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14-letter words containing a, l, n, g

  • disacknowledge — (transitive) To refuse to acknowledge or recognize something; to disavow or deny.
  • disapprovingly — to think (something) wrong or reprehensible; censure or condemn in opinion.
  • discouragingly — In a discouraging manner.
  • disenthralling — to free from bondage; liberate: to be disenthralled from morbid fantasies.
  • disinthralling — the act of freedom from thraldom
  • divine healing — healing through divine intervention as in response to prayer or because of faith.
  • dogbane family — the plant family Apocynaceae, characterized by shrubs, trees, and herbaceous plants having milky and often poisonous juice, simple opposite leaves, often showy flowers, and fruit usually in dry pods, and including the dogbane, oleander, periwinkle, and plumeria.
  • dogmaticalness — The quality of being dogmatical.
  • dongle cracker — (security)   Someone who enables software that has been written to require a dongle to run without it.
  • doom and gloom — gloom and doom.
  • double glazing — glazing consisting of two thicknesses of glass with a dead air space between them.
  • 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
  • double spacing — text layout: extra space between lines
  • double-dealing — duplicity; treachery; deception.
  • dovetail hinge — a strap hinge having leaves which are narrower at their junction than at their other extremities.
  • 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.
  • 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 blood — a deep-red, water-insoluble resin exuding from the fruit of a palm, Daemonorops draco, of the Malay Archipelago, used chiefly in the preparation of varnishes and in photoengraving for protecting certain areas of the metal plate from the acid.
  • drainage holes — the holes in a plant pot that allow excess water to drain away
  • drawing chisel — an obliquely edged wood chisel for working across grain, as in forming the ends of tenons.
  • 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
  • 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.
  • drunk dialling — the practice of making a phone call while drunk, esp to someone about whom one has romantic notions
  • ductless gland — endocrine gland.
  • dutchman's log — a method of gauging a ship's speed, in which the distance between two shipboard observation stations is divided by the time elapsing between the throwing overboard of an object by the first station and the sighting of it by the second.
  • dwelling place — a dwelling.
  • earsplittingly — In an earsplitting way; very loudly.
  • earthshakingly — In an earthshaking manner.
  • easy listening — middle-of-the-road (def 3).
  • easy-listening — Also called easy listening. popular music having comparatively conventional, melodic qualities and hence having broad commercial appeal.
  • eau de cologne — cologne.
  • edgar atheling — ?1050–?1125, grandson of Edmund II; Anglo-Saxon pretender to the English throne in 1066
  • edging lobelia — a trailing lobelia, Lobelia erinus, of southern Africa, having loose clusters of blue flowers.
  • editorializing — Present participle of editorialize.
  • egalitarianism — belief in the equality of all people, especially in political, social, or economic life.
  • eggshell paint — paint that has a slight sheen
  • egocentrically — In an egocentric manner.
  • electric organ — a pipe organ operated by electrical means
  • electromagnets — Plural form of electromagnet.
  • electroplating — Coat (a metal object) by electrolytic deposition with chromium, silver, or another metal.
  • elegiac stanza — a quatrain in iambic pentameters with alternate lines rhyming
  • elephant grass — any of various stout tropical grasses or grasslike plants, esp Pennisetum purpureum, and Typha elephantina, a type of reed mace
  • eleventh grade — the eleventh year of school, when students are 16 or 17 years old
  • embarrassingly — In an embarrassing manner.
  • emergency call — a telephone call to the emergency services made during an emergency
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