12-letter words containing g, o, s, i
- 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.
- dimensioning — Present participle of dimension.
- diplogenesis — the double production or formation of something that is normally single, such as a doubled part in a fetus or a double fetus
- disanalogous — not analogous
- disapproving — Expressing an unfavorable opinion.
- disco lights — coloured lights that flash on and off in time to the music at a disco etc
- discographer — a person who compiles discographies.
- discographic — of or relating to a discography
- discomfiting — to confuse and deject; disconcert: to be discomfited by a question.
- discommoding — to cause inconvenience to; disturb, trouble, or bother.
- discomposing — Present participle of discompose.
- discongruity — incongruity.
- discouraging — to deprive of courage, hope, or confidence; dishearten; dispirit.
- disembodying — Present participle of disembody.
- disenrolling — to dismiss or cause to become removed from a program of training, care, etc.: The academy disenrolled a dozen cadets.
- disgorgement — The act of disgorging, particularly in the legal sense.
- disgradation — a deposition of rank or status
- disgregation — the separation of components from a whole, esp of people from a company
- dishonouring — Present participle of dishonour.
- disingenuous — lacking in frankness, candor, or sincerity; falsely or hypocritically ingenuous; insincere: Her excuse was rather disingenuous.
- disk storage — space for storing information on a disk
- dislodgement — to remove or force out of a particular place: to dislodge a stone with one's foot.
- disorganised — Lacking order or organisation; confused; chaotic.
- disorganized — functioning without adequate order, systemization, or planning; uncoordinated: a woefully disorganized enterprise.
- disorienting — to cause to lose one's way: The strange streets disoriented him.
- dissociating — Present participle of dissociate.
- dog's dinner — mess, failure
- domestic pig — Sus scrofa; an artiodactyl mammal of the African and Eurasian family Suidae, having a long head with a movable snout and a thick bristle-covered skin
- doorstepping — talking to someone at the door of their home, for political canvassing or to gather information
- dosing strip — (in New Zealand) an area set aside for treating dogs suspected of having hydatid disease
- downshifting — to shift an automotive transmission or vehicle into a lower gear.
- downwellings — Plural form of downwelling.
- droughtiness — Dryness of the weather; lack of rain.
- duck-shoving — the evasion of responsibility by someone
- east chicago — a port in NW Indiana, on Lake Michigan, near Chicago.
- easting down — the passage eastward from the Cape of Good Hope, as made by a sailing ship bound for Australia or the East Indies.
- eating house — a restaurant or other place where one can eat
- ecclesiology — the study of ecclesiastical adornments and furnishings.
- efflorescing — Present participle of effloresce.
- egoistically — In an egoistic manner.
- egyptologist — Alternative spelling of Egyptologist.
- eigenvectors — Plural form of eigenvector.
- ellipsograph — an instrument that draws ellipses
- elytrigerous — having elytra
- embourgeoise — to make bourgeois
- embryologist — An expert or specialist in embryology.
- encompassing — Present participle of encompass.
- engine house — a building in which engines, as fire engines, railroad locomotives, etc., are housed
- english bond — a bond used in brickwork that has a course of headers alternating with a course of stretchers