15-letter words containing a, e, g, n, i
- customer-facing — interacting or communicating directly with customers
- cyber-squatting — (jargon, networking) The practice of registering famous brand names as Internet domain names, e.g. harrods.com, ibm.firm or sears.shop, in the hope of later selling them to the appropriate owner at a profit.
- cycloneolignane — (organic chemistry) Any neolignane having an additional ring.
- cytogenetically — (medicine, biology) By means or in terms of cytogenetics, the genetics of the cell.
- daguerreotyping — Present participle of daguerreotype.
- dancing partner — one of a pair of dancers
- darkling beetle — any of a family (Tenebrionidae) of sluggish, dark beetles that feed on plants at night
- darning needles — a long needle with a long eye used in darning.
- data processing — Data processing is the series of operations that are carried out on data, especially by computers, in order to present, interpret, or obtain information.
- daughter-in-law — Someone's daughter-in-law is the wife of their son.
- de bruijn graph — (mathematics) A class of graphs with elegant properties. De Bruijn graphs are especially easy to use for routing, with shifting of source and destination addresses.
- deagglomeration — Deagglomeration is the process of breaking up agglomerates.
- decision-making — the act or process of making decisions
- deconcentrating — Present participle of deconcentrate.
- decontaminating — Present participle of decontaminate.
- decriminalising — Present participle of decriminalise.
- decriminalizing — (rare) present participle of decriminalize To change the laws so something is no longer a crime.
- deculturalizing — to expose or subject to the influence of culture.
- deep-sea diving — the activity of diving and exploring in the deep parts of the sea
- defragmentation — (computing) The action of defragmenting, particularly with respect to a computer disk or drive.
- degenerationist — a person who believes in the evolutionary decline of a species
- deglamorization — the act or process of making less glamorous
- dehydrogenating — Present participle of dehydrogenate.
- dehydrogenation — to remove hydrogen from (a compound).
- delayed opening — the automatic opening of a parachute after a predetermined delay to allow the parachutist to reach a particular height
- delaying action — a measure or measures taken to gain time, as when weaker military forces harass the advance of a superior enemy without coming to a pitched battle
- delaying tactic — Delaying tactics are things that someone does in order to deliberately delay the start or progress of something.
- demagnetisation — (British spelling) Alternative form of demagnetization.
- demagnetization — The process of removing the magnetic field from an object.
- dematerializing — Present participle of dematerialize.
- demi-vegetarian — a person who eats poultry and fish, but no red meat
- denationalizing — Present participle of denationalize.
- depersonalizing — Present participle of depersonalize.
- descaling agent — something intended for use removing limescale from something such as a tap, kettle or coffee machine.
- designated area — specified
- developing bath — an amount of photographic developer into which photographic film or paper is inserted
- developing tank — a container used to develop photographic film and which enables the film to be developed in daylight
- diamond wedding — the 60th, or occasionally the 75th, anniversary of a marriage
- die standing up — to cease to live; undergo the complete and permanent cessation of all vital functions; become dead.
- differentiating — to form or mark differently from other such things; distinguish.
- digestive gland — any gland having ducts that pour secretions into the digestive tract, as the salivary glands, liver, and pancreas.
- digital citizen — a person who develops the skills and knowledge to effectively use the Internet and other digital technology, especially in order to participate responsibly in social and civic activities: We're teaching students how to become good digital citizens.
- dinoflagellates — Plural form of dinoflagellate.
- direct dialling — a service which allows telephone users to make international calls without operator assistance
- direction angle — an angle made by a given vector and a coordinate axis.
- disadvantageous — characterized by or involving disadvantage; unfavorable; detrimental.
- disembarrassing — Present participle of disembarrass.
- disenchantingly — In a disenchanting manner.
- disentanglement — Removal of, or extrication from twists, tangles, complications or confusion.
- disestablishing — Present participle of disestablish.