14-letter words containing d, r, e, g, i
- building trade — the economic sector comprising all companies and workers involved in construction
- butterfingered — a person who frequently drops things; clumsy person.
- cadmium orange — a yellow color approaching orange.
- cambridge blue — a lightish blue colour
- cambridge lisp — A flavour of Lisp using BCPL. Sources owned by Fitznorman partners.
- cambridgeshire — a county of E England, in East Anglia: includes the former counties of the Isle of Ely and Huntingdon and lies largely in the Fens: Peterborough became an independent unitary authority in 1998. Administrative centre: Cambridge. Pop (excluding Peterborough): 571 000 (2003 est). Area (excluding Peterborough): 3068 sq km (184 sq miles)
- campina grande — a city in NE Brazil, in E Paraíba state. Pop: 366 000 (2005 est)
- cape girardeau — a city in SE Missouri, on the Mississippi River.
- cape guardafui — a cape at the NE tip of Somalia, extending into the Indian Ocean
- carriage drive — a private road for horse-drawn carriages, often connecting a house with a public road
- carriage trade — trade from the wealthy part of society
- cartridge belt — a belt with pockets for cartridge clips or loops for cartridges
- cartridge case — a cylindrical, usually metal casing capable of being loaded with an explosive charge and often also a bullet
- cartridge clip — a metallic container holding cartridges for an automatic firearm
- charge density — the electric charge per unit volume of a medium or body or per unit area of a surface
- chladni figure — a pattern formed by fine powder placed on a vibrating surface, used to display the positions of nodes and antinodes
- chondrogenesis — the growth of cartilage
- church wedding — a wedding ceremony performed in a church and having a religious rather than civil content
- cigarette card — a small picture card, formerly given away with cigarettes, now collected as a hobby
- circumagitated — Simple past tense and past participle of circumagitate.
- ciudad obregon — a city in W Mexico.
- clapper bridge — a primitive type of bridge in which planks or slabs of stone rest on piles of stones
- coarse-grained — having a large or coarse grain
- coasting trade — trade between ports along the same coast.
- coffee grinder — A coffee grinder is a machine for grinding coffee beans.
- connecting rod — a rod or bar for transmitting motion, esp one that connects a rotating part to a reciprocating part
- countermanding — Present participle of countermand.
- countershading — (in the coloration of certain animals) a pattern, serving as camouflage, in which dark colours occur on parts of the body exposed to the light and pale colours on parts in the shade
- counterweighed — Simple past tense and past participle of counterweigh.
- covered bridge — a bridge that is enclosed by a roof and walls.
- credentialling — the practice of analysing the credentials of an individual or organization
- credit charges — the charges applied by credit card companies to customers buying goods on credit
- credit manager — a person employed in a business firm to administer credit service to its customers, especially to evaluate the extension and amount of credit to be granted.
- cribbage board — a board, with pegs and holes, used for scoring at cribbage
- cross-breeding — the process of causing animals to mate with another species, or of causing plants to reproduce with another species
- cross-dressing — the wearing of clothes normally associated with the opposite sex
- cross-indexing — to provide with cross references or with a cross-referenced index.
- cruising speed — the speed at which a ship, car, or aircraft travels most efficiently
- cutting garden — a household flower garden planted solely for growing flowers that are to be cut and displayed indoors.
- cylinder glass — a sheet of glass formed originally in the shape of a cylinder and then divided lengthwise and flattened.
- dano-norwegian — Bokmål.
- darning needle — a long needle with a large eye used for darning
- data integrity — (data) The absence of unintended changes or errors in some data. Integrity implies that the data is an exact copy of some original version, e.g. that it has not been corrupted in the process of being written to, and read back from, a hard disk or during transmission via some communications channel. Integrity may further imply that the information represented by the data has been validated, i.e. verified to conform to certain constraints, e.g. a date's year, month and day parts are within the appropriate ranges and the date actually exists.
- dating service — a service that provides introductions to people seeking a companion with similar interests
- daughterliness — The quality of being daughterly.
- david d'angers — (born Pierre Jean David) 1788?-1856; Fr. sculptor
- dead reckoning — a method of establishing one's position using the distance and direction travelled rather than astronomical observations
- dead to rights — in an undeniably incriminating situation; red-handed
- decentralising — Present participle of decentralise.
- decentralizing — Present participle of decentralize.