12-letter words containing t, i, d, n, g
- distringases — Plural form of distringas.
- disturbingly — upsetting or disquieting; dismaying: a disturbing increase in the crime rate.
- divaricating — Present participle of divaricate.
- divine right — doctrine that king's power was ordained by God
- doomwatching — the act of watching the environment to warn of and prevent harm
- 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
- doughnutlike — Resembling a doughnut.
- downshifting — to shift an automotive transmission or vehicle into a lower gear.
- dragon light — a herbal remedy for impotence
- 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.
- 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.
- dry mounting — the technique of fastening a print, photograph, or the like to a board by using a heated thermoplastic tissue as an adhesive.
- drying agent — A drying agent is used in an absorption column (= a tall vessel) to remove water from fractions.
- dutch guiana — former name of Suriname.
- 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.
- fact-finding — a person who searches impartially for the facts or actualities of a subject or situation, especially one appointed to conduct an official investigation, as in a labor-management conflict.
- farthingdale — (British, dated, 13th-19th C.) A unit of area equal to one quarter of an acre.
- farthingland — a unit of land area, sometimes described as being equivalent to thirty acres
- faultfinding — the act of pointing out faults, especially faults of a petty nature; carping.
- 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.
- fluoridating — Present participle of fluoridate.
- folding seat — a seat that can be folded down
- foot-binding — (formerly in China) the act or practice of tightly binding the feet of infant girls to keep the feet as small as possible.
- footdragging — the act or practice of acting with deliberate slowness
- 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.
- gastric band — A gastric band is a device that is fitted inside someone's stomach to make it smaller in order to help them lose weight.
- 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 lizard — a monitor lizard, Varanus komodoensis, of certain Indonesian islands E of Java, that grows to a length of 10 feet (3 meters): the largest lizard in the world; now rare.
- giant powder — dynamite composed of nitroglycerin and kieselguhr.
- glad tidings — Glad tidings means good news.
- gladiatorian — (dated) Of or relating to gladiators or to combat in general; gladiatorial.
- glutaredoxin — (enzyme) Any of a family of small redox enzymes that use glutathione as a cofactor.