14-letter words containing a, t, d, g
- budget heading — a heading in a budget under which an expenditure is listed
- budgetary year — the financial year a budget is drawn up for
- building trade — the economic sector comprising all companies and workers involved in construction
- cadogan teapot — a lidless teapot that is made from or in imitation of an inverted Chinese wine pot and is filled through the bottom.
- capital budget — a budget for major capital or investment expenditures
- carbon trading — Carbon trading is the practice of buying and selling the right to produce carbon dioxide emissions, so that people, countries or companies who use a lot of fuel and electricity can buy rights from those that do not use so much.
- card catalogue — a catalogue of books, papers, etc, filed on cards
- carriage trade — trade from the wealthy part of society
- cartridge belt — a belt with pockets for cartridge clips or loops for cartridges
- cartridge case — a cylindrical, usually metal casing capable of being loaded with an explosive charge and often also a bullet
- cartridge clip — a metallic container holding cartridges for an automatic firearm
- cathodographer — a person trained in taking cathodographs
- charge density — the electric charge per unit volume of a medium or body or per unit area of a surface
- cigarette card — a small picture card, formerly given away with cigarettes, now collected as a hobby
- circumagitated — Simple past tense and past participle of circumagitate.
- closed gentian — any of several North American plants (genus Gentiana) with dark-blue, closed, tubular flowers
- coastguardsman — Coast Guard (def 3).
- coasting trade — trade between ports along the same coast.
- cottage garden — an informal style of garden which has beds planted with a great variety of traditional flowers
- cottage window — a double-hung window with an upper sash smaller than the lower.
- counterchanged — Exchanged.
- countercharged — Simple past tense and past participle of countercharge.
- countermanding — Present participle of countermand.
- countershading — (in the coloration of certain animals) a pattern, serving as camouflage, in which dark colours occur on parts of the body exposed to the light and pale colours on parts in the shade
- credentialling — the practice of analysing the credentials of an individual or organization
- credit charges — the charges applied by credit card companies to customers buying goods on credit
- credit manager — a person employed in a business firm to administer credit service to its customers, especially to evaluate the extension and amount of credit to be granted.
- cross-gartered — (in Elizabethan and other costumes) wearing garters crisscrossed on the leg.
- cutting garden — a household flower garden planted solely for growing flowers that are to be cut and displayed indoors.
- dactyliography — the art of engraving or writing on gems
- dactylographer — the study of fingerprints for purposes of identification.
- daguerreotypes — Plural form of daguerreotype.
- damage control — Damage control is action that is taken to make the bad results of something as small as possible, when it is impossible to avoid bad results completely.
- darning stitch — a stitch used in darning that imitates the texture of the fabric that is to be mended
- data integrity — (data) The absence of unintended changes or errors in some data. Integrity implies that the data is an exact copy of some original version, e.g. that it has not been corrupted in the process of being written to, and read back from, a hard disk or during transmission via some communications channel. Integrity may further imply that the information represented by the data has been validated, i.e. verified to conform to certain constraints, e.g. a date's year, month and day parts are within the appropriate ranges and the date actually exists.
- data modelling — data model
- dating service — a service that provides introductions to people seeking a companion with similar interests
- daughterboards — Plural form of daughterboard.
- daughterliness — The quality of being daughterly.
- daylight hours — the hours when it is daylight
- de-designation — an act of designating.
- dead to rights — in an undeniably incriminating situation; red-handed
- decapacitating — Present participle of decapacitate.
- decentralising — Present participle of decentralise.
- decentralizing — Present participle of decentralize.
- decompensating — Psychology. to lose the ability to maintain normal or appropriate psychological defenses, sometimes resulting in depression, anxiety, or delusions.
- deconsecrating — Present participle of deconsecrate.
- defenestrating — Present participle of defenestrate.
- defibrillating — Present participle of defibrillate.
- deflagrability — the state or quality of being deflagrable