12-letter words containing i, g, n
- disesteeming — Present participle of disesteem.
- disgavelling — the act or quality of being without gavelkind
- 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
- disgruntedly — In a disgruntled manner.
- disgruntling — Present participle of disgruntle.
- disguisement — Disguise (deceptive appearance).
- disgustingly — causing disgust; offensive to the physical, moral, or aesthetic taste.
- dishevelling — Present participle of dishevel.
- dishonouring — Present participle of dishonour.
- disinclining — Present participle of disincline.
- disinfecting — Present participle of disinfect.
- disingenuine — (proscribed) Disingenuous.
- 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.
- 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.
- 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.
- 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.
- 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
- dog's dinner — mess, failure
- don giovanni — an opera (1787) by Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart.
- 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.
- dosing strip — (in New Zealand) an area set aside for treating dogs suspected of having hydatid disease
- doughnutlike — Resembling a doughnut.
- downshifting — to shift an automotive transmission or vehicle into a lower gear.