11-letter words containing i, l, d, s, g
- displanting — Present participle of displant.
- displeasing — to incur the dissatisfaction, dislike, or disapproval of; offend; annoy: His reply displeased the judge.
- disposingly — in a way that disposes
- disregulate — Misspelling of dysregulate.
- dissembling — to give a false or misleading appearance to; conceal the truth or real nature of: to dissemble one's incompetence in business.
- dissolvings — things that have been dissolved or partially dissolved
- dog whistle — Politics. a political strategy, statement, slogan, etc., that conveys a controversial, secondary message understood only by those who support the message: His criticism of welfare was a dog whistle appealing to racist voters.
- dog-whistle — Politics. a political strategy, statement, slogan, etc., that conveys a controversial, secondary message understood only by those who support the message: His criticism of welfare was a dog whistle appealing to racist voters.
- dollar sign — the symbol $ before a number indicating that the number represents dollars.
- dongle-disk — /don'gl disk/ (Or "key disk") A kind of dongle consisting of a special floppy disk that is required in order to perform some task. Some contain special coding that allows an application to identify it uniquely, others *are* special code that does something that normally-resident programs don't or can't. For example, AT&T's "Unix PC" would only come up in root mode with a special boot disk.
- doubled sig — A sig block that has been included twice in a Usenet article or, less commonly, in an electronic mail message. An article or message with a doubled sig can be caused by improperly configured software. More often, however, it reveals the author's lack of experience in electronic communication. See BIFF, pseudo.
- douglas fir — a coniferous tree, Pseudotsuga menziesii, of western North America, often more than 200 feet (60 meters) high, having reddish-brown bark, flattened needles, and narrow, light-brown cones, and yielding a strong, durable timber: the state tree of Oregon.
- downscaling — Present participle of downscale.
- dragonflies — Plural form of dragonfly.
- du guesclin — Bertrand [ber-trahn] /bɛrˈtrɑ̃/ (Show IPA), ("the Eagle of Brittany") c1320–80, French military leader: constable of France 1370–80.
- dyslogistic — conveying disapproval or censure; not complimentary or eulogistic.
- field glass — Usually, field glasses. binoculars for use out of doors.
- fiscal drag — the process by which, during inflation, rising incomes draw people into higher tax brackets, so that their real incomes may fall; this acts as a restraint on the expansion of the economy
- floodlights — Plural form of floodlight.
- fringillids — Plural form of fringillid.
- galactoside — A glycoside yielding galactose on hydrolysis.
- galliardise — the state of being gay or merry
- ganglioside — any of a class of glycolipids, found chiefly in nerve ganglia, that upon hydrolysis yield sphingosine, neuraminic acid, a fatty acid, and a monosaccharide.
- gas welding — a method of welding in which a combination of gases, usually oxyacetylene, is used to provide a hot flame
- generalised — Alternative spelling of generalized.
- girdlestead — the waist
- girlfriends — Plural form of girlfriend.
- glide slope — the angle that the glidepath of an aircraft or spacecraft makes with the horizontal.
- glossodynia — a condition characterized by a burning or tingling mouth region
- glucosidase — (enzyme) Any enzyme that hydrolyses glucosides.
- glycolipids — Plural form of glycolipid.
- glycosidase — (enzyme) Any enzyme that catalyses the hydrolysis of a glycoside.
- goat island — an island in the Niagara River in W New York, in the middle of Niagara Falls, dividing the American Falls from the Horseshoe (Canadian) Falls.
- godlikeness — The quality of being godlike.
- goldfinches — Plural form of goldfinch.
- goldschmidt — Richard Benedikt. 1878–1958, US geneticist, born in Germany. He advanced the theory that heredity is determined by the chemical configuration of the chromosome molecule rather than by the qualities of the individual genes
- gospel side — (in some Protestant churches) the left side of a church, facing the altar.
- granadillas — Plural form of granadilla.
- grandiosely — affectedly grand or important; pompous: grandiose words.
- groundlings — Plural form of groundling.
- groundsills — Plural form of groundsill.
- guildswoman — a woman who is a member of a guild
- hand signal — indication made by hand
- handselling — The practice of promoting books by personal recommendation rather than by publisher-sponsored marketing.
- highlanders — Plural form of highlander.
- hinderlings — the buttocks or bottom
- hydrologist — the science dealing with the occurrence, circulation, distribution, and properties of the waters of the earth and its atmosphere.
- ideologists — Plural form of ideologist.
- idioglossia — a private form of speech invented by one child or by children who are in close contact, as twins.
- illegalised — to make illegal: They even wanted to illegalize smoking.