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14-letter words containing a, d, r, e, n, g

  • disintegratory — Causing or relating to disintegration.
  • disorientating — to disorient.
  • distraughtness — The state or quality of being distraught or agitated; distressedness.
  • dongle cracker — (security)   Someone who enables software that has been written to require a dongle to run without it.
  • double marking — a method of assessment in which two individuals independently mark a test or evaluate a performance
  • double parking — the activity or offence of parking a vehicle in a traffic lane
  • downregulating — Present participle of downregulate.
  • downregulation — (genetics) The process, in the regulation of gene expression, in which the number, or activity of receptors decreases in order to decrease sensitivity.
  • dragging piece — (in a hipped roof) a short beam holding the foot of a hip rafter to counteract its thrust.
  • dragline crane — an excavating crane having a bucket that is dropped from a boom and dragged toward the crane base by a cable.
  • dragon's teeth — conical or wedge-shaped concrete antitank obstacles protruding from the ground in rows: used in World War II
  • drainage basin — the area drained by a river and all its tributaries. Also called catchment area, drainage area. Compare watershed (def 2).
  • drainage ditch — a ditch that excess water drains into
  • drainage holes — the holes in a plant pot that allow excess water to drain away
  • draughtsperson — Alternative spelling of draftsperson.
  • drawing chisel — an obliquely edged wood chisel for working across grain, as in forming the ends of tenons.
  • drawing office — an office where drawings are made
  • dressing glass — a small, adjustable mirror designed to stand on a dressing table.
  • dressing table — a table or stand, usually surmounted by a mirror, in front of which a person sits while dressing, applying makeup, etc.
  • drill sergeant — military officer who drills recruits
  • drinking water — water that is safe to drink
  • driving barrel — (in a weight-driven clock) the drum turned by the descent of the weight, which drives the clock mechanism.
  • drop a clanger — If you say that you have dropped a clanger, you mean that you have done or said something stupid or embarrassing.
  • dungeness crab — an edible crab, Cancer magister, of shallow Pacific coastal waters from northern California to Alaska.
  • eaves-dropping — to listen secretly to a private conversation.
  • edgar atheling — ?1050–?1125, grandson of Edmund II; Anglo-Saxon pretender to the English throne in 1066
  • editorializing — Present participle of editorialize.
  • eleventh grade — the eleventh year of school, when students are 16 or 17 years old
  • emergency ward — a ward in a hospital that deals with patients who need emergency treatment
  • ever and again — now and then; from time to time
  • exocrine gland — any gland, such as a salivary or sweat gland, that secretes its products through a duct onto an epithelial surface
  • exploding star — an irregular variable star, such as a nova, supernova, or flare star, in which rapid increases in luminosity occur, caused by some form of explosion
  • farsightedness — seeing objects at a distance more clearly than those near at hand; hyperopic.
  • featherbedding — the practice of requiring an employer to hire unnecessary employees, to assign unnecessary work, or to limit production according to a union rule or safety statute: Featherbedding forced the railroads to employ firemen on diesel locomotives.
  • finger reading — the reading of Braille by means of the fingertips.
  • flinders grass — a drought-resistant pasture grass, Iseilema membranacea, native to inland regions of Australia and used as fodder.
  • flinders range — a mountain range in S Australia. Highest peak, St. Mary Peak, 3900 feet (1190 meters).
  • food-gathering — procuring food by hunting or fishing or the gathering of seeds, berries, or roots, rather than by the cultivation of plants or the domestication of animals; foraging.
  • forced landing — aircraft: emergency descent
  • forced savings — a reduction in consumption that occurs when there is full employment and an abundance of loans
  • fragmentedness — The quality of being fragmented.
  • garden of eden — Eden1
  • garden produce — cultivated or farm-produced goods, such as fruit and vegetables
  • garden rubbish — organic refuse generated by gardening
  • garden variety — common, usual, or ordinary; unexceptional.
  • garden warbler — any of several small brownish-grey European songbirds of the genus Sylvia (warblers), esp S. borin, common in woods and hedges: in some parts of Europe they are esteemed as a delicacy
  • garden webworm — the larva of any of several moths, as Hyphantria cunea (fall webworm) or Loxostege similalis (garden webworm) which spins a web over the foliage on which it feeds.
  • garden-variety — common, usual, or ordinary; unexceptional.
  • gastroduodenal — of or relating to the stomach and the duodenum
  • gaudi i cornet — Antoni [ahn-taw-nee] /ɑnˈtɔ ni/ (Show IPA), 1852–1926, Spanish architect and designer.
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