13-letter words containing d, r, e, g
- confederating — Present participle of confederate.
- conglomerated — Simple past tense and past participle of conglomerate.
- congratulated — to express pleasure to (a person), as on a happy occasion: They congratulated him on his marriage.
- consideringly — in a considering manner
- core handling — Core handling is the way that a core is dealt with to make sure it maintains its properties for testing.
- corresponding — parallel; equivalent
- costardmonger — a costermonger
- countersigned — a sign used in reply to another sign.
- 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
- cover bidding — the act of tendering an artificially high price for a contract, on the assumption that the tender will not be accepted
- 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.
- credentialing — Usually, credentials. evidence of authority, status, rights, entitlement to privileges, or the like, usually in written form: Only those with the proper credentials are admitted.
- credit agency — an agency that checks whether people are able to pay for goods and services they wish to buy on credit, and provides them with a credit rating
- credit rating — Your credit rating is a judgment of how likely you are to pay money back if you borrow it or buy things on credit.
- creep-feeding — the practice of feeding young farm animals (esp piglets, calves, and lambs) in a sectioned-off part of their indoor environment, in order to prevent the mother from gaining access to the food
- crepe bandage — a bandage made of light cotton crepe
- cross bedding — layering within one or more beds in a series of rock strata that does not run parallel to the plane of stratification
- cross-grained — (of timber) having the fibres arranged irregularly or in a direction that deviates from the axis of the piece
- crossbreeding — Present participle of crossbreed.
- crossdressing — to dress in clothing typically worn by members of the opposite sex.
- cutter-rigged — fore-and-aft-rigged on one mast in the manner of a cutter.
- cycle drought — A scarcity of cycles. It may be due to a cycle crunch, but it could also occur because part of the computer is temporarily not working, leaving fewer cycles to go around. "The high moby is down, so we're running with only half the usual amount of memory. There will be a cycle drought until it's fixed."
- daguerreotype — one of the earliest photographic processes, in which the image was produced on iodine-sensitized silver and developed in mercury vapour
- daguerreotypy — The art or technique of producing daguerreotypes.
- daguerrotypes — Plural form of daguerrotype, a misspelling of daguerreotype.
- damage survey — an inspection by an insurance company of something that has been damaged and for which an insurance claim has been made, in order to determine the extent and cause of damage
- danger signal — any type of signal that indicates danger
- dangerousness — full of danger or risk; causing danger; perilous; risky; hazardous; unsafe.
- dangleberries — Plural form of dangleberry.
- darling range — a ridge in SW Western Australia, parallel to the coast. Highest point: about 582 m (1669 ft)
- darling river — a river in SE Australia, rising in the Eastern Highlands and flowing southwest to the Murray River. Length: 2740 km (1702 miles)
- das rheingold — an opera by Wagner (1869), one of four in a cycle based on the German myth of the Ring of the Nibelung
- daughter cell — either of the two cells that result from the division of a cell, as in mitosis
- daughterboard — a small circuit board that can be attached to the motherboard of a computer
- daydreamingly — While daydreaming.
- days of grace — days permitted by custom for payment of a promissory note, bill of exchange, etc, after it falls due
- de ghelderode — Michel [mee-shel] /miˈʃɛl/ (Show IPA), 1898–1962, Belgian dramatist.
- decarbonating — Present participle of decarbonate.
- decarbonizing — Present participle of decarbonize.
- decarburizing — Present participle of decarburize.
- decerebrating — Present participle of decerebrate.
- decompressing — Present participle of decompress.
- decorticating — Present participle of decorticate.
- decrepitating — Present participle of decrepitate.
- deep mourning — completely black mourning clothes made of a drab material: After her brother died, she was in deep mourning for a year.
- deep-freezing — the process of freezing food at a very low temperature for storage
- deer's-tongue — green gentian.
- defragmenting — Present participle of defragment.
- degradability — susceptible to chemical breakdown.