13-letter words containing c, o, d, g, e
- coup de poing — (no longer in technical use) a Lower Paleolithic stone hand ax, pointed or ovate in shape and having sharp cutting edges.
- covent garden — a district of central London: famous for its former fruit, vegetable, and flower market, now a shopping precinct
- cover bidding — the act of tendering an artificially high price for a contract, on the assumption that the tender will not be accepted
- covered wagon — A covered wagon is a wagon that has an arched canvas roof and is pulled by horses. Covered wagons were used by the early American settlers as they travelled across the country.
- cross bedding — layering within one or more beds in a series of rock strata that does not run parallel to the plane of stratification
- cross-grained — (of timber) having the fibres arranged irregularly or in a direction that deviates from the axis of the piece
- crossbreeding — Present participle of crossbreed.
- crossdressing — to dress in clothing typically worn by members of the opposite sex.
- cycle drought — A scarcity of cycles. It may be due to a cycle crunch, but it could also occur because part of the computer is temporarily not working, leaving fewer cycles to go around. "The high moby is down, so we're running with only half the usual amount of memory. There will be a cycle drought until it's fixed."
- dactylomegaly — abnormal enlargement of the fingers or toes.
- dancing shoes — shoes worn by dancers
- days of grace — days permitted by custom for payment of a promissory note, bill of exchange, etc, after it falls due
- decarbonating — Present participle of decarbonate.
- decarbonizing — Present participle of decarbonize.
- decommunizing — Present participle of decommunize.
- decompounding — Present participle of decompound.
- decompressing — Present participle of decompress.
- deconflicting — Present participle of deconflict.
- decongestants — Plural form of decongestant.
- decorticating — Present participle of decorticate.
- degree course — an education course that awards degrees to those who complete it successfully
- demagogically — of, relating to, or characteristic of a demagogue.
- democratizing — Present participle of democratize.
- demographical — of or relating to demography, the science of vital and social statistics.
- demonological — the study of demons or of beliefs about demons.
- dendroecology — The science that uses dendrochronology to analyze historic ecological processes.
- dendrological — Of, pertaining to dendrology.
- dentosurgical — relating to or used in both dentistry and surgery
- deontological — (of an ethical theory) regarding obligation as deriving from reason or as residing primarily in certain specific rules of conduct rather than in the maximization of some good
- depressogenic — Causing or tending to cause depression.
- dextroglucose — dextrose
- diagnosticate — (archaic, transitive) To make a diagnosis of; to recognise (a disease or similar) by its symptoms.
- dialling code — A dialling code for a particular city or region is the series of numbers that you have to dial before a particular telephone number if you are making a call to that place from a different area.
- discographies — Plural form of discography.
- disconcerting — disturbing to one's composure or self-possession; upsetting, discomfiting.
- disconnecting — Present participle of disconnect.
- dog's mercury — a hairy somewhat poisonous euphorbiaceous perennial, Mercurialis perennis, having broad lanceolate toothed leaves and small greenish male and female flowers, the males borne in catkins. It often carpets shady woodlands
- domesticating — Present participle of domesticate.
- double-acting — (of a reciprocating engine, pump, etc.) having pistons accomplishing work in both directions, fluid being admitted alternately to opposite ends of the cylinders. Compare single-acting.
- douglas scale — an international scale of sea disturbance and swell ranging from 0 to 9 with one figure for disturbance and one for swell
- driving force — impetus
- dutch courage — courage inspired by drunkenness or drinking liquor.
- echo sounding — the determining of depth of water by means of a device (echo sounder) that measures the time required for a sound wave to be reflected from the bottom: a similar process (echo ranging) is used to measure the distance to an underwater object
- economic good — a commodity or service that can be utilized to satisfy human wants and that has exchange value.
- endocrinology — The branch of physiology and medicine concerned with endocrine glands and hormones.
- epidemiologic — Of or pertaining to epidemiology.
- galactosidase — An enzyme, such as lactase, that is involved in the hydrolytic breakdown of a galactoside.
- garden orache — a plant of the goosefoot family, Atriplex hortensis, which is cultivated as a vegetable and used like spinach
- geodesic dome — a light, domelike structure developed by R. Buckminster Fuller to combine the properties of the tetrahedron and the sphere and consisting essentially of a grid of compression or tension members lying upon or parallel to great circles running in three directions in any given area, the typical form being the projection upon a sphere of an icosahedron, the triangular faces of which are filled with a symmetrical triangular, hexagonal, or quadrangular grid.
- geodesic line — the shortest line lying on a given surface and connecting two given points.