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12-letter words containing d, r, e, g

  • breakdancing — a type of vigorous dance
  • breckinridge — John Cabell1821-75; vice president of the U.S. (1857-61); Confederate general
  • bridge a gap — to remedy a deficiency
  • bridge chair — a lightweight folding chair, often part of a set of matching chairs and bridge table.
  • bridge cloth — a tablecloth for a bridge table.
  • bridge house — a deckhouse including a bridge or bridges for navigation.
  • bridge party — a gathering for the purpose of playing bridge
  • bridge table — a square card table with folding legs.
  • bright-field — of or relating to the illuminated region about the object of a microscope.
  • bumper guard — either of two vertical crosspieces attached to a bumper of a motor vehicle to prevent it from locking bumpers with another vehicle.
  • buying order — an order to buy a certain security
  • by and large — You use by and large to indicate that a statement is mostly but not completely true.
  • calligraphed — Simple past tense and past participle of calligraph.
  • 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)
  • cardiomegaly — abnormal enlargement of the heart.
  • cardioplegia — deliberate arrest of the action of the heart, as by hypothermia or the injection of chemicals, to enable complex heart surgery to be carried out
  • carpetbagged — Simple past tense and past participle of carpetbag.
  • carriage dog — Dalmatian (sense 4)
  • cattle guard — A cattle guard is the same as a cattle grid.
  • change round — to place in or adopt a different or opposite position
  • changearound — the act of changing to a different position
  • char-grilled — Char-grilled meat or fish has been cooked so that it burns slightly and turns black.
  • cheerleading — the action or skill of a cheerleader.
  • childbearing — Childbearing is the process of giving birth to babies.
  • childrearing — the raising and parenting of children: Childrearing extends beyond simple guardianship to nurturing and guidance.
  • chord change — a movement from one chord to another
  • cigar holder — a mouthpiece of wood, ivory, etc, used for holding a cigar while it is smoked
  • cigar-shaped — resembling a cigar in shape
  • clam diggers — casual pants that end slightly below the knee.
  • clam-diggers — calf-length trousers
  • clearsighted — seeing clearly
  • closegrained — having a fine, compact grain or texture
  • code grinder — (jargon, abuse)   A suit-wearing minion of the sort hired in legion strength by banks and insurance companies in the Real World to implement payroll packages in RPG and other such unspeakable horrors. In its native habitat, the code grinder often removes the suit jacket to reveal an underplumage consisting of button-down shirt (starch optional) and a tie. In times of dire stress, the sleeves (if long) may be rolled up and the tie loosened about half an inch. It seldom helps. The code grinder's milieu is about as far from hackerdom as one can get and still touch a computer; the term connotes pity. Used of or to a hacker, this term is a really serious slur on the person's creative ability; it connotes a design style characterised by primitive technique, rule-boundedness, brute force and utter lack of imagination. Compare card walloper. Contrast real programmer.
  • code-sharing — a commercial agreement between two airlines that allows passengers to use a ticket from one airline to travel on another
  • cold storage — If something such as food is put in cold storage, it is kept in an artificially-cooled place in order to preserve it.
  • configurated — to give a configuration, form, or design to.
  • conflagrated — Simple past tense and past participle of conflagrate.
  • copy-reading — to work on (copy) as a copyreader.
  • core drawing — drawing of fine tubing using wire as a mandrel.
  • corregidores — the chief magistrate of a town in Spain.
  • cover ground — to move or traverse a certain distance
  • crescendoing — Music. a gradual, steady increase in loudness or force. a musical passage characterized by such an increase. the performance of a crescendo passage: The crescendo by the violins is too abrupt.
  • cross-legged — If someone is sitting cross-legged, they are sitting on the floor with their legs bent so that their knees point outwards.
  • crossgrained — Alternative form of cross-grained.
  • curmudgeonly — If you describe someone as curmudgeonly, you do not like them because they are mean or bad-tempered.
  • daguerrotype — Misspelling of daguerreotype.
  • danger angle — a horizontal or vertical angle, subtended by two points on shore, that provides a maximum or minimum angle between the points as observed from a vessel if it is to steer a safe course.
  • 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
  • dark glasses — Dark glasses are glasses which have dark-coloured lenses to protect your eyes in the sunshine.
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