12-letter words containing g, l, a, n, d, s
- headlongness — Headlong quality or speed; precipitateness.
- headstrongly — In a headstrong manner.
- hold against — resent sb for sth
- hollingshead — Holinshed.
- land sailing — the sport or activity of driving wheeled sail-powered vehicles across land, esp beaches or dry lakes
- landgrabbers — Plural form of landgrabber.
- landgravines — Plural form of landgravine.
- landholdings — Plural form of landholding.
- landing ship — any of various ships designed for transporting troops and heavy equipment in amphibious warfare, capable of making assault landings directly onto a beach.
- leading case — a case that is regarded as having settled a particular point of law; a case that is used as guidance for legal decisions
- long-handles — long underwear.
- long-waisted — of more than average length between the shoulders and waistline; having a low waistline.
- longstanding — existing or occurring for a long time: a longstanding feud.
- ludwigshafen — a city in SW Germany, on the Rhine opposite Mannheim.
- magnoliopsid — (botany) a member of the class Magnoliopsida. Circumscription of this class will vary with the taxonomic system being used.
- marginalised — to place in a position of marginal importance, influence, or power: the government's attempts to marginalize criticism and restore public confidence.
- misleadingly — In a misleading manner.
- mispleadings — Plural form of mispleading.
- pig islander — a New Zealander
- poison gland — a gland in some fish and amphibians that secretes venomous material
- 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.
- radical sign — the symbol √ or indicating extraction of a root of the quantity that follows it, as √25=5 or .
- reading list — a list of sources (recommended by a teacher or university lecturer) which provide additional or background information on a subject being studied
- sailboarding — windsurfing.
- sailing date — the date that a ship or boat departs on a sailing voyage
- sandblasting — the act or process of using a sandblast to clean, grind, or decorate a surface
- sandy blight — trachoma.
- scalding hot — that scalds; burning; too hot
- self-damning — causing incrimination: damning evidence.
- self-dealing — financial transaction conducted on a personal, nonbusinesslike basis, as lending or borrowing of corporate money by a director.
- self-drawing — the act of a person or thing that draws.
- self-loading — noting or pertaining to an automatic or semiautomatic firearm.
- self-reading — the action or practice of a person who reads.
- shareholding — a holder or owner of shares, especially in a company or corporation.
- signal board — a board for displaying electrically transmitted signals and indicating their source.
- single modal — modal (def 3).
- slab dashing — the act or process of covering an exterior wall with roughcast.
- slam dancing — the act of hurling oneself repeatedly into or through a crowd at a rock-music concert
- slap dashing — slab dashing.
- sliding seat — a rower's seat that rides on wheels in metal tracks fastened to the boat's frame, allowing the seat to slide back and forth, thereby tapping the rower's leg strength to maximize the stroke.
- slimming aid — food or food supplements that can help you lose weight
- smallholding — a piece of land rented or sold to a farmer by county authorities for purposes of cultivation.
- soft landing — space vehicle
- span loading — the act of a person or thing that loads.
- speedballing — the practice of taking cocaine and heroin together intravenously
- stranglehold — Wrestling. an illegal hold by which an opponent's breath is choked off.
- stringhalted — afflicted with stringhalt
- studdingsail — a light sail, sometimes set outboard of either of the leeches of a square sail and extended by booms.
- sweat glands — one of the minute, coiled, tubular glands of the skin that secrete sweat.
- thymus gland — a ductless, butterfly-shaped gland lying at the base of the neck, formed mostly of lymphatic tissue and aiding in the production of T cells of the immune system: after puberty, the lymphatic tissue gradually degenerates.