15-letter words containing d, i, g
- contract bridge — the most common variety of bridge, in which the declarer receives points counting towards game and rubber only for tricks he bids as well as makes, any overtricks receiving bonus points
- coolgardie safe — a cupboard with wetted hessian walls for keeping food cool: used esp in Australia
- correspondingly — You use correspondingly when describing a situation which is closely connected with one you have just mentioned or is similar to it.
- corrugated iron — a thin structural sheet made of iron or steel, formed with alternating ridges and troughs
- cottage pudding — plain cake covered with a sweet sauce
- counterweighted — Simple past tense and past participle of counterweight.
- country dancing — Country dancing is traditional dancing in which people dance in rows or circles.
- cracked gas oil — Cracked gas oil is a gas oil which is formed as one of the products of a gas reaction.
- credibility gap — A credibility gap is the difference between what a person says or promises and what they actually think or do.
- credit standing — reputation for discharging financial obligations
- criminal damage — intentionally damaging property that belongs to someone else, including public property
- croix de guerre — a French military decoration awarded for gallantry in battle: established 1915
- cruising radius — the greatest distance that an aircraft or ship can cruise, away from and back to a certain point without refueling
- cycling holiday — a holiday in which one cycles between destinations
- da hinggan ling — mountain range in NE China along the E border of Mongolia: highest peak, 5,670 ft (1,728 m)
- daguerreotyping — Present participle of daguerreotype.
- daguerreotypist — an obsolete photographic process, invented in 1839, in which a picture made on a silver surface sensitized with iodine was developed by exposure to mercury vapor.
- dancing partner — one of a pair of dancers
- darkling beetle — any of a family (Tenebrionidae) of sluggish, dark beetles that feed on plants at night
- darning needles — a long needle with a long eye used in darning.
- data processing — Data processing is the series of operations that are carried out on data, especially by computers, in order to present, interpret, or obtain information.
- daughter-in-law — Someone's daughter-in-law is the wife of their son.
- daylight saving — the practice of advancing standard time by one hour in the spring of each year and of setting it back by one hour in the fall in order to gain an extra period of daylight during the early evening.
- de broglie wave — a hypothetical wave associated with the motion of a particle of atomic or subatomic size that describes effects such as the diffraction of beams of particles by crystals.
- de bruijn graph — (mathematics) A class of graphs with elegant properties. De Bruijn graphs are especially easy to use for routing, with shifting of source and destination addresses.
- deagglomeration — Deagglomeration is the process of breaking up agglomerates.
- decision-making — the act or process of making decisions
- decommissioning — the act of decommissioning something
- deconcentrating — Present participle of deconcentrate.
- decontaminating — Present participle of decontaminate.
- decriminalising — Present participle of decriminalise.
- decriminalizing — (rare) present participle of decriminalize To change the laws so something is no longer a crime.
- deculturalizing — to expose or subject to the influence of culture.
- deep-sea diving — the activity of diving and exploring in the deep parts of the sea
- defining moment — a point at which the essential nature or character of a person, group, etc., is revealed or identified.
- defragmentation — (computing) The action of defragmenting, particularly with respect to a computer disk or drive.
- degenerationist — a person who believes in the evolutionary decline of a species
- deglamorization — the act or process of making less glamorous
- dehydrogenating — Present participle of dehydrogenate.
- dehydrogenation — to remove hydrogen from (a compound).
- delayed opening — the automatic opening of a parachute after a predetermined delay to allow the parachutist to reach a particular height
- delaying action — a measure or measures taken to gain time, as when weaker military forces harass the advance of a superior enemy without coming to a pitched battle
- delaying tactic — Delaying tactics are things that someone does in order to deliberately delay the start or progress of something.
- delivery charge — A delivery charge is the cost of transporting or delivering goods.
- demagnetisation — (British spelling) Alternative form of demagnetization.
- demagnetization — The process of removing the magnetic field from an object.
- dematerializing — Present participle of dematerialize.
- demi-vegetarian — a person who eats poultry and fish, but no red meat
- demographically — of or relating to demography, the science of vital and social statistics.
- demythologizing — Present participle of demythologize.