12-letter words containing g, r, e, a, t
- core gateway — Historically, one of a set of gateways (routers) operated by the Internet Network Operations Center at Bolt, Beranek and Newman (BBN). The core gateway system formed a central part of Internet routing in that all groups must advertise paths to their networks from a core gateway.
- core storage — a kind of computer memory consisting of storage units made of ferromagnetic rings
- cottage roll — a small pickled boneless ham
- counteragent — a person or thing that counteracts
- counterargue — to argue against something
- counterimage — a corresponding image
- crazy eights — a card game played by two or more persons with a 52-card deck, the object of which is to be the first to get rid of one's hand by successively playing a card of the same suit or denomination as that played by the preceding player, with an eight counting for any desired suit.
- crenellating — Present participle of crenellate.
- cross-garnet — a hinge with a long horizontal strap fixed to the face of a door and a short vertical leaf fixed to the door frame
- curate's egg — something that has both good and bad parts
- cut a figure — to attract attention
- cybercasting — the broadcasting of news, entertainment, etc., using the Internet, specifically the World Wide Web.
- daguerrotype — Misspelling of daguerreotype.
- danger point — the point at which something ceases to be safe
- data general — (company) A US computer manufacturer. Responsible for the Nova minicomputer. Quarterly sales $284M, profits -$12M (Aug 1994).
- daughtercard — daughterboard
- daughterless — Without a daughter.
- daughterlike — Resembling a daughter.
- daughterling — a small daughter
- de-integrate — to bring together or incorporate (parts) into a whole.
- dead freight — an amount owed by a contractor who charters space in a ship but fails to occupy it fully.
- dead storage — the storage of furniture, files, or other unused or seldom used items in a warehouse or other location for an indefinite period of time.
- decategorize — to arrange in categories or classes; classify.
- decelerating — Present participle of decelerate.
- deerstalking — The hunting of deer on foot, by stealing upon them unawares.
- deflagrating — Present participle of deflagrate.
- deflagration — Deflagration is an explosion in which the speed of burning is lower than the speed of sound in the surroundings.
- defragmented — Simple past tense and past participle of defragment.
- defragmenter — (computing) That which defragments; a program that performs defragmentation.
- degenerately — In a degenerate manner.
- degenerating — to fall below a normal or desirable level in physical, mental, or moral qualities; deteriorate: The morale of the soldiers degenerated, and they were unable to fight.
- degeneration — the process of degenerating
- degenerative — A degenerative disease or condition is one that gets worse as time progresses.
- degerminated — degerm (def 2).
- degradations — Plural form of degradation.
- deliberating — carefully weighed or considered; studied; intentional: a deliberate lie.
- delta-prolog — A Prolog extension with AND-parallelism, don't-know nondeterminism and interprocess communication using synchronous event goals and distributed backtracking.
- demagnetizer — Any device (often a furnace) that is used to remove magnetization.
- denigrations — Plural form of denigration.
- dephlegmator — an apparatus used for dephlegmation
- depreciating — Present participle of depreciate.
- depth charge — A depth charge is a type of bomb which explodes under water and which is used especially to destroy enemy submarines.
- deracinating — Present participle of deracinate Pulling up by the roots.
- deregulating — Present participle of deregulate.
- deregulation — Deregulation is the removal of controls and restrictions in a particular area of business or trade.
- deregulatory — Of or pertaining to deregulation.
- dermatologic — Dermatologic means of or relating to the skin.
- derogatively — lessening; belittling; derogatory.
- derogatorily — tending to lessen the merit or reputation of a person or thing; disparaging; depreciatory: a derogatory remark.
- desegregated — Simple past tense and past participle of desegregate.