12-letter words containing s, i, g, r
- cross-dating — a method of dating objects, remains, etc, by comparison and correlation with other sites and levels
- cross-string — overstring.
- crossbanding — a veneer border, as on furniture, with its grain at right angles to the grain of the adjacent wood
- crossbarring — stripes, esp those of an animal
- crosscutting — a transverse cut or course.
- crossgrained — Alternative form of cross-grained.
- crossposting — Present participle of crosspost.
- cryosurgical — of or relating to cryosurgery
- cryptogamist — a botanist specializing in the study of cryptogams
- cryptologist — cryptography.
- crystalising — Present participle of crystalise.
- cybercasting — the broadcasting of news, entertainment, etc., using the Internet, specifically the World Wide Web.
- cybersurfing — The practice of using and browsing the Internet, especially as a habitual pastime.
- dallis grass — a tall, succulent, forage grass (Paspalum dilatatum), with hairy spikelets, much grown in the S U.S.
- dastardizing — Present participle of dastardize.
- dead fingers — a disease of users of pneumatic drills, characterized by anaesthesia of the fingertips and cyanosis
- declustering — Any technique that counteracts clustering (in any sense).
- decreasingly — In a decreasing manner.
- deerstalking — The hunting of deer on foot, by stealing upon them unawares.
- degeneracies — Plural form of degeneracy.
- degradations — Plural form of degradation.
- degressively — in a degressive fashion
- demographics — data resulting from the science of demography; population statistics
- demographies — the science of vital and social statistics, as of the births, deaths, diseases, marriages, etc., of populations.
- demoralising — to deprive (a person or persons) of spirit, courage, discipline, etc.; destroy the morale of: The continuous barrage demoralized the infantry.
- denbighshire — a county of N Wales: split between Clwyd and Gwynedd in 1974; reinstated with different boundaries in 1996: borders the Irish Sea, with the Cambrian Mountains in the south: chiefly agricultural. Administrative centre: Ruthin. Pop: 94 900 (2003 est). Area: 844 sq km (327 sq miles)
- dendrologist — the branch of botany dealing with trees and shrubs.
- denigrations — Plural form of denigration.
- depressingly — In a depressing manner.
- deregistered — Simple past tense and past participle of deregister.
- desiderating — Present participle of desiderate.
- despairingly — given to despair or hopelessness.
- devil's grip — pleurodynia (def 2).
- devirginizes — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of devirginize.
- diégo-suarez — a seaport on N Madagascar.
- digitigrades — Plural form of digitigrade.
- digressional — Pertaining to, or having the character of, a digression; departing from the main purpose or subject.
- digressively — In a digressive fashion.
- disaggregate — to separate (an aggregate or mass) into its component parts.
- disagreeable — contrary to one's taste or liking; unpleasant; offensive; repugnant.
- disagreeably — In a disagreeable manner.
- disagreeance — (obsolete) disagreement.
- disagreement — the act, state, or fact of disagreeing.
- disappearing — Present participle of disappear.
- disapproving — Expressing an unfavorable opinion.
- disarranging — Present participle of disarrange.
- disburdening — Present participle of disburden.
- discandering — discandying, melting from a state of being candied
- discerningly — showing good or outstanding judgment and understanding: a discerning critic of French poetry.
- discographer — a person who compiles discographies.