12-letter words containing g
- disingenuity — (obsolete) disingenuousness.
- disingenuous — lacking in frankness, candor, or sincerity; falsely or hypocritically ingenuous; insincere: Her excuse was rather disingenuous.
- disintegrant — A disintegrant is an agent, used in the preparation of tablets, which causes them to disintegrate and release their medicinal substances on contact with moisture.
- disintegrate — to separate into parts or lose intactness or solidness; break up; deteriorate: The old book is gradually disintegrating with age.
- disinterring — Present participle of disinter.
- disinvesting — Present participle of disinvest.
- disk storage — space for storing information on a disk
- dislodgement — to remove or force out of a particular place: to dislodge a stone with one's foot.
- dismembering — Present participle of dismember.
- dismissingly — In a dismissing manner; dismissively.
- disorganised — Lacking order or organisation; confused; chaotic.
- disorganized — functioning without adequate order, systemization, or planning; uncoordinated: a woefully disorganized enterprise.
- disorienting — to cause to lose one's way: The strange streets disoriented him.
- disprivilege — to deprive of privilege
- disregardful — neglectful; careless.
- disregarding — to pay no attention to; leave out of consideration; ignore: Disregard the footnotes.
- disservicing — harmful or injurious service; an ill turn.
- dissociating — Present participle of dissociate.
- disspiriting — Present participle of disspirit alternative spelling of dispiriting.
- distraughtly — distracted; deeply agitated.
- distress gun — a gun fired at one-minute intervals as a signal of distress.
- distributing — to divide and give out in shares; deal out; allot.
- distringases — Plural form of distringas.
- disturbingly — upsetting or disquieting; dismaying: a disturbing increase in the crime rate.
- ditch-digger — a worker whose occupation is digging ditches, especially with pick and shovel.
- ditriglyphic — of or pertaining to ditriglyphs
- divaricating — Present participle of divaricate.
- divergencies — Plural form of divergency.
- diversifying — Present participle of diversify.
- divine right — doctrine that king's power was ordained by God
- diving board — a springboard.
- divining rod — a rod, especially a forked stick, commonly of hazel, supposed to be useful in locating underground water, metal deposits, etc.
- docking keel — one of two keellike projections for bracing a hull of a ship against bilge blocks when the ship is in dry dock.
- dodecagynian — (of a plant) having eleven or twelve pistils
- dodecagynous — (of a plant) having eleven or twelve pistils
- dog and bone — a telephone
- dog's chance — little likelihood; small chance (usually used in the negative): That project didn't have a dog's chance of succeeding.
- dog's dinner — mess, failure
- dog's letter — the letter r, especially when representing a trill.
- doggy paddle — a swimming stroke in which the swimmer lies on his or her front, paddles his or her hands in imitation of a swimming dog, and beats his or her legs up and down
- dogleg fence — snake fence.
- dogmatically — relating to or of the nature of a dogma or dogmas or any strong set of principles concerning faith, morals, etc., as those laid down by a church; doctrinal: We hear dogmatic arguments from both sides of the political spectrum.
- dole bludger — a person who collects unemployment benefits but makes no serious effort to get work.
- domestic pig — Sus scrofa; an artiodactyl mammal of the African and Eurasian family Suidae, having a long head with a movable snout and a thick bristle-covered skin
- don giovanni — an opera (1787) by Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart.
- donald budge — (John) Donald, 1915–2000, U.S. tennis player.
- doomwatching — the act of watching the environment to warn of and prevent harm
- doorstepping — talking to someone at the door of their home, for political canvassing or to gather information
- dopaminergic — activated by or sensitive to dopamine.
- doppelganger — a ghostly double or counterpart of a living person.