12-letter words containing r, e, g, i, s
- bridge house — a deckhouse including a bridge or bridges for navigation.
- buying spree — the hurried acquisition by a company, of goods, assets, or other companies
- carriageways — Plural form of carriageway.
- categorising — to arrange in categories or classes; classify.
- ceiling rose — decorative plaster centrepiece
- centimorgans — Plural form of centimorgan.
- centralising — Present participle of centralise.
- charmingness — pleasing; delightful: a charming child.
- cheeseparing — penny-pinching; stingy
- chiliburgers — Plural form of chiliburger.
- chitterlings — the intestines of a pig or other animal prepared as a dish
- choreologist — a person who is expert in choreology
- christenings — Plural form of christening.
- chronologies — Plural form of chronology.
- chronologise — Alternative spelling of chronologize.
- cigar-shaped — resembling a cigar in shape
- clam diggers — casual pants that end slightly below the knee.
- clam-diggers — calf-length trousers
- clearsighted — seeing clearly
- cliffhangers — Plural form of cliffhanger.
- closegrained — having a fine, compact grain or texture
- coarse grain — granularity
- code-sharing — a commercial agreement between two airlines that allows passengers to use a ticket from one airline to travel on another
- congruencies — congruence.
- consecrating — Present participle of consecrate.
- conservating — Present participle of conservate.
- constringent — constricting.
- conversating — to have a conversation; converse; talk.
- coprocessing — the act of processing jointly
- copyrighters — Plural form of copyrighter.
- corregidores — the chief magistrate of a town in Spain.
- countersigns — Plural form of countersign.
- crazy eights — a card game played by two or more persons with a 52-card deck, the object of which is to be the first to get rid of one's hand by successively playing a card of the same suit or denomination as that played by the preceding player, with an eight counting for any desired suit.
- crescendoing — Music. a gradual, steady increase in loudness or force. a musical passage characterized by such an increase. the performance of a crescendo passage: The crescendo by the violins is too abrupt.
- crossgrained — Alternative form of cross-grained.
- cybercasting — the broadcasting of news, entertainment, etc., using the Internet, specifically the World Wide Web.
- cybersurfing — The practice of using and browsing the Internet, especially as a habitual pastime.
- dead fingers — a disease of users of pneumatic drills, characterized by anaesthesia of the fingertips and cyanosis
- declustering — Any technique that counteracts clustering (in any sense).
- decreasingly — In a decreasing manner.
- deerstalking — The hunting of deer on foot, by stealing upon them unawares.
- degeneracies — Plural form of degeneracy.
- degradations — Plural form of degradation.
- degressively — in a degressive fashion
- demographics — data resulting from the science of demography; population statistics
- demographies — the science of vital and social statistics, as of the births, deaths, diseases, marriages, etc., of populations.
- demoralising — to deprive (a person or persons) of spirit, courage, discipline, etc.; destroy the morale of: The continuous barrage demoralized the infantry.
- denbighshire — a county of N Wales: split between Clwyd and Gwynedd in 1974; reinstated with different boundaries in 1996: borders the Irish Sea, with the Cambrian Mountains in the south: chiefly agricultural. Administrative centre: Ruthin. Pop: 94 900 (2003 est). Area: 844 sq km (327 sq miles)
- dendrologist — the branch of botany dealing with trees and shrubs.
- denigrations — Plural form of denigration.