10-letter words containing d, i, g
- coreid bug — leaf-footed bug.
- corregidor — an island at the entrance to Manila Bay, in the Philippines: site of the defeat of American forces by the Japanese (1942) in World War II
- corrigenda — Plural form of corrigendum.
- cuckolding — Present participle of cuckold.
- cudgelling — a short, thick stick used as a weapon; club.
- daggerlike — resembling a dagger in shape or form
- dagobert i — a.d. 602?–639, Merovingian king of the Franks 628–639.
- damagingly — In a damaging manner.
- dandifying — Present participle of dandify.
- daringness — The state or quality of being daring.
- darjeeling — a town in NE India, in West Bengal in the Himalayas, at an altitude of about 2250 m (7500 ft). Pop: 107 530 (2001)
- darlington — an industrial town in NE England in Darlington unitary authority, S Durham: developed mainly with the opening of the Stockton-Darlington railway (1825). Pop: 86 082 (2001)
- dash light — a light to illuminate a dashboard in a motor vehicle
- date-night — an evening social date on which a married or long-term couple go out together: I enjoy a once-a-week date night with my husband.
- dating bar — singles bar.
- daugavpils — a city in SE Latvia on the Western Dvina River: founded in 1274 by Teutonic Knights; ruled by Poland (1559–1772) and Russia (1772–1915); retaken by the Russians in 1940. Pop: 112 609 (2002 est)
- dauntingly — In a daunting manner.
- dazzlingly — to overpower or dim the vision of by intense light: He was dazzled by the sudden sunlight.
- de broglie — Prince Louis Victor (lwi viktɔr). 1892–1987, French physicist, noted for his research in quantum mechanics and his development of wave mechanics: Nobel prize for physics 1929
- de gasperi — Alcide (alˈtʃiːde). 1881–1954, Italian statesman; prime minister (1945–53). An antifascist, he led the Christian Democratic party during World War II from the Vatican City
- de kooning — Willem (ˈwɪləm). 1904–97, US abstract expressionist painter, born in Holland
- de rigueur — If you say that a possession or habit is de rigueur, you mean that it is fashionable and therefore necessary for anyone who wants to avoid being considered unfashionable.
- de-linking — to make independent; dissociate; separate: The administration has delinked human rights from economic aid to underdeveloped nations.
- deadlining — Present participle of deadline.
- deadweight — (of a shot) leaving the other balls in the ideal position
- dealmaking — The making of commercial, financial or political deals.
- debasingly — In a debasing manner.
- debatingly — in an argumentative manner
- debauching — Present participle of debauch.
- deblocking — Present participle of deblock.
- debouching — Present participle of debouche.
- debriefing — A debriefing is a meeting where someone such as a soldier, diplomat, or astronaut is asked to give a report on an operation or task that they have just completed.
- debris bug — a bug of the family Cimicidae found where vegetable debris accumulates and feeding on small arthropods like springtails: related to the bedbugs
- decagynian — having ten pistils or female organs of reproduction and belonging to the order Decagynia
- decalogist — a person who interprets and expounds on the Ten Commandments
- deceivings — Plural form of deceiving.
- decentring — to put out of center.
- decidingly — that settles a question or dispute or leads to a final decision; determining; decisive: the deciding vote; The weather will be the deciding factor as to whether we have the picnic or not.
- decimating — Present participle of decimate.
- deck light — a skylight for a 'tween deck, built flush with the upper deck.
- declaiming — Present participle of declaim.
- declotting — a mass or lump.
- decorating — the painting or wallpapering of a room, house, etc
- decoupling — the separation of previously linked systems so that they may operate independently
- decreasing — becoming less or fewer; diminishing.
- decrypting — Present participle of decrypt.
- dedicating — to set apart and consecrate to a deity or to a sacred purpose: The ancient Greeks dedicated many shrines to Aphrodite.
- deenergize — To remove a source of energy from.
- deep magic — [possibly from C. S. Lewis's "Narnia" books] An awesomely arcane technique central to a program or system, especially one neither generally published nor available to hackers at large (compare black art); one that could only have been composed by a true wizard. Compiler optimisation techniques and many aspects of OS design used to be deep magic; many techniques in cryptography, signal processing, graphics, and AI still are. Compare heavy wizardry. Especially found in comments of the form "Deep magic begins here.". Compare voodoo programming.
- defaulting — guilty of a failure to act, esp a failure to meet a financial obligation