12-letter words containing n, e, g, a
- data general — (company) A US computer manufacturer. Responsible for the Nova minicomputer. Quarterly sales $284M, profits -$12M (Aug 1994).
- data segment — (memory) The range of memory locations where the initialised data of a program produced by a Unix linker is located. Executable code is located in the code segment and uninitialised data in the bss segment.
- daughterling — a small daughter
- dauntingness — to overcome with fear; intimidate: to daunt one's adversaries.
- de-designate — to mark or point out; indicate; show; specify.
- de-integrate — to bring together or incorporate (parts) into a whole.
- deactivating — Present participle of deactivate.
- dead fingers — a disease of users of pneumatic drills, characterized by anaesthesia of the fingertips and cyanosis
- dealing room — A dealing room is a place where shares, currencies, or commodities are bought and sold.
- debilitating — tending to weaken or enfeeble
- decalcifying — Present participle of decalcify.
- decapitating — Present participle of decapitate.
- decelerating — Present participle of decelerate.
- decimalizing — Present participle of decimalize.
- decongestant — A decongestant is a medicine which helps someone who has a cold to breathe more easily.
- decreasingly — In a decreasing manner.
- deerstalking — The hunting of deer on foot, by stealing upon them unawares.
- deescalating — Present participle of deescalate.
- 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.
- degemination — (phonetics, uncountable) inverse process of gemination, when a spoken long consonant is pronounced for an audibly shorter period.
- degeneracies — Plural form of degeneracy.
- 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).
- deglaciation — the process of removing glaciation
- deglutinated — Simple past tense and past participle of deglutinate.
- degradations — Plural form of degradation.
- degringolade — a rapid descent or deterioration
- dehumanising — Present participle of dehumanise.
- dehumanizing — denying or depriving of dignity
- deleveraging — an instance of this: The economic crisis has forced a deleverage.
- deliberating — carefully weighed or considered; studied; intentional: a deliberate lie.
- delimitating — Present participle of delimitate.
- delta-winged — (of an aircraft) having a triangular sweptback wing
- demagnetized — Simple past tense and past participle of demagnetize.
- demagnetizer — Any device (often a furnace) that is used to remove magnetization.
- demagnetizes — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of demagnetize.
- demand paged — demand paging
- demodulating — Present participle of demodulate.
- demonography — a treatise on demons.
- 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.
- demotivating — to provide with a motive, or a cause or reason to act; incite; impel.
- denigrations — Plural form of denigration.
- denominating — Present participle of denominate.