12-letter words containing g, o, i, d
- ride shotgun — a smoothbore gun for firing small shots to kill birds and small quadrupeds, though often used with buckshot to kill larger animals.
- riding boots — long boots worn for horse-riding
- 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.
- rigid motion — any transformation, as a translation or rotation, of a set such that the distance between points is preserved.
- ripe old age — advanced age
- road pricing — Road pricing is a system of making drivers pay money for driving on certain roads by electronically recording the movement of vehicles on those roads.
- rockhounding — the activity of searching for and collecting rocks
- rolling road — A rolling road is a piece of machinery on which the wheels of a vehicle can ride in order to test how well the vehicle works under road conditions that are created artificially.
- rough-voiced — having a harsh or grating voice: a rough-voiced barker.
- running bond — a brickwork bond having successive courses of overlapping stretchers.
- sago pudding — a sweet pudding made with sago and milk
- sailboarding — windsurfing.
- savings bond — a U.S. government bond with principal amounts up to $10,000.
- scalding hot — that scalds; burning; too hot
- scouring pad — a small pad, as of steel wool or plastic mesh, used for scouring pots, pans, etc.
- second sight — the faculty of seeing future events; clairvoyance.
- self-loading — noting or pertaining to an automatic or semiautomatic firearm.
- shared logic — the sharing of a central processing unit and associated software among several terminals
- shareholding — a holder or owner of shares, especially in a company or corporation.
- shortsighted — unable to see far; nearsighted; myopic.
- siderography — the art or technique of engraving on steel.
- signal board — a board for displaying electrically transmitted signals and indicating their source.
- single modal — modal (def 3).
- sliding door — door which opens on a runner
- sloop-rigged — (of a sailboat) fore-and-aft rigged with a mainsail and a jib.
- smallholding — a piece of land rented or sold to a farmer by county authorities for purposes of cultivation.
- snow pudding — a pudding, prepared by folding egg whites into a lemon gelatin mixture.
- snowboarding — a board for gliding on snow, resembling a wide ski, to which both feet are secured and that one rides in an upright position.
- sodium light — the light produced by a sodium lamp
- soft landing — space vehicle
- solid figure — a figure that has three dimensions
- 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
- sorting yard — sorting tracks.
- span loading — the act of a person or thing that loads.
- speedboating — the act, practice, or sport of traveling in a speedboat.
- spinning rod — a flexible fishing rod, often made of fiberglass, used with a spinning reel.
- spoil ground — an area within a body of water, especially in the sea, where dredged material is deposited.
- sporting dog — one of any of several breeds of usually large dogs especially suited by size and training for hunting by pointing, flushing, and retrieving game and including the pointers, setters, retrievers, and spaniels.
- spot welding — fusing metal
- spun-bonding — a process for forming nonwoven fabrics, usually of limited durability, by bonding continuous-filament synthetic fibers immediately after extrusion.
- steady-going — steadfast; faithful; unchanging: steady-going service to the cause of justice.
- 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.
- strong drink — alcoholic drink
- studio glass — art glass produced by an independent artisan in the studio.
- superkingdom — in some systems of biological classification, either of the two major subdivisions, prokaryote or eukaryote, into which all living organisms can be placed
- surfboarding — a long, narrow board on which a person stands or lies prone in surfboarding.
- surroundings — something that surrounds.
- the good oil — true or reliable facts, information, etc
- thiodiglycol — C4H10O2S, a yellowish viscous liquid used as a solvent
- thirdborough — an under constable of a township