13-letter words containing d, a, r, i, n, g
- burial ground — A burial ground is a place where bodies are buried, especially an ancient place.
- cadmium green — a pigment used in painting, consisting of a mixture of hydrated oxide of chromium with cadmium sulfide, and characterized by its strong green color and slow drying rate.
- camp-drafting — a competitive test, esp at an agricultural show, of horsemen's skill in drafting cattle
- candlelighter — a person whose task it is to light candles
- carbo-loading — Informal. carbohydrate loading.
- carbon dating — Carbon dating is a system of calculating the age of a very old object by measuring the amount of radioactive carbon it contains.
- card clothing — a very sturdy fabric with a leather or rubber fillet imbedded with wire teeth for disentangling and cleaning textile fibers, used to cover the rollers or flats of a carding machine.
- card-carrying — A card-carrying member of a particular group or political party is an official member of that group or party, rather than someone who supports it.
- cardiganshire — a former county of W Wales: became part of Dyfed in 1974; reinstated as Ceredigion in 1996
- cardinal sign — any of the four astrological signs, Aries, Cancer, Libra, or Capricorn, that begin at the equinoxes and solstices, thus marking the beginning of the seasons: characterized by the attribute of strong initiative.
- cartridge pen — a pen having a removable ink reservoir that is replaced when empty
- casehardening — Present participle of caseharden.
- cedar waxwing — a brownish-gray, crested American waxwing (Bombycilla cedrorum), with red, waxlike tips on its secondary wing feathers
- child rearing — the activity of rearing children
- child-bearing — the act or process of carrying and giving birth to a child
- cider vinegar — a type of vinegar produced by the acetification of cider
- cigarette end — the part of a cigarette that is held in the mouth and that remains unsmoked after it is finished
- claddagh ring — any of various elaborately designed rings, esp one in the shape of two hands embracing a heart, given as a token of lasting affection
- close-grained — (of wood) dense or compact in texture
- coarsegrained — having a coarse texture
- commandeering — Present participle of commandeer.
- confederating — Present participle of confederate.
- contradicting — Present participle of contradict.
- cooling board — a plank for laying out a corpse.
- core handling — Core handling is the way that a core is dealt with to make sure it maintains its properties for testing.
- corn marigold — an annual plant, Chrysanthemum segetum, with yellow daisy-like flower heads: a common weed of cultivated land: family Asteraceae (composites)
- crash landing — aircraft: emergency descent
- credentialing — Usually, credentials. evidence of authority, status, rights, entitlement to privileges, or the like, usually in written form: Only those with the proper credentials are admitted.
- credit agency — an agency that checks whether people are able to pay for goods and services they wish to buy on credit, and provides them with a credit rating
- credit rating — Your credit rating is a judgment of how likely you are to pay money back if you borrow it or buy things on credit.
- cross-grained — (of timber) having the fibres arranged irregularly or in a direction that deviates from the axis of the piece
- cutting board — A cutting board is a wooden or plastic board that you chop meat and vegetables on.
- dairy farming — the business of farming to produce milk and milk products
- danger signal — any type of signal that indicates danger
- dangleberries — Plural form of dangleberry.
- darling downs — a plateau in NE Australia, in SE Queensland: a vast agricultural and stock-raising area
- darling range — a ridge in SW Western Australia, parallel to the coast. Highest point: about 582 m (1669 ft)
- darling river — a river in SE Australia, rising in the Eastern Highlands and flowing southwest to the Murray River. Length: 2740 km (1702 miles)
- das rheingold — an opera by Wagner (1869), one of four in a cycle based on the German myth of the Ring of the Nibelung
- data striping — (storage) Segmentation of logically sequential data, such as a single file, so that segments can be written to multiple physical devices (usually disk drives) in a round-robin fashion. This technique is useful if the processor is capable of reading or writing data faster than a single disk can supply or accept it. While data is being transferred from the first disk, the second disk can locate the next segment. Data striping is used in some modern databases, such as Sybase, and in certain RAID devices under hardware control, such as IBM's RAMAC array subsystem (9304/9395). Data striping is different from, and may be used in conjunction with, mirroring.
- daydreamingly — While daydreaming.
- decarbonating — Present participle of decarbonate.
- decarbonizing — Present participle of decarbonize.
- decarburizing — Present participle of decarburize.
- decerebrating — Present participle of decerebrate.
- decorticating — Present participle of decorticate.
- decrepitating — Present participle of decrepitate.
- defragmenting — Present participle of defragment.
- degradational — (geology) Pertaining to or formed by degradation.
- degranulation — a cellular process in which cytoplasmic granules within certain cells secrete their contents, often to the outside of the cell