13-letter words containing d, o, n, a, g
- cable molding — a molding in the form of a rope.
- 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.
- cash holdings — the assets that you hold in ready cash, as opposed to property, shares, bonds, etc
- chandernagore — a port in E India, in S West Bengal on the Hooghly River: a former French settlement (1686–1950). Pop: 162 166 (2001)
- clinodiagonal — the diagonal axis of a monoclinic crystal
- close-grained — (of wood) dense or compact in texture
- 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.
- commandeering — Present participle of commandeer.
- company grade — military rank applying to army officers below major, as second and first lieutenants and captains.
- concert grand — a full-size grand piano, usually around 7 feet in length
- concord grape — a variety of grape with purple-black fruit covered with a bluish bloom
- confederating — Present participle of confederate.
- conglomerated — Simple past tense and past participle of conglomerate.
- conglutinated — Simple past tense and past participle of conglutinate.
- congratulated — to express pleasure to (a person), as on a happy occasion: They congratulated him on his marriage.
- 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)
- 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.
- 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
- dancing shoes — shoes worn by dancers
- dangerousness — full of danger or risk; causing danger; perilous; risky; hazardous; unsafe.
- darling downs — a plateau in NE Australia, in SE Queensland: a vast agricultural and stock-raising area
- das rheingold — an opera by Wagner (1869), one of four in a cycle based on the German myth of the Ring of the Nibelung
- data modeling — (spelling) US spelling of "data modelling".
- dead and gone — If you say that someone is dead and gone, you are emphasizing that they are dead, and thinking about what happened or will happen after their death.
- dean of guild — the titular head of the guild or merchant company in a Scots burgh, who formerly exercised jurisdiction over all building in the burgh in the Dean of Guild Court
- decarbonating — Present participle of decarbonate.
- decarbonizing — Present participle of decarbonize.
- decongestants — Plural form of decongestant.
- decorticating — Present participle of decorticate.
- deglutination — to extract the gluten from.
- degradational — (geology) Pertaining to or formed by degradation.
- degranulation — a cellular process in which cytoplasmic granules within certain cells secrete their contents, often to the outside of the cell
- dehydrogenase — an enzyme, such as any of the respiratory enzymes, that activates oxidation-reduction reactions by transferring hydrogen from substrate to acceptor
- dehydrogenate — to remove hydrogen from
- deintegration — an act or instance of integrating a racial, religious, or ethnic group.
- democratizing — Present participle of democratize.
- demonological — the study of demons or of beliefs about demons.