13-letter words containing d, c, m, g
- glibenclamide — (medicine) An oral anti-diabetes medication.
- glutamic acid — an amino acid, HOOCCH 2 CH 2 CH(NH 2)COOH, obtained by hydrolysis from wheat gluten and sugar-beet residues, used commercially chiefly in the form of its sodium salt to intensify the flavor of meat or other food. Symbol: E. Abbreviation: Glu;
- grammaticized — Simple past tense and past participle of grammaticize.
- homing device — a mechanism incorporated into a guided missile, airplane, etc., that aims it toward its objective.
- ideogrammatic — Of or pertaining to ideograms.
- indo-germanic — Indo-European
- judgmatically — in the manner of a judge
- judgment call — Sports. an observational ruling by a referee or umpire that is necessarily subjective because of the disputable nature of the play in question, and one that may be appealed but not protested, as opposed to a matter of official rule interpretation: Balks and close plays at first are of course judgment calls, and umpires are human.
- machinegunned — Simple past tense and past participle of machinegun.
- macrodiagonal — the longer of two diagonals
- magnetic disk — Also called disk, hard disk. a rigid disk coated with magnetic material, on which data and programs can be stored.
- magnetic drum — a cylinder coated with magnetic material, on which data and programs can be stored.
- magnetic head — head (def 33).
- magnetic wood — wood containing fine particles of nickel-zinc ferrite which absorb microwave radio signals, used to line rooms where mobile phone use is undesirable
- manganic acid — a hypothetical dibasic acid known only in solution and in the form of manganate salts. Formula: H2MnO4
- marching band — musical group that parades
- margaric acid — a colorless, crystalline, water-insoluble, fatty acid, C 1 7 H 3 4 O 2 , resembling stearic acid, obtained from lichens or synthetically.
- match-funding — the stipulation set by a grant-providing body that the recipients of a grant raise a certain percentage of the money they require, generally a sum more or less equal to that of the sum of money being granted
- matchboarding — a construction of matchboards.
- merchandising — the manufactured goods bought and sold in any business.
- merchandizing — Alternative spelling of merchandising.
- method acting — film, theater: acting approach
- micr encoding — The MICR encoding of a check is the magnetic ink pattern at the bottom that can be scanned and that contains information about the check.
- misconfigured — Simple past tense and past participle of misconfigure.
- misrecognized — Simple past tense and past participle of misrecognize.
- mollycoddling — Present participle of mollycoddle.
- monoglyceride — an ester obtained from glycerol by the esterification of one hydroxyl group with a fatty acid.
- much-maligned — If you describe someone or something as much-maligned, you mean that they are often criticized by people, but you think the criticism is unfair or exaggerated because they have good qualities too.
- myocardiogram — the graphic record produced by a myocardiograph.
- ring compound — a compound whose structural formula contains a closed chain or ring of atoms; a cyclic compound. Compare cyclic (def 3).
- scandalmonger — a person who spreads scandal or gossip.
- scrambled egg — eggs stirred while cooking
- second coming — the coming of Christ on Judgment Day.
- sigmoid colon — Zoology. an S -shaped curve in a body part.
- sigmoidectomy — surgical removal of the sigmoid colon
- sigmoidoscope — a rigid or flexible endoscope for visual examination of the rectum and sigmoid colon.
- sigmoidoscopy — an examination by means of a sigmoidoscope.
- timing device — a device that can be set to detonate a bomb at a particular time
- uncamouflaged — the act, means, or result of obscuring things to deceive an enemy, as by painting or screening objects so that they are lost to view in the background, or by making up objects that from a distance have the appearance of fortifications, guns, roads, etc.: Was camouflage used extensively on fighter aircraft during World War I?
- up-and-coming — likely to succeed; bright and industrious: an up-and-coming young executive.
- vacuum drying — the removal of liquid from a solution or mixture at reduced air pressure so that it dries at a lower temperature than would be required at full pressure.
- vasco da gama — Vasco da [vas-koh duh;; Portuguese vahsh-koo duh] /ˈvæs koʊ də;; Portuguese ˈvɑʃ kʊ də/ (Show IPA), c1460–1524, Portuguese navigator: discovered the sea route from Portugal around the continent of Africa to India.
- wedding march — a musical composition played during a wedding procession.