12-letter words containing e, n, c, a, g, d
- disaffecting — Present participle of disaffect.
- disagreeance — (obsolete) disagreement.
- discandering — discandying, melting from a state of being candied
- dodecagynian — (of a plant) having eleven or twelve pistils
- dodecagynous — (of a plant) having eleven or twelve pistils
- dog's chance — little likelihood; small chance (usually used in the negative): That project didn't have a dog's chance of succeeding.
- dopaminergic — activated by or sensitive to dopamine.
- 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
- gandy dancer — a member of a railroad section gang that lays or maintains track.
- garden cress — a peppergrass, Lepidium sativum, used as a salad vegetable.
- gas cylinder — container for storing gas
- genetic load — the extent to which a population deviates from the theoretically fittest genetic constitution.
- glycerinated — to impregnate with glycerin.
- go-go dancer — an entertainer who performs popular dances on a stage or platform for the patrons of a discotheque or nightclub.
- grand coulee — a dry canyon in central Washington: cut by the Columbia River in the glacial period. 52 miles (84 km) long; over 400 feet (120 meters) deep.
- 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.
- ground cable — a heavy chain for securing permanent floating moorings, as a number of mooring buoys.
- ground cedar — a ground pine, Lycopodium complanatum.
- 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.
- hendecagonal — (geometry) Having eleven sides an angles; similar to a hendecagon.
- hiding place — location where sb is concealed
- induced drag — the drag force generated in the production of lift.
- interchanged — Simple past tense and past participle of interchange.
- 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.
- managed care — a healthcare plan or system that seeks to control medical costs by contracting with a network of providers.
- managed code — (operating system) Code that is executed by the .NET common language runtime (CLR). VB.NET code is always managed code but C++ .NET can optionally use unmanaged code. Managed code provides metadata allowing the CLR to manage security (role-based as well as new approaches to code access security). The CLR also handles errors, manages the program stack and finds methods in assembly modules. Managed data is memory that's subject to garbage collection. There are additional restrictions to permit interoperability of different languages, for example, Visual Basic arrays must be zero-based.
- medicalizing — Present participle of medicalize.
- micromanaged — Simple past tense and past participle of micromanage.
- 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.
- on the cadge — engaged in cadging
- oregon cedar — Port Orford cedar.
- 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.
- parascending — parasailing
- pentadecagon — a polygon having 15 angles and 15 sides.
- pole dancing — Pole dancing is a type of entertainment in a bar or club in which a woman who is wearing very few clothes dances around a pole in a sexy way.
- pudding-face — a human face that is big and fat and resembles a pudding
- quindecagons — Plural form of quindecagon.
- second grade — school year: age 7-8
- send packing — to dismiss peremptorily
- shortchanged — to give less than the correct change to.
- sound change — any phonetic or phonological change in spoken language, for example the replacement of one speech sound with another, or the loss of a particular sound
- tack welding — to join (pieces of metal) with a number of small welds spaced some distance apart.
- teaching aid — material used by a teacher to supplement classroom instruction or to stimulate the interest of students.