12-letter words containing s, d, e, i, g
- false indigo — any of several North American shrubs belonging to the genus Amorpha, of the legume family, especially A. fruticosa, having compound leaves with pinnate leaflets and long, dense clusters of purplish flowers.
- 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.
- 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
- folding seat — a seat that can be folded down
- freestanding — (of sculpture or architectural elements) unattached to a supporting unit or background; standing alone.
- frigatebirds — Plural form of frigatebird.
- galactosides — Plural form of galactoside.
- gangliosides — Plural form of ganglioside.
- garden snail — Zoology
- gas cylinder — container for storing gas
- 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.
- gesticulated — to make or use gestures, especially in an animated or excited manner with or instead of speech.
- gingerbreads — Plural form of gingerbread.
- glandiferous — bearing nuts or acorns
- glycosidases — Plural form of glycosidase.
- goldsmithery — the occupation of a goldsmith
- good offices — Someone's good offices are the help that they give to other people who are trying to achieve something.
- goods engine — a railway locomotive used to haul a freight train.
- gormandizers — gourmandise1 .
- graduateship — the time or condition of being a graduate
- 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.
- grudgingness — The state or quality of grudging.
- guesstimated — Simple past tense and past participle of guesstimate.
- guide fossil — index fossil.
- 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
- gypsy driver — the driver of a gypsy cab
- 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.
- headshakings — Plural form of headshaking.
- high density — floppy disk
- high hurdles — a race in which runners leap over hurdles 42 inches (107 cm) high.
- high-density — having a high concentration: entering a high-density market with a new product; high-density lipoprotein.
- 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
- indigenising — to make indigenous.
- indigenously — originating in and characteristic of a particular region or country; native (often followed by to): the plants indigenous to Canada; the indigenous peoples of southern Africa.
- indigestible — not digestible; not easily digested.
- indigo snake — a large, deep-blue or brown harmless snake, Drymarchon corais, ranging from the southern U.S. to South America and invading burrows to prey on small mammals: the eastern subspecies D. corais couperi is now greatly reduced in number.