14-letter words containing g, a, t, e, d
- 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
- 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.
- cross-gartered — (in Elizabethan and other costumes) wearing garters crisscrossed on the leg.
- cutting garden — a household flower garden planted solely for growing flowers that are to be cut and displayed indoors.
- dactylographer — the study of fingerprints for purposes of identification.
- 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.
- 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.
- de-designation — an act of designating.
- 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.
- 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.
- dehydrogenates — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of dehydrogenate.
- delegitimation — according to law; lawful: the property's legitimate owner.
- delegitimatize — delegitimize.
- demilitarising — Present participle of demilitarise.
- demilitarizing — Present participle of demilitarize.
- dental hygiene — the maintenance of the teeth and gums in healthy condition, esp by proper brushing, the removal of plaque, etc
- dental surgeon — dentist who carries out surgery
- dental surgery — a place where a dentist can be consulted
- departure gate — (in a large airport) any of the numbered exits leading to the airfield or aircraft
- depigmentation — the state of lacking or the process of losing pigmentation, usually of the skin
- depreciatingly — So as to disparage or belittle.
- deregistration — The process of which an employee is removed from work registrant status.
- dermatoglyphic — relating to skin markings (such as fingerprints) or the study thereof
- dermatographia — a common medical condition in which lightly rubbing the skin produces red, often raised, temporary marks
- dermatographic — relating to dermatography
- dermatological — the branch of medicine dealing with the skin and its diseases.
- dermatologists — Plural form of dermatologist.
- design pattern — (programming) A description of an object-oriented design technique which names, abstracts and identifies aspects of a design structure that are useful for creating an object-oriented design. The design pattern identifies classes and instances, their roles, collaborations and responsibilities. Each design pattern focuses on a particular object-oriented design problem or issue. It describes when it applies, whether it can be applied in the presence of other design constraints, and the consequences and trade-offs of its use.
- destigmatizing — to set some mark of disgrace or infamy upon: The crime of the father stigmatized the whole family.
- detail drawing — a separate large-scale drawing of a small part or section of a building, machine, etc