12-letter words containing d, i, s, g, u
- 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.
- fund-raising — the act or process of raising funds, as for nonprofit organizations or for a political cause.
- gesticulated — to make or use gestures, especially in an animated or excited manner with or instead of speech.
- glandiferous — bearing nuts or acorns
- gradualistic — Of or pertaining to gradualism.
- graduateship — the time or condition of being a graduate
- grudgingness — The state or quality of grudging.
- 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.
- guesstimated — Simple past tense and past participle of guesstimate.
- guide fossil — index fossil.
- high hurdles — a race in which runners leap over hurdles 42 inches (107 cm) high.
- hummingbirds — Plural form of hummingbird.
- hunting dogs — the constellation Canes Venatici.
- indigenously — originating in and characteristic of a particular region or country; native (often followed by to): the plants indigenous to Canada; the indigenous peoples of southern Africa.
- indologenous — producing or causing the production of indole.
- indulgencies — indulgence.
- laser-guided — (of a missile, etc) guided with the use of a laser beam
- ligniperdous — (of insects) wood-destroying
- liquid glass — any of several clear, white, or greenish water-soluble compounds of formulas varying in ratio from Na 2 O⋅3.75SiO 2 to 2Na 2 O⋅SiO 2 : used chiefly in dyeing, printing, and fireproofing textiles and in the manufacture of paper products and cement.
- long residue — Long residue is the heaviest fraction from the crude oil distillation process.
- ludwigshafen — a city in SW Germany, on the Rhine opposite Mannheim.
- masquerading — a party, dance, or other festive gathering of persons wearing masks and other disguises, and often elegant, historical, or fantastic costumes.
- 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.
- mud-slinging — an attempt to discredit one's competitor, opponent, etc., by malicious or scandalous attacks.
- odd-sounding — sounding or seeming strange or unusual
- old guardism — political conservatism.
- on soundings — in waters less than 100 fathoms in depth
- outbuildings — Plural form of outbuilding.
- outspreading — Present participle of outspread.
- outstandings — Outstanding amounts; unpaid debts.
- pig industry — the people and activities involved in making pork products
- prison guard — an officer in charge of prisoners in a jail
- prodigiously — extraordinary in size, amount, extent, degree, force, etc.: a prodigious research grant.
- public goods — services such as national defence, law enforcement, and road building, that are for the benefit of, and available to, all members of the public
- puddingstone — any conglomerate rock having dark-colored, rounded pebbles that are embedded in a light-colored, fine-grained matrix
- quadragesima — the first Sunday in Lent.
- quindecagons — Plural form of quindecagon.
- rescheduling — the act of changing the time, date, or schedule of
- resoundingly — making an echoing sound: a resounding thud.
- ride shotgun — a smoothbore gun for firing small shots to kill birds and small quadrupeds, though often used with buckshot to kill larger animals.
- sago pudding — a sweet pudding made with sago and milk
- scouring pad — a small pad, as of steel wool or plastic mesh, used for scouring pots, pans, etc.
- scuba diving — deep-sea swimming
- shipbuilding — a person whose occupation is the designing or constructing of ship.
- sigismund ii — called Sigismund Augustus. 1520–72, king of Poland (1548–72), who united Poland, Lithuania, and their dependencies by the Union of Lublin (1569)
- sinking fund — a fund to extinguish an indebtedness, usually a bond issue.
- sitting duck — a helpless or easy target or victim: a sitting duck for shady financial schemes.