15-letter words containing d, i, r, g
- building worker — a labourer, bricklayer, etc who works in the construction industry
- butter-fingered — a person who frequently drops things; clumsy person.
- call forwarding — a telephone service that allows incoming calls to be transferred automatically to another number or extension
- cardiac massage — a rhythmic compressing of the heart, using the hands to force blood through the blood vessels: an emergency medical procedure for treating heart failure
- carding machine — card2 (defs 1, 2).
- cartridge brass — brass composed of about 70 percent copper and 30 percent zinc.
- cartridge paper — an uncoated type of drawing or printing paper, usually made from bleached sulphate wood pulp with an addition of esparto grass
- cattle breeding — the science or business of breeding and raising cattle
- centipede grass — a slow-growing grass, Eremochloa ophiuroides, introduced into the U.S. from China and used for lawns in warm areas.
- child battering — child abuse in the form of battering
- child-battering — the physical abuse of a child by a parent or guardian, as by beating.
- children of god — a highly disciplined, fundamentalist Christian sect, active especially in the early 1970s, whose mostly young converts live in communes.
- cinematographed — a motion-picture projector.
- cineradiography — the filming of motion pictures through a fluoroscope or x-ray machine.
- circuit binding — a style of limp-leather binding, used esp for Bibles and prayer books, in which the edges of the cover bend over to protect the edges of the pages
- circumnavigated — Simple past tense and past participle of circumnavigate.
- cognitive radio — a radio that can automatically alter frequency, power, modulation, etc, according to where it is located
- comprehendingly — In an comprehending manner; knowingly.
- computer dating — the use of computers by dating agencies to match their clients
- 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
- 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
- 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.
- 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.
- deconcentrating — Present participle of deconcentrate.
- 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.
- 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).