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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.
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