12-letter words containing s, d, e, i, g
- prediagnosis — Medicine/Medical. the process of determining by examination the nature and circumstances of a diseased condition. the decision reached from such an examination. Abbreviation: Dx.
- predischarge — of or pertaining to the period prior to discharge, esp prior to discharge from hospital or from employment
- predisposing — to give an inclination or tendency to beforehand; make susceptible: Genetic factors may predispose human beings to certain metabolic diseases.
- puddingstone — any conglomerate rock having dark-colored, rounded pebbles that are embedded in a light-colored, fine-grained matrix
- quadragesima — the first Sunday in Lent.
- quindecagons — Plural form of quindecagon.
- reading desk — a desk for use in reading, especially by a person standing.
- reading list — a list of sources (recommended by a teacher or university lecturer) which provide additional or background information on a subject being studied
- red brigades — an extreme leftist terrorist organization in Italy.
- red goatfish — a goatfish, Mullus auratus.
- redesignated — to mark or point out; indicate; show; specify.
- rescheduling — the act of changing the time, date, or schedule of
- resoundingly — making an echoing sound: a resounding thud.
- ride shotgun — a smoothbore gun for firing small shots to kill birds and small quadrupeds, though often used with buckshot to kill larger animals.
- sailing date — the date that a ship or boat departs on a sailing voyage
- sandpapering — the act or process of polishing or grinding a surface with or as if with sandpaper
- seam binding — a narrow strip of fabric attached to the unfinished edge of a seam or hem to keep it from raveling.
- second sight — the faculty of seeing future events; clairvoyance.
- sedge family — the plant family Cyperaceae, characterized by herbaceous plants, often found in wet areas, having solid stems, narrow, grasslike leaves with closed sheaths, spikes of very small flowers set in a scalelike bract, and a dry, flattened, convex fruit, and including the bulrush, chufa, cotton grass, papyrus, and umbrella plant.
- see daylight — the light of day: At the end of the tunnel they could see daylight.
- self-damning — causing incrimination: damning evidence.
- self-dealing — financial transaction conducted on a personal, nonbusinesslike basis, as lending or borrowing of corporate money by a director.
- self-denying — the sacrifice of one's own desires; unselfishness.
- self-drawing — the act of a person or thing that draws.
- self-driving — (of a machine) operating without the guidance of a human.
- self-feeding — automatically supplying itself with what is needed, as a machine
- self-loading — noting or pertaining to an automatic or semiautomatic firearm.
- self-reading — the action or practice of a person who reads.
- self-winding — kept wound or wound periodically by a mechanism, as an electric motor or a system of weighted levers, so that winding by hand is not necessary.
- send packing — to dismiss peremptorily
- serving dish — a dish in which food is presented or served, esp before being shared into individual portions
- set designer — theatre, cinema: creator of scenery
- sewn binding — a style of binding where the backs of the gathered sections are sewn together before being inserted into a cover
- shared logic — the sharing of a central processing unit and associated software among several terminals
- shareholding — a holder or owner of shares, especially in a company or corporation.
- sheepherding — the act of herding or tending sheep
- shepherdling — a young or little shepherd
- sherardizing — to coat (steel) with a thin cladding of zinc by heating in a mixture of sand and powdered zinc.
- shortsighted — unable to see far; nearsighted; myopic.
- side against — one of the surfaces forming the outside of or bounding a thing, or one of the lines bounding a geometric figure.
- siderography — the art or technique of engraving on steel.
- sidestepping — the act of ascending or descending by facing sideways and lifting each ski alternately
- single blind — of or relating to an experiment or clinical trial in which the researchers but not the subjects know which subjects are receiving the active medication or treatment and which are not: a technique for eliminating subjective bias, as the placebo effect, from the test results.
- single modal — modal (def 3).
- single-blind — of or relating to an experiment or clinical trial in which the researchers but not the subjects know which subjects are receiving the active medication or treatment and which are not: a technique for eliminating subjective bias, as the placebo effect, from the test results.
- single-digit — of or denoting a percentage smaller than ten, especially with reference to rates below that level: single-digit rates of inflation.
- single-ended — (of a boiler) fired from one end only.
- sixth-grader — a pupil in their sixth US school year after kindergarten, who is usually around 11 or 12 years old
- skip welding — a technique of spacing welds on thin structural members in order to balance and minimize internal stresses due to heat.
- slide guitar — bottleneck (def 3).