12-letter words containing e, i, g, n, d, c
- diabetogenic — causing or producing diabetes
- differencing — the state or relation of being different; dissimilarity: There is a great difference between the two.
- dilacerating — Present participle of dilacerate.
- disaffecting — Present participle of disaffect.
- disagreeance — (obsolete) disagreement.
- discandering — discandying, melting from a state of being candied
- discerningly — showing good or outstanding judgment and understanding: a discerning critic of French poetry.
- discrediting — Present participle of discredit.
- disinfecting — Present participle of disinfect.
- disservicing — harmful or injurious service; an ill turn.
- divergencies — Plural form of divergency.
- docking keel — one of two keellike projections for bracing a hull of a ship against bilge blocks when the ship is in dry dock.
- dodecagynian — (of a plant) having eleven or twelve pistils
- dopaminergic — activated by or sensitive to dopamine.
- drug-induced — caused by recreational or medical drugs
- dry-cleaning — Dry-cleaning is the action or work of dry-cleaning things such as clothes.
- edulcorating — Present participle of edulcorate.
- egg sandwich — two slices of bread filled with chopped egg
- gas cylinder — container for storing gas
- generic drug — medicine: not sold under brand name
- genetic code — the biochemical instructions that translate the genetic information present as a linear sequence of nucleotide triplets in messenger RNA into the correct linear sequence of amino acids for the synthesis of a particular peptide chain or protein. Compare codon, translation (def 9).
- genetic load — the extent to which a population deviates from the theoretically fittest genetic constitution.
- glycerinated — to impregnate with glycerin.
- grand siècle — the 17th century in French art and literature, esp the classical period of Louis XIV
- grecian bend — (especially in the late 19th century) a posture or walk, often considered fashionable, in which the body is bent forward from the waist.
- grid current — the current that moves within the vacuum tube from the grid to the cathode.
- guide center — a command to a marching formation to align itself behind a guide marching at the head of the formation.
- gynodioecism — the condition of having flowers that are only female in one example of a plant and flowers that have stamens and pistils in another example of a plant of the same species
- hamming code — (algorithm) Extra, redundant bits added to stored or transmitted data for the purposes of error detection and correction. Named after the mathematician Richard Hamming, Hamming codes greatly improve the reliability of data, e.g. from distant space probes, where it is impractical, because of the long transmission delay, to correct errors by requesting retransmission.
- hiding place — location where sb is concealed
- induced drag — the drag force generated in the production of lift.
- indulgencies — indulgence.
- indulgencing — Present participle of indulgence.
- interchanged — Simple past tense and past participle of interchange.
- interdicting — Present participle of interdict.
- kingdom come — the next world; the hereafter; heaven.
- leading case — a case that is regarded as having settled a particular point of law; a case that is used as guidance for legal decisions
- line dancing — to participate in a line dance.
- longicaudate — having a long posterior or tail
- magnetic dip — to plunge (something, as a cloth or sponge) temporarily into a liquid, so as to moisten it, dye it, or cause it to take up some of the liquid: He dipped the brush into the paint bucket.
- medicalizing — Present participle of medicalize.
- microlending — the lending of very small amounts of money at low interest, especially to a start-up company or self-employed person.
- micromanaged — Simple past tense and past participle of micromanage.
- middle congo — former name of the People's Republic of the Congo.
- misdirecting — Present participle of misdirect.
- night dancer — (in Uganda) a person believed to employ the help of the dead in destroying other people
- non-decaying — to become decomposed; rot: vegetation that was decaying.
- organic mode — (programming) A term used by COCOMO to describe a project that is developed in a familiar, stable environment. The product is similar to previously developed products. Most people connected with the project have extensive experience in working with related systems and have a thorough understanding of the project. The project contains a minimum of innovative data processing architectures or algorithms. The product requires little innovation and is relatively small, rarely greater than 50,000 DSIs.
- overclouding — Present participle of overcloud.
- overcrowding — Fill (accommodations or a space) beyond what is usual or comfortable.