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13-letter words containing d, r, i, n, g

  • dressing sack — a woman's dressing gown.
  • dressing-down — a severe reprimand; scolding.
  • drilling crew — The drilling crew are the people who operate a drilling rig.
  • drilling mast — A drilling mast is a structure over an oil well which supports the drilling equipment and allows it to be lifted into and out of the wellbore.
  • drilling ship — a ship provided with drilling equipment and used especially for carrying out test drills
  • drink-driving — Drink-driving is the same as drunk driving.
  • drinking song — a song of hearty character suitable for singing by a group engaged in convivial drinking.
  • drip painting — a technique of abstract painting exemplified chiefly in the later works of Jackson Pollack and marked by the intricately executed dripping and pouring of the paint on a canvas placed on the floor.
  • driving chain — a roller chain that transmits power from one toothed wheel to another
  • driving force — impetus
  • driving range — a tract of land for practicing long golf shots, especially drives, with clubs and balls available for rent from the management.
  • driving wheel — Machinery. a main wheel that communicates motion to others.
  • drongo shrike — any insectivorous songbird of the family Dicruridae, of the Old World tropics, having a glossy black plumage, a forked tail, and a stout bill
  • drownproofing — a survival technique, for swimmers or nonswimmers, in which the body is allowed to float vertically in the water, with the head submerged, the lungs filled with air, and the arms and legs relaxed, the head being raised to breathe every ten seconds or so.
  • drum magazine — a receptacle that holds and feeds cartridges to a submachine gun or light machine gun.
  • drum paneling — flush paneling in a door.
  • drunk driving — the operating of a motor vehicle while drunk.
  • dry lightning — lightning produced by a thunderstorm that is unaccompanied by rain
  • dry scrubbing — Dry scrubbing is the removal of solid particles from a gas onto a liquid surface, but with a solid discharge.
  • dun laoghaire — a seaport in E Republic of Ireland, near Dublin.
  • dwarf ginseng — a plant, Panax trifolius, of eastern North America, having globe-shaped clusters of small, white flowers and yellow fruit.
  • dynamic range — the range of signal amplitudes over which an electronic communications channel can operate within acceptable limits of distortion. The range is determined by system noise at the lower end and by the onset of overload at the upper end
  • dysregulation — A failure to regulate properly.
  • eavesdropping — to listen secretly to a private conversation.
  • edging shears — shears that are used to trim the edges of a lawn
  • edinburgh sml — (EdML) Implementation of the Core language of SML. Byte-code interpreter in C. Ported to Amiga, Atari, Archimedes and IBM PC. Version: 0.44. E-mail: <[email protected]>.
  • edward gibbon — Edward, 1737–94, English historian.
  • endearingness — The quality of being endearing.
  • endocrinology — The branch of physiology and medicine concerned with endocrine glands and hormones.
  • engine driver — sb who drives a train
  • evening dress — formal clothing
  • fighting word — Usually, fighting words. language that arouses rage in an antagonist.
  • figure-ground — a property of perception in which there is a tendency to see parts of a visual field as solid, well-defined objects standing out against a less distinct background.
  • fingerbreadth — the breadth of a finger: approximately 3/4 inch (2 cm).
  • fingerpainted — Simple past tense and past participle of fingerpaint.
  • fingerprinted — Simple past tense and past participle of fingerprint.
  • first reading — the reading of a bill when it is first introduced in a legislative body.
  • flaming sword — a cultivated bromeliad, Vriesea splendens, native to French Guiana, having long, red bracts and yellow flowers.
  • floor trading — trading by personal contact on the floor of a market or exchange
  • flooring brad — a brad having a very small head, made in lengths from 2 to 4 inches (5 to 10 cm).
  • flying bridge — Also called flybridge, fly bridge, monkey bridge. Nautical. a small, often open deck or platform above the pilothouse or main cabin, having duplicate controls and navigational equipment.
  • flying doctor — a doctor listed with local authorities as willing to be flown to remote areas to give emergency medical care.
  • flying dragon — any of several arboreal lizards of the genus Draco, having an extensible membrane between the limbs along each side by means of which it makes long, gliding leaps.
  • flying lizard — flying dragon.
  • folding chair — a chair that can be collapsed flat for easy storage or transport.
  • folding press — a fall in wrestling won by folding one's opponent's legs up to his head and pressing his shoulders to the floor
  • foot-dragging — reluctance or failure to proceed or act promptly.
  • foregrounding — Present participle of foreground.
  • foreign-owned — owned by an individual who is resident in a different country or by a company whose headquarters are in a different country
  • foreordaining — Present participle of foreordain.
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