12-letter words containing g, a, d, s
- closegrained — having a fine, compact grain or texture
- closing date — The closing date for a competition or offer is the final date by which entries or applications must be received.
- code-sharing — a commercial agreement between two airlines that allows passengers to use a ticket from one airline to travel on another
- cold storage — If something such as food is put in cold storage, it is kept in an artificially-cooled place in order to preserve it.
- consanguined — Of kindred blood; related.
- cross-dating — a method of dating objects, remains, etc, by comparison and correlation with other sites and levels
- crossbanding — a veneer border, as on furniture, with its grain at right angles to the grain of the adjacent wood
- crossgrained — Alternative form of cross-grained.
- dallis grass — a tall, succulent, forage grass (Paspalum dilatatum), with hairy spikelets, much grown in the S U.S.
- damaskeening — Present participle of damaskeen.
- dancing step — balanced step.
- dark glasses — Dark glasses are glasses which have dark-coloured lenses to protect your eyes in the sunshine.
- dastardizing — Present participle of dastardize.
- data segment — (memory) The range of memory locations where the initialised data of a program produced by a Unix linker is located. Executable code is located in the code segment and uninitialised data in the bss segment.
- daughterless — Without a daughter.
- dauntingness — to overcome with fear; intimidate: to daunt one's adversaries.
- de-designate — to mark or point out; indicate; show; specify.
- dead fingers — a disease of users of pneumatic drills, characterized by anaesthesia of the fingertips and cyanosis
- dead storage — the storage of furniture, files, or other unused or seldom used items in a warehouse or other location for an indefinite period of time.
- deck passage — overnight accommodation on a vessel other than in a regular sleeping space.
- decongestant — A decongestant is a medicine which helps someone who has a cold to breathe more easily.
- decreasingly — In a decreasing manner.
- deerstalking — The hunting of deer on foot, by stealing upon them unawares.
- deescalating — Present participle of deescalate.
- degeneracies — Plural form of degeneracy.
- degradations — Plural form of degradation.
- dehumanising — Present participle of dehumanise.
- demagnetizes — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of demagnetize.
- demographers — Plural form of demographer.
- demographics — data resulting from the science of demography; population statistics
- demographies — the science of vital and social statistics, as of the births, deaths, diseases, marriages, etc., of populations.
- demoralising — to deprive (a person or persons) of spirit, courage, discipline, etc.; destroy the morale of: The continuous barrage demoralized the infantry.
- denigrations — Plural form of denigration.
- desalinating — Present participle of desalinate.
- desalinizing — Present participle of desalinize.
- desegregated — Simple past tense and past participle of desegregate.
- desegregates — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of desegregate.
- desiderating — Present participle of desiderate.
- designations — Plural form of designation.
- desolatingly — in a way that desolates, in a desolating fashion
- despairingly — given to despair or hopelessness.
- desquamating — Present participle of desquamate.
- destigmatize — to set some mark of disgrace or infamy upon: The crime of the father stigmatized the whole family.
- diamagnetism — the phenomenon exhibited by substances that have a relative permeability less than unity and a negative susceptibility. It is caused by the orbital motion of electrons in the atoms of the material and is unaffected by temperature
- die stamping — the production of words or decoration on a surface by using a steel die so that the printed images stand in relief
- diégo-suarez — a seaport on N Madagascar.
- digitigrades — Plural form of digitigrade.
- digitisation — The conversion of data from analog to digital or binary.
- digressional — Pertaining to, or having the character of, a digression; departing from the main purpose or subject.
- ding an sich — thing-in-itself.