12-letter words containing g, r, o, t
- cycling tour — a holiday involving a tour of an area or region by bicycle
- daguerrotype — Misspelling of daguerreotype.
- danger point — the point at which something ceases to be safe
- dead storage — the storage of furniture, files, or other unused or seldom used items in a warehouse or other location for an indefinite period of time.
- decategorize — to arrange in categories or classes; classify.
- deflagration — Deflagration is an explosion in which the speed of burning is lower than the speed of sound in the surroundings.
- degeneration — the process of degenerating
- degradations — Plural form of degradation.
- delta-prolog — A Prolog extension with AND-parallelism, don't-know nondeterminism and interprocess communication using synchronous event goals and distributed backtracking.
- dendrologist — the branch of botany dealing with trees and shrubs.
- denigrations — Plural form of denigration.
- dephlegmator — an apparatus used for dephlegmation
- deregulation — Deregulation is the removal of controls and restrictions in a particular area of business or trade.
- deregulatory — Of or pertaining to deregulation.
- dermatologic — Dermatologic means of or relating to the skin.
- derogatively — lessening; belittling; derogatory.
- derogatorily — tending to lessen the merit or reputation of a person or thing; disparaging; depreciatory: a derogatory remark.
- dextrogyrate — having dextrorotation
- diageotropic — (of a plant part) growing at a right angle to the direction of gravity.
- discongruity — incongruity.
- 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
- disk storage — space for storing information on a disk
- disorienting — to cause to lose one's way: The strange streets disoriented him.
- dog's letter — the letter r, especially when representing a trill.
- 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
- downregulate — To decrease the number of cell receptors by using downregulation.
- draft dodger — a person who evades or attempts to evade compulsory military service.
- dragon light — a herbal remedy for impotence
- draughtboard — checkerboard (def 1).
- draughtproof — That prevents the access of draughts.
- dreadnoughts — Plural form of dreadnought.
- droughtiness — Dryness of the weather; lack of rain.
- dry mounting — the technique of fastening a print, photograph, or the like to a board by using a heated thermoplastic tissue as an adhesive.
- dry tortugas — a group of eight coral islands at the entrance to the Gulf of Mexico: part of Florida
- e-government — the provision of government information and services by means of the internet and other computer resources
- earth tongue — any of a group of fungi of the phylum Ascomycota, characterized by a tongue-shaped fruiting body, found on decaying logs and damp soil.
- earth-moving — Earth-moving equipment is machinery that is used for digging and moving large amounts of soil.
- ectypography — a form of etching or engraving in which the design is produced in relief
- editing room — a room in which a film or television programme is prepared by selecting, rearranging, or rejecting previously filmed material
- edulcorating — Present participle of edulcorate.
- effiguration — a detailed and elaborate description of something
- eigenvectors — Plural form of eigenvector.
- electrogenic — Pf or pertaining to electrogenesis.
- electrograph — A machine used in gravure printing.
- electron gun — a heated cathode with an associated system of electrodes and coils for producing and focusing a beam of electrons, used esp in cathode-ray tubes
- elytrigerous — having elytra
- emargination — A notch (or series of notches) in a margin.