12-letter words containing g, o, i, d
- corregidores — the chief magistrate of a town in Spain.
- crescendoing — Music. a gradual, steady increase in loudness or force. a musical passage characterized by such an increase. the performance of a crescendo passage: The crescendo by the violins is too abrupt.
- crop dusting — Crop dusting is the spreading of pesticides on crops, usually from an aircraft.
- crop-dusting — the spraying of powdered fungicides or insecticides on crops, usually from an airplane.
- cross-dating — a method of dating objects, remains, etc, by comparison and correlation with other sites and levels
- crossbanding — a veneer border, as on furniture, with its grain at right angles to the grain of the adjacent wood
- crossgrained — Alternative form of cross-grained.
- crowdfunding — Crowdfunding is when a large number of people each give an amount of money to pay for a project, especially by using a website to collect the money.
- dactyliology — the study of finger-rings
- dancing frog — (programming, humour) A bug or glitch that only occurs for a particular user; never when the user tries to show it to anyone else. The term is derived from a Warner Brothers cartoon in which a man discovers a frog which can sing and dance; he believes this will make his fortune but the frog never performs in front of anyone else.
- danger point — the point at which something ceases to be safe
- darning wool — wool used for darning
- data logging — (data) (data acquisition) Storing a series of measurements over time, usually from a sensor that converts a physical quantity such as temperature, pressure, relative humidity, light, resistance, current, power, speed, vibration into a voltage that is then converted by a digital to analog converter (DAC) into a binary number. Data logging hardware may have several DACs for multiple simultaneous measurements. The hardware usually connects to a parallel port, serial port or USB port on a PC.
- dealing room — A dealing room is a place where shares, currencies, or commodities are bought and sold.
- decategorize — to arrange in categories or classes; classify.
- decolonizing — Present participle of decolonize.
- decongesting — Present participle of decongest.
- decongestion — the act of decongesting
- decongestive — having the ability to ease crowding or clogging in busy locations
- deflagration — Deflagration is an explosion in which the speed of burning is lower than the speed of sound in the surroundings.
- degemination — (phonetics, uncountable) inverse process of gemination, when a spoken long consonant is pronounced for an audibly shorter period.
- degeneration — the process of degenerating
- deglaciation — the process of removing glaciation
- deglamorized — Simple past tense and past participle of deglamorize.
- degradations — Plural form of degradation.
- degringolade — a rapid descent or deterioration
- deltiologist — the hobby of collecting post cards.
- demobilizing — Present participle of demobilize.
- demodulating — Present participle of demodulate.
- demographics — data resulting from the science of demography; population statistics
- demographies — the science of vital and social statistics, as of the births, deaths, diseases, marriages, etc., of populations.
- demonologist — An expert in the study of demonology.
- demoralising — to deprive (a person or persons) of spirit, courage, discipline, etc.; destroy the morale of: The continuous barrage demoralized the infantry.
- demoralizing — If something is demoralizing, it makes you lose so much confidence in what you are doing that you want to give up.
- demotivating — to provide with a motive, or a cause or reason to act; incite; impel.
- dendrologist — the branch of botany dealing with trees and shrubs.
- denigrations — Plural form of denigration.
- denominating — Present participle of denominate.
- deontologist — ethics, especially that branch dealing with duty, moral obligation, and right action.
- deoxygenized — Simple past tense and past participle of deoxygenize.
- depopulating — Present participle of depopulate.
- derecognized — Simple past tense and past participle of derecognize.
- deregulation — Deregulation is the removal of controls and restrictions in a particular area of business or trade.
- dermatologic — Dermatologic means of or relating to the skin.
- dermographia — dermatographia.
- dermographic — dermatographia.
- derogatively — lessening; belittling; derogatory.
- derogatorily — tending to lessen the merit or reputation of a person or thing; disparaging; depreciatory: a derogatory remark.
- designations — Plural form of designation.
- desolatingly — in a way that desolates, in a desolating fashion