12-letter words containing a, g, d, i, r
- calling card — A calling card is a small card with personal information about you on it, such as your name and address, which you can give to people when you go to visit them.
- carbonadoing — Present participle of carbonado.
- card surfing — a form of cash-card fraud in which one person watches another using a cash dispenser, notes his or her personal identification number, and, after an accomplice has stolen the card, uses the card to withdraw cash
- cardigan bay — an inlet of St George's Channel, on the W coast of Wales
- cardiographs — Plural form of cardiograph.
- cardiography — electrocardiograph.
- cardiologist — A cardiologist is a doctor who specializes in the heart and its diseases.
- cardiomegaly — abnormal enlargement of the heart.
- cardioplegia — deliberate arrest of the action of the heart, as by hypothermia or the injection of chemicals, to enable complex heart surgery to be carried out
- carriage dog — Dalmatian (sense 4)
- char-grilled — Char-grilled meat or fish has been cooked so that it burns slightly and turns black.
- cheerleading — the action or skill of a cheerleader.
- childbearing — Childbearing is the process of giving birth to babies.
- childrearing — the raising and parenting of children: Childrearing extends beyond simple guardianship to nurturing and guidance.
- cigar holder — a mouthpiece of wood, ivory, etc, used for holding a cigar while it is smoked
- cigar-shaped — resembling a cigar in shape
- clam diggers — casual pants that end slightly below the knee.
- clam-diggers — calf-length trousers
- clapboarding — Present participle of clapboard.
- clearsighted — seeing clearly
- closegrained — having a fine, compact grain or texture
- code-sharing — a commercial agreement between two airlines that allows passengers to use a ticket from one airline to travel on another
- configurated — to give a configuration, form, or design to.
- coordinating — Present participle of coordinate.
- copy-reading — to work on (copy) as a copyreader.
- core drawing — drawing of fine tubing using wire as a mandrel.
- cross-dating — a method of dating objects, remains, etc, by comparison and correlation with other sites and levels
- crossbanding — a veneer border, as on furniture, with its grain at right angles to the grain of the adjacent wood
- crossgrained — Alternative form of cross-grained.
- dallis grass — a tall, succulent, forage grass (Paspalum dilatatum), with hairy spikelets, much grown in the S U.S.
- dancing frog — (programming, humour) A bug or glitch that only occurs for a particular user; never when the user tries to show it to anyone else. The term is derived from a Warner Brothers cartoon in which a man discovers a frog which can sing and dance; he believes this will make his fortune but the frog never performs in front of anyone else.
- dancing girl — a professional female dancer who dances to entertain customers at a club, theatre, etc
- danger point — the point at which something ceases to be safe
- darning wool — wool used for darning
- dastardizing — Present participle of dastardize.
- daughterlike — Resembling a daughter.
- daughterling — a small daughter
- day-tripping — to travel as a day-tripper.
- de-integrate — to bring together or incorporate (parts) into a whole.
- dead fingers — a disease of users of pneumatic drills, characterized by anaesthesia of the fingertips and cyanosis
- dead freight — an amount owed by a contractor who charters space in a ship but fails to occupy it fully.
- dealing room — A dealing room is a place where shares, currencies, or commodities are bought and sold.
- decategorize — to arrange in categories or classes; classify.
- decelerating — Present participle of decelerate.
- decreasingly — In a decreasing manner.
- deerstalking — The hunting of deer on foot, by stealing upon them unawares.
- deflagrating — Present participle of deflagrate.
- deflagration — Deflagration is an explosion in which the speed of burning is lower than the speed of sound in the surroundings.
- degeneracies — Plural form of degeneracy.
- degenerating — to fall below a normal or desirable level in physical, mental, or moral qualities; deteriorate: The morale of the soldiers degenerated, and they were unable to fight.