14-letter words containing ge
- 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.
- david d'angers — (born Pierre Jean David) 1788?-1856; Fr. sculptor
- de los angeles — Victoria (bikˈtorja). 1923–2005, Spanish soprano
- degenerateness — The state or quality of being degenerate.
- dehydrogenated — Simple past tense and past participle of dehydrogenate.
- dehydrogenates — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of dehydrogenate.
- dehydrogenized — Simple past tense and past participle of dehydrogenize.
- dental surgeon — dentist who carries out surgery
- dental surgery — a place where a dentist can be consulted
- device manager — (operating system) The Microsoft Windows control panel applet used to enable, disable and configure the hardware on which Windows is running. You can launch Device Manager via the Control Panel/System or directly with: rundll32.exe devmgr.dll DeviceManager_Execute (2008-04-16)
- diagenetically — in a diagenetic way
- diamond geezer — a very nice or good man
- digestibleness — The quality of being digestible.
- dinoflagellate — any of numerous chiefly marine plankton of the phylum Pyrrophyta (or, in some classification schemes, the order Dinoflagellata), usually having two flagella, one in a groove around the body and the other extending from its center.
- disacknowledge — (transitive) To refuse to acknowledge or recognize something; to disavow or deny.
- disarrangement — Upset of the normal order.
- discharge head — The discharge head is the pressure at the discharge of a pump, measured as a height.
- discharge lamp — a lamp in which light is produced by an electric discharge in a gas-filled glass enclosure.
- discharge rate — The discharge rate is the rate at which a process produces waste or a product.
- discharge tube — gas tube.
- discourageable — Capable of being discouraged; easily disheartened.
- discouragement — an act or instance of discouraging.
- disengagedness — the quality of being disengaged
- disengagements — Plural form of disengagement.
- disingenuously — In a manner that is not frank or open; deceptively.
- district judge — any judge of a federal district court.
- docking bridge — a raised platform running from one side to the other of a ship toward the stern, used by officers for supervising docking operations.
- dollar-average — to engage in dollar averaging.
- dovetail hinge — a strap hinge having leaves which are narrower at their junction than at their other extremities.
- 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.
- drainage basin — the area drained by a river and all its tributaries. Also called catchment area, drainage area. Compare watershed (def 2).
- drainage ditch — a ditch that excess water drains into
- drainage holes — the holes in a plant pot that allow excess water to drain away
- drill sergeant — military officer who drills recruits
- droit des gens — law of nations; international law.
- drop a clanger — If you say that you have dropped a clanger, you mean that you have done or said something stupid or embarrassing.
- dungeness crab — an edible crab, Cancer magister, of shallow Pacific coastal waters from northern California to Alaska.
- education page — a page in a newspaper devoted to news relating to education or teaching
- eigenfrequency — One of the natural resonant frequencies of a system.
- electrogenesis — (biochemistry, physics) The production of electricity in the tissues of a living organism.
- electrosurgery — Surgery using a high-frequency electric current to heat and so cut tissue with great precision.
- emergency call — a telephone call to the emergency services made during an emergency
- emergency exit — door, way out
- emergency fund — a sum of money set aside by a country, group, or organization for use in an emergency
- emergency room — hospital: casualty department
- emergency stop — a sudden application of the brakes in a car, such as the driver would need to carry out in an emergency
- emergency ward — a ward in a hospital that deals with patients who need emergency treatment
- encephalitogen — an agent that is able to produce encephalitis
- encouragements — Plural form of encouragement.
- enfant sauvage — a person given to naive, undisciplined, or unpredictable behaviour, largely because of youth and inexperience