13-letter words containing g, a, r, d
- digital radio — electronic wireless transmission
- digitinervate — (of a leaf) having veins that radiate from the petiole like the fingers of a hand.
- digraphically — in a digraphic manner
- digressionary — Serving as a digression.
- dinitrogenase — (enzyme) One of two enzymes which, together with ATP, catalyze the reduction of molecular nitrogen into ammonia.
- direct-acting — (of a steam pump) having the steam pistons connected directly to the pump pistons without a crankshaft or flywheel.
- disaggregated — to separate (an aggregate or mass) into its component parts.
- disagreeables — annoying things
- disagreements — Plural form of disagreement.
- disambiguator — Anything that serves to disambiguate.
- dischargeable — to relieve of a charge or load; unload: to discharge a ship.
- discographies — Plural form of discography.
- disfiguration — an act or instance of disfiguring.
- disgracefully — In a disgraceful manner.
- disheartening — to depress the hope, courage, or spirits of; discourage.
- disintegrable — Capable of being disintegrated.
- disintegrated — Simple past tense and past participle of disintegrate.
- disintegrates — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of disintegrate.
- disintegrator — One who, or that which, disintegrates.
- disinvigorate — to deprive of vigour
- disobligatory — not obligatory
- disorganizing — Present participle of disorganize.
- disparagement — the act of disparaging.
- disparagingly — that disparages; tending to belittle or bring reproach upon: a disparaging remark.
- dispraisingly — By way of dispraise.
- disregardable — to pay no attention to; leave out of consideration; ignore: Disregard the footnotes.
- disregardless — (nonstandard) Regardless.
- disregulation — Misspelling of dysregulation.
- distractingly — to draw away or divert, as the mind or attention: The music distracted him from his work.
- distress flag — any flag flown by a vessel to show that it is in distress, as an ensign flown at half-mast or upside down.
- doer and gone — far away
- dog-leg stair — a half-turn stair, the successive flights of which are immediately side by side and connected by an intervening platform.
- doppelgangers — Plural form of doppelganger.
- double dagger — a mark (‡) used for references, as footnotes.
- double garage — a garage that can hold two vehicles
- downregulates — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of downregulate.
- drafting yard — a yard fenced into compartments for the holding and sorting of livestock.
- drag and drop — A common method for manipulating files (and sometimes text) under a graphical user interface or WIMP environment. The user moves the pointer over an icon representing a file and presses a mouse button. He holds the button down while moving the pointer (dragging the file) to another place, usually a directory viewer or an icon for some application program, and then releases the button (dropping the file). The meaning of this action can often be modified by holding certain keys on the keyboard at the same time. Some systems also use this technique for objects other than files, e.g. portions of text in a word processor. The biggest problem with drag and drop is does it mean "copy" or "move"? The answer to this question is not intuitively evident, and there is no consensus for which is the right answer. The same vendor even makes it move in some cases and copy in others. Not being sure whether an operation is copy or move will cause you to check very often, perhaps every time if you need to be certain. Mistakes can be costly. People make mistakes all the time with drag and drop. Human computer interaction studies show a higher failure rate for such operations, but also a higher "forgiveness rate" (users think "silly me") than failures with commands (users think "stupid machine"). Overall, drag and drop took some 40 times longer to do than single-key commands.
- 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 lizard — Komodo dragon.
- 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.
- dragon's tail — (formerly) the descending node of the moon or a planet.
- 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.
- dramaturgical — the craft or the techniques of dramatic composition.
- drape forming — thermoforming of plastic sheeting over an open mold by a combination of gravity and a vacuum.
- draughtboards — Plural form of draughtboard.