14-letter words containing o, d, g, r, a
- crossing guard — school (crossing) guard
- dactyliography — the art of engraving or writing on gems
- dactylographer — the study of fingerprints for purposes of identification.
- daguerreotypes — Plural form of daguerreotype.
- damage control — Damage control is action that is taken to make the bad results of something as small as possible, when it is impossible to avoid bad results completely.
- dano-norwegian — Bokmål.
- daughterboards — Plural form of daughterboard.
- daylight hours — the hours when it is daylight
- dead reckoning — a method of establishing one's position using the distance and direction travelled rather than astronomical observations
- dead to rights — in an undeniably incriminating situation; red-handed
- deconsecrating — Present participle of deconsecrate.
- dehydrogenated — Simple past tense and past participle of dehydrogenate.
- dehydrogenates — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of dehydrogenate.
- demoralizingly — in a demoralizing manner
- dental surgeon — dentist who carries out surgery
- deregistration — The process of which an employee is removed from work registrant status.
- dermatoglyphic — relating to skin markings (such as fingerprints) or the study thereof
- dermatographia — a common medical condition in which lightly rubbing the skin produces red, often raised, temporary marks
- dermatographic — relating to dermatography
- dermatological — the branch of medicine dealing with the skin and its diseases.
- dermatologists — Plural form of dermatologist.
- deuteragonists — Plural form of deuteragonist.
- diamond geezer — a very nice or good man
- diaz rodriguez — Manuel [mah-nwel] /mɑˈnwɛl/ (Show IPA), 1868–1927, Venezuelan author.
- dihedral group — the group of reflections, rotations, and symmetries of a regular n -sided polygon.
- disafforesting — Present participle of disafforest.
- disaggregation — to separate (an aggregate or mass) into its component parts.
- disapprovingly — to think (something) wrong or reprehensible; censure or condemn in opinion.
- discographical — Of or pertaining to discography.
- discourageable — Capable of being discouraged; easily disheartened.
- discouragement — an act or instance of discouraging.
- discouragingly — In a discouraging manner.
- disintegration — the act or process of disintegrating.
- disintegrators — Plural form of disintegrator.
- disintegratory — Causing or relating to disintegration.
- disorientating — to disorient.
- dollar-average — to engage in dollar averaging.
- dongle cracker — (security) Someone who enables software that has been written to require a dongle to run without it.
- double marking — a method of assessment in which two individuals independently mark a test or evaluate a performance
- double parking — the activity or offence of parking a vehicle in a traffic lane
- dowager's hump — a type of kyphosis, common in older women, in which the shoulders become rounded and the upper back develops a hump: caused by osteoporosis resulting in skeletal deformity.
- downregulating — Present participle of downregulate.
- downregulation — (genetics) The process, in the regulation of gene expression, in which the number, or activity of receptors decreases in order to decrease sensitivity.
- drafting board — drawing board.
- drag your feet — dawdle
- dragon's blood — a deep-red, water-insoluble resin exuding from the fruit of a palm, Daemonorops draco, of the Malay Archipelago, used chiefly in the preparation of varnishes and in photoengraving for protecting certain areas of the metal plate from the acid.
- dragon's mouth — arethusa (def 1).
- dragon's teeth — conical or wedge-shaped concrete antitank obstacles protruding from the ground in rows: used in World War II
- drainage holes — the holes in a plant pot that allow excess water to drain away
- draining board — The draining board is the place on a sink unit where things such as cups, plates, and cutlery are put to drain after they have been washed.