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12-letter words containing g, r, a, y

  • derogatively — lessening; belittling; derogatory.
  • derogatorily — tending to lessen the merit or reputation of a person or thing; disparaging; depreciatory: a derogatory remark.
  • despairingly — given to despair or hopelessness.
  • dextrogyrate — having dextrorotation
  • disagreeably — In a disagreeable manner.
  • distraughtly — distracted; deeply agitated.
  • dragonslayer — One who slays a dragon.
  • drug holiday — a brief period during which a patient stops taking a prescribed medication, especially an antidepressant, to recover some normal functions, reduce side effects, or maintain sensitivity to the drug.
  • dry gangrene — death of tissue owing to arterial obstruction without subsequent bacterial decomposition and putrefaction.
  • dry tortugas — a group of eight coral islands at the entrance to the Gulf of Mexico: part of Florida
  • dry-cleaning — Dry-cleaning is the action or work of dry-cleaning things such as clothes.
  • 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.
  • dvapara yuga — the third of the Yugas, not as good as the Treta Yuga but better than the Kali Yuga.
  • dysregulated — Simple past tense and past participle of dysregulate.
  • early blight — a disease of plants characterized by leaf spotting, defoliation, and stunted growth, caused by any of several fungi, as Alternaria solani or Cercospora apii.
  • 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.
  • ectypography — a form of etching or engraving in which the design is produced in relief
  • energy-smart — using electrical power in an efficient or economical way
  • entrancingly — In an entrancing manner.
  • entreatingly — In an entreating manner.
  • erciyas daği — an extinct volcano in central Turkey. Height 3916 m (12 848 ft)
  • erciyes daği — an extinct volcano in central Turkey. Height 3916 m (12 848 ft)
  • exaggeratory — Exaggerative.
  • extralegally — In an extralegal manner; outside the law.
  • extravagancy — (archaic, 17-19th centuries) The characteristic of being extravagant.
  • eye-watering — painful or extremely unpleasant
  • fairy lights — Fairy lights are small, coloured electric lights that are hung up as decorations, for example on a Christmas tree.
  • faraday cage — an enclosure constructed of grounded wire mesh or parallel wires that shields sensitive electrical instruments from electrostatic interference.
  • farsightedly — In a farsighted manner.
  • fibromyalgia — a syndrome characterized by fatigue and chronic pain in the muscles and in tissues surrounding the joints.
  • figurability — the quality of being figurable
  • figuratively — of the nature of or involving a figure of speech, especially a metaphor; metaphorical and not literal: The word “head” has several figurative senses, as in “She's the head of the company.”. Synonyms: metaphorical, not literal, symbolic.
  • firing party — a military detachment detailed to fire a salute at a funeral
  • flagellatory — relating to flagellation
  • flash drying — Flash drying is a stage in a process to make something bigger, in which a paste-like feed is broken up and dried at the same time.
  • flatteringly — In a flattering manner.
  • fluorography — photofluorography.
  • flying shear — (in a continuous rolling mill) a shear that moves with the piece being cut.
  • flying start — a start, as in sailboat racing, in which the entrants begin moving before reaching the starting line.
  • food allergy — an allergy to a specific type of food
  • forbearingly — In a forbearing manner.
  • forgeability — (metallurgy) The quality or degree of being forgeable.
  • fotheringhay — a village in NE Northamptonshire, in E England, near Peterborough: Mary, Queen of Scots, imprisoned here and executed 1587.
  • fractography — the study of fractures or cracks in a material, esp metal, in order to predict or identify the cause of a failure in a structure
  • fragmentally — fragmentary.
  • frangibility — The state or quality of being frangible.
  • freight yard — a place on a rail network where freight trains are made up or broken up
  • frying steak — a steak that is cooked by frying
  • gallery tray — a tray usually of silver with a raised rim, used for serving drinks
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