12-letter words containing g, r, i, s, a
- traffic sign — notice to vehicles
- tragicalness — the quality or state of being tragic
- transcending — to rise above or go beyond; overpass; exceed: to transcend the limits of thought; kindness transcends courtesy.
- transferring — to convey or remove from one place, person, etc., to another: He transferred the package from one hand to the other.
- transforming — to change in form, appearance, or structure; metamorphose.
- transgenesis — the transfer of human genes into animals or cultured cells, especially to produce molecules with therapeutic value.
- transmigrant — a person or thing that transmigrates.
- transmigrate — to move or pass from one place to another.
- transmitting — to send or forward, as to a recipient or destination; dispatch; convey.
- transmogrify — to change in appearance or form, especially strangely or grotesquely; transform.
- transvaginal — through or via the vagina
- trapshooting — the sport of shooting at clay pigeons hurled into the air from a trap.
- traumatising — Pathology. to injure (tissues) by force or by thermal, chemical, etc., agents.
- turn against — become hostile to
- twitch grass — couch grass.
- typographist — a person skilled in the art of typography
- ubangi-shari — former name of the Central African Republic.
- unaggressive — characterized by or tending toward unprovoked offensives, attacks, invasions, or the like; militantly forward or menacing: aggressive acts against a neighboring country.
- unaspiringly — in an unambitious or unaspiring manner
- undersealing — the process of applying a coating of underseal to a motor vehicle
- understating — to state or represent less strongly or strikingly than the facts would bear out; set forth in restrained, moderate, or weak terms: The casualty lists understate the extent of the disaster.
- undertakings — the act of a person who undertakes any task or responsibility.
- undespairing — not despairing; not giving in to despair
- undischarged — gun: not let off
- ungraciously — in an ungracious manner
- ungratuitous — given, done, bestowed, or obtained without charge or payment; free; voluntary.
- unmoralising — not moralising
- unstaggering — tending to stagger or overwhelm: a staggering amount of money required in the initial investment.
- upright bass — double bass
- urbanologist — a sociologist specializing in urban life and problems
- vainglorious — filled with or given to vainglory: a vainglorious actor.
- valve spring — a helical spring used to hold closed a valve in the cylinder head of an internal-combustion engine
- vanga shrike — any of several birds of the family Vangidae, endemic to Madagascar, some of which resemble shrikes, with great diversity in size, color, and bill shape.
- vasoligature — vasoligation.
- vereshchagin — Vasili Vasilievich [vuh-syee-lyee vuh-syee-lyi-vyich] /vʌˈsyi lyi vʌˈsyi lyɪ vyɪtʃ/ (Show IPA), 1842–1904, Russian painter.
- visual range — Meteorology. visibility (def 3).
- vital organs — organs in the body that are essential to life
- wackyparsing — (Internet, slang) present participle of wackyparse.
- waking hours — Your waking hours are the times when you are awake rather than asleep.
- warning shot — gunshot fired into the air
- warning sign — sth that indicates danger
- wash drawing — a watercolor painting executed by applying a series of monochrome washes one over the other.
- waveringness — The quality or state of wavering.
- web scraping — the extraction and copying of data from a website into a structured format using a computer program: Hackers pose a threat with techniques like web scraping. Our search engine uses web scraping to index sites.
- whereagainst — against which
- williamsburg — a city in SE Virginia: colonial capital of Virginia; now restored to its original pre-Revolutionary style.
- wisecracking — a smart or facetious remark.
- woodcarvings — Plural form of woodcarving.
- work-sharing — an arrangement whereby one full-time job may be carried out by two people working part time
- wranglership — (at Cambridge University) the position of a wrangler