11-letter words containing g, r, i, n, d
- dowsing rod — Also called dowsing rod [dou-zing] /ˈdaʊ zɪŋ/ (Show IPA). divining rod.
- dowsing-rod — Also called dowsing rod [dou-zing] /ˈdaʊ zɪŋ/ (Show IPA). divining rod.
- dragonflies — Plural form of dragonfly.
- drainageway — a conduit, ditch, or the like, for draining water from an area.
- dramatising — Present participle of dramatise.
- dramatizing — Present participle of dramatize.
- drawing pen — a pen with a fine nib used for drawing
- drawing pin — a thumbtack.
- drawstrings — Plural form of drawstring.
- dressing-up — When children play at dressing-up, they put on special or different clothes and pretend to be different people.
- dressmaking — a person whose occupation is the making or alteration of women's dresses, coats, etc.
- drift angle — the angle made by the path of a drifting vessel with its heading.
- driving dog — (on a lathe) a clamp securing a piece of work and engaging with a slot in a faceplate.
- drizzlingly — With drizzle, or light rain.
- drop siding — weatherboarding having its upper edges narrowed to fit into grooves or rabbets in its lower edges, and its backs flat against the sheathing or studs of the wall.
- drug-taking — the activity of taking illegal drugs
- drumbeating — That to beat on drums.
- dry farming — a system of growing crops in arid or semiarid regions without artificial irrigation, by reducing evaporation and by special methods of tillage
- dry-footing — removal of glaze from the rim at the bottom of a piece.
- dyssynergia — (medicine) Failure of parts of the anatomy to work together correctly.
- dyssynergic — relating to or affected by dyssynergia
- east riding — a former administrative division of Yorkshire, in NE England, now part of Humberside.
- emarginated — (botany) Having the margin interrupted by a notch or shallow sinus.
- endangering — Present participle of endanger.
- endearingly — In an endearing manner.
- endeavoring — Present participle of endeavor.
- engendering — Present participle of engender.
- enshrouding — Present participle of enshroud.
- eradicating — Present participle of eradicate.
- extraditing — Present participle of extradite.
- fairgrounds — Alternative spelling of fairground; the grounds where a fair is held.
- feed grains — grains used to feed livestock
- field grown — (of a plant) grown in a field rather than in a pot or other artificial environment
- finedrawing — Present participle of finedraw.
- finger food — food intended to be picked up with the fingers and eaten.
- fingerboard — (of a violin, cello, etc.) the strip of wood on the neck against which the strings are stopped by the fingers.
- fingerguard — something that protects the fingers
- fishing rod — a long, slender, cylindrical, flexible rod usually made of bamboo, steel, or fiberglass, for use with a reel and line in catching fish.
- floundering — to struggle with stumbling or plunging movements (usually followed by about, along, on, through, etc.): He saw the child floundering about in the water.
- food grains — the small hard seedlike fruits of a grass, esp a cereal plant, used as a foodstuff
- forcing bid — a bid, often at a higher level than is required, that is understood to oblige the bidder's partner to reply
- forebodings — Plural form of foreboding.
- foredooming — Present participle of foredoom.
- foreign aid — economic, technical, or military aid given by one nation to another for purposes of relief and rehabilitation, for economic stabilization, or for mutual defense.
- free diving — skin diving.
- freeholding — Property held in freehold.
- freeloading — to take advantage of others for free food, entertainment, etc.
- frigid zone — either of two regions, one between the Arctic Circle and the North Pole, or one between the Antarctic Circle and the South Pole.
- fringillids — Plural form of fringillid.
- fundraising — to collect by fund-raising: The charity needs to fund-raise more than a million dollars.