10-letter words containing d, i, g, n
- big-endian — 1. (data, architecture) A computer architecture in which, within a given multi-byte numeric representation, the most significant byte has the lowest address (the word is stored "big-end-first"). Most processors, including the IBM 370 family, the PDP-10, the Motorola microprocessor families, and most of the various RISC designs current in mid-1993, are big-endian. See -endian. 2. (networking, standard) A backward electronic mail address. The world now follows the Internet hostname standard (see FQDN) and writes e-mail addresses starting with the name of the computer and ending up with the country code (e.g. [email protected]). In the United Kingdom the Joint Networking Team decided to do it the other way round (e.g. [email protected]) before the Internet domain standard was established. Most gateway sites required ad-hockery in their mailers to handle this. By July 1994 this parochial idiosyncracy was on the way out and mailers started to reject big-endian addresses. By about 1996, people would look at you strangely if you suggested such a bizarre thing might ever have existed.
- bingo card — a prepaid postcard inserted in a magazine by its publisher to enable a reader to order free information about advertised products.
- blindingly — unable to see; lacking the sense of sight; sightless: a blind man.
- blindsight — the ability to respond to visual stimuli without having any conscious visual experience; it can occur after some forms of brain damage
- blundering — a gross, stupid, or careless mistake: That's your second blunder this morning.
- bombarding — to attack or batter with artillery fire.
- bordraging — an attack or raid on a border region
- bouldering — rock climbing on large boulders or small outcrops either as practice or as a sport in its own right
- bowldering — pavement made with small boulders.
- boxing day — Boxing Day is the 26th of December, the day after Christmas Day.
- brandering — furring (def 4b).
- bridgetown — the capital of Barbados, a port on the SW coast. Pop: 144 000 (2005 est)
- brigandage — plundering by brigands
- brigandine — a coat of mail, invented in the Middle Ages to increase mobility, consisting of metal rings or sheets sewn on to cloth or leather
- brigandish — a bandit, especially one of a band of robbers in mountain or forest regions.
- bring down — When people or events bring down a government or ruler, they cause the government or ruler to lose power.
- broodingly — preoccupied with depressing, morbid, or painful memories or thoughts: a brooding frame of mind.
- bug-ridden — full of insects
- buildering — the practice of climbing tall urban buildings, for sport or publicity.
- burgundian — of or relating to Burgundy or its inhabitants
- campaigned — Simple past tense and past participle of campaign.
- canoodling — Present participle of canoodle.
- casinghead — the protruding part of a casing to which piping is attached
- centigrade — Centigrade is a scale for measuring temperature, in which water freezes at 0 degrees and boils at 100 degrees. It is represented by the symbol °C.
- ceredigion — a county of W Wales, on Cardigan Bay: created in 1996 from part of Dyfed; corresponds to the former Cardiganshire (abolished 1974): mainly agricultural, with the Cambrian Mountains in the E and N. Administrative centre: Aberaeron. Pop: 77 200 (2003 est). Area: 1793 sq km (692 sq miles)
- chagrinned — a feeling of vexation, marked by disappointment or humiliation.
- 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)
- 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.
- 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.
- 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.
- contending — competing; opposed
- corrigenda — Plural form of corrigendum.
- cuckolding — Present participle of cuckold.
- cudgelling — a short, thick stick used as a weapon; club.