15-letter words containing d, i, g, c
- gynandromorphic — (of an organism) Having male and female characteristics.
- heat-conducting — able to conduct heat or whose function is to conduct heat
- hedonic damages — compensation based on what the victim of a crime might have earned in the future
- high-dependency — needing or providing a more than usually high level of healthcare
- high-principled — possessing or displaying very high moral or ethical principles
- highland cattle — a breed of cattle with shaggy hair, usually reddish-brown in colour, and long horns
- holding company — a company that controls other companies through stock ownership but that usually does not engage directly in their productive operations (distinguished from parent company).
- holding furnace — a small furnace for holding molten metal produced in a larger melting furnace at a desired temperature for casting.
- holding paddock — a paddock in which cattle or sheep are kept temporarily, as before shearing, etc
- holiday cottage — a cottage used for accommodation for a family, couple, etc, on holiday
- homing guidance — a method of missile guidance in which internal equipment enables it to steer itself onto the target, as by sensing the target's heat radiation
- hot-dip coating — the process of coating sheets of iron or steel with molten zinc.
- humpback bridge — arched bridge
- hydrobiological — of or relating to hydrobiology
- hydrofracturing — a process in which fractures in rocks below the earth's surface are opened and widened by injecting chemicals and liquids at high pressure: used especially to extract natural gas or oil.
- ideographically — an ideogram.
- indicator light — a device for indicating that a motor vehicle is about to turn left or right; blinker
- indy car racing — a US form of professional motor racing around banked oval tracks
- interrecord gap — the area or space separating consecutive physical records of data on an external storage medium.
- king's evidence — evidence for the crown given by an accused person against his or her alleged accomplices.
- laryngectomized — having had one's larynx surgically removed by undergoing a laryngectomy
- leading article — Also called leader. the most important or prominent news story in a newspaper.
- leading counsel — the more senior of two counsels
- logical address — virtual address
- mackinac bridge — a suspension bridge over the Straits of Mackinac, connecting the Upper and Lower peninsulas of Michigan: one of the longest suspension bridges in the world. 3800-foot (1158-meter) center span; 7400 feet (2256 meters) in total length.
- magnetic domain — a portion of a ferromagnetic material where the magnetic moments are aligned with one another because of interactions between molecules or atoms.
- magnetic needle — a slender magnetized steel rod that, when adjusted to swing in a horizontal plane, as in a compass, indicates the direction of the earth's magnetic fields or the approximate position of north and south.
- marching orders — military orders, esp to infantry, giving instructions about a march, its destination, etc
- microradiograph — an enlarged version of an image obtained by a form of radiography that reveals minute details
- mid-ocean ridge — any of several seismically active submarine mountain ranges that extend through the Atlantic, Indian, and South Pacific oceans: each is hypothesized to be the locus of seafloor spreading.
- mis-categorized — to arrange in categories or classes; classify.
- miscoordinating — of the same order or degree; equal in rank or importance.
- mogi das cruzes — a city in SE Brazil, E of São Paulo.
- nuisance ground — a garbage dump.
- office building — building containing offices
- oligodendrocyte — A glial cell similar to an astrocyte but with fewer protuberances, concerned with the production of myelin in the central nervous system.
- oligonucleotide — a chain of a few nucleotides.
- oligosaccharide — any carbohydrate yielding few monosaccharides on hydrolysis, as two, three, or four.
- orange chromide — an Asian cichlid fish, Etropus maculatus, with a brownish-orange spotted body
- organic disease — a disease in which there is a structural alteration (opposed to functional disease).
- organized chaos — a complex situation or process that appears chaotic while having enough order to achieve progress or goals
- organized crime — illegal activities co-ordinated by groups
- oxygen cylinder — a metal cylinder containing oxygen under pressure
- package holiday — a holiday arranged by a travel company in which your travel and accommodation are booked for you
- packing density — a measure of the amount of data that can be held by unit length of a storage medium, such as magnetic tape
- pectoral girdle — (in vertebrates) a bony or cartilaginous arch supporting the forelimbs.
- pelargonic acid — a colorless, oily, water-immiscible liquid, C 9 H 1 8 O 2 , occurring as an ester in a volatile oil in species of pelargonium: used chiefly in organic synthesis and in the manufacture of lacquers and plastics.
- perfect binding — a technique for binding books by a machine that cuts off the backs of the sections and glues the leaves to a cloth or paper backing.
- phonocardiogram — the graphic record produced by a phonocardiograph.
- photoconducting — of or relating to photoconduction