14-letter words containing d, i, a, g, n
- biodegradation — to decay and become absorbed by the environment: toys that will biodegrade when they're discarded.
- blade-shearing — the shearing of sheep using hand shears
- bleeding heart — If you describe someone as a bleeding heart, you are criticizing them for being sympathetic towards people who are poor and suffering, without doing anything practical to help.
- blind staggers — the staggers
- blind stamping — an impression on a book cover without using colour or gold leaf
- boarding house — A boarding house is a house which people pay to stay in for a short time.
- boarding party — group of officers or sailors who board a ship
- body snatching — the act or practice of robbing a grave to obtain a cadaver for dissection.
- botanic garden — a place in which plants are grown, studied, and exhibited
- brachydiagonal — the shorter lateral axis of a rhombic prism
- brazing solder — an alloy of copper and zinc for joining two metal surfaces by melting the alloy so that it forms a thin layer between the surfaces
- breast-feeding — to nurse (a baby) at the breast; suckle.
- breech-loading — (of a firearm) loaded at the breech
- brobdingnagian — gigantic; huge; immense
- budget heading — a heading in a budget under which an expenditure is listed
- building paper — any of various types of heavy-duty paper that usually consist of bitumen reinforced with fibre sandwiched between two sheets of kraft paper: used in damp-proofing or as insulation between the soil and a road surface
- building trade — the economic sector comprising all companies and workers involved in construction
- cadmium orange — a yellow color approaching orange.
- campaign medal — a medal awarded for performance of specified service, usually in time of war or national emergency.
- campina grande — a city in NE Brazil, in E Paraíba state. Pop: 366 000 (2005 est)
- carbon trading — Carbon trading is the practice of buying and selling the right to produce carbon dioxide emissions, so that people, countries or companies who use a lot of fuel and electricity can buy rights from those that do not use so much.
- casinghead gas — natural gas obtained from an oil well.
- charge density — the electric charge per unit volume of a medium or body or per unit area of a surface
- chicago window — a composite window, horizontal in character, consisting of a large, fixed sheet of glass between two vertical windows with sash for ventilation, first popularized in commercial buildings in Chicago in the 1880s and 1890s.
- child guidance — the counselling of emotionally disturbed children
- chladni figure — a pattern formed by fine powder placed on a vibrating surface, used to display the positions of nodes and antinodes
- chopping board — A chopping board is a wooden or plastic board that you chop meat and vegetables on.
- cinnamon sedge — an angler's name for a small caddis fly, Limnephilus lunatus, having pale hind wings, that frequents sluggish water
- ciudad guayana — an industrial conurbation in E Venezuela, on the River Orinoco: iron and steel processing, gold mining. Pop: 807 000 (2005 est)
- ciudad obregon — a city in W Mexico.
- cleaning fluid — a solvent or other solution for removing stains or cleaning particular objects
- clingmans dome — mountain on the Tenn.-N.C. border; highest peak of the Great Smoky Mountains: 6,642 ft (2,024 m)
- closed gentian — any of several North American plants (genus Gentiana) with dark-blue, closed, tubular flowers
- coarse-grained — having a large or coarse grain
- coasting trade — trade between ports along the same coast.
- colombian gold — a potent marijuana grown in South America.
- cottage window — a double-hung window with an upper sash smaller than the lower.
- countermanding — Present participle of countermand.
- countershading — (in the coloration of certain animals) a pattern, serving as camouflage, in which dark colours occur on parts of the body exposed to the light and pale colours on parts in the shade
- credentialling — the practice of analysing the credentials of an individual or organization
- credit manager — a person employed in a business firm to administer credit service to its customers, especially to evaluate the extension and amount of credit to be granted.
- crossing guard — school (crossing) guard
- cutting garden — a household flower garden planted solely for growing flowers that are to be cut and displayed indoors.
- cyanoguanidine — dicyandiamide.
- cylinder glass — a sheet of glass formed originally in the shape of a cylinder and then divided lengthwise and flattened.
- dano-norwegian — Bokmål.
- darning needle — a long needle with a large eye used for darning
- darning stitch — a stitch used in darning that imitates the texture of the fabric that is to be mended
- data integrity — (data) The absence of unintended changes or errors in some data. Integrity implies that the data is an exact copy of some original version, e.g. that it has not been corrupted in the process of being written to, and read back from, a hard disk or during transmission via some communications channel. Integrity may further imply that the information represented by the data has been validated, i.e. verified to conform to certain constraints, e.g. a date's year, month and day parts are within the appropriate ranges and the date actually exists.
- data modelling — data model