13-letter words containing g, r, i, p, n
- court packing — an unsuccessful attempt by President Franklin D. Roosevelt in 1937 to appoint up to six additional justices to the Supreme Court, which had invalidated a number of his New Deal laws.
- creep-feeding — the practice of feeding young farm animals (esp piglets, calves, and lambs) in a sectioned-off part of their indoor environment, in order to prevent the mother from gaining access to the food
- creep-grazing — a method of pasture management that allows young farm animals (esp lambs) to graze part of the pasture before the adults in the group
- crop spraying — the spraying of crops with insecticide, fungicide, etc
- cross-posting — the sending of an email to many forums, mailing lists, etc
- cybershopping — Shopping by means of computers or the Internet.
- data striping — (storage) Segmentation of logically sequential data, such as a single file, so that segments can be written to multiple physical devices (usually disk drives) in a round-robin fashion. This technique is useful if the processor is capable of reading or writing data faster than a single disk can supply or accept it. While data is being transferred from the first disk, the second disk can locate the next segment. Data striping is used in some modern databases, such as Sybase, and in certain RAID devices under hardware control, such as IBM's RAMAC array subsystem (9304/9395). Data striping is different from, and may be used in conjunction with, mirroring.
- decompressing — Present participle of decompress.
- decrepitating — Present participle of decrepitate.
- deep mourning — completely black mourning clothes made of a drab material: After her brother died, she was in deep mourning for a year.
- deep-freezing — the process of freezing food at a very low temperature for storage
- deprecatingly — to express earnest disapproval of.
- depressogenic — Causing or tending to cause depression.
- deprivatizing — Present participle of deprivatize.
- disempowering — Present participle of disempower.
- disk striping — data striping
- disparagement — the act of disparaging.
- disparagingly — that disparages; tending to belittle or bring reproach upon: a disparaging remark.
- dispiritingly — In a dispiriting manner.
- dispraisingly — By way of dispraise.
- disrespecting — Present participle of disrespect.
- diving petrel — any of several small seabirds of the family Pelecanoididae, of Southern Hemisphere seas, having compact bodies, tubelike processes near the nostrils, and usually drab plumage.
- drape forming — thermoforming of plastic sheeting over an open mold by a combination of gravity and a vacuum.
- drawing paper — artist's paper for drawing and sketching
- drilling ship — a ship provided with drilling equipment and used especially for carrying out test drills
- drip painting — a technique of abstract painting exemplified chiefly in the later works of Jackson Pollack and marked by the intricately executed dripping and pouring of the paint on a canvas placed on the floor.
- drownproofing — a survival technique, for swimmers or nonswimmers, in which the body is allowed to float vertically in the water, with the head submerged, the lungs filled with air, and the arms and legs relaxed, the head being raised to breathe every ten seconds or so.
- drum paneling — flush paneling in a door.
- ear-splitting — ear-piercing: an earsplitting explosion.
- earning power — business: ability to profit
- eavesdropping — to listen secretly to a private conversation.
- electrotyping — The act or process of making electrotypes.
- epping forest — a forest in E England, northeast of London: formerly a royal hunting ground
- ethnographica — a collection of ethnographic items
- ethnographies — Plural form of ethnography.
- eusporangiate — (of ferns) having each sporangium developing from a group of cells, rather than a single cell, and with no specialized dispersal of spores
- evening paper — a newspaper that comes out in the evening
- expectorating — Present participle of expectorate.
- experimenting — Present participle of experiment.
- expropriating — Present participle of expropriate.
- extemporising — Present participle of extemporise.
- extemporizing — Present participle of extemporize.
- extrapolating — Present participle of extrapolate.
- fairy penguin — a small penguin, Eudyptula minor, with a bluish head and back, found on the Australian coast
- finger puppet — a miniature puppet fitting over and manipulated by one finger.
- fingerpainted — Simple past tense and past participle of fingerpaint.
- fingerpicking — Present participle of fingerpick.
- fingerprinted — Simple past tense and past participle of fingerprint.
- flameproofing — Present participle of flameproof.
- fluoroscoping — Present participle of fluoroscope.