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12-letter words containing s, i, g, n, a

  • apostatizing — Present participle of apostatize.
  • appetisingly — Alternative spelling of appetizingly.
  • appraisingly — to estimate the monetary value of; determine the worth of; assess: We had an expert appraise the house before we bought it.
  • apprentisage — Obsolete form of apprenticeage.
  • apron string — a string for tying an apron on
  • arm-twisting — persuasion
  • arming chest — a chest for holding armor and weapons.
  • arraignments — Plural form of arraignment.
  • arsino group — the univalent group H 2 As−.
  • ascertaining — to find out definitely; learn with certainty or assurance; determine: to ascertain the facts.
  • asking price — The asking price of something is the price which the person selling it says that they want for it, although they may accept less.
  • asparaginase — an enzyme used in treating leukaemia
  • asphyxiating — to produce asphyxia in.
  • aspiringness — the condition of being aspiring
  • assassin bug — any long-legged predatory, often blood-sucking, insect of the heteropterous family Reduviidae
  • asseverating — Present participle of asseverate.
  • assignations — Plural form of assignation.
  • assimilating — to take in and incorporate as one's own; absorb: He assimilated many new experiences on his European trip.
  • assimulating — Present participle of assimulate.
  • astoundingly — capable of overwhelming with amazement; stunningly surprising.
  • astringently — In the manner of an astringent.
  • astroturfing — a PR tactic used in politics and advertising in which actors are paid to display overt and apparently spontaneous grassroots support for a particular product, policy, or event
  • auscultating — Present participle of auscultate.
  • backcrossing — (genetics) The crossing of a hybrid with one of its parents or an individual genetically similar to its parent.
  • backslapping — Backslapping is noisy, cheerful behavior which people use in order to show affection or appreciation to each other.
  • backslashing — Present participle of backslash.
  • backstabbing — Backstabbing consists of unkind and disloyal actions or remarks that are likely to harm someone such as a friend or colleague.
  • backstarting — a marketing technique in publishing, whereby new customers are sent back issues of magazines or journals as part of their subscription
  • backstopping — a wall, wire screen, or the like, serving to prevent a ball from going too far beyond the normal playing area.
  • bait casting — the act or technique of casting an artificial or natural lure attached to a silk or nylon line wound on a reel having a revolving spool, the rod used being shorter and less flexible than that used in fly casting.
  • bait-casting — designating fishing equipment designed for use with live bait or artificial lures, in which the weight of the bait or lure pulls the line from a winch-type reel, as during casting or trolling
  • baking sheet — A baking sheet is a flat piece of metal on which you bake foods such as biscuits or pies in an oven.
  • bargain sale — an event at which goods are sold at low prices, usually to clear old stocks
  • barn raising — (in rural areas) a party, usually providing food, drink, etc., for the purpose of assisting a neighbor to put up a new barn.
  • barnstorming — A barnstorming performance is full of energy and very exciting to watch.
  • base jumping — a sport in which a participant parachutes from any of a variety of fixed objects such as high buildings, cliffs, etc
  • base pairing — the hydrogen bonding that occurs between complementary nitrogenous bases in the two polynucleotide chains of a DNA molecule
  • base-pairing — the process of binding separate DNA sequences by base pairs.
  • basing point — a geographical location from which freight charges are computed by the seller regardless of the point from which the goods are shipped.
  • basketmaking — The construction of baskets, especially by traditional means.
  • bastard wing — a tuft of feathers attached to the first digit of a bird, distinct from the wing feathers attached to the other digits and the ulna
  • bastardizing — Present participle of bastardize.
  • bastinadoing — Present participle of bastinado.
  • bathing suit — A bathing suit is a piece of clothing which people wear when they go swimming.
  • bearskin rug — the pelt of a bear, used as a rug
  • beta testing — (programming)   Evaluation of a pre-release (potentially unreliable) version of a piece of software (or possibly hardware) by making it available to selected users ("beta testers") before it goes on general distribution. Beta testign aims to discover bugs that only occur in certain environments or under certain patterns of use, while reducing the volume of feedback to a manageable level. The testers benefit by having earlier access to new products, features and fixes. Beta testing may be preceded by "alpha testing", performed in-house by a handful of users (e.g. other developers or friends), who can be expected to give rapid, high quality feedback on design and usability. Once the product is considered to be usable for its intended purpose it then moves on to "beta testing" by a larger, but typically still limited, number of ordinary users, who may include external customers. Some companies such as Google or Degree Jungle stretch the definition, claiming their products are "in beta" for many months by millions of users. The term derives from early 1960s terminology for product cycle checkpoints, first used at IBM but later standard throughout the industry. "Alpha test" was the unit test, module test or component test phase; "Beta Test" was initial system test. These themselves came from earlier A- and B-tests for hardware. The A-test was a feasibility and manufacturability evaluation done before any commitment to design and development. The B-test was a demonstration that the engineering model functioned as specified. The C-test (corresponding to today's beta) was the B-test performed on early samples of the production design.
  • bias binding — a strip of material cut on the bias for extra stretch and often doubled, used for binding hems, interfacings, etc, or for decoration
  • bilingualism — Bilingualism is the ability to speak two languages equally well.
  • billingsgate — the largest fish market in London, on the N bank of the River Thames; moved to new site at Canary Wharf in 1982 and the former building converted into offices
  • bio-organism — a dangerous fast-proliferating organism that could be used as the basis of a biological weapon
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