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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.
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