12-letter words containing l, a, g, r
- corbie gable — a gable having corbie-steps
- corticofugal — (of a nerve fiber) originating in and running from the cerebral cortex.
- cottage roll — a small pickled boneless ham
- courageously — possessing or characterized by courage; brave: a courageous speech against the dictator.
- craniologist — the science that deals with the size, shape, and other characteristics of human skulls.
- crawling peg — a method of stabilizing exchange rates, prices, etc, by maintaining a fixed level for a specified period or until the level has persisted at an upper or lower limit for a specified period and then permitting a predetermined incremental rise or fall
- crenellating — Present participle of crenellate.
- crimson flag — a southern African plant, Schizostylis coccinea, of the iris family, having tubular red flowers.
- cryosurgical — of or relating to cryosurgery
- crystalising — Present participle of crystalise.
- cultural lag — the difference in the rate of change between two parts of a culture
- cyberloafing — (informal) The use of computers by employees for purposes unrelated to work.
- cyclographic — of or relating to a cyclograph
- dallis grass — a tall, succulent, forage grass (Paspalum dilatatum), with hairy spikelets, much grown in the S U.S.
- dancing girl — a professional female dancer who dances to entertain customers at a club, theatre, etc
- danger angle — a horizontal or vertical angle, subtended by two points on shore, that provides a maximum or minimum angle between the points as observed from a vessel if it is to steer a safe course.
- dark glasses — Dark glasses are glasses which have dark-coloured lenses to protect your eyes in the sunshine.
- darning wool — wool used for darning
- data general — (company) A US computer manufacturer. Responsible for the Nova minicomputer. Quarterly sales $284M, profits -$12M (Aug 1994).
- daughterless — Without a daughter.
- daughterlike — Resembling a daughter.
- daughterling — a small daughter
- dealing room — A dealing room is a place where shares, currencies, or commodities are bought and sold.
- decelerating — Present participle of decelerate.
- decreasingly — In a decreasing manner.
- deerstalking — The hunting of deer on foot, by stealing upon them unawares.
- deflagrating — Present participle of deflagrate.
- deflagration — Deflagration is an explosion in which the speed of burning is lower than the speed of sound in the surroundings.
- degenerately — In a degenerate manner.
- deglamorized — Simple past tense and past participle of deglamorize.
- degringolade — a rapid descent or deterioration
- deleveraging — an instance of this: The economic crisis has forced a deleverage.
- deliberating — carefully weighed or considered; studied; intentional: a deliberate lie.
- delta-prolog — A Prolog extension with AND-parallelism, don't-know nondeterminism and interprocess communication using synchronous event goals and distributed backtracking.
- demoralising — to deprive (a person or persons) of spirit, courage, discipline, etc.; destroy the morale of: The continuous barrage demoralized the infantry.
- demoralizing — If something is demoralizing, it makes you lose so much confidence in what you are doing that you want to give up.
- dephlegmator — an apparatus used for dephlegmation
- deregulating — Present participle of deregulate.
- deregulation — Deregulation is the removal of controls and restrictions in a particular area of business or trade.
- deregulatory — Of or pertaining to deregulation.
- dermaplaning — a cosmetic treatment, often used to treat acne scars, in which surface irregularities are surgically scraped to give the skin a smoother appearance
- 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.
- despairingly — given to despair or hopelessness.
- diagrammable — able to be diagrammed or representable by a diagram
- diffrangible — capable of being diffracted
- digressional — Pertaining to, or having the character of, a digression; departing from the main purpose or subject.
- dilacerating — Present participle of dilacerate.
- disagreeable — contrary to one's taste or liking; unpleasant; offensive; repugnant.