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12-letter words containing n, s, d, i

  • 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.
  • grudgingness — The state or quality of grudging.
  • guardianista — a reader of the Guardian newspaper, seen as being typically left-wing, liberal, and politically correct
  • guardianship — the position and responsibilities of a guardian, especially toward a ward.
  • gynodioecism — the condition of having flowers that are only female in one example of a plant and flowers that have stamens and pistils in another example of a plant of the same species
  • hadrosaurine — Hadrosaurid.
  • haemosiderin — Alternative form of hemosiderin.
  • hairdressing — the act or process of cutting, combing out, doing up, or styling hair.
  • hand setting — Also called French telephone. a telephone having a mouthpiece and earpiece mounted at opposite ends of a handle.
  • hand-selling — a gift or token for good luck or as an expression of good wishes, as at the beginning of the new year or when entering upon a new situation or enterprise.
  • handicappeds — Plural form of handicapped.
  • handicappers — Plural form of handicapper.
  • handies peak — a peak in SW Colorado, in the San Juan Mountains. 14,048 feet (4285 meters).
  • handstitched — Stitched by hand.
  • hard science — any of the natural or physical sciences, as chemistry, biology, physics, or astronomy, in which aspects of the universe are investigated by means of hypotheses and experiments.
  • hardinggrass — a perennial grass of the genus Phalaris, found in South Africa, Australia, and in North America where it is used as an animal foodstuff
  • hardstanding — a hard surface on which cars, aircraft etc. may stand
  • harrison red — a pigment consisting of a paratoluidine toner, characterized by its brilliant red color and tendency to bleed.
  • head station — the main buildings on a large sheep or cattle farm
  • headshakings — Plural form of headshaking.
  • headshrinker — shrink (def 9).
  • hebetudinous — the state of being dull; lethargy.
  • hemodynamics — the branch of physiology dealing with the forces involved in the circulation of the blood.
  • hepadnavirus — Any member of the virus family Hepadnaviridae, capable of causing liver infections in humans and animals.
  • hidradenitis — (medicine) inflammation of the sweat glands.
  • high density — floppy disk
  • high-density — having a high concentration: entering a high-density market with a new product; high-density lipoprotein.
  • hindforemost — with the back part in the front place
  • hindquarters — the posterior end of a halved carcass of beef, lamb, etc., sectioned usually between the twelfth and thirteenth ribs.
  • his and hers — (of paired objects) for a man and woman respectively
  • hit and miss — unpredictable, unreliable
  • hit-and-miss — sometimes successful or rewarding and sometimes not.
  • hold against — resent sb for sth
  • hollingshead — Holinshed.
  • homesteading — a dwelling with its land and buildings, occupied by the owner as a home and exempted by a homestead law from seizure or sale for debt.
  • horse riding — activity: riding on a horse
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