13-letter words containing g, l, a, d
- candle grease — the wax which is used in the manufacture of candles
- candlelighter — a person whose task it is to light candles
- candlewicking — a kind of embroidery used for a bedspread, tablecloth, or pillow cover, patterned with French knots of candlewick embroidery thread or yarn
- cape marigold — any composite plant of the genus Dimorphotheca, having variously colored, daisylike flowers.
- capital goods — Capital goods are used to make other products. Compare consumer goods.
- carbo-loading — Informal. carbohydrate loading.
- card clothing — a very sturdy fabric with a leather or rubber fillet imbedded with wire teeth for disentangling and cleaning textile fibers, used to cover the rollers or flats of a carding machine.
- cardinal sign — any of the four astrological signs, Aries, Cancer, Libra, or Capricorn, that begin at the equinoxes and solstices, thus marking the beginning of the seasons: characterized by the attribute of strong initiative.
- cardiological — the study of the heart and its functions in health and disease.
- cardiologists — Plural form of cardiologist.
- cardiomegalia — abnormal enlargement of the heart.
- cash dealings — transactions that are carried out using cash
- cash holdings — the assets that you hold in ready cash, as opposed to property, shares, bonds, etc
- child rearing — the activity of rearing children
- child-bearing — the act or process of carrying and giving birth to a child
- claddagh ring — any of various elaborately designed rings, esp one in the shape of two hands embracing a heart, given as a token of lasting affection
- cleaning lady — A cleaning lady is a woman who is employed to clean the rooms and furniture inside a building.
- clear-sighted — If you describe someone as clear-sighted, you admire them because they are able to understand situations well and to make sensible judgments and decisions about them.
- clinodiagonal — the diagonal axis of a monoclinic crystal
- close-grained — (of wood) dense or compact in texture
- coachbuilding — the manufacture of bodies for cars, buses, and coaches
- coasting lead — a lead used in sounding depths of from 20 to 60 fathoms.
- college radio — radio broadcasting from stations affiliated with a college or university, often at a frequency below 92 MHz FM.
- conglomerated — Simple past tense and past participle of conglomerate.
- conglutinated — Simple past tense and past participle of conglutinate.
- congratulated — to express pleasure to (a person), as on a happy occasion: They congratulated him on his marriage.
- consolidating — to bring together (separate parts) into a single or unified whole; unite; combine: They consolidated their three companies.
- cooling board — a plank for laying out a corpse.
- core handling — Core handling is the way that a core is dealt with to make sure it maintains its properties for testing.
- corn marigold — an annual plant, Chrysanthemum segetum, with yellow daisy-like flower heads: a common weed of cultivated land: family Asteraceae (composites)
- crash landing — aircraft: emergency descent
- credentialing — Usually, credentials. evidence of authority, status, rights, entitlement to privileges, or the like, usually in written form: Only those with the proper credentials are admitted.
- dabbling duck — any of numerous shallow-water ducks, especially of the genus Anas, that typically feed by upending and dabbling (contrasted with diving duck).
- dactylography — the scientific study of fingerprints for purposes of identification
- dactylomegaly — abnormal enlargement of the fingers or toes.
- dancing class — a meeting of a group of student dancers for tuition in dancing
- danger signal — any type of signal that indicates danger
- dangleberries — Plural form of dangleberry.
- darling downs — a plateau in NE Australia, in SE Queensland: a vast agricultural and stock-raising area
- darling range — a ridge in SW Western Australia, parallel to the coast. Highest point: about 582 m (1669 ft)
- darling river — a river in SE Australia, rising in the Eastern Highlands and flowing southwest to the Murray River. Length: 2740 km (1702 miles)
- das rheingold — an opera by Wagner (1869), one of four in a cycle based on the German myth of the Ring of the Nibelung
- data modeling — (spelling) US spelling of "data modelling".
- daughter cell — either of the two cells that result from the division of a cell, as in mitosis
- daydreamingly — While daydreaming.
- daylight lamp — a lamp whose light has a range of wavelengths similar to that of natural sunlight
- daylight time — time set usually one hour ahead of the local standard time, widely adopted in the summer to provide extra daylight in the evening
- dean of guild — the titular head of the guild or merchant company in a Scots burgh, who formerly exercised jurisdiction over all building in the burgh in the Dean of Guild Court
- death-dealing — fatal; lethal
- declassifying — Present participle of declassify.