13-letter words containing d, i, n, g
- carbo-loading — Informal. carbohydrate loading.
- carbon dating — Carbon dating is a system of calculating the age of a very old object by measuring the amount of radioactive carbon it contains.
- card clothing — a very sturdy fabric with a leather or rubber fillet imbedded with wire teeth for disentangling and cleaning textile fibers, used to cover the rollers or flats of a carding machine.
- card-carrying — A card-carrying member of a particular group or political party is an official member of that group or party, rather than someone who supports it.
- cardiganshire — a former county of W Wales: became part of Dyfed in 1974; reinstated as Ceredigion in 1996
- cardinal sign — any of the four astrological signs, Aries, Cancer, Libra, or Capricorn, that begin at the equinoxes and solstices, thus marking the beginning of the seasons: characterized by the attribute of strong initiative.
- cartridge pen — a pen having a removable ink reservoir that is replaced when empty
- casehardening — Present participle of caseharden.
- cash dealings — transactions that are carried out using cash
- cash holdings — the assets that you hold in ready cash, as opposed to property, shares, bonds, etc
- cedar waxwing — a brownish-gray, crested American waxwing (Bombycilla cedrorum), with red, waxlike tips on its secondary wing feathers
- child rearing — the activity of rearing children
- child-bearing — the act or process of carrying and giving birth to a child
- chronologized — to arrange in chronological order.
- churn molding — a molding decorated with chevrons.
- cider vinegar — a type of vinegar produced by the acetification of cider
- cigarette end — the part of a cigarette that is held in the mouth and that remains unsmoked after it is finished
- claddagh ring — any of various elaborately designed rings, esp one in the shape of two hands embracing a heart, given as a token of lasting affection
- cleaning lady — A cleaning lady is a woman who is employed to clean the rooms and furniture inside a building.
- clinodiagonal — the diagonal axis of a monoclinic crystal
- close-grained — (of wood) dense or compact in texture
- cloth binding — a type of binding in which a book is bound in stiff boards covered with cloth
- cloud seeding — any technique of adding material to a cloud to alter its natural development, usually to increase or obtain precipitation.
- coachbuilding — the manufacture of bodies for cars, buses, and coaches
- coarsegrained — having a coarse texture
- coasting lead — a lead used in sounding depths of from 20 to 60 fathoms.
- codeswitching — Alternative form of code-switching.
- coffin dodger — an old person
- cold moulding — the production of moulded articles from resins that polymerize chemically
- commandeering — Present participle of commandeer.
- commoditising — Present participle of commoditise.
- commoditizing — to turn into a commodity; make commercial.
- comprehending — to understand the nature or meaning of; grasp with the mind; perceive: He did not comprehend the significance of the ambassador's remark.
- condescending — If you say that someone is condescending, you are showing your disapproval of the fact that they talk or behave in a way which shows that they think they are superior to other people.
- confederating — Present participle of confederate.
- confidingness — The state or quality of being confiding.
- confoundingly — in a confounding manner
- conglutinated — Simple past tense and past participle of conglutinate.
- consideringly — in a considering manner
- consolidating — to bring together (separate parts) into a single or unified whole; unite; combine: They consolidated their three companies.
- contradicting — Present participle of contradict.
- cooling board — a plank for laying out a corpse.
- core handling — Core handling is the way that a core is dealt with to make sure it maintains its properties for testing.
- corn marigold — an annual plant, Chrysanthemum segetum, with yellow daisy-like flower heads: a common weed of cultivated land: family Asteraceae (composites)
- corresponding — parallel; equivalent
- cough and die — (jargon) barf. Connotes that the program is throwing its hands up by design rather than because of a bug or oversight. "The parser saw a control-A in its input where it was looking for a printable, so it coughed and died." Compare die, die horribly, scream and die.
- countersigned — a sign used in reply to another sign.
- coup de poing — (no longer in technical use) a Lower Paleolithic stone hand ax, pointed or ovate in shape and having sharp cutting edges.
- cover bidding — the act of tendering an artificially high price for a contract, on the assumption that the tender will not be accepted
- crash landing — aircraft: emergency descent