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12-letter words containing g, o, n, d, i

  • bowdlerizing — to expurgate (a written work) by removing or modifying passages considered vulgar or objectionable.
  • bring around — If you bring someone around when they are unconscious, you make them become conscious again.
  • broadcasting — Broadcasting is the making and sending out of television and radio programmes.
  • buying order — an order to buy a certain security
  • carbonadoing — Present participle of carbonado.
  • chalcogenide — a binary compound consisting of a chalcogen and at least one other electropositive element
  • childcrowing — a disease which causes spasms of the vocal cords
  • cladogenesis — adaptive evolution leading to a greater variety of species
  • cladogenetic — relating to cladogenesis
  • clapboarding — Present participle of clapboard.
  • classloading — (computing, Java) The dynamic loading of classes into a virtual machine, as performed by a classloader.
  • closegrained — having a fine, compact grain or texture
  • closing date — The closing date for a competition or offer is the final date by which entries or applications must be received.
  • code grinder — (jargon, abuse)   A suit-wearing minion of the sort hired in legion strength by banks and insurance companies in the Real World to implement payroll packages in RPG and other such unspeakable horrors. In its native habitat, the code grinder often removes the suit jacket to reveal an underplumage consisting of button-down shirt (starch optional) and a tie. In times of dire stress, the sleeves (if long) may be rolled up and the tie loosened about half an inch. It seldom helps. The code grinder's milieu is about as far from hackerdom as one can get and still touch a computer; the term connotes pity. Used of or to a hacker, this term is a really serious slur on the person's creative ability; it connotes a design style characterised by primitive technique, rule-boundedness, brute force and utter lack of imagination. Compare card walloper. Contrast real programmer.
  • code-sharing — a commercial agreement between two airlines that allows passengers to use a ticket from one airline to travel on another
  • coding sheet — a form on which a program is written
  • codling moth — a tortricid moth, Carpocapsa pomonella, the larvae of which are a pest of apples
  • coincidingly — So as to coincide.
  • cold working — Cold working is a process in which metal is shaped at a fairly low temperature. This increases the metal's yield strength but makes it less ductile.
  • collingswood — a city in SW New Jersey.
  • commandingly — being in command: a commanding officer.
  • condesending — Misspelling of condescending.
  • conditioning — the learning process by which the behaviour of an organism becomes dependent on an event occurring in its environment
  • configurated — to give a configuration, form, or design to.
  • consanguined — Of kindred blood; related.
  • coordinating — Present participle of coordinate.
  • copy-reading — to work on (copy) as a copyreader.
  • core drawing — drawing of fine tubing using wire as a mandrel.
  • 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.
  • 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.
  • 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
  • degradations — Plural form of degradation.
  • degringolade — a rapid descent or deterioration
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