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13-letter words containing e, g, d

  • double garage — a garage that can hold two vehicles
  • double magnum — Jeroboam (def 2).
  • double-acting — (of a reciprocating engine, pump, etc.) having pistons accomplishing work in both directions, fluid being admitted alternately to opposite ends of the cylinders. Compare single-acting.
  • double-figure — double-digit.
  • double-glazed — of, having, or provided with double glazing: double-glazed windows and doors.
  • double-tongue — to interrupt the wind flow by moving the tongue as if pronouncing t and k alternately, especially in playing rapid passages or staccato notes on a brass instrument.
  • doughnut hole — a funding shortfall in the standard drug benefit offered by many Medicare prescription drug plans
  • douglas scale — an international scale of sea disturbance and swell ranging from 0 to 9 with one figure for disturbance and one for swell
  • downers grove — a city in NE Illinois, near Chicago.
  • downregulates — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of downregulate.
  • downrightness — The personal quality of being straightforward and direct in one's manner.
  • dragging-beam — (in a hipped roof) a short beam holding the foot of a hip rafter to counteract its thrust.
  • draggletailed — untidy; bedraggled; slovenly.
  • dragon market — any of the emerging markets of the Pacific rim, esp Indonesia, Malaysia, Thailand, and the Philippines
  • dragon's head — any of several mints of the genus Dracocephalum having spikes of double-lipped flowers.
  • drainage tube — a tube that drains fluid from an incision or body cavity during surgery
  • drainage wind — Meteorology. gravity wind.
  • drake passage — a strait between S South America and the South Shetland Islands, connecting the Atlantic and Pacific oceans.
  • drape forming — thermoforming of plastic sheeting over an open mold by a combination of gravity and a vacuum.
  • drawing frame — a machine used to attenuate and straighten fibers by having them pass, in sliver form, through a series of double rollers, each pair of which revolves at a slightly greater speed than the preceding pair and reduces the number of strands originally fed into the machine to one extended fibrous strand doubled or redoubled in length.
  • drawing paper — artist's paper for drawing and sketching
  • drawing table — a table having a surface consisting of a drawing board adjustable to various heights and angles.
  • dressing case — a small piece of luggage for carrying toilet articles, medicine, etc.
  • dressing down — an outer garment for women and girls, consisting of bodice and skirt in one piece.
  • dressing gown — a tailored robe worn for lounging or for grooming, applying makeup, etc.
  • dressing room — a room for use in getting dressed, especially one for performers backstage in a theater, television studio, etc.
  • 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.
  • drive a wedge — If someone drives a wedge between two people who are close, they cause ill feelings between them in order to weaken their relationship.
  • drive-through — the act of driving through a specified locality or place, especially driving into a place of business, completing a transaction from one's car, and driving out: a quick drive-through of Beverly Hills; The bank has outside tellers' windows to accept deposits by drive-through.
  • 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
  • drug smuggler — trafficker in illegal substances
  • drum magazine — a receptacle that holds and feeds cartridges to a submachine gun or light machine gun.
  • drum paneling — flush paneling in a door.
  • dual heritage — an upbringing in which one's parents are of different ethnic or religious backgrounds
  • duc d'enghien — Duc [dyk] /dük/ (Show IPA), (Louis Antoine Henry de Bourbon-Condé) 1772–1804, French prince: executed by Napoleon I.
  • duck-egg blue — a pale greenish-blue colour
  • due diligence — the degree of care that is to be reasonably expected or that is legally required, esp. of persons giving professional advice
  • due-diligence — reasonable care and caution exercised by a person who is buying, selling, giving professional advice, etc., especially as required by law to protect against incurring liability: The court said there was due diligence on the part of the plaintiff.
  • duino elegies — a collection of ten poems (1923) by Rainer Maria Rilke.
  • dun laoghaire — a seaport in E Republic of Ireland, near Dublin.
  • durable goods — Durable goods or durables are goods such as televisions or cars which are expected to last a long time, and are bought infrequently.
  • dutch courage — courage inspired by drunkenness or drinking liquor.
  • 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
  • dynamogenesis — the output of raised activity of the nervous system
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