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12-letter words containing d, o, n, a, g

  • born-digital — relating to or noting documents, images, etc., that are created and managed in electronic form: electronic preservation of born-digital content; a born-digital e-book that will not be available in print.
  • bound charge — any electric charge that is bound to an atom or molecule (opposed to free charge).
  • break ground — to do something that has not been done before
  • bring around — If you bring someone around when they are unconscious, you make them become conscious again.
  • broadcasting — Broadcasting is the making and sending out of television and radio programmes.
  • campo grande — a city in SW Brazil, capital of Mato Grosso do Sul state on the São Paulo–Corumbá railway: market centre. Pop: 746 000 (2005 est)
  • canada goose — A Canada goose is a grayish-brown wild goose that comes from North America.
  • canned goods — tinned food produce
  • cap and gown — a cap with a flat top ( mortarboard) and a long robe, worn at some academic ceremonies, as commencement, and often used to symbolize the academic life
  • carbonadoing — Present participle of carbonado.
  • chalcogenide — a binary compound consisting of a chalcogen and at least one other electropositive element
  • change round — to place in or adopt a different or opposite position
  • changearound — the act of changing to a different position
  • chord change — a movement from one chord to another
  • cladogenesis — adaptive evolution leading to a greater variety of species
  • cladogenetic — relating to cladogenesis
  • clapboarding — Present participle of clapboard.
  • classloading — (computing, Java) The dynamic loading of classes into a virtual machine, as performed by a classloader.
  • closegrained — having a fine, compact grain or texture
  • closing date — The closing date for a competition or offer is the final date by which entries or applications must be received.
  • code-sharing — a commercial agreement between two airlines that allows passengers to use a ticket from one airline to travel on another
  • commandingly — being in command: a commanding officer.
  • configurated — to give a configuration, form, or design to.
  • conflagrated — Simple past tense and past participle of conflagrate.
  • consanguined — Of kindred blood; related.
  • coordinating — Present participle of coordinate.
  • copy-reading — to work on (copy) as a copyreader.
  • core drawing — drawing of fine tubing using wire as a mandrel.
  • cross-dating — a method of dating objects, remains, etc, by comparison and correlation with other sites and levels
  • crossbanding — a veneer border, as on furniture, with its grain at right angles to the grain of the adjacent wood
  • crossgrained — Alternative form of cross-grained.
  • dak bungalow — (in India, formerly) a house where travellers on a dak route could be accommodated
  • dancing frog — (programming, humour)   A bug or glitch that only occurs for a particular user; never when the user tries to show it to anyone else. The term is derived from a Warner Brothers cartoon in which a man discovers a frog which can sing and dance; he believes this will make his fortune but the frog never performs in front of anyone else.
  • danger money — extra money paid to compensate for the risks involved in certain dangerous jobs
  • danger point — the point at which something ceases to be safe
  • darning wool — wool used for darning
  • data logging — (data)   (data acquisition) Storing a series of measurements over time, usually from a sensor that converts a physical quantity such as temperature, pressure, relative humidity, light, resistance, current, power, speed, vibration into a voltage that is then converted by a digital to analog converter (DAC) into a binary number. Data logging hardware may have several DACs for multiple simultaneous measurements. The hardware usually connects to a parallel port, serial port or USB port on a PC.
  • dealing room — A dealing room is a place where shares, currencies, or commodities are bought and sold.
  • decongestant — A decongestant is a medicine which helps someone who has a cold to breathe more easily.
  • deflagration — Deflagration is an explosion in which the speed of burning is lower than the speed of sound in the surroundings.
  • degemination — (phonetics, uncountable) inverse process of gemination, when a spoken long consonant is pronounced for an audibly shorter period.
  • degeneration — the process of degenerating
  • deglaciation — the process of removing glaciation
  • degradations — Plural form of degradation.
  • degringolade — a rapid descent or deterioration
  • demodulating — Present participle of demodulate.
  • demonography — a treatise on demons.
  • demoralising — to deprive (a person or persons) of spirit, courage, discipline, etc.; destroy the morale of: The continuous barrage demoralized the infantry.
  • demoralizing — If something is demoralizing, it makes you lose so much confidence in what you are doing that you want to give up.
  • demotivating — to provide with a motive, or a cause or reason to act; incite; impel.
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