10-letter words containing a, d, g
- dazzlingly — to overpower or dim the vision of by intense light: He was dazzled by the sudden sunlight.
- de gasperi — Alcide (alˈtʃiːde). 1881–1954, Italian statesman; prime minister (1945–53). An antifascist, he led the Christian Democratic party during World War II from the Vatican City
- deadlining — Present participle of deadline.
- deadweight — (of a shot) leaving the other balls in the ideal position
- dealmaking — The making of commercial, financial or political deals.
- debasingly — In a debasing manner.
- debatingly — in an argumentative manner
- debauching — Present participle of debauch.
- decadelong — lasting for a decade: After a decadelong study, the drug has finally been approved by the FDA.
- decagramme — ten grammes
- decagynian — having ten pistils or female organs of reproduction and belonging to the order Decagynia
- decalogist — a person who interprets and expounds on the Ten Commandments
- decimating — Present participle of decimate.
- deck cargo — cargo that is carried on the deck of a ship
- declaiming — Present participle of declaim.
- decorating — the painting or wallpapering of a room, house, etc
- decoupaged — Simple past tense and past participle of decoupage.
- decoupages — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of decoupage.
- decreasing — becoming less or fewer; diminishing.
- dede agach — former name of Alexandroupolis.
- dedicating — to set apart and consecrate to a deity or to a sacred purpose: The ancient Greeks dedicated many shrines to Aphrodite.
- deep magic — [possibly from C. S. Lewis's "Narnia" books] An awesomely arcane technique central to a program or system, especially one neither generally published nor available to hackers at large (compare black art); one that could only have been composed by a true wizard. Compiler optimisation techniques and many aspects of OS design used to be deep magic; many techniques in cryptography, signal processing, graphics, and AI still are. Compare heavy wizardry. Especially found in comments of the form "Deep magic begins here.". Compare voodoo programming.
- deer grass — meadow beauty.
- defaulting — guilty of a failure to act, esp a failure to meet a financial obligation
- defecating — Present participle of defecate.
- defilading — Present participle of defilade.
- deflagrate — to burn or cause to burn with great heat and light
- defragging — Present participle of defrag.
- defragment — to reorganize files on (a disk) so that the parts of each file are stored in contiguous sectors on the disk, thereby improving computer performance and maximizing disk space.
- defrauding — Present participle of defraud.
- degaussing — Present participle of degauss.
- degeneracy — If you refer to the behaviour of a group of people as degeneracy, you mean that you think it is shocking, immoral, or disgusting.
- degenerate — If you say that someone or something degenerates, you mean that they become worse in some way, for example weaker, lower in quality, or more dangerous.
- degradable — (of waste products, packaging materials, etc) capable of being decomposed chemically or biologically
- degradedly — in a degraded fashion
- degree day — a day on which university degrees are conferred
- degree-day — one degree of departure, on a single day, of the daily mean temperature from a given standard temperature. Abbreviation: dd.
- dei gratia — by the grace of God
- delayering — Delayering is the process of simplifying the administrative structure of a large organization in order to make it more efficient.
- delegacies — Plural form of delegacy.
- delegalize — to revoke the statutory authorization of.
- delegating — Present participle of delegate.
- delegation — A delegation is a group of people who have been sent somewhere to have talks with other people on behalf of a larger group of people.
- delegators — Plural form of delegator.
- delegatory — of or relating to the delegation or assignment of authority, power, or responsibility.
- deleverage — to reduce the ratio of debt capital to equity capital in an organization or (of an organization) to reduce the ratio of debt capital to equity capital
- deligating — Present participle of deligate.
- deligation — the act of binding, especially with a ligature
- delta wing — a triangular sweptback aircraft wing
- demagogism — The practices and principles of a demagogue; a pandering to the multitude for selfish ends.