12-letter words containing s, i, g, r
- discographic — of or relating to a discography
- discongruity — incongruity.
- discouraging — to deprive of courage, hope, or confidence; dishearten; dispirit.
- discrediting — Present participle of discredit.
- disembarking — Present participle of disembark.
- disembrangle — to disentangle (a person or thing)
- disenrolling — to dismiss or cause to become removed from a program of training, care, etc.: The academy disenrolled a dozen cadets.
- disgorgement — The act of disgorging, particularly in the legal sense.
- disgracefull — Archaic form of disgraceful.
- disgradation — a deposition of rank or status
- disgregation — the separation of components from a whole, esp of people from a company
- disgruntedly — In a disgruntled manner.
- disgruntling — Present participle of disgruntle.
- dishonouring — Present participle of dishonour.
- disintegrant — A disintegrant is an agent, used in the preparation of tablets, which causes them to disintegrate and release their medicinal substances on contact with moisture.
- disintegrate — to separate into parts or lose intactness or solidness; break up; deteriorate: The old book is gradually disintegrating with age.
- disinterring — Present participle of disinter.
- disk storage — space for storing information on a disk
- dismembering — Present participle of dismember.
- disorganised — Lacking order or organisation; confused; chaotic.
- disorganized — functioning without adequate order, systemization, or planning; uncoordinated: a woefully disorganized enterprise.
- disorienting — to cause to lose one's way: The strange streets disoriented him.
- disprivilege — to deprive of privilege
- disregardful — neglectful; careless.
- disregarding — to pay no attention to; leave out of consideration; ignore: Disregard the footnotes.
- disservicing — harmful or injurious service; an ill turn.
- disspiriting — Present participle of disspirit alternative spelling of dispiriting.
- distraughtly — distracted; deeply agitated.
- distress gun — a gun fired at one-minute intervals as a signal of distress.
- distributing — to divide and give out in shares; deal out; allot.
- distringases — Plural form of distringas.
- disturbingly — upsetting or disquieting; dismaying: a disturbing increase in the crime rate.
- 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.
- earsplitting — ear-piercing: an earsplitting explosion.
- earthshaking — imperiling, challenging, or affecting basic beliefs, attitudes, relationships, etc.
- effervescing — Present participle of effervesce.
- efflorescing — Present participle of effloresce.
- egalitarians — Plural form of egalitarian.
- eigenvectors — Plural form of eigenvector.