0%

13-letter words containing g, a, d, e

  • choreographed — You describe an activity involving several people as choreographed when it is arranged but is intended to appear natural.
  • cider vinegar — a type of vinegar produced by the acetification of cider
  • cigarette end — the part of a cigarette that is held in the mouth and that remains unsmoked after it is finished
  • cleaning lady — A cleaning lady is a woman who is employed to clean the rooms and furniture inside a building.
  • clear-sighted — If you describe someone as clear-sighted, you admire them because they are able to understand situations well and to make sensible judgments and decisions about them.
  • close-grained — (of wood) dense or compact in texture
  • coarsegrained — having a coarse texture
  • coasting lead — a lead used in sounding depths of from 20 to 60 fathoms.
  • college radio — radio broadcasting from stations affiliated with a college or university, often at a frequency below 92 MHz FM.
  • commandeering — Present participle of commandeer.
  • company grade — military rank applying to army officers below major, as second and first lieutenants and captains.
  • concert grand — a full-size grand piano, usually around 7 feet in length
  • concord grape — a variety of grape with purple-black fruit covered with a bluish bloom
  • confederating — Present participle of confederate.
  • conglomerated — Simple past tense and past participle of conglomerate.
  • conglutinated — Simple past tense and past participle of conglutinate.
  • congratulated — to express pleasure to (a person), as on a happy occasion: They congratulated him on his marriage.
  • core handling — Core handling is the way that a core is dealt with to make sure it maintains its properties for testing.
  • costardmonger — a costermonger
  • cough and die — (jargon)   barf. Connotes that the program is throwing its hands up by design rather than because of a bug or oversight. "The parser saw a control-A in its input where it was looking for a printable, so it coughed and died." Compare die, die horribly, scream and die.
  • coup de grace — A coup de grace is an action or event which finally destroys something, for example an institution, which has been gradually growing weaker.
  • covent garden — a district of central London: famous for its former fruit, vegetable, and flower market, now a shopping precinct
  • covered wagon — A covered wagon is a wagon that has an arched canvas roof and is pulled by horses. Covered wagons were used by the early American settlers as they travelled across the country.
  • credentialing — Usually, credentials. evidence of authority, status, rights, entitlement to privileges, or the like, usually in written form: Only those with the proper credentials are admitted.
  • credit agency — an agency that checks whether people are able to pay for goods and services they wish to buy on credit, and provides them with a credit rating
  • credit rating — Your credit rating is a judgment of how likely you are to pay money back if you borrow it or buy things on credit.
  • crepe bandage — a bandage made of light cotton crepe
  • cross-grained — (of timber) having the fibres arranged irregularly or in a direction that deviates from the axis of the piece
  • dactylomegaly — abnormal enlargement of the fingers or toes.
  • daguerreotype — one of the earliest photographic processes, in which the image was produced on iodine-sensitized silver and developed in mercury vapour
  • daguerreotypy — The art or technique of producing daguerreotypes.
  • daguerrotypes — Plural form of daguerrotype, a misspelling of daguerreotype.
  • damage survey — an inspection by an insurance company of something that has been damaged and for which an insurance claim has been made, in order to determine the extent and cause of damage
  • damaged goods — a person considered to be less than perfect psychologically, as a result of a traumatic experience
  • dancing shoes — shoes worn by dancers
  • danger signal — any type of signal that indicates danger
  • dangerousness — full of danger or risk; causing danger; perilous; risky; hazardous; unsafe.
  • dangleberries — Plural form of dangleberry.
  • darling range — a ridge in SW Western Australia, parallel to the coast. Highest point: about 582 m (1669 ft)
  • darling river — a river in SE Australia, rising in the Eastern Highlands and flowing southwest to the Murray River. Length: 2740 km (1702 miles)
  • das rheingold — an opera by Wagner (1869), one of four in a cycle based on the German myth of the Ring of the Nibelung
  • data modeling — (spelling)   US spelling of "data modelling".
  • dating agency — an agency that provides introductions to people seeking a companion with similar interests
  • daughter cell — either of the two cells that result from the division of a cell, as in mitosis
  • daughterboard — a small circuit board that can be attached to the motherboard of a computer
  • daydreamingly — While daydreaming.
  • daylight time — time set usually one hour ahead of the local standard time, widely adopted in the summer to provide extra daylight in the evening
  • days of grace — days permitted by custom for payment of a promissory note, bill of exchange, etc, after it falls due
  • de-stigmatize — to set some mark of disgrace or infamy upon: The crime of the father stigmatized the whole family.
  • dead and gone — If you say that someone is dead and gone, you are emphasizing that they are dead, and thinking about what happened or will happen after their death.
Was this page helpful?
Yes No
Thank you for your feedback! Tell your friends about this page
Tell us why?