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15-letter words containing a, e, g, n

  • 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
  • desktop manager — A user interface to system services, usually icon and menu based like the Macintosh Finder, enabling the user to run application programs and use a file system without directly using the command language of the operating system.
  • 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.
  • disgracefulness — The state or quality of being disgraceful.
  • dishearteningly — In a disheartening manner.
  • disintegrations — the act or process of disintegrating.
  • displeasingness — the state of being displeasing
  • distinguishable — to mark off as different (often followed by from or by): He was distinguished from the other boys by his height.
  • distress signal — a signal used, or designed to be used, by persons in peril, for the purpose of summoning aid, indicating their position, etc., as a radio code sign, aerial flare, flag hoist, or the like. Compare distress call (def 1).
  • dna fingerprint — the use of a DNA probe for the identification of an individual, as for the matching of genes from a forensic sample with those of a criminal suspect.
  • dongola leather — a leather similar to kid, made from goatskin, sheepskin, or calfskin.
  • double integral — an integral in which the integrand involves a function of two variables and that requires two applications of the integration process to evaluate.
  • double negation — the principle that a statement is equivalent to the denial of its negation, as it is not the case that John is not here meaning John is here
  • double negative — a syntactic construction in which two negative words are used in the same clause to express a single negation.
  • dougherty wagon — a horse- or mule-drawn passenger wagon having doors on the side, transverse seats, and canvas sides that can be rolled down.
  • dr. strangelove — a person, especially a military or government official, who advocates initiating nuclear warfare.
  • drag one's feet — to draw with force, effort, or difficulty; pull heavily or slowly along; haul; trail: They dragged the carpet out of the house.
  • drilling jacket — A drilling jacket is a small steel platform used for drilling wells in shallow and calm water.
  • east longmeadow — a city in SW Massachusetts.
  • eating disorder — any of various disorders, as anorexia nervosa or bulimia, characterized by severe disturbances in eating habits.
  • edgar allan poe — Edgar Allan, 1809–49, U.S. poet, short-story writer, and critic.
  • egyptian clover — a Mediterranean clover, Trifolium alexandrinum, grown as a forage crop and to improve the soil in the southwestern US and the Nile valley
  • egyptian jasper — a type of jasper, generally with zones of colour, found in desert regions of Egypt
  • eight-bit clean — (software)   A term which describes a system that deals correctly with extended character sets which (unlike ASCII) use all eight bits of a byte. Many programs and communications systems assume that all characters have codes in the range 0 to 127. This leaves the top bit of each byte free for use as a parity bit or some kind of flag bit. These assumptions break down when the program is used in some non-english-speaking countries with larger alphabets. If a binary file is transmitted via a communications link which is not eight-bit clean, it will be corrupted. To combat this you can encode it with uuencode which uses only ASCII characters. There are some links however which are not even "seven-bit clean" and cause problems even for uuencoded data.
  • electing a pope — (electronics, humour)   (From the smoke signals given out when the guys in funny hats choose a new Pope) Causing an integrated circuit or other electronic component to emit smoke by passing too much current through it. See magic smoke.
  • electromagnetic — Of or relating to the interrelation of electric currents or fields and magnetic fields.
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