12-letter words containing g, i, d, l
- new-laid egg — an egg that has been freshly laid by a chicken
- night lizard — any of several nocturnal lizards of the family Xantusiidae, of southwestern North America and Cuba, which bear live young.
- non-diagonal — Mathematics. connecting two nonadjacent angles or vertices of a polygon or polyhedron, as a straight line. extending from one edge of a solid figure to an opposite edge, as a plane.
- non-yielding — inclined to give in; submissive; compliant: a timid, yielding man.
- nondepleting — not depleting
- nonladdering — (of garments made of knitted material) designed so that the interconnected stitches will not come undone if snagged
- nosebleeding — bleeding emanating from the nose
- nulligravida — A female who has never been pregnant.
- odontologist — the science dealing with the study of the teeth and their surrounding tissues and with the prevention and cure of their diseases.
- old guardism — political conservatism.
- oligodactyly — The presence of fewer than the usual number of fingers or toes.
- oligopeptide — A peptide whose molecules contain a relatively small number of amino-acid residues.
- out-building — a detached building subordinate to a main building.
- outbuildings — Plural form of outbuilding.
- overbuilding — Present participle of overbuild.
- overclouding — Present participle of overcloud.
- palais glide — a dance with high kicks and gliding steps in which performers link arms in a row
- panty girdle — women's control pants
- pearl diving — the act of diving for the precious gems pearls
- philandering — (of a man) to make love with a woman one cannot or will not marry; carry on flirtations.
- pied wagtail — a British songbird, Motacilla alba yarrellii, with a black throat and back, long black tail, and white underparts and face: family Motacillidae (wagtails and pipits)
- pig islander — a New Zealander
- pigeon blood — dark red.
- pineal gland — a small, cone-shaped endocrine organ in the posterior forebrain, secreting melatonin and involved in biorhythms and gonadal development.
- pit dwelling — a primitive dwelling consisting of a pit excavated in the earth and roofed over.
- plagiohedral — (of a crystal) having faces arranged obliquely in a helix.
- 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.
- play reading — the activity when a group of people read the parts of a play
- playing card — one of the conventional set of 52 cards in four suits, as diamonds, hearts, spades, and clubs, used in playing various games of chance and skill.
- plead guilty — defendant: declare guilt
- plum pudding — a rich steamed or boiled pudding containing raisins, currants, citron, spices, etc.
- poison gland — a gland in some fish and amphibians that secretes venomous material
- pole dancing — Pole dancing is a type of entertainment in a bar or club in which a woman who is wearing very few clothes dances around a pole in a sexy way.
- pot marigold — calendula (def 1).
- pretendingly — falsely
- prodigal son — a figure in a parable of Jesus (Luke 15:11–32); a wayward son who squanders his inheritance but returns home to find that his father forgives him.
- prodigiously — extraordinary in size, amount, extent, degree, force, etc.: a prodigious research grant.
- profile drag — the sum of the surface friction drag and the form drag for a body moving subsonically through a fluid
- prolog-linda — 1. Prolog extended with Linda-style parallelism. Proc 4th Australian Conf on Artif Intell. 2. Neil MacDonald, U Edinburgh 1989. Another Prolog extended with Linda, implemented on a Computing Surface.
- 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
- pudding club — the state of being pregnant (esp in the phrase in the pudding club)
- pygmy glider — a gliding marsupial, Acrobates pygmaeus, of Australia, growing to about the size of a mouse and having a featherlike tail.
- pyramidology — a belief system based on the supposed occult significance of the Egyptian pyramids
- quadraplegic — quadriplegic.
- quadriplegia — paralysis of all four limbs or of the entire body below the neck.
- quadriplegic — a person with quadriplegia.
- radical sign — the symbol √ or indicating extraction of a root of the quantity that follows it, as √25=5 or .
- radio galaxy — a galaxy that emits much more strongly in the radio part of the spectrum than does a typical galaxy.
- radiobiology — the branch of biology dealing with the effects of radiation on living matter.
- radioecology — the branch of ecology concerned with the effects of radioactivity on the environment