12-letter words containing d, g
- broadcasting — Broadcasting is the making and sending out of television and radio programmes.
- bulldog clip — A bulldog clip is a metal clip with a spring lever that opens and closes two flat pieces of metal. It is used for holding papers together.
- bumper guard — either of two vertical crosspieces attached to a bumper of a motor vehicle to prevent it from locking bumpers with another vehicle.
- bundle buggy — a shopping cart, usually one owned by the shopper rather than one provided by the store.
- bur marigold — any plant of the genus Bidens that has yellow flowers and pointed fruits that cling to fur and clothing: family Asteraceae (composites)
- buying order — an order to buy a certain security
- by and large — You use by and large to indicate that a statement is mostly but not completely true.
- calligraphed — Simple past tense and past participle of calligraph.
- calling card — A calling card is a small card with personal information about you on it, such as your name and address, which you can give to people when you go to visit them.
- campo grande — a city in SW Brazil, capital of Mato Grosso do Sul state on the São Paulo–Corumbá railway: market centre. Pop: 746 000 (2005 est)
- campshedding — to line (the bank of a river) with campshot.
- canada goose — A Canada goose is a grayish-brown wild goose that comes from North America.
- candygrammar — (language) A programming-language grammar that is mostly syntactic sugar; a play on "candygram". COBOL, Apple Computer's Hypertalk language, and many 4GLs share this property. The intent is to be as English-like as possible and thus easier for unskilled people to program. However, syntax isn't what makes programming hard; it's the mental effort and organisation required to specify an algorithm precisely. Thus "candygrammar" languages are just as difficult to program in, and far more painful for the experienced hacker.
- canned goods — tinned food produce
- cap and gown — a cap with a flat top ( mortarboard) and a long robe, worn at some academic ceremonies, as commencement, and often used to symbolize the academic life
- cape delgado — a headland on the NE coast of Mozambique
- carbonadoing — Present participle of carbonado.
- card catalog — a file of cards of uniform size arranged in some definite order and listing the items in the collection of a library or group of libraries, each card typically identifying a single item.
- card surfing — a form of cash-card fraud in which one person watches another using a cash dispenser, notes his or her personal identification number, and, after an accomplice has stolen the card, uses the card to withdraw cash
- cardigan bay — an inlet of St George's Channel, on the W coast of Wales
- cardiographs — Plural form of cardiograph.
- cardiography — electrocardiograph.
- cardiologist — A cardiologist is a doctor who specializes in the heart and its diseases.
- cardiomegaly — abnormal enlargement of the heart.
- cardioplegia — deliberate arrest of the action of the heart, as by hypothermia or the injection of chemicals, to enable complex heart surgery to be carried out
- carpetbagged — Simple past tense and past participle of carpetbag.
- carriage dog — Dalmatian (sense 4)
- catalog code — the principles, rules, and regulations for entering and describing books or other library material in a catalog.
- cathode glow — a luminous region between the Aston dark space and the Crookes dark space in a vacuum tube, occurring when the pressure is low.
- cathodograph — a picture taken using cathode rays
- cattle guard — A cattle guard is the same as a cattle grid.
- chafing dish — a vessel with a heating apparatus beneath it, for cooking or keeping food warm at the table
- chalcogenide — a binary compound consisting of a chalcogen and at least one other electropositive element
- chandannagar — port in NE India, near Kolkata: formerly a French dependency, it became part of the republic of India in 1950: pop. 120,000
- chandragupta — Greek name Sandracottos. died ?297 bc, ruler of N India, who founded the Maurya dynasty (325) and defeated Seleucus (?305)
- change hands — to pass from one owner to another
- change round — to place in or adopt a different or opposite position
- changearound — the act of changing to a different position
- char-grilled — Char-grilled meat or fish has been cooked so that it burns slightly and turns black.
- cheerleading — the action or skill of a cheerleader.
- childbearing — Childbearing is the process of giving birth to babies.
- childcrowing — a disease which causes spasms of the vocal cords
- childminding — Childminding is looking after children when it is done by someone such as a childminder.
- childrearing — the raising and parenting of children: Childrearing extends beyond simple guardianship to nurturing and guidance.
- chord change — a movement from one chord to another
- cigar holder — a mouthpiece of wood, ivory, etc, used for holding a cigar while it is smoked
- cigar-shaped — resembling a cigar in shape
- cladogenesis — adaptive evolution leading to a greater variety of species
- cladogenetic — relating to cladogenesis
- clam diggers — casual pants that end slightly below the knee.