10-letter words containing d, i, r, g
- 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.
- budgerigar — Budgerigars are small, brightly-coloured birds from Australia that people often keep as pets.
- 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
- cardialgia — pain in or near the heart
- cardiogram — electrocardiogram
- cardiology — Cardiology is the study of the heart and its diseases.
- cartridges — Plural form of cartridge.
- 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.
- chundering — vomit.
- cirrigrade — moving by means of hairlike appendages
- clamdigger — One who digs for clams.
- coatbridge — an industrial town in central Scotland, in North Lanarkshire. Pop: 41 170 (2001)
- concording — Present participle of concord.
- configured — Simple past tense and past participle of configure.
- 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.
- daggerlike — resembling a dagger in shape or form
- dagobert i — a.d. 602?–639, Merovingian king of the Franks 628–639.
- 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)
- dating bar — singles bar.
- 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 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.
- 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
- decentring — to put out of center.
- decorating — the painting or wallpapering of a room, house, etc
- decreasing — becoming less or fewer; diminishing.
- decrypting — Present participle of decrypt.
- deenergize — To remove a source of energy from.
- defragging — Present participle of defrag.
- defrauding — Present participle of defraud.
- defreezing — to become hardened into ice or into a solid body; change from the liquid to the solid state by loss of heat.
- defrocking — Present participle of defrock.
- defrosting — Present participle of defrost.
- degression — a decrease by stages
- degressive — reducing by gradual amounts