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13-letter words containing d, e, a, n, i, g

  • 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.
  • dragging-beam — (in a hipped roof) a short beam holding the foot of a hip rafter to counteract its thrust.
  • drainage tube — a tube that drains fluid from an incision or body cavity during surgery
  • drainage wind — Meteorology. gravity wind.
  • drape forming — thermoforming of plastic sheeting over an open mold by a combination of gravity and a vacuum.
  • drawing frame — a machine used to attenuate and straighten fibers by having them pass, in sliver form, through a series of double rollers, each pair of which revolves at a slightly greater speed than the preceding pair and reduces the number of strands originally fed into the machine to one extended fibrous strand doubled or redoubled in length.
  • drawing paper — artist's paper for drawing and sketching
  • drawing table — a table having a surface consisting of a drawing board adjustable to various heights and angles.
  • dressing case — a small piece of luggage for carrying toilet articles, medicine, etc.
  • dressing sack — a woman's dressing gown.
  • driving range — a tract of land for practicing long golf shots, especially drives, with clubs and balls available for rent from the management.
  • drum magazine — a receptacle that holds and feeds cartridges to a submachine gun or light machine gun.
  • drum paneling — flush paneling in a door.
  • dun laoghaire — a seaport in E Republic of Ireland, near Dublin.
  • dwarf ginseng — a plant, Panax trifolius, of eastern North America, having globe-shaped clusters of small, white flowers and yellow fruit.
  • dynamic range — the range of signal amplitudes over which an electronic communications channel can operate within acceptable limits of distortion. The range is determined by system noise at the lower end and by the onset of overload at the upper end
  • dynamogenesis — the output of raised activity of the nervous system
  • dysregulation — A failure to regulate properly.
  • eavesdropping — to listen secretly to a private conversation.
  • edging shears — shears that are used to trim the edges of a lawn
  • edward gibbon — Edward, 1737–94, English historian.
  • endearingness — The quality of being endearing.
  • english daisy — a small perennial plant (Bellis perennis) of the composite family, having single stalked heads with white or pinkish ray flowers
  • ensanguinated — stained with blood
  • exsanguinated — Simple past tense and past participle of exsanguinate.
  • fingerbreadth — the breadth of a finger: approximately 3/4 inch (2 cm).
  • fingerpainted — Simple past tense and past participle of fingerpaint.
  • first reading — the reading of a bill when it is first introduced in a legislative body.
  • floating debt — short-term government borrowing, esp by the issue of three-month Treasury bills
  • foreordaining — Present participle of foreordain.
  • foreshadowing — to show or indicate beforehand; prefigure: Political upheavals foreshadowed war.
  • free-standing — A free-standing piece of furniture or other object is not fixed to anything, or stands on its own away from other things.
  • fridge magnet — a small flat decorative object with a magnet on its back which is used to attach it to the front door of a fridge or other domestic appliance
  • gagging order — an official order against certain information being made public or discussed (by the press, etc)
  • garret window — a skylight that lies along the slope of the roof
  • gender binary — a classification system consisting of two genders, male and female.
  • general audit — an audit of all a company's accounts
  • genital ridge — the area in the vertebrate embryo that develops into ovaries in the female and testes in the male.
  • gentisic acid — a crystalline, water-soluble compound, C 7 H 6 O 4 , used chiefly in the form of its sodium salt as an analgesic and diaphoretic.
  • germinal disk — blastodisk.
  • giant hogweed — a tall plant, Heracleum mantegazzianum, of the parsley family, native to Russia and now naturalized in the U.S., having very large leaves and broad, white flower heads somewhat resembling Queen Anne's lace: can cause an allergic rash when touched by susceptible persons.
  • giant ragweed — any of the composite plants of the genus Ambrosia, the airborne pollen of which is the most prevalent cause of autumnal hay fever, as the common North American species, A. trifida (great ragweed or giant ragweed) and A. artemisiifolia.
  • giant redwood — big tree.
  • ginger-haired — having ginger hair
  • gingerbreaded — flavoured with gingerbread
  • give and take — the quality or state of being resilient; springiness.
  • give-and-take — the practice of dealing by compromise or mutual concession; cooperation.
  • glibenclamide — (medicine) An oral anti-diabetes medication.
  • glucuronidase — an enzyme that catalyzes glucuronide hydrolysis
  • gnathic index — Craniometry. the ratio of the distance from basion to prosthion to the distance from basion to nasion, expressed in percent of the latter.
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