12-letter words containing i, n, d, s, g
- distringases — Plural form of distringas.
- disturbingly — upsetting or disquieting; dismaying: a disturbing increase in the crime rate.
- divergencies — Plural form of divergency.
- diversifying — Present participle of diversify.
- dog's dinner — mess, failure
- 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
- downshifting — to shift an automotive transmission or vehicle into a lower gear.
- downwellings — Plural form of downwelling.
- drawlingness — the quality or characteristic of a drawler
- drill string — (on a drill rig) the assemblage of drill pipes that link the drill bit to the mechanism that imparts rotary or reciprocating motion.
- driving sail — a sail that, when filled, tends to force the hull of a vessel downward (opposed to lifting sail).
- driving seat — In a vehicle such as a car or a bus, the driving seat is the seat where the person who is driving the vehicle sits.
- driving test — the examination that new drivers must take in order to be officially allowed to drive when not under instruction
- droughtiness — Dryness of the weather; lack of rain.
- duck-shoving — the evasion of responsibility by someone
- easting down — the passage eastward from the Cape of Good Hope, as made by a sailing ship bound for Australia or the East Indies.
- egg sandwich — two slices of bread filled with chopped egg
- enduringness — The quality of being enduring; lastingness.
- english bond — a bond used in brickwork that has a course of headers alternating with a course of stretchers
- extinguished — Cause (a fire or light) to cease to burn or shine.
- false indigo — any of several North American shrubs belonging to the genus Amorpha, of the legume family, especially A. fruticosa, having compound leaves with pinnate leaflets and long, dense clusters of purplish flowers.
- fingerboards — Plural form of fingerboard.
- firing squad — a military detachment assigned to execute a condemned person by shooting.
- flash drying — Flash drying is a stage in a process to make something bigger, in which a paste-like feed is broken up and dried at the same time.
- flying squad — a trained, mobile group of police officers, business executives, labor officials, or the like, capable of performing specialized tasks whenever or wherever sent, often for use in emergencies.
- folding seat — a seat that can be folded down
- freestanding — (of sculpture or architectural elements) unattached to a supporting unit or background; standing alone.
- fund-raising — the act or process of raising funds, as for nonprofit organizations or for a political cause.
- gangliosides — Plural form of ganglioside.
- garden snail — Zoology
- gas cylinder — container for storing gas
- gas dynamics — the study of the dynamic properties of gases and their thermal effects.
- gastric band — A gastric band is a device that is fitted inside someone's stomach to make it smaller in order to help them lose weight.
- gendarmeries — Plural form of gendarmerie.
- gingerbreads — Plural form of gingerbread.
- glad tidings — Glad tidings means good news.
- glandiferous — bearing nuts or acorns
- gobind singh — 1666–1708, tenth and last guru of the Sikhs (1675–1708): assassinated
- godwin's law — (humour) "As a Usenet discussion grows longer, the probability of a comparison involving Nazis or Hitler approaches one." There is a tradition in many groups that, once this occurs, that thread is over, and whoever mentioned the Nazis has automatically lost whatever argument was in progress. Godwin's Law thus practically guarantees the existence of an upper bound on thread length in those groups. However there is also a widely recognised codicil that any intentional triggering of Godwin's Law in order to invoke its thread-ending effects will be unsuccessful.
- goldsmithing — The work of a goldsmith; the forging of gold.
- goods engine — a railway locomotive used to haul a freight train.
- goods siding — a short railway track beside the main tracks where goods trains or goods wagons are left when they are not being used
- gormandising — Present participle of gormandise.
- gormandizers — gourmandise1 .
- grand island — a city in S Nebraska.
- grand rapids — a city in SW Michigan: furniture factories.
- grand siècle — the 17th century in French art and literature, esp the classical period of Louis XIV
- granddaddies — Plural form of granddaddy.
- grosswardein — German name of Oradea.