14-letter words containing g, o, r
- cross-gartered — (in Elizabethan and other costumes) wearing garters crisscrossed on the leg.
- cross-hatching — to mark or shade with two or more intersecting series of parallel lines.
- cross-indexing — to provide with cross references or with a cross-referenced index.
- crossing guard — school (crossing) guard
- crossing point — a place where people cross a road, border, or river
- crowning glory — the greatest achievement
- cruft together — (jargon) To hack together though with the suggestion that the result may be cruft.
- cryobiological — of or relating to cryobiology
- cryopreserving — Present participle of cryopreserve.
- cryptographers — Plural form of cryptographer.
- cryptographist — the science or study of the techniques of secret writing, especially code and cipher systems, methods, and the like. Compare cryptanalysis (def 2).
- crystal growth — Crystal growth is the process of making a crystal grow by continuing to remove a component from a solution.
- cuprotungstite — (mineral) A tetragonal mineral containing copper, hydrogen, oxygen, and tungsten.
- cycling shorts — tight-fitting shorts reaching partway to the knee for cycling, sport, etc
- dactyliography — the art of engraving or writing on gems
- dactylographer — the study of fingerprints for purposes of identification.
- daguerreotypes — Plural form of daguerreotype.
- damage control — Damage control is action that is taken to make the bad results of something as small as possible, when it is impossible to avoid bad results completely.
- dano-norwegian — Bokmål.
- daughterboards — Plural form of daughterboard.
- daylight hours — the hours when it is daylight
- dead reckoning — a method of establishing one's position using the distance and direction travelled rather than astronomical observations
- dead to rights — in an undeniably incriminating situation; red-handed
- deconsecrating — Present participle of deconsecrate.
- deconstructing — Present participle of deconstruct.
- dehydrogenated — Simple past tense and past participle of dehydrogenate.
- dehydrogenates — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of dehydrogenate.
- dehydrogenized — Simple past tense and past participle of dehydrogenize.
- demoralizingly — in a demoralizing manner
- demythologizer — a person who removes mythical elements from something
- dental surgeon — dentist who carries out surgery
- deregistration — The process of which an employee is removed from work registrant status.
- dermatoglyphic — relating to skin markings (such as fingerprints) or the study thereof
- dermatographia — a common medical condition in which lightly rubbing the skin produces red, often raised, temporary marks
- dermatographic — relating to dermatography
- dermatological — the branch of medicine dealing with the skin and its diseases.
- dermatologists — Plural form of dermatologist.
- deuteragonists — Plural form of deuteragonist.
- diamond geezer — a very nice or good man
- diaz rodriguez — Manuel [mah-nwel] /mɑˈnwɛl/ (Show IPA), 1868–1927, Venezuelan author.
- dihedral group — the group of reflections, rotations, and symmetries of a regular n -sided polygon.
- disafforesting — Present participle of disafforest.
- disaggregation — to separate (an aggregate or mass) into its component parts.
- disapprovingly — to think (something) wrong or reprehensible; censure or condemn in opinion.
- discographical — Of or pertaining to discography.
- discourageable — Capable of being discouraged; easily disheartened.
- discouragement — an act or instance of discouraging.
- discouragingly — In a discouraging manner.
- disintegration — the act or process of disintegrating.
- disintegrators — Plural form of disintegrator.