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13-letter words containing i, n, d, u, g

  • deuteragonist — (in ancient Greek drama) the character next in importance to the protagonist, esp the antagonist
  • digital fount — a typeface of which the letter-shapes have been converted into digital form so that they can be used in computer-aided typesetting
  • discontiguity — the quality of being discontiguous
  • discontiguous — disconnected or without contact
  • discontinuing — Present participle of discontinue.
  • disfiguration — an act or instance of disfiguring.
  • disfigurement — an act or instance of disfiguring.
  • disgruntledly — In a disgruntled manner.
  • disguisedness — the state of being disguised
  • disqualifying — Present participle of disqualify.
  • disquietingly — causing anxiety or uneasiness; disturbing: disquieting news.
  • disregulation — Misspelling of dysregulation.
  • dissimulating — Present participle of dissimulate.
  • distinguished — made conspicuous by excellence; noted; eminent; famous: a distinguished scholar. Synonyms: renowned, illustrious.
  • distinguisher — to mark off as different (often followed by from or by): He was distinguished from the other boys by his height.
  • distinguishes — to mark off as different (often followed by from or by): He was distinguished from the other boys by his height.
  • distrustingly — In a distrusting manner.
  • dna computing — (architecture)   The use of DNA molecules to encode computational problems. Standard operations of molecular biology can then be used to solve some NP-hard search problems in parallel using a very large number of molecules. The exponential scaling of NP-hard problems still remains, so this method will require a huge amount of DNA to solve large problems.
  • double-acting — (of a reciprocating engine, pump, etc.) having pistons accomplishing work in both directions, fluid being admitted alternately to opposite ends of the cylinders. Compare single-acting.
  • drainage tube — a tube that drains fluid from an incision or body cavity during surgery
  • drum magazine — a receptacle that holds and feeds cartridges to a submachine gun or light machine gun.
  • drum paneling — flush paneling in a door.
  • drunk driving — the operating of a motor vehicle while drunk.
  • dry scrubbing — Dry scrubbing is the removal of solid particles from a gas onto a liquid surface, but with a solid discharge.
  • duc d'enghien — Duc [dyk] /dük/ (Show IPA), (Louis Antoine Henry de Bourbon-Condé) 1772–1804, French prince: executed by Napoleon I.
  • duck shooting — duck hunting with a gun
  • ducking stool — a former instrument of punishment consisting of a chair in which an offender was tied to be plunged into water.
  • due diligence — the degree of care that is to be reasonably expected or that is legally required, esp. of persons giving professional advice
  • due-diligence — reasonable care and caution exercised by a person who is buying, selling, giving professional advice, etc., especially as required by law to protect against incurring liability: The court said there was due diligence on the part of the plaintiff.
  • duino elegies — a collection of ten poems (1923) by Rainer Maria Rilke.
  • dun laoghaire — a seaport in E Republic of Ireland, near Dublin.
  • dysregulation — A failure to regulate properly.
  • echo sounding — the determining of depth of water by means of a device (echo sounder) that measures the time required for a sound wave to be reflected from the bottom: a similar process (echo ranging) is used to measure the distance to an underwater object
  • edinburgh sml — (EdML) Implementation of the Core language of SML. Byte-code interpreter in C. Ported to Amiga, Atari, Archimedes and IBM PC. Version: 0.44. E-mail: <[email protected]>.
  • ensanguinated — stained with blood
  • eve's pudding — a baked sponge pudding with a layer of apple at the bottom
  • exsanguinated — Simple past tense and past participle of exsanguinate.
  • fault-finding — the act of pointing out faults, especially faults of a petty nature; carping.
  • figure-ground — a property of perception in which there is a tendency to see parts of a visual field as solid, well-defined objects standing out against a less distinct background.
  • foregrounding — Present participle of foreground.
  • fruiting body — an organ that produces spores; fructification.
  • general audit — an audit of all a company's accounts
  • gliding lemur — flying lemur.
  • gluconic acid — a colorless, water-soluble acid, C 6 H 12 O 7 , obtained by the oxidation of glucose, used commercially in a 50-percent solution for cleaning metals.
  • glucuronidase — an enzyme that catalyzes glucuronide hydrolysis
  • godwin-austen — Also called Godwin Austen [god-win aw-stin] /ˈgɒd wɪn ˈɔ stɪn/ (Show IPA), Dapsang [duh p-suhng] /dəpˈsʌŋ/ (Show IPA). a mountain in N Kashmir, in the Karakoram range: second highest peak in the world. 28,250 feet (8611 meters).
  • golfe du lion — French name of the Gulf of Lions.
  • good question — pertinent or insightful enquiry
  • gourmandizers — Plural form of gourmandizer.
  • gourmandizing — Present participle of gourmandize.
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