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16-letter words containing ng

  • creative writing — Creative writing is writing such as novels, stories, poems, and plays.
  • creeping juniper — a prostrate central North American shrub, Juniperus horizontalis, of the cypress family, of central North America, having bluish-green or gray-blue leaves and blue fruit, growing well in sandy, rocky soil.
  • creeping thistle — a weedy Eurasian thistle, Cirsium arvense, common as a fast-spreading weed in the US
  • critical damping — the minimum amount of viscous damping that results in a displaced system returning to its original position without oscillation
  • currency trading — the business of trading in different currencies in order to profit from exchange rate differentials
  • cutting compound — a mixture, such as oil, water, and soap, used for cooling drills and other cutting tools
  • dangling pointer — (programming)   A reference that doesn't actually lead anywhere. In C and some other languages, a pointer that doesn't actually point at anything valid. Usually this happens because it formerly pointed to something that has moved or disappeared, e.g. a heap-allocated block which has been freed and reused. Used as jargon in a generalisation of its technical meaning; for example, a local phone number for a person who has since moved is a dangling pointer.
  • data warehousing — the use of large amounts of data taken from multiple sources to create reports and for data analysis
  • day of reckoning — If someone talks about the day of reckoning, they mean a day or time in the future when people will be forced to deal with an unpleasant situation which they have avoided until now.
  • de-anglicization — (in Ireland) the elimination of English influence, language, customs, etc
  • dead man walking — a condemned man walking from his prison cell to a place of execution
  • debating chamber — a room where a legislative assembly holds debates
  • debating society — a club, e.g. at a school or university, which regularly holds debates
  • dechristianizing — Present participle of dechristianize.
  • deep-sea fishing — the activity of catching fish that live in the deep parts of the sea
  • deficit spending — Deficit spending is an economic policy in which a government spends more money raised by borrowing than it receives in revenue.
  • deflecting force — the apparent deflection (Coriolis acceleration) of a body in motion with respect to the earth, as seen by an observer on the earth, attributed to a fictitious force (Coriolis force) but actually caused by the rotation of the earth and appearing as a deflection to the right in the Northern Hemisphere and a deflection to the left in the Southern Hemisphere.
  • delaying tactics — techniques used to delay sth
  • departure lounge — In an airport, the departure lounge is the place where passengers wait before they get onto their plane.
  • depending on sth — You use depending on when you are saying that something varies according to the circumstances mentioned.
  • descending colon — the last portion of the colon, beginning at the upper left abdomen in the region of the spleen and continuing downward along the left posterior wall to the sigmoid flexure.
  • destroying angel — a white slender very poisonous basidiomycetous toadstool, Amanita virosa, having a pronounced volva, frilled, shaggy stalk, and sickly smell
  • developing world — Third World: poor countries
  • devil's triangle — Bermuda Triangle.
  • diamond drilling — drilling using a drill with a diamond-impregnated bit
  • dick whittington — Richard ("Dick") 1358?–1423, English merchant and philanthropist: Lord Mayor of London 1398, 1406–07, 1419–20.
  • dinosaurs mating — (humour)   The activity said to occur when yet another big iron merger or buy-out occurs; reflects a perception by hackers that these signal another stage in the long, slow dying of the mainframe industry. Also described as "elephants mating": lots of noise and action at a high level, with an eventual outcome in the somewhat distant future. In its glory days of the 1960s, it was "IBM and the Seven Dwarves": Burroughs, Control Data, General Electric, Honeywell, NCR, RCA, and Univac. Early on, RCA sold out to Univac and GE also sold out, and it was "IBM and the BUNCH" (an acronym for Burroughs, Univac, NCR, Control Data, and Honeywell) for a while. Honeywell was bought out by Bull. Univac in turn merged with Sperry to form Sperry/Univac, which was later merged (although the employees of Sperry called it a hostile takeover) with Burroughs to form Unisys in 1986 (this was when the phrase "dinosaurs mating" was coined). In 1991 AT&T absorbed NCR, only to spit it out again in 1996. Unisys bought Convergent Technologies in 1988 and later others. More such earth-shaking unions of doomed giants seem inevitable.
  • diphthongisation — The process by which a single vowel sound (monophthong) shifts to a two-vowel vocalization (diphthong).
  • diphthongization — to change into or pronounce as a diphthong.
  • direct marketing — marketing direct to the consumer, as by direct mail or coupon advertising.
  • disappearing act — magic trick
  • discharging arch — an arch for taking some of the weight from a structural member beneath it.
  • disclosing agent — a vegetable dye, administered as a liquid or in tablet form (disclosing tablet), that stains plaque, making it readily apparent on the teeth
  • discombobulating — Present participle of discombobulate.
  • discountenancing — Present participle of discountenance.
  • discriminatingly — With discrimination.
  • disenfranchising — Present participle of disenfranchise.
  • disincentivising — Present participle of disincentivise.
  • disingenuousness — The state or quality of being disingenuous.
  • dispersing agent — a surface-active substance added to a suspension, usually a colloid, to improve the separation of particles and to prevent settling or clumping
  • disproportioning — Present participle of disproportion.
  • distinguishments — to mark off as different (often followed by from or by): He was distinguished from the other boys by his height.
  • district heating — a heating system in which centrally generated heat is distributed via ducts and pipes to multiple buildings or locations
  • document imaging — the process of converting paper documents into an electronic or digital format
  • double centering — a method of extending a survey line by taking the average of two foresights, one with the telescope direct and one with it inverted, made each time by transiting the telescope after a backsight.
  • double-breasting — the practice of employing nonunion workers, especially in a separate division, to supplement the work of higher-paid union workers.
  • double-clutching — (of a bird) to produce a second clutch of eggs after the first has been removed, usually for hatching in an incubator.
  • draw the longbow — to exaggerate in telling something
  • dredging machine — dredge1 (def 1).
  • dressing station — a post or center that gives first aid to the wounded, located near a combat area.
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