12-letter words containing c, o, d, g, e
- decongestant — A decongestant is a medicine which helps someone who has a cold to breathe more easily.
- decongesting — Present participle of decongest.
- decongestion — the act of decongesting
- decongestive — having the ability to ease crowding or clogging in busy locations
- deep ecology — a radical environmental movement and philosophy that regards humans as equal to other organisms within the global ecosystem.
- deglaciation — the process of removing glaciation
- demographics — data resulting from the science of demography; population statistics
- derecognized — Simple past tense and past participle of derecognize.
- dermatologic — Dermatologic means of or relating to the skin.
- dermographic — dermatographia.
- detoxicating — Present participle of detoxicate.
- diabetogenic — causing or producing diabetes
- diageotropic — (of a plant part) growing at a right angle to the direction of gravity.
- dialectology — the study of dialects and dialectal variations
- diego garcia — chief island of the Chagos Archipelago, British Indian Ocean Territory: 17 sq mi (44 sq km)
- discographer — a person who compiles discographies.
- docking keel — one of two keellike projections for bracing a hull of a ship against bilge blocks when the ship is in dry dock.
- dodecagynian — (of a plant) having eleven or twelve pistils
- dodecagynous — (of a plant) having eleven or twelve pistils
- dog's chance — little likelihood; small chance (usually used in the negative): That project didn't have a dog's chance of succeeding.
- dogleg fence — snake fence.
- domestic pig — Sus scrofa; an artiodactyl mammal of the African and Eurasian family Suidae, having a long head with a movable snout and a thick bristle-covered skin
- dopaminergic — activated by or sensitive to dopamine.
- edulcorating — Present participle of edulcorate.
- fudge factor — any variable component added to an experiment, plan, or the like that can be manipulated to allow leeway for error.
- galactosides — Plural form of galactoside.
- genetic code — the biochemical instructions that translate the genetic information present as a linear sequence of nucleotide triplets in messenger RNA into the correct linear sequence of amino acids for the synthesis of a particular peptide chain or protein. Compare codon, translation (def 9).
- genetic load — the extent to which a population deviates from the theoretically fittest genetic constitution.
- geodetically — pertaining to geodesy.
- glycerolipid — (organic chemistry) Any lipid based on glycerol.
- glycopeptide — any of a group of complex proteins, as mucin, containing a carbohydrate combined with a simple protein.
- glycosidases — Plural form of glycosidase.
- glycosylated — Simple past tense and past participle of glycosylate.
- go on record — to set down in writing or the like, as for the purpose of preserving evidence.
- go-go dancer — an entertainer who performs popular dances on a stage or platform for the patrons of a discotheque or nightclub.
- golden perch — a freshwater food fish, Plectroplites ambiguus, that inhabits inland waters of Australia.
- good offices — Someone's good offices are the help that they give to other people who are trying to achieve something.
- grace period — a period of time after a payment becomes due, as of a loan or life-insurance premium, before one is subject to penalties or late charges or before the loan or policy is canceled.
- grade school — an elementary school that has its pupils grouped or classified into grades.
- grand coulee — a dry canyon in central Washington: cut by the Columbia River in the glacial period. 52 miles (84 km) long; over 400 feet (120 meters) deep.
- ground cable — a heavy chain for securing permanent floating moorings, as a number of mooring buoys.
- ground cedar — a ground pine, Lycopodium complanatum.
- ground cover — the herbaceous plants and low shrubs in a forest, considered as a whole.
- ground force — a military force that operates on the ground
- gynodioecism — the condition of having flowers that are only female in one example of a plant and flowers that have stamens and pistils in another example of a plant of the same species
- hamming code — (algorithm) Extra, redundant bits added to stored or transmitted data for the purposes of error detection and correction. Named after the mathematician Richard Hamming, Hamming codes greatly improve the reliability of data, e.g. from distant space probes, where it is impractical, because of the long transmission delay, to correct errors by requesting retransmission.
- hedge-school — a school held out of doors in favourable weather, indoors in winter
- hendecagonal — (geometry) Having eleven sides an angles; similar to a hendecagon.
- high-colored — deep in color; vivid.
- highway code — In Britain, the Highway Code is an official book published by the Department of Transport, which contains the rules which tell people how to use public roads safely.