15-letter words containing g, e, d, i
- building permit — a permit for construction work
- building trades — the trades and professions concerned with the creation and finishing of buildings, such as carpenters, plasterers, masons, electricians, etc.
- building worker — a labourer, bricklayer, etc who works in the construction industry
- bulldog edition — the early edition of a morning newspaper, chiefly for out-of-town distribution
- butter-fingered — a person who frequently drops things; clumsy person.
- cabinet pudding — a steamed suet pudding containing dried fruit
- calvin coolidge — Calvin, 1872–1933, 30th president of the U.S. 1923–29.
- canadian legion — a national social club for veterans of the Canadian armed services.
- cardiac massage — a rhythmic compressing of the heart, using the hands to force blood through the blood vessels: an emergency medical procedure for treating heart failure
- carding machine — card2 (defs 1, 2).
- cartridge brass — brass composed of about 70 percent copper and 30 percent zinc.
- cartridge paper — an uncoated type of drawing or printing paper, usually made from bleached sulphate wood pulp with an addition of esparto grass
- cattle breeding — the science or business of breeding and raising cattle
- centipede grass — a slow-growing grass, Eremochloa ophiuroides, introduced into the U.S. from China and used for lawns in warm areas.
- chagas' disease — a form of trypanosomiasis found in South America, caused by the protozoan Trypanosoma cruzi, characterized by fever and, often, inflammation of the heart muscles
- chicken-and-egg — of or relating to a paradoxical situation, question, etc. involving two factors, each of which in turn causes or leads to the other
- child battering — child abuse in the form of battering
- child-battering — the physical abuse of a child by a parent or guardian, as by beating.
- children of god — a highly disciplined, fundamentalist Christian sect, active especially in the early 1970s, whose mostly young converts live in communes.
- cinematographed — a motion-picture projector.
- cineradiography — the filming of motion pictures through a fluoroscope or x-ray machine.
- circumnavigated — Simple past tense and past participle of circumnavigate.
- cognitive radio — a radio that can automatically alter frequency, power, modulation, etc, according to where it is located
- college pudding — a baked or steamed suet pudding containing dried fruit and spice
- compound engine — a steam engine in which the steam is expanded in more than one stage, first in a high-pressure cylinder and then in one or more low-pressure cylinders
- comprehendingly — In an comprehending manner; knowingly.
- computer dating — the use of computers by dating agencies to match their clients
- condescendingly — In a condescending manner.
- confidence game — A confidence game is the same as a confidence trick.
- contract bridge — the most common variety of bridge, in which the declarer receives points counting towards game and rubber only for tricks he bids as well as makes, any overtricks receiving bonus points
- coolgardie safe — a cupboard with wetted hessian walls for keeping food cool: used esp in Australia
- correspondingly — You use correspondingly when describing a situation which is closely connected with one you have just mentioned or is similar to it.
- corrugated iron — a thin structural sheet made of iron or steel, formed with alternating ridges and troughs
- cottage pudding — plain cake covered with a sweet sauce
- counterweighted — Simple past tense and past participle of counterweight.
- cracked gas oil — Cracked gas oil is a gas oil which is formed as one of the products of a gas reaction.
- credibility gap — A credibility gap is the difference between what a person says or promises and what they actually think or do.
- credit standing — reputation for discharging financial obligations
- criminal damage — intentionally damaging property that belongs to someone else, including public property
- croix de guerre — a French military decoration awarded for gallantry in battle: established 1915
- daguerreotyping — Present participle of daguerreotype.
- daguerreotypist — an obsolete photographic process, invented in 1839, in which a picture made on a silver surface sensitized with iodine was developed by exposure to mercury vapor.
- dancing partner — one of a pair of dancers
- darkling beetle — any of a family (Tenebrionidae) of sluggish, dark beetles that feed on plants at night
- darning needles — a long needle with a long eye used in darning.
- data processing — Data processing is the series of operations that are carried out on data, especially by computers, in order to present, interpret, or obtain information.
- daughter-in-law — Someone's daughter-in-law is the wife of their son.
- de broglie wave — a hypothetical wave associated with the motion of a particle of atomic or subatomic size that describes effects such as the diffraction of beams of particles by crystals.
- de bruijn graph — (mathematics) A class of graphs with elegant properties. De Bruijn graphs are especially easy to use for routing, with shifting of source and destination addresses.
- deagglomeration — Deagglomeration is the process of breaking up agglomerates.