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14-letter words containing d, i, g, s

  • good samaritan — a person who gratuitously gives help or sympathy to those in distress. Luke 10:30–37.
  • goodfellowship — cheerful company
  • goodnight kiss — a kiss given to a person before going home or going to sleep
  • grade crossing — an intersection of a railroad track and another track, a road, etc., at the same level.
  • grand seigneur — a dignified or aristocratic man
  • graphic design — the art or profession of visual communication that combines images, words, and ideas to convey information to an audience, especially to produce a specific effect.
  • grease-stained — stained with grease marks
  • great kiskadee — any of several American flycatchers of the genus Pitangus, especially P. sulphuratus (great kiskadee) ranging from the southwest U.S. to Argentina and noted for their loud calls and aggressive nature.
  • greetings card — A greetings card is a folded card with a picture on the front and greetings inside that you give or send to someone, for example on their birthday.
  • groundskeeping — The activity of tending an area of land for aesthetic or functional purposes; typically as an employee of a person or institution.
  • group dynamics — (used with a plural verb) the interactions that influence the attitudes and behavior of people when they are grouped with others through either choice or accidental circumstances.
  • grylloblattids — Plural form of grylloblattid.
  • guided missile — an aerial missile, as a rocket, steered during its flight by radio signals, clockwork controls, etc.
  • gyrostabilized — stabilized by means of a gyrostabilizer.
  • hastings banda — Hastings Kamuzu [kah-moo-zoo] /kɑˈmu zu/ (Show IPA), 1906–97, Malawi physician, political leader, and public official: 1st president of Malawi 1966–94.
  • heading course — (in brickwork) a course of headers.
  • hedge clippers — clippers or shears used to trim hedges
  • highhandedness — The property of being highhanded.
  • highland dress — the historical costume, including the plaid, kilt or filibeg, and bonnet, as worn by Highland clansmen and soldiers
  • highland games — a meeting in which competitions in sport, piping, and dancing are held: originating in the Highlands of Scotland
  • highs and lows — If you refer to the highs and lows of someone's life or career, you are referring to both the successful or happy times, and the unsuccessful or bad times.
  • holding thumbs — holding the thumb of one hand with the other, in the hope of bringing good luck
  • hundredweights — Plural form of hundredweight.
  • hungtow island — an island off the SE coast of Taiwan. 8 miles (13 km) long.
  • hybrid testing — (testing)   A combination of top-down testing with bottom-up testing of prioritised or available components.
  • hydrobiologist — someone who studies or specializes in hydrobiology
  • hydrogenolysis — decomposition of a compound resulting from its interaction with hydrogen.
  • hydromagnetics — magnetohydrodynamics.
  • in a good seam — doing well, esp financially
  • in good season — early enough
  • in this regard — on this point
  • index register — (processor)   A register found in some CPUs, whose contents can be added to the address operand to give the effective address. Incrementing the index register then allows the program to access the next location in memory and so on, making it very useful for working with arrays or blocks of memory. Index registers first appeared around April 1949 in the Manchester Mark I. The Mark I's index register's contents were simply added to the entire instruction, thus potentially changing the opcode (see The story of Mel)!
  • indigenisation — Alternative spelling of indigenization.
  • indigenousness — The quality or state of being indigenous.
  • inland passage — Inside Passage
  • inside passage — protected sea route along the W coast of North America, from Seattle, Wash., to the N part of the Alas. panhandle: the route uses channels and straits between islands and the mainland: c. 950 mi (1,529 km) long
  • iris diaphragm — a composite diaphragm with a central aperture readily adjustable for size, used to regulate the amount of light admitted to a lens or optical system.
  • island-hopping — to travel from island to island, especially to visit a series of islands in the same chain or area.
  • jardin anglais — a landscape garden having winding paths and irregular planting.
  • judgementalism — Alternative form of judgmentalism.
  • jumping spider — any of several small, hairy spiders, of the family Salticidae, that stalk and jump upon their prey instead of snaring it in a web.
  • killing fields — People sometimes refer to a battlefield or a place where many people have been killed as that place's killing fields.
  • kindergartners — Plural form of kindergartner.
  • king-sized bed — A king-sized bed is a bed that is the largest size available.
  • kissing bridge — a covered bridge.
  • lagoon islands — a former name of Tuvalu.
  • landing lights — aircraft lights used when landing
  • landing strake — the next strake of planking in an open boat below the sheer strake.
  • landing wheels — wheels that a plane lowers when it is going to land
  • laser-guidance — a technique of guiding a missile, etc, using a laser beam
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