12-letter words containing l, o, n, g
- cyberloafing — (informal) The use of computers by employees for purposes unrelated to work.
- cycling tour — a holiday involving a tour of an area or region by bicycle
- cyclogenesis — the formation and development of a low-pressure storm system
- cyclolignane — (organic chemistry) Any lignane having an additional ring.
- cyclostyling — Present participle of cyclostyle.
- dak bungalow — (in India, formerly) a house where travellers on a dak route could be accommodated
- darning wool — wool used for darning
- data logging — (data) (data acquisition) Storing a series of measurements over time, usually from a sensor that converts a physical quantity such as temperature, pressure, relative humidity, light, resistance, current, power, speed, vibration into a voltage that is then converted by a digital to analog converter (DAC) into a binary number. Data logging hardware may have several DACs for multiple simultaneous measurements. The hardware usually connects to a parallel port, serial port or USB port on a PC.
- dealing room — A dealing room is a place where shares, currencies, or commodities are bought and sold.
- decolonizing — Present participle of decolonize.
- deflagration — Deflagration is an explosion in which the speed of burning is lower than the speed of sound in the surroundings.
- deglaciation — the process of removing glaciation
- degringolade — a rapid descent or deterioration
- demobilizing — Present participle of demobilize.
- demodulating — Present participle of demodulate.
- demonologist — An expert in the study of demonology.
- demoralising — to deprive (a person or persons) of spirit, courage, discipline, etc.; destroy the morale of: The continuous barrage demoralized the infantry.
- demoralizing — If something is demoralizing, it makes you lose so much confidence in what you are doing that you want to give up.
- dendrologist — the branch of botany dealing with trees and shrubs.
- deontologist — ethics, especially that branch dealing with duty, moral obligation, and right action.
- depopulating — Present participle of depopulate.
- deregulation — Deregulation is the removal of controls and restrictions in a particular area of business or trade.
- desolatingly — in a way that desolates, in a desolating fashion
- diagonalized — Simple past tense and past participle of diagonalize.
- digladiation — fighting with swords or hand-to-hand
- digressional — Pertaining to, or having the character of, a digression; departing from the main purpose or subject.
- dineolignane — (organic chemistry) Any derivative of a lignane having four propylbenzene residues.
- diplogenesis — the double production or formation of something that is normally single, such as a doubled part in a fetus or a double fetus
- disanalogous — not analogous
- disenrolling — to dismiss or cause to become removed from a program of training, care, etc.: The academy disenrolled a dozen cadets.
- dislodgement — to remove or force out of a particular place: to dislodge a stone with one's foot.
- docking keel — one of two keellike projections for bracing a hull of a ship against bilge blocks when the ship is in dry dock.
- dogleg fence — snake fence.
- donald budge — (John) Donald, 1915–2000, U.S. tennis player.
- doppelganger — a ghostly double or counterpart of a living person.
- doppleganger — Misspelling of doppelganger.
- double agent — a person who spies on a country while pretending to spy for it.
- doubleganger — doppelgänger.
- doughnutlike — Resembling a doughnut.
- downregulate — To decrease the number of cell receptors by using downregulation.
- downwellings — Plural form of downwelling.
- dragon light — a herbal remedy for impotence
- dragonslayer — One who slays a dragon.
- edge molding — a convexly rounded molding having a fillet or concavity at or near its centerline.
- edulcorating — Present participle of edulcorate.
- efflorescing — Present participle of effloresce.
- electrogenic — Pf or pertaining to electrogenesis.
- electron gun — a heated cathode with an associated system of electrodes and coils for producing and focusing a beam of electrons, used esp in cathode-ray tubes
- ellenborough — Earl of, title of Edward Law. 1780–1871, British colonial administrator: governor general of India (1742–44)
- emigrational — Relating to emigration.