12-letter words containing r, i, g, s, d
- divergencies — Plural form of divergency.
- diversifying — Present participle of diversify.
- dog's dinner — mess, failure
- doorstepping — talking to someone at the door of their home, for political canvassing or to gather information
- dosing strip — (in New Zealand) an area set aside for treating dogs suspected of having hydatid disease
- dramaturgist — A person who composes a drama and directs its representation; a playwright.
- drawlingness — the quality or characteristic of a drawler
- drill string — (on a drill rig) the assemblage of drill pipes that link the drill bit to the mechanism that imparts rotary or reciprocating motion.
- 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.
- driving test — the examination that new drivers must take in order to be officially allowed to drive when not under instruction
- droughtiness — Dryness of the weather; lack of rain.
- enduringness — The quality of being enduring; lastingness.
- erciyas daği — an extinct volcano in central Turkey. Height 3916 m (12 848 ft)
- erciyes daği — an extinct volcano in central Turkey. Height 3916 m (12 848 ft)
- farsightedly — In a farsighted manner.
- figured bass — a bass part in which the notes have numbers under them indicating the chords to be played.
- fingerboards — Plural form of fingerboard.
- firing squad — a military detachment assigned to execute a condemned person by shooting.
- first degree — People who have gained a higher qualification after completing a basic university degree such as a BA or a BSc refer to that basic degree as their first degree.
- first-degree — of or relating to the lowest or first in a series.
- first-grader — a child in the first grade
- flash drying — Flash drying is a stage in a process to make something bigger, in which a paste-like feed is broken up and dried at the same time.
- freestanding — (of sculpture or architectural elements) unattached to a supporting unit or background; standing alone.
- frigatebirds — Plural form of frigatebird.
- fund-raising — the act or process of raising funds, as for nonprofit organizations or for a political cause.
- galahad, sir — Sir Arthurian Romance. the noblest and purest knight of the Round Table, son of Lancelot and Elaine: gained the Holy Grail.
- gallows bird — a person who deserves to be hanged.
- garden snail — Zoology
- gas cylinder — container for storing gas
- gastric band — A gastric band is a device that is fitted inside someone's stomach to make it smaller in order to help them lose weight.
- gastrodermis — the inner cell layer of the body of an invertebrate.
- gendarmeries — Plural form of gendarmerie.
- gersdorffite — a mineral, sulfide-arsenide of nickel, NiAsS, occurring in metallic, light-gray cubes.
- gingerbreads — Plural form of gingerbread.
- gizzard shad — a silvery herring, Dorosoma cepedianum, of eastern and central U.S. waters, that has a gizzardlike stomach.
- glandiferous — bearing nuts or acorns
- glass lizard — any limbless, snakelike lizard of the genus Ophisaurus, inhabiting the eastern U.S., Europe, and Asia, having external ear openings and the ability to regenerate its long, fragile tail.
- goldsmithery — the occupation of a goldsmith
- gormandising — Present participle of gormandise.
- gormandizers — gourmandise1 .
- gradualistic — Of or pertaining to gradualism.
- graduateship — the time or condition of being a graduate
- 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.
- gravediggers — Plural form of gravedigger.
- griddlecakes — Plural form of griddlecake.
- grosswardein — German name of Oradea.