14-letter words containing s, i, g, a, t
- commensurating — Present participle of commensurate.
- configurations — Plural form of configuration.
- conflagrations — Plural form of conflagration.
- conjugate axis — the axis of a hyperbola perpendicular to the transverse axis at a point equidistant from the foci.
- contagiousness — capable of being transmitted by bodily contact with an infected person or object: contagious diseases.
- cosmetological — the art or profession of applying cosmetics.
- countershading — (in the coloration of certain animals) a pattern, serving as camouflage, in which dark colours occur on parts of the body exposed to the light and pale colours on parts in the shade
- credit charges — the charges applied by credit card companies to customers buying goods on credit
- cross matching — the testing for compatibility of a donor's and a recipient's blood prior to transfusion, in which serum of each is mixed with red blood cells of the other and observed for hemagglutination.
- cross training — training in two or more sports to improve performance, esp on one's main sport
- cross-hatching — to mark or shade with two or more intersecting series of parallel lines.
- cruising yacht — a yacht which is used for holiday trips
- cryptographist — the science or study of the techniques of secret writing, especially code and cipher systems, methods, and the like. Compare cryptanalysis (def 2).
- crystal gazing — the act of staring into a crystal globe (crystal ball) supposedly in order to arouse visual perceptions of the future, etc
- cybersquatting — Cybersquatting involves buying an Internet domain name that might be wanted by another person, business, or organization with the intention of selling it to them and making a profit.
- darning stitch — a stitch used in darning that imitates the texture of the fabric that is to be mended
- dating service — a service that provides introductions to people seeking a companion with similar interests
- daughterliness — The quality of being daughterly.
- daylight hours — the hours when it is daylight
- de-designation — an act of designating.
- dead to rights — in an undeniably incriminating situation; red-handed
- decentralising — Present participle of decentralise.
- decompensating — Psychology. to lose the ability to maintain normal or appropriate psychological defenses, sometimes resulting in depression, anxiety, or delusions.
- deconsecrating — Present participle of deconsecrate.
- defenestrating — Present participle of defenestrate.
- demilitarising — Present participle of demilitarise.
- deregistration — The process of which an employee is removed from work registrant status.
- dermatologists — Plural form of dermatologist.
- design pattern — (programming) A description of an object-oriented design technique which names, abstracts and identifies aspects of a design structure that are useful for creating an object-oriented design. The design pattern identifies classes and instances, their roles, collaborations and responsibilities. Each design pattern focuses on a particular object-oriented design problem or issue. It describes when it applies, whether it can be applied in the presence of other design constraints, and the consequences and trade-offs of its use.
- destigmatizing — to set some mark of disgrace or infamy upon: The crime of the father stigmatized the whole family.
- deuteragonists — Plural form of deuteragonist.
- diagnosability — the quality of being diagnosable
- diagnostically — of, relating to, or used in diagnosis.
- dialectologist — a specialist in dialectology.
- digitalisation — Alternative spelling of digitalization.
- disadvantaging — Present participle of disadvantage.
- disafforesting — Present participle of disafforest.
- disaggregating — Present participle of disaggregate.
- disaggregation — to separate (an aggregate or mass) into its component parts.
- disaggregative — separating from the mass or into parts
- disambiguating — Present participle of disambiguate.
- disambiguation — to remove the ambiguity from; make unambiguous: In order to disambiguate the sentence “She lectured on the famous passenger ship,” you'll have to write either “lectured on board” or “lectured about.”.
- disarrangement — Upset of the normal order.
- disassociating — to dissociate.
- discharge rate — The discharge rate is the rate at which a process produces waste or a product.
- discharge tube — gas tube.
- discouragement — an act or instance of discouraging.
- discriminating — to make or constitute a distinction in or between; differentiate: a mark that discriminates the original from the copy.
- disengagements — Plural form of disengagement.
- disenthralling — to free from bondage; liberate: to be disenthralled from morbid fantasies.