge — a judge
- jaguarundis — Plural form of jaguarundi.
- languidness — The property of being languid.
- launderings — Plural form of laundering.
- life guards — (in Britain) a cavalry regiment forming part of the ceremonial guard of the monarch.
- liquidising — Present participle of liquidise.
- long radius — the distance from the centre of a regular polygon to a vertex
- ludwigsburg — a city in Baden-Württemberg state, SW Germany.
- maunderings — Plural form of maundering.
- misdoubting — Present participle of misdoubt.
- misguidance — to guide wrongly; misdirect.
- misguidedly — misled; mistaken: Their naive actions were a misguided attempt to help the poor.
- misjudgment — An act of misjudging, a mistake in judgment.
- mudslinging — an attempt to discredit one's competitor, opponent, etc., by malicious or scandalous attacks.
- mudspringer — mudskipper.
- outspeeding — Present participle of outspeed.
- outstanding — prominent; conspicuous; striking: an outstanding example of courage.
- pedagoguish — resembling or reminiscent of a pedagogue
- pseudologia — a psychological condition in which a patient tells elaborate, false stories believing them to be true
- quadrigatus — a silver coin of ancient Rome, bearing an image of Jupiter in a quadriga on the reverse.
- rifled slug — a shotgun projectile with helical grooves on its sides for imparting a spin to it when it is fired through the smooth bore of the shotgun.
- schrödinbug — (jargon, programming) /shroh'din-buhg/ (MIT, from the Schrödinger's Cat thought-experiment in quantum physics) A design or implementation bug that doesn't manifest until someone reading the source code or using the program in an unusual way notices that it never should have worked, at which point it stops working until fixed. Though (like bit rot) this sounds impossible, it happens; some programs have harboured schrödinbugs for years. Compare heisenbug, Bohr bug, mandelbug.
- sdeignfully — disdainfully
- self-guided — accompanied by a guide: a guided tour.
- sluggardise — indolence or laziness
- sluggardize — to make lazy or sluggish
- smouldering — burning slowly without flame, usually emitting smoke
- southbridge — a town in S Massachusetts.
- standing up — to cease to live; undergo the complete and permanent cessation of all vital functions; become dead.
- stourbridge — an industrial town in W central England, in Dudley unitary authority, West Midlands. Pop: 55 480 (2001)
- sub-heading — a title or heading of a subdivision, as in a chapter, essay, or newspaper article.
- suicidology — the study of the causes and prevention of suicide.
- superceding — supersede.
- superseding — to replace in power, authority, effectiveness, acceptance, use, etc., as by another person or thing.