14-letter words containing g, a, d
- common ragweed — a plant, Ambrosia artemisiifolia, of a chiefly North American genus: family Asteraceae (composites). Its green tassel-like flowers produce large amounts of pollen, which causes hay fever
- compound sugar — any sugar that when hydrolyzed yields two or more monosaccharides.
- cottage garden — an informal style of garden which has beds planted with a great variety of traditional flowers
- cottage window — a double-hung window with an upper sash smaller than the lower.
- counterchanged — Exchanged.
- countercharged — Simple past tense and past participle of countercharge.
- countermanding — Present participle of countermand.
- countershading — (in the coloration of certain animals) a pattern, serving as camouflage, in which dark colours occur on parts of the body exposed to the light and pale colours on parts in the shade
- cowper's gland — either of two small glands with ducts opening into the male urethra: during sexual excitement they secrete a mucous substance
- credentialling — the practice of analysing the credentials of an individual or organization
- credit charges — the charges applied by credit card companies to customers buying goods on credit
- credit manager — a person employed in a business firm to administer credit service to its customers, especially to evaluate the extension and amount of credit to be granted.
- cribbage board — a board, with pegs and holes, used for scoring at cribbage
- cross-gartered — (in Elizabethan and other costumes) wearing garters crisscrossed on the leg.
- crossing guard — school (crossing) guard
- cumberland gap — pass in the Cumberland Plateau, at the juncture of the Va., Ky., & Tenn. borders: c. 1,700 ft (518 m) high
- cutting garden — a household flower garden planted solely for growing flowers that are to be cut and displayed indoors.
- cyanoguanidine — dicyandiamide.
- cylinder glass — a sheet of glass formed originally in the shape of a cylinder and then divided lengthwise and flattened.
- dactyliography — the art of engraving or writing on gems
- dactylographer — the study of fingerprints for purposes of identification.
- daddy longlegs — A daddy longlegs is a flying insect with very long legs.
- daddy-longlegs — Also called harvestman. any of numerous spiderlike arachnids of the order Opiliones, having a compact rounded body and extremely long, slender legs.
- daguerreotypes — Plural form of daguerreotype.
- damage control — Damage control is action that is taken to make the bad results of something as small as possible, when it is impossible to avoid bad results completely.
- dano-norwegian — Bokmål.
- darning needle — a long needle with a large eye used for darning
- darning stitch — a stitch used in darning that imitates the texture of the fabric that is to be mended
- data integrity — (data) The absence of unintended changes or errors in some data. Integrity implies that the data is an exact copy of some original version, e.g. that it has not been corrupted in the process of being written to, and read back from, a hard disk or during transmission via some communications channel. Integrity may further imply that the information represented by the data has been validated, i.e. verified to conform to certain constraints, e.g. a date's year, month and day parts are within the appropriate ranges and the date actually exists.
- data modelling — data model
- dating service — a service that provides introductions to people seeking a companion with similar interests
- daughterboards — Plural form of daughterboard.
- daughterliness — The quality of being daughterly.
- david d'angers — (born Pierre Jean David) 1788?-1856; Fr. sculptor
- daylight hours — the hours when it is daylight
- de los angeles — Victoria (bikˈtorja). 1923–2005, Spanish soprano
- de-designation — an act of designating.
- dead reckoning — a method of establishing one's position using the distance and direction travelled rather than astronomical observations
- dead to rights — in an undeniably incriminating situation; red-handed
- decapacitating — Present participle of decapacitate.
- decentralising — Present participle of decentralise.
- decentralizing — Present participle of decentralize.
- decisionmaking — Alternative form of decision making.
- decompensating — Psychology. to lose the ability to maintain normal or appropriate psychological defenses, sometimes resulting in depression, anxiety, or delusions.
- deconsecrating — Present participle of deconsecrate.
- defenestrating — Present participle of defenestrate.
- defibrillating — Present participle of defibrillate.
- deflagrability — the state or quality of being deflagrable
- degenerateness — The state or quality of being degenerate.
- dehydrogenated — Simple past tense and past participle of dehydrogenate.