12-letter words containing e, d, g, r, t
- overweighted — weighing too much or more than is considered normal, proper, etc.: overweight luggage; an overweight patient; two letters that may be overweight.
- paint bridge — a structure spanning and providing passage over a river, chasm, road, or the like.
- panty girdle — women's control pants
- plate girder — an iron or steel beam built up from plates and shapes welded or riveted together, usually including a plate or plates for a web, four angle irons forming two flanges, and a pair of plates to reinforce the flanges.
- postgraduate — of, pertaining to, characteristic of, or consisting of post-graduates: a postgraduate seminar.
- predesignate — to designate beforehand.
- pregenerated — to bring into existence; cause to be; produce.
- prejudgement — to judge beforehand.
- prerogatived — possessing a prerogative
- pretendingly — falsely
- rating badge — a badge that indicates the rank and specialty of a petty officer: worn on the upper left sleeve.
- read-through — reading (def 1).
- reading list — a list of sources (recommended by a teacher or university lecturer) which provide additional or background information on a subject being studied
- red goatfish — a goatfish, Mullus auratus.
- redelegation — a group or body of delegates: Our club sent a delegation to the rally.
- redesignated — to mark or point out; indicate; show; specify.
- redintegrate — to make whole again; restore to a perfect state; renew; reestablish.
- reed bunting — an Old World bunting, Emberiza schoeniclus, inhabiting marshy areas.
- refrigerated — made frozen or cold, esp for preservative purposes; chilled or frozen
- regurgitated — to give back or repeat, especially something not fully understood or assimilated: to regurgitate the teacher's lectures on the exam.
- renegotiated — to negotiate again, as a loan, treaty, etc.
- ride shotgun — a smoothbore gun for firing small shots to kill birds and small quadrupeds, though often used with buckshot to kill larger animals.
- right-angled — A right-angled triangle has one angle that is a right angle.
- right-handed — having the right hand or arm more serviceable than the left; using the right hand by preference: a right-handed painter.
- right-hander — a person who is right-handed, especially a baseball pitcher who throws with the right hand.
- right-minded — having correct, honest, or good opinions or principles.
- right-to-die — asserting or advocating the right to refuse extraordinary medical measures to prolong one's life when one is terminally ill or irreversibly comatose: right-to-die laws.
- rogue trader — A rogue trader is an employee of a financial institution who carries out business without the knowledge or approval of his or her bosses.
- set designer — theatre, cinema: creator of scenery
- shortchanged — to give less than the correct change to.
- shortsighted — unable to see far; nearsighted; myopic.
- sixth-grader — a pupil in their sixth US school year after kindergarten, who is usually around 11 or 12 years old
- slide guitar — bottleneck (def 3).
- sorting code — a sequence of numbers printed on a cheque or embossed on a bank or building-society card that identifies the branch holding the account
- speedwriting — a system of shorthand that is based on the sound of words and utilizes letters of the alphabet rather than symbols.
- spirit guide — type of mystical guardian
- stage-driver — the driver of a stagecoach.
- stagger head — dropline.
- stepdaughter — a daughter of one's husband or wife by a previous marriage.
- stone-ground — (of wheat or other grain) ground between millstones, especially those made of burstone, so as to retain the whole of the grain and preserve nutritional content.
- straightbred — (of animals) purebred; having parents of the same breed
- straightedge — a bar or strip of wood, plastic, or metal having at least one long edge of sufficiently reliable straightness for use in drawing or testing straight lines, plane surfaces, etc.
- stranglehold — Wrestling. an illegal hold by which an opponent's breath is choked off.
- strengthened — to make stronger; give strength to.
- stringhalted — afflicted with stringhalt
- stringholder — an oblong piece of wood at the lower end of the body of a viol or other stringed instrument to which the strings are attached.
- stun grenade — a nonlethal grenade which is used to disturb the senses of enemies by its loud noise and its bright light
- sugar-coated — Sugar-coated food is covered with a sweet substance made of sugar.
- tenth-grader — someone who is in their tenth year of education in the US
- the red flag — a socialist song, written by James Connell (1852–1929), Irish political activist, in 1889