12-letter words containing t, i, d, e, g, n
- 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.
- disinvesting — Present participle of disinvest.
- dislodgement — to remove or force out of a particular place: to dislodge a stone with one's foot.
- disorienting — to cause to lose one's way: The strange streets disoriented him.
- distress gun — a gun fired at one-minute intervals as a signal of distress.
- distringases — Plural form of distringas.
- divine right — doctrine that king's power was ordained by God
- doorstepping — talking to someone at the door of their home, for political canvassing or to gather information
- doughnutlike — Resembling a doughnut.
- dripping wet — If you are dripping wet, you are so wet that water is dripping from you.
- driving belt — a belt that carries movement from an engine or moving part to another moving part
- 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
- driving time — the time or estimated time to drive between two points or to one's destination.
- droughtiness — Dryness of the weather; lack of rain.
- drying agent — A drying agent is used in an absorption column (= a tall vessel) to remove water from fractions.
- easting down — the passage eastward from the Cape of Good Hope, as made by a sailing ship bound for Australia or the East Indies.
- editing room — a room in which a film or television programme is prepared by selecting, rearranging, or rejecting previously filmed material
- edulcorating — Present participle of edulcorate.
- extinguished — Cause (a fire or light) to cease to burn or shine.
- farthingdale — (British, dated, 13th-19th C.) A unit of area equal to one quarter of an acre.
- feeding time — the regular time at which babies or animals are fed
- feeding tube — nasogastric tubing
- field magnet — a magnet for producing a magnetic field, as in a particle accelerator or an electric motor.
- fixed-length — referring to a field, record, computer word, or other entity whose length does not vary.
- flat-grained — (of sawed lumber) having the annual rings at an angle of less than 45° with the broader surfaces.
- folding seat — a seat that can be folded down
- fragmentized — fragmented.
- freestanding — (of sculpture or architectural elements) unattached to a supporting unit or background; standing alone.
- frightenedly — thrown into a fright; afraid; scared; terrified: a frightened child cowering in the corner.
- ganglionated — gangliate.
- genetic code — the biochemical instructions that translate the genetic information present as a linear sequence of nucleotide triplets in messenger RNA into the correct linear sequence of amino acids for the synthesis of a particular peptide chain or protein. Compare codon, translation (def 9).
- genetic load — the extent to which a population deviates from the theoretically fittest genetic constitution.
- get involved — play a part
- giant powder — dynamite composed of nitroglycerin and kieselguhr.
- glutaredoxin — (enzyme) Any of a family of small redox enzymes that use glutathione as a cofactor.
- glycerinated — to impregnate with glycerin.
- gold-beating — the art or process of beating out gold into gold leaf.
- golden ratio — the ratio of two lengths, equal in value to (1 + √5)/2, and given by b/a = (b + a)/b; it is the reciprocal of the golden section and also equal to (1 + golden section)
- gradeflation — grade inflation.
- granodiorite — a coarse-grained acid igneous rock containing almost twice as much plagioclase as orthoclase: intermediate in composition between granite and diorite
- greenlighted — to give permission to proceed; authorize: The renovation project was green-lighted by the board of directors.
- grid current — the current that moves within the vacuum tube from the grid to the cathode.
- guanethidine — a potent adrenergic neuron blocking agent, C 10 H 22 N 4 , used in the treatment of hypertension.
- guide center — a command to a marching formation to align itself behind a guide marching at the head of the formation.
- guilt-ridden — If a person is guilt-ridden, they feel very guilty about something.
- hand setting — Also called French telephone. a telephone having a mouthpiece and earpiece mounted at opposite ends of a handle.
- head-hunting — a headhunting expedition: The men left the village to go on a headhunt.
- headlighting — The lighting associated with a headlight.