12-letter words containing g, r, i, d, l
- marginalized — to place in a position of marginal importance, influence, or power: the government's attempts to marginalize criticism and restore public confidence.
- meanderingly — In a meandering or winding manner.
- megalocardia — hypertrophy of the heart.
- microlending — the lending of very small amounts of money at low interest, especially to a start-up company or self-employed person.
- middle greek — Medieval Greek.
- middle guard — a defensive lineman positioned opposite the offensive center and between the defensive tackles, as in a three- or five-man line.
- miracle drug — wonder drug.
- modularizing — to form or organize into modules, as for flexibility.
- multigravida — a pregnant woman who has been pregnant two or more times.
- multipronged — having or composed of several prongs: a multipronged electric plug.
- night lizard — any of several nocturnal lizards of the family Xantusiidae, of southwestern North America and Cuba, which bear live young.
- nonladdering — (of garments made of knitted material) designed so that the interconnected stitches will not come undone if snagged
- nulligravida — A female who has never been pregnant.
- old guardism — political conservatism.
- overbuilding — Present participle of overbuild.
- overclouding — Present participle of overcloud.
- 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.
- pig islander — a New Zealander
- 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.
- 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.
- 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
- radiological — of or relating to radiology.
- reading lamp — A reading lamp is a small lamp that you keep on a desk or table. You can move part of it in order to direct the light to where you need it for reading.
- reading list — a list of sources (recommended by a teacher or university lecturer) which provide additional or background information on a subject being studied
- redelegation — a group or body of delegates: Our club sent a delegation to the rally.
- rescheduling — the act of changing the time, date, or schedule of
- resoundingly — making an echoing sound: a resounding thud.
- right-angled — A right-angled triangle has one angle that is a right angle.
- ripe old age — advanced age
- 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.
- ruling elder — an elder in a Presbyterian church.
- ruling grade — the steepest grade on a given stretch of track, which determines the maximum tonnage that can be hauled in a train having a given horsepower at a stated minimum speed.