14-letter words containing g, r, a, d, t
- credit charges — the charges applied by credit card companies to customers buying goods on credit
- credit manager — a person employed in a business firm to administer credit service to its customers, especially to evaluate the extension and amount of credit to be granted.
- cross-gartered — (in Elizabethan and other costumes) wearing garters crisscrossed on the leg.
- cutting garden — a household flower garden planted solely for growing flowers that are to be cut and displayed indoors.
- 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.
- darning stitch — a stitch used in darning that imitates the texture of the fabric that is to be mended
- data integrity — (data) The absence of unintended changes or errors in some data. Integrity implies that the data is an exact copy of some original version, e.g. that it has not been corrupted in the process of being written to, and read back from, a hard disk or during transmission via some communications channel. Integrity may further imply that the information represented by the data has been validated, i.e. verified to conform to certain constraints, e.g. a date's year, month and day parts are within the appropriate ranges and the date actually exists.
- dating service — a service that provides introductions to people seeking a companion with similar interests
- daughterboards — Plural form of daughterboard.
- daughterliness — The quality of being daughterly.
- daylight hours — the hours when it is daylight
- dead to rights — in an undeniably incriminating situation; red-handed
- decentralising — Present participle of decentralise.
- decentralizing — Present participle of decentralize.
- deconsecrating — Present participle of deconsecrate.
- defenestrating — Present participle of defenestrate.
- defibrillating — Present participle of defibrillate.
- deflagrability — the state or quality of being deflagrable
- degenerateness — The state or quality of being degenerate.
- dehydrogenated — Simple past tense and past participle of dehydrogenate.
- dehydrogenates — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of dehydrogenate.
- demilitarising — Present participle of demilitarise.
- demilitarizing — Present participle of demilitarize.
- dental surgeon — dentist who carries out surgery
- dental surgery — a place where a dentist can be consulted
- departure gate — (in a large airport) any of the numbered exits leading to the airfield or aircraft
- depreciatingly — So as to disparage or belittle.
- 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.
- design pattern — (programming) A description of an object-oriented design technique which names, abstracts and identifies aspects of a design structure that are useful for creating an object-oriented design. The design pattern identifies classes and instances, their roles, collaborations and responsibilities. Each design pattern focuses on a particular object-oriented design problem or issue. It describes when it applies, whether it can be applied in the presence of other design constraints, and the consequences and trade-offs of its use.
- detail drawing — a separate large-scale drawing of a small part or section of a building, machine, etc
- deuteragonists — Plural form of deuteragonist.
- diagrammatical — in the form of a diagram; graphic; outlined.
- digital camera — a camera that records images in digital form by means of a device that converts the optical image to an electrical signal.
- direct-reading — (of an instrument) calibrated so that a given quantity to be measured can be read directly off the scale without the need of a multiplying constant
- directed angle — See at directed (def 3).
- directed graph — (digraph) A graph with one-way edges. See also directed acyclic graph.
- disafforesting — Present participle of disafforest.
- disaggregating — Present participle of disaggregate.
- disaggregation — to separate (an aggregate or mass) into its component parts.
- disaggregative — separating from the mass or into parts
- disarrangement — Upset of the normal order.
- discharge rate — The discharge rate is the rate at which a process produces waste or a product.