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13-letter words containing o, g, d, a

  • cough and die — (jargon)   barf. Connotes that the program is throwing its hands up by design rather than because of a bug or oversight. "The parser saw a control-A in its input where it was looking for a printable, so it coughed and died." Compare die, die horribly, scream and die.
  • coup de grace — A coup de grace is an action or event which finally destroys something, for example an institution, which has been gradually growing weaker.
  • covent garden — a district of central London: famous for its former fruit, vegetable, and flower market, now a shopping precinct
  • covered wagon — A covered wagon is a wagon that has an arched canvas roof and is pulled by horses. Covered wagons were used by the early American settlers as they travelled across the country.
  • cross-grained — (of timber) having the fibres arranged irregularly or in a direction that deviates from the axis of the piece
  • cutting board — A cutting board is a wooden or plastic board that you chop meat and vegetables on.
  • cytodiagnosis — the diagnosis of disease through the study of cells in the body
  • dactylography — the scientific study of fingerprints for purposes of identification
  • dactylomegaly — abnormal enlargement of the fingers or toes.
  • daguerreotype — one of the earliest photographic processes, in which the image was produced on iodine-sensitized silver and developed in mercury vapour
  • daguerreotypy — The art or technique of producing daguerreotypes.
  • daguerrotypes — Plural form of daguerrotype, a misspelling of daguerreotype.
  • damaged goods — a person considered to be less than perfect psychologically, as a result of a traumatic experience
  • dancing shoes — shoes worn by dancers
  • dangerousness — full of danger or risk; causing danger; perilous; risky; hazardous; unsafe.
  • darling downs — a plateau in NE Australia, in SE Queensland: a vast agricultural and stock-raising area
  • das rheingold — an opera by Wagner (1869), one of four in a cycle based on the German myth of the Ring of the Nibelung
  • data modeling — (spelling)   US spelling of "data modelling".
  • daughterboard — a small circuit board that can be attached to the motherboard of a computer
  • days of grace — days permitted by custom for payment of a promissory note, bill of exchange, etc, after it falls due
  • dead and gone — If you say that someone is dead and gone, you are emphasizing that they are dead, and thinking about what happened or will happen after their death.
  • dean of guild — the titular head of the guild or merchant company in a Scots burgh, who formerly exercised jurisdiction over all building in the burgh in the Dean of Guild Court
  • decarbonating — Present participle of decarbonate.
  • decarbonizing — Present participle of decarbonize.
  • decongestants — Plural form of decongestant.
  • decorticating — Present participle of decorticate.
  • deglutination — to extract the gluten from.
  • degradational — (geology) Pertaining to or formed by degradation.
  • degranulation — a cellular process in which cytoplasmic granules within certain cells secrete their contents, often to the outside of the cell
  • dehydrogenase — an enzyme, such as any of the respiratory enzymes, that activates oxidation-reduction reactions by transferring hydrogen from substrate to acceptor
  • dehydrogenate — to remove hydrogen from
  • deintegration — an act or instance of integrating a racial, religious, or ethnic group.
  • demagogically — of, relating to, or characteristic of a demagogue.
  • democratizing — Present participle of democratize.
  • demographical — of or relating to demography, the science of vital and social statistics.
  • demonological — the study of demons or of beliefs about demons.
  • demonstrating — to make evident or establish by arguments or reasoning; prove: to demonstrate a philosophical principle.
  • demothballing — to remove (naval or military equipment) from storage or reserve, usually for active duty; reactivate.
  • dendrological — Of, pertaining to dendrology.
  • dendrophagous — feeding on the wood of trees, as certain insects.
  • deng xiaoping — 1904–97, Chinese Communist statesman; deputy prime minister (1973–76; 1977–80) and the dominant figure in the Chinese government from 1977 until his death. He was twice removed from office (1967–73, 1976–77) and rehabilitated. He introduced economic liberalization, but suppressed demands for political reform, most notably in 1989 when over 2500 demonstrators were killed by the military in Tiananmen Square in Beijing
  • dentosurgical — relating to or used in both dentistry and surgery
  • deontological — (of an ethical theory) regarding obligation as deriving from reason or as residing primarily in certain specific rules of conduct rather than in the maximization of some good
  • deoxygenating — Present participle of deoxygenate.
  • deoxygenation — to remove oxygen from (a substance, as blood or water).
  • depathologize — (transitive) To cease to treat as a medical disorder.
  • dephlegmation — the act of dephlegmating
  • dermatography — a treatise or writing concerning the skin
  • dermatologies — Plural form of dermatology.
  • dermatologist — A dermatologist is a doctor who specializes in the study of skin and the treatment of skin diseases.
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