12-letter words containing n, g, a
- doppleganger — Misspelling of doppelganger.
- double agent — a person who spies on a country while pretending to spy for it.
- doubleganger — doppelgänger.
- downregulate — To decrease the number of cell receptors by using downregulation.
- dragon light — a herbal remedy for impotence
- dragonslayer — One who slays a dragon.
- drawing card — a person who or thing that attracts attention or patrons.
- drawing room — a formal reception room, especially in an apartment or private house.
- drawlingness — the quality or characteristic of a drawler
- dreadnoughts — Plural form of dreadnought.
- dripping pan — a shallow pan placed under roasting meat to catch the dripping
- 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.
- dry gangrene — death of tissue owing to arterial obstruction without subsequent bacterial decomposition and putrefaction.
- dry-cleaning — Dry-cleaning is the action or work of dry-cleaning things such as clothes.
- drying agent — A drying agent is used in an absorption column (= a tall vessel) to remove water from fractions.
- dutch guiana — former name of Suriname.
- duty manager — A duty manager is a person who is in charge at a particular time.
- ear piercing — hole in ear for jewellery
- ear-grabbing — (of music) immediately capturing and holding the attention of listeners
- ear-piercing — extremely harsh and irritating to the ear: ear-piercing noise.
- earsplitting — ear-piercing: an earsplitting explosion.
- earth tongue — any of a group of fungi of the phylum Ascomycota, characterized by a tongue-shaped fruiting body, found on decaying logs and damp soil.
- earth-moving — Earth-moving equipment is machinery that is used for digging and moving large amounts of soil.
- earthshaking — imperiling, challenging, or affecting basic beliefs, attitudes, relationships, etc.
- east anglian — an early English kingdom in SE Britain: modern Norfolk and Suffolk.
- east bengali — of or relating to East Bengal (now Bangladesh) or its inhabitants
- east germany — a former country in central Europe: created in 1949 from the Soviet zone of occupied Germany established in 1945: reunited with West Germany in 1990. 41,827 sq. mi. (108,333 sq. km). Capital: East Berlin.
- east lansing — a city in S Michigan.
- easting down — the passage eastward from the Cape of Good Hope, as made by a sailing ship bound for Australia or the East Indies.
- eating apple — apple suitable for eating raw
- eating house — a restaurant or other place where one can eat
- edgar adrian — Edgar Douglas, 1889–1977, English physiologist: Nobel Prize in Medicine 1932.
- edulcorating — Present participle of edulcorate.
- effectuating — Present participle of effectuate.
- effeminating — Present participle of effeminate.
- effiguration — a detailed and elaborate description of something
- egads button — a switch that triggers the destruction in flight of a malfunctioning missile.
- egalitarians — Plural form of egalitarian.
- egg and dart — a design for enriching an ovolo or echinus, consisting of a closely set, alternating series of oval and pointed forms.
- egg sandwich — two slices of bread filled with chopped egg
- egyptian mau — a breed of medium-sized cat with a spotted coat of medium length
- eke a living — If you eke a living or eke out an existence, you manage to survive with very little money.
- elephant gun — hunting rifle
- emancipating — Present participle of emancipate.
- emargination — A notch (or series of notches) in a margin.
- emasculating — Present participle of emasculate.
- embarrassing — Causing embarrassment.
- emigrational — Relating to emigration.
- enabling act — a legislative act conferring certain specified powers on a person or organization