12-letter words containing g, a, t, e
- contravening — to come or be in conflict with; go or act against; deny or oppose: to contravene a statement.
- conversating — to have a conversation; converse; talk.
- core gateway — Historically, one of a set of gateways (routers) operated by the Internet Network Operations Center at Bolt, Beranek and Newman (BBN). The core gateway system formed a central part of Internet routing in that all groups must advertise paths to their networks from a core gateway.
- core storage — a kind of computer memory consisting of storage units made of ferromagnetic rings
- cottage flat — any of the flats in a two-storey house that is divided into four flats, two on each floor
- cottage loaf — A cottage loaf is a loaf of bread which has a smaller round part on top of a larger round part.
- cottage roll — a small pickled boneless ham
- counteragent — a person or thing that counteracts
- counterargue — to argue against something
- counterimage — a corresponding image
- county agent — a government employee who gives advice on agriculture in a rural area
- crazy eights — a card game played by two or more persons with a 52-card deck, the object of which is to be the first to get rid of one's hand by successively playing a card of the same suit or denomination as that played by the preceding player, with an eight counting for any desired suit.
- crenellating — Present participle of crenellate.
- cross-garnet — a hinge with a long horizontal strap fixed to the face of a door and a short vertical leaf fixed to the door frame
- curate's egg — something that has both good and bad parts
- cut a figure — to attract attention
- cyanogenetic — having the capability to generate or produce cyanide
- cybercasting — the broadcasting of news, entertainment, etc., using the Internet, specifically the World Wide Web.
- daguerrotype — Misspelling of daguerreotype.
- dancing step — balanced step.
- danger point — the point at which something ceases to be safe
- data general — (company) A US computer manufacturer. Responsible for the Nova minicomputer. Quarterly sales $284M, profits -$12M (Aug 1994).
- data segment — (memory) The range of memory locations where the initialised data of a program produced by a Unix linker is located. Executable code is located in the code segment and uninitialised data in the bss segment.
- daughtercard — daughterboard
- daughterless — Without a daughter.
- daughterlike — Resembling a daughter.
- daughterling — a small daughter
- dauntingness — to overcome with fear; intimidate: to daunt one's adversaries.
- de-designate — to mark or point out; indicate; show; specify.
- de-integrate — to bring together or incorporate (parts) into a whole.
- deactivating — Present participle of deactivate.
- dead freight — an amount owed by a contractor who charters space in a ship but fails to occupy it fully.
- dead storage — the storage of furniture, files, or other unused or seldom used items in a warehouse or other location for an indefinite period of time.
- debilitating — tending to weaken or enfeeble
- decapitating — Present participle of decapitate.
- decategorize — to arrange in categories or classes; classify.
- decelerating — Present participle of decelerate.
- decongestant — A decongestant is a medicine which helps someone who has a cold to breathe more easily.
- deerstalking — The hunting of deer on foot, by stealing upon them unawares.
- deescalating — Present participle of deescalate.
- deflagrating — Present participle of deflagrate.
- deflagration — Deflagration is an explosion in which the speed of burning is lower than the speed of sound in the surroundings.
- defragmented — Simple past tense and past participle of defragment.
- defragmenter — (computing) That which defragments; a program that performs defragmentation.
- degemination — (phonetics, uncountable) inverse process of gemination, when a spoken long consonant is pronounced for an audibly shorter period.
- degenerately — In a degenerate manner.
- degenerating — to fall below a normal or desirable level in physical, mental, or moral qualities; deteriorate: The morale of the soldiers degenerated, and they were unable to fight.
- degeneration — the process of degenerating
- degenerative — A degenerative disease or condition is one that gets worse as time progresses.
- degerminated — degerm (def 2).