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13-letter words containing d, o, g, c, a

  • 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)
  • costardmonger — a costermonger
  • 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.
  • coup de grace — A coup de grace is an action or event which finally destroys something, for example an institution, which has been gradually growing weaker.
  • covent garden — a district of central London: famous for its former fruit, vegetable, and flower market, now a shopping precinct
  • covered wagon — A covered wagon is a wagon that has an arched canvas roof and is pulled by horses. Covered wagons were used by the early American settlers as they travelled across the country.
  • cross-grained — (of timber) having the fibres arranged irregularly or in a direction that deviates from the axis of the piece
  • cutting board — A cutting board is a wooden or plastic board that you chop meat and vegetables on.
  • cytodiagnosis — the diagnosis of disease through the study of cells in the body
  • dactylography — the scientific study of fingerprints for purposes of identification
  • dactylomegaly — abnormal enlargement of the fingers or toes.
  • dancing shoes — shoes worn by dancers
  • days of grace — days permitted by custom for payment of a promissory note, bill of exchange, etc, after it falls due
  • decarbonating — Present participle of decarbonate.
  • decarbonizing — Present participle of decarbonize.
  • decongestants — Plural form of decongestant.
  • decorticating — Present participle of decorticate.
  • demagogically — of, relating to, or characteristic of a demagogue.
  • democratizing — Present participle of democratize.
  • demographical — of or relating to demography, the science of vital and social statistics.
  • demonological — the study of demons or of beliefs about demons.
  • dendrological — Of, pertaining to dendrology.
  • dentosurgical — relating to or used in both dentistry and surgery
  • deontological — (of an ethical theory) regarding obligation as deriving from reason or as residing primarily in certain specific rules of conduct rather than in the maximization of some good
  • diagnosticate — (archaic, transitive) To make a diagnosis of; to recognise (a disease or similar) by its symptoms.
  • diagnostician — a specialist or expert in making diagnoses
  • dialling code — A dialling code for a particular city or region is the series of numbers that you have to dial before a particular telephone number if you are making a call to that place from a different area.
  • diffractogram — An image produced by a diffractometer.
  • digital clock — a clock that displays the time in numerical digits rather than by hands on a dial.
  • digital logic — two-valued logic
  • dignification — The act of dignifying; exaltation.
  • disco dancing — dancing at a disco
  • discographies — Plural form of discography.
  • dna computing — (architecture)   The use of DNA molecules to encode computational problems. Standard operations of molecular biology can then be used to solve some NP-hard search problems in parallel using a very large number of molecules. The exponential scaling of NP-hard problems still remains, so this method will require a huge amount of DNA to solve large problems.
  • domesticating — Present participle of domesticate.
  • domiciliating — Present participle of domiciliate.
  • double-acting — (of a reciprocating engine, pump, etc.) having pistons accomplishing work in both directions, fluid being admitted alternately to opposite ends of the cylinders. Compare single-acting.
  • douglas scale — an international scale of sea disturbance and swell ranging from 0 to 9 with one figure for disturbance and one for swell
  • dutch courage — courage inspired by drunkenness or drinking liquor.
  • floating dock — a submersible, floating structure used as a dry dock, having a floor that is submerged, slipped under a floating vessel, and then raised so as to raise the vessel entirely out of the water.
  • folding chair — a chair that can be collapsed flat for easy storage or transport.
  • fondant icing — icing made from fondant
  • galactosidase — An enzyme, such as lactase, that is involved in the hydrolytic breakdown of a galactoside.
  • garden orache — a plant of the goosefoot family, Atriplex hortensis, which is cultivated as a vegetable and used like spinach
  • gin and tonic — a drink made with gin and quinine water, served in a tall glass and usually garnished with a slice of lime or lemon.
  • gluconic acid — a colorless, water-soluble acid, C 6 H 12 O 7 , obtained by the oxidation of glucose, used commercially in a 50-percent solution for cleaning metals.
  • glucuronidase — an enzyme that catalyzes glucuronide hydrolysis
  • glycolic acid — a colorless, crystalline, water-soluble powder, C 2 H 4 O 3 , that is a major substrate for photorespiration in plants: used chiefly for textile printing and dyeing and in pesticides.
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