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15-letter words containing d, g

  • disintegrations — the act or process of disintegrating.
  • disorganisation — Alternative spelling of disorganization.
  • disorganization — a breaking up of order or system; disunion or disruption of constituent parts.
  • displeasingness — the state of being displeasing
  • dissolving view — an effect created by the projection of slides on a screen in such a way that each picture seems to dissolve into the succeeding one without an interval in between.
  • distinguishable — to mark off as different (often followed by from or by): He was distinguished from the other boys by his height.
  • distinguishably — to mark off as different (often followed by from or by): He was distinguished from the other boys by his height.
  • distinguishment — to mark off as different (often followed by from or by): He was distinguished from the other boys by his height.
  • distress signal — a signal used, or designed to be used, by persons in peril, for the purpose of summoning aid, indicating their position, etc., as a radio code sign, aerial flare, flag hoist, or the like. Compare distress call (def 1).
  • divided highway — a superhighway with a broad median strip, designed to prevent collisions, headlight glare, etc., between vehicles moving in opposite directions, and usually having limited or cloverleaf access.
  • dna fingerprint — the use of a DNA probe for the identification of an individual, as for the matching of genes from a forensic sample with those of a criminal suspect.
  • do sb's bidding — If you say that someone does another person's bidding, you disapprove of the fact that they do exactly what the other person asks them to do, even when they do not want to.
  • docking station — device: charger
  • doctor's degree — any of several academic degrees of the highest rank, as the Ph.D. or Ed.D., awarded by universities and some colleges for completing advanced work in graduate school or a professional school.
  • dog's breakfast — a disorderly mixture; hodgepodge.
  • dogtooth violet — Also called adder's-tongue, trout lily. any of several North American lilies of the genus Erythronium, having nodding flowers and usually mottled leaves.
  • dongola leather — a leather similar to kid, made from goatskin, sheepskin, or calfskin.
  • double genitive — a possessive construction consisting of a prepositional phrase with of containing a substantive in the possessive case, as of father's in He is a friend of father's.
  • double integral — an integral in which the integrand involves a function of two variables and that requires two applications of the integration process to evaluate.
  • double knitting — a widely used medium thickness of knitting wool
  • double negation — the principle that a statement is equivalent to the denial of its negation, as it is not the case that John is not here meaning John is here
  • double negative — a syntactic construction in which two negative words are used in the same clause to express a single negation.
  • double printing — the exposure of the same positive photographic emulsion to two or more negatives, resulting in the superimposition of multiple images after development
  • double stopping — playing two notes or parts simultaneously on a string instrument
  • doubting thomas — a person who refuses to believe without proof; skeptic. John 20:24–29.
  • dougherty wagon — a horse- or mule-drawn passenger wagon having doors on the side, transverse seats, and canvas sides that can be rolled down.
  • downhill skiing — the sport of skiing down a slope, usually making turns and various maneuvers.
  • dr. strangelove — a person, especially a military or government official, who advocates initiating nuclear warfare.
  • drag one's feet — to draw with force, effort, or difficulty; pull heavily or slowly along; haul; trail: They dragged the carpet out of the house.
  • dramaturgically — the craft or the techniques of dramatic composition.
  • draughtproofing — Present participle of draughtproof.
  • draughtsmanship — (British) alternative spelling of draftsmanship.
  • drawing account — an account used by a partner or employee for cash withdrawals.
  • drilling jacket — A drilling jacket is a small steel platform used for drilling wells in shallow and calm water.
  • drinking trough — a narrow open container in which water for animals is put
  • drip irrigation — a system of crop irrigation involving the controlled delivery of water directly to individual plants through a network of tubes or pipes.
  • driving licence — A driving licence is a card showing that you are qualified to drive because you have passed a driving test.
  • driving license — A driving license is the same as a driver's license.
  • dropping bottle — a bottle with correlated lengthwise grooves in the neck and in the stopper, permitting a controlled flow of the liquid contents in the form of drops.
  • drug trafficker — someone that trades in illegal drugs
  • drunken driving — the crime of driving while classified as under the influence of alcohol because the quantity of alcohol in your blood exceeds legally permitted levels
  • dry goods store — a shop selling textiles and haberdashery
  • drying-up cloth — a tea towel
  • dryland farming — a mode of farming, practiced in regions of slight or insufficient rainfall, that relies mainly on tillage methods rendering the soil more receptive of moisture and on the selection of suitable crops.
  • duelling pistol — one of a pair of identical pistols made specifically for use in duels
  • dumpster diving — the practice of foraging in garbage that has been put out on the street in dumpsters, garbage cans, etc., for discarded items that may still be valuable, useful, or fixable.
  • duplex printing — a feature of some printers allowing them automatically to do double-sided printing
  • dye sensitizing — the producing of panchromatic or orthochromatic film by treating it with an emulsion containing dyes that absorb light of all or certain colors.
  • dynamic binding — The property of object-oriented programming languages where the code executed to perform a given operation is determined at run time from the class of the operand(s) (the receiver of the message). There may be several different classes of objects which can receive a given message. An expression may denote an object which may have more than one possible class and that class can only be determined at run time. New classes may be created that can receive a particular message, without changing (or recompiling) the code which sends the message. An class may be created that can receive any set of existing messages. One important reason for having dynamic binding is that it provides a mechanism for selecting between alternatives which is arguably more robust than explicit selection by conditionals or pattern matching. When a new subclass is added, or an existing subclass changes, the necessary modifications are localised: you don't have incomplete conditionals and broken patterns scattered all over the program. See overloading.
  • dynamic pricing — the practice of offering goods at a price that changes according to the level of demand, the type of customer, the state of the weather, etc
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