10-letter words containing d, g
- chandigarh — a city and Union Territory of N India, joint capital of the Punjab and Haryana: modern city planned in the 1950s by Le Corbusier. Pop: 808 796 (2001), of city; 900 414 (2001), of union territory. Area (of union territory): 114 sq km (44 sq miles)
- chargecard — A card, resembling a credit card, used for payment — especially for some specific product or service, as with a phonecard.
- charged up — to impose or ask as a price or fee: That store charges $25 for leather gloves.
- chargehand — a workman whose grade of responsibility is just below that of a foreman
- checkdigit — (data) A one-digit checksum.
- cheddaring — The stage of manufacturing Cheddar cheese and similar cheeses where the curd is cut into small pieces, often cubes, to drain the whey before being stacked and turned.
- chinandega — a city in W Nicaragua.
- chinwagged — Simple past tense and past participle of chinwag.
- chundering — vomit.
- cingulated — Having a cingulum.
- cirrigrade — moving by means of hairlike appendages
- cladograms — Plural form of cladogram.
- clamdigger — One who digs for clams.
- clog dance — a dance in which clogs are worn to beat out the rhythm
- coagulated — Subject to coagulation.
- coastguard — A coastguard is an official who watches the sea near a coast in order to get help for sailors when they need it and to stop illegal activities.
- coatbridge — an industrial town in central Scotland, in North Lanarkshire. Pop: 41 170 (2001)
- codicology — the study of manuscripts
- cofounding — to establish (an organization) with another or others.
- coinciding — to occupy the same place in space, the same point or period in time, or the same relative position: The centers of concentric circles coincide. Our vacations coincided this year.
- cold light — light emitted at low temperatures from a source that is not incandescent, such as fluorescence, phosphorescence, bioluminescence, or triboluminescence
- colligated — Simple past tense and past participle of colligate.
- comm badge — a small combined radio transmitter and receiver, carried around by one person, esp military personnel, in the form of a badge worn on the chest
- commanding — If you are in a commanding position or situation, you are in a strong or powerful position or situation.
- commending — Present participle of commend.
- commingled — Simple past tense and past participle of commingle.
- companding — a process in which the dynamic range of a signal is reduced for recording purposes and then expanded to its original value for reproduction or playback.
- concluding — final
- concording — Present participle of concord.
- condemning — Present participle of condemn.
- condensing — to make more dense or compact; reduce the volume or extent of; concentrate.
- condignity — merit earned through good works while in a state of grace, and having a just claim on such rewards as heavenly glory. Compare congruity (def 4).
- conducting — personal behavior; way of acting; bearing or deportment.
- confidings — Plural form of confiding.
- configured — Simple past tense and past participle of configure.
- conga drum — a large tubular bass drum, used chiefly in Latin American and funk music and played with the hands
- congressed — (initial capital letter) the national legislative body of the U.S., consisting of the Senate, or upper house, and the House of Representatives, or lower house, as a continuous institution. this body as it exists for a period of two years during which it has the same membership: the Ninety-Seventh Congress. a session of this body: to speak in Congress.
- conjugated — (of a molecule, compound, or substance) containing two or more double bonds alternating with single bonds
- contending — competing; opposed
- cord grass — any of several grasses of the genus Spartina, of coastal regions.
- coreid bug — leaf-footed bug.
- corndodger — a small cake of cornmeal, baked or fried hard
- corregidor — an island at the entrance to Manila Bay, in the Philippines: site of the defeat of American forces by the Japanese (1942) in World War II
- corrigenda — Plural form of corrigendum.
- corrugated — Corrugated metal or cardboard has been folded into a series of small parallel folds to make it stronger.
- cough drop — a lozenge to relieve a cough
- cradlesong — a lullaby
- cuckolding — Present participle of cuckold.
- cudgelling — a short, thick stick used as a weapon; club.
- curmudgeon — If you call someone a curmudgeon, you do not like them because they are mean or bad-tempered.