12-letter words containing g, e, n, t, r
- deregulation — Deregulation is the removal of controls and restrictions in a particular area of business or trade.
- desiderating — Present participle of desiderate.
- devitrifying — Present participle of devitrify.
- dextrinizing — Present participle of dextrinize.
- dilacerating — Present participle of dilacerate.
- disagreement — the act, state, or fact of disagreeing.
- discrediting — Present participle of discredit.
- disgorgement — The act of disgorging, particularly in the legal sense.
- disgregation — the separation of components from a whole, esp of people from a company
- disgruntedly — In a disgruntled manner.
- disintegrant — A disintegrant is an agent, used in the preparation of tablets, which causes them to disintegrate and release their medicinal substances on contact with moisture.
- disintegrate — to separate into parts or lose intactness or solidness; break up; deteriorate: The old book is gradually disintegrating with age.
- disinterring — Present participle of disinter.
- disorienting — to cause to lose one's way: The strange streets disoriented him.
- distress gun — a gun fired at one-minute intervals as a signal of distress.
- distringases — Plural form of distringas.
- divine right — doctrine that king's power was ordained by God
- doorstepping — talking to someone at the door of their home, for political canvassing or to gather information
- downregulate — To decrease the number of cell receptors by using downregulation.
- dreadnoughts — Plural form of dreadnought.
- dress length — a piece of material that is big enough to make a dress from
- dripping wet — If you are dripping wet, you are so wet that water is dripping from you.
- driving belt — a belt that carries movement from an engine or moving part to another moving part
- driving seat — In a vehicle such as a car or a bus, the driving seat is the seat where the person who is driving the vehicle sits.
- driving test — the examination that new drivers must take in order to be officially allowed to drive when not under instruction
- driving time — the time or estimated time to drive between two points or to one's destination.
- droughtiness — Dryness of the weather; lack of rain.
- drying agent — A drying agent is used in an absorption column (= a tall vessel) to remove water from fractions.
- duty manager — A duty manager is a person who is in charge at a particular time.
- e-government — the provision of government information and services by means of the internet and other computer resources
- earsplitting — ear-piercing: an earsplitting explosion.
- earth tongue — any of a group of fungi of the phylum Ascomycota, characterized by a tongue-shaped fruiting body, found on decaying logs and damp soil.
- earth-moving — Earth-moving equipment is machinery that is used for digging and moving large amounts of soil.
- earthshaking — imperiling, challenging, or affecting basic beliefs, attitudes, relationships, etc.
- east germany — a former country in central Europe: created in 1949 from the Soviet zone of occupied Germany established in 1945: reunited with West Germany in 1990. 41,827 sq. mi. (108,333 sq. km). Capital: East Berlin.
- editing room — a room in which a film or television programme is prepared by selecting, rearranging, or rejecting previously filmed material
- edulcorating — Present participle of edulcorate.
- effiguration — a detailed and elaborate description of something
- egalitarians — Plural form of egalitarian.
- egg and dart — a design for enriching an ovolo or echinus, consisting of a closely set, alternating series of oval and pointed forms.
- eigenvectors — Plural form of eigenvector.
- electrifying — Present participle of electrify.
- electrogenic — Pf or pertaining to electrogenesis.
- electron gun — a heated cathode with an associated system of electrodes and coils for producing and focusing a beam of electrons, used esp in cathode-ray tubes
- emargination — A notch (or series of notches) in a margin.
- emigrational — Relating to emigration.
- encountering — Present participle of encounter.
- endangerment — The act of putting someone into danger, or the condition of being in danger.
- energization — The act (or state) of being energized.
- energy-smart — using electrical power in an efficient or economical way