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12-letter words containing e, d, g

  • 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)
  • catalog code — the principles, rules, and regulations for entering and describing books or other library material in a catalog.
  • cathode glow — a luminous region between the Aston dark space and the Crookes dark space in a vacuum tube, occurring when the pressure is low.
  • cattle guard — A cattle guard is the same as a cattle grid.
  • chalcogenide — a binary compound consisting of a chalcogen and at least one other electropositive element
  • change hands — to pass from one owner to another
  • 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
  • cladogenesis — adaptive evolution leading to a greater variety of species
  • cladogenetic — relating to cladogenesis
  • clam diggers — casual pants that end slightly below the knee.
  • clam-diggers — calf-length trousers
  • clearsighted — seeing clearly
  • cleidoic egg — egg of birds and insects
  • closegrained — having a fine, compact grain or texture
  • closing date — The closing date for a competition or offer is the final date by which entries or applications must be received.
  • 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 segment — (memory)   (Intel 8086 CS) The area of memory containing the machine code instructions of a program. The code segment of a program may be shared between multiple processes running that code so long as none of them tries to modify it. Initialised data is located in the data segment.
  • code-sharing — a commercial agreement between two airlines that allows passengers to use a ticket from one airline to travel on another
  • coding sheet — a form on which a program is written
  • 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.
  • come unglued — If something comes unglued, it becomes separated from the thing that it was attached to.
  • condesending — Misspelling of condescending.
  • configurated — to give a configuration, form, or design to.
  • conflagrated — Simple past tense and past participle of conflagrate.
  • consanguined — Of kindred blood; related.
  • 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.
  • cutting edge — If you are at the cutting edge of a particular field of activity, you are involved in its most important or most exciting developments.
  • daguerrotype — Misspelling of daguerreotype.
  • damaskeening — Present participle of damaskeen.
  • dancing step — balanced step.
  • 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
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