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16-letter words containing i, d, g

  • common partridge — a small Old World gallinaceous game bird, Perdix perdix
  • competitive edge — business: superiority
  • consenting adult — a male person over the age of sixteen, who may legally engage in homosexual behaviour in private
  • considering that — You use considering that to indicate that you are thinking about a particular fact when making a judgment or giving an opinion.
  • constant folding — (compiler)   A compiler optimisation technique where constant subexpressions are evaluated at compile time. This is usually only applied to built-in numerical and boolean operators whereas partial evaluation is more general in that expressions involving user-defined functions may also be evaluated at compile time.
  • container garden — a collection of pots or other receptacles containing soil for growing plants out of doors
  • contingency fund — a sum of money allocated for use in an emergency or to cover unforeseen expenses
  • contraindicating — Present participle of contraindicate.
  • corona discharge — an electrical discharge appearing on and around the surface of a charged conductor, caused by ionization of the surrounding gas
  • costume designer — a person who designs costumes for plays and films
  • cottage industry — A cottage industry is a small business that is run from someone's home, especially one that involves a craft such as knitting or pottery.
  • critical damping — the minimum amount of viscous damping that results in a displaced system returning to its original position without oscillation
  • curmudgeonliness — The state or condition of being curmudgeonly.
  • currency trading — the business of trading in different currencies in order to profit from exchange rate differentials
  • cutting compound — a mixture, such as oil, water, and soap, used for cooling drills and other cutting tools
  • cyanogen bromide — a colorless, slightly water-soluble, poisonous, volatile, crystalline solid, BrCN, used chiefly as a fumigant and a pesticide.
  • dabrowa gornicza — an industrial city in S Poland.
  • dafydd ap gwilym — ?1320–?1380, Welsh poet
  • dagwood sandwich — a thick sandwich filled with a variety of meats, cheeses, dressings, and condiments.
  • dangling pointer — (programming)   A reference that doesn't actually lead anywhere. In C and some other languages, a pointer that doesn't actually point at anything valid. Usually this happens because it formerly pointed to something that has moved or disappeared, e.g. a heap-allocated block which has been freed and reused. Used as jargon in a generalisation of its technical meaning; for example, a local phone number for a person who has since moved is a dangling pointer.
  • data warehousing — the use of large amounts of data taken from multiple sources to create reports and for data analysis
  • david g farragut — David Glasgow, 1801–70, U.S. admiral: won the battles of New Orleans and Mobile Bay for the Union in the U.S. Civil War.
  • day of reckoning — If someone talks about the day of reckoning, they mean a day or time in the future when people will be forced to deal with an unpleasant situation which they have avoided until now.
  • daylight robbery — If someone charges you a great deal of money for something and you think this is unfair or unreasonable, you can refer to this as daylight robbery.
  • de broglie waves — the set of waves that represent the behaviour of an elementary particle, or some atoms and molecules, under certain conditions. The de Broglie wavelength, λ, is given by λ = h/mv, where h is the Planck constant, m the mass, and v the velocity of the particle
  • de-anglicization — (in Ireland) the elimination of English influence, language, customs, etc
  • dead man walking — a condemned man walking from his prison cell to a place of execution
  • dearborn heights — city in SE Mich.: suburb of Detroit: pop. 58,000
  • debating chamber — a room where a legislative assembly holds debates
  • debating society — a club, e.g. at a school or university, which regularly holds debates
  • debt forgiveness — the action or process of forgiving people their debts
  • dechristianizing — Present participle of dechristianize.
  • deep-sea fishing — the activity of catching fish that live in the deep parts of the sea
  • deficit spending — Deficit spending is an economic policy in which a government spends more money raised by borrowing than it receives in revenue.
  • deflationary gap — a situation in which total spending in an economy is insufficient to buy all the output that can be produced with full employment
  • deflecting force — the apparent deflection (Coriolis acceleration) of a body in motion with respect to the earth, as seen by an observer on the earth, attributed to a fictitious force (Coriolis force) but actually caused by the rotation of the earth and appearing as a deflection to the right in the Northern Hemisphere and a deflection to the left in the Southern Hemisphere.
  • delaying tactics — techniques used to delay sth
  • delegitimization — The act or process of delegitimizing.
  • dental hygienist — a dentist's assistant skilled in dental hygiene
  • deoxyhaemoglobin — (biochemistry) The form of haemoglobin that has released its oxygen.
  • departure signal — a piece of equipment beside a railway which indicates to train drivers whether they should depart or not
  • depending on sth — You use depending on when you are saying that something varies according to the circumstances mentioned.
  • dephlogisticated — Simple past tense and past participle of dephlogisticate.
  • depression glass — cheap glassware mass-produced during the Depression of the 1930s, usually molded in patterns in pale colors, and collectible since the early 1970s
  • dermatologically — In a dermatological way.
  • descending colon — the last portion of the colon, beginning at the upper left abdomen in the region of the spleen and continuing downward along the left posterior wall to the sigmoid flexure.
  • designer stubble — (on a man) facial hair that is carefully trimmed to give what is thought to be an attractive rugged slightly unshaven look
  • destigmatization — The process or act of destigmatizing.
  • destroying angel — a white slender very poisonous basidiomycetous toadstool, Amanita virosa, having a pronounced volva, frilled, shaggy stalk, and sickly smell
  • developing world — Third World: poor countries
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