12-letter words containing r, i, g, e, l
- clearsighted — seeing clearly
- cliff-hanger — a melodramatic or adventure serial in which each installment ends in suspense in order to interest the reader or viewer in the next installment.
- cliffhangers — Plural form of cliffhanger.
- closegrained — having a fine, compact grain or texture
- club fighter — a mediocre boxer who fights mostly on programs at small sporting clubs
- configurable — to design or adapt to form a specific configuration or for some specific purpose: The planes are being configured to hold more passengers in each row.
- congenerical — congeneric
- congruential — (mathematics) That uses congruency (division by a modulus).
- conqueringly — in a conquering manner
- convent girl — a girl who goes to or has been to a convent school
- corbie gable — a gable having corbie-steps
- counterlight — a light opposite something, such as a painting, that negatively affects the appearance of that object
- 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.
- cyberloafing — (informal) The use of computers by employees for purposes unrelated to work.
- 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.
- declustering — Any technique that counteracts clustering (in any sense).
- decluttering — Present participle of declutter.
- 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.
- deglamorized — Simple past tense and past participle of deglamorize.
- degressively — in a degressive fashion
- 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.
- 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.
- dendrologist — the branch of botany dealing with trees and shrubs.
- depressingly — In a depressing manner.
- deregulating — Present participle of deregulate.
- deregulation — Deregulation is the removal of controls and restrictions in a particular area of business or trade.
- 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.
- devil's grip — pleurodynia (def 2).
- 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.
- digressively — In a digressive fashion.
- dilacerating — Present participle of dilacerate.
- disagreeable — contrary to one's taste or liking; unpleasant; offensive; repugnant.
- disagreeably — In a disagreeable manner.
- discerningly — showing good or outstanding judgment and understanding: a discerning critic of French poetry.