13-letter words containing g, o, r
- dermatography — a treatise or writing concerning the skin
- dermatologies — Plural form of dermatology.
- dermatologist — A dermatologist is a doctor who specializes in the study of skin and the treatment of skin diseases.
- dermographism — dermatographia.
- desegregation — the elimination of laws, customs, or practices under which people from different religions, ancestries, ethnic groups, etc., are restricted to specific or separate public facilities, neighborhoods, schools, organizations, or the like.
- deteriorating — Become progressively worse.
- deuteragonist — (in ancient Greek drama) the character next in importance to the protagonist, esp the antagonist
- devirgination — The loss of a girl or woman's virginity.
- dextroglucose — dextrose
- diageotropism — a diatropic response of plant parts, such as rhizomes, to the stimulus of gravity
- diffractogram — An image produced by a diffractometer.
- digital radio — electronic wireless transmission
- digressionary — Serving as a digression.
- dinitrogenase — (enzyme) One of two enzymes which, together with ATP, catalyze the reduction of molecular nitrogen into ammonia.
- disambiguator — Anything that serves to disambiguate.
- discographies — Plural form of discography.
- discomforting — an absence of comfort or ease; uneasiness, hardship, or mild pain.
- disconcerting — disturbing to one's composure or self-possession; upsetting, discomfiting.
- disconfirming — Not confirming.
- disempowering — Present participle of disempower.
- disfiguration — an act or instance of disfiguring.
- disintegrator — One who, or that which, disintegrates.
- disinvigorate — to deprive of vigour
- disobligatory — not obligatory
- disorganizing — Present participle of disorganize.
- disregulation — Misspelling of dysregulation.
- division ring — a ring in which the set of nonzero elements is a group with the operation of multiplication.
- doer and gone — far away
- dog's mercury — a hairy somewhat poisonous euphorbiaceous perennial, Mercurialis perennis, having broad lanceolate toothed leaves and small greenish male and female flowers, the males borne in catkins. It often carpets shady woodlands
- dog-leg stair — a half-turn stair, the successive flights of which are immediately side by side and connected by an intervening platform.
- domineeringly — In a domineering manner.
- doppelgangers — Plural form of doppelganger.
- double dagger — a mark (‡) used for references, as footnotes.
- double garage — a garage that can hold two vehicles
- double-figure — double-digit.
- downers grove — a city in NE Illinois, near Chicago.
- downregulates — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of downregulate.
- downrightness — The personal quality of being straightforward and direct in one's manner.
- drag and drop — A common method for manipulating files (and sometimes text) under a graphical user interface or WIMP environment. The user moves the pointer over an icon representing a file and presses a mouse button. He holds the button down while moving the pointer (dragging the file) to another place, usually a directory viewer or an icon for some application program, and then releases the button (dropping the file). The meaning of this action can often be modified by holding certain keys on the keyboard at the same time. Some systems also use this technique for objects other than files, e.g. portions of text in a word processor. The biggest problem with drag and drop is does it mean "copy" or "move"? The answer to this question is not intuitively evident, and there is no consensus for which is the right answer. The same vendor even makes it move in some cases and copy in others. Not being sure whether an operation is copy or move will cause you to check very often, perhaps every time if you need to be certain. Mistakes can be costly. People make mistakes all the time with drag and drop. Human computer interaction studies show a higher failure rate for such operations, but also a higher "forgiveness rate" (users think "silly me") than failures with commands (users think "stupid machine"). Overall, drag and drop took some 40 times longer to do than single-key commands.
- dragon lizard — Komodo dragon.
- dragon market — any of the emerging markets of the Pacific rim, esp Indonesia, Malaysia, Thailand, and the Philippines
- dragon's head — any of several mints of the genus Dracocephalum having spikes of double-lipped flowers.
- dragon's tail — (formerly) the descending node of the moon or a planet.
- drape forming — thermoforming of plastic sheeting over an open mold by a combination of gravity and a vacuum.
- draughtboards — Plural form of draughtboard.
- draughtsboard — The board on which draughts is played, resembling a chessboard but (depending on the game variation) often having a side length of ten squares rather than eight.
- draughtswoman — Alternative spelling of draftswoman.
- drawing board — a rectangular board on which paper is placed or mounted for drawing or drafting.
- dressing down — an outer garment for women and girls, consisting of bodice and skirt in one piece.
- dressing gown — a tailored robe worn for lounging or for grooming, applying makeup, etc.