14-letter words containing a, g, o
- 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.
- dog-day cicada — any of several cicadas of the genus Tibicen, that have distinctive songs commonly heard during July and August.
- dogbane family — the plant family Apocynaceae, characterized by shrubs, trees, and herbaceous plants having milky and often poisonous juice, simple opposite leaves, often showy flowers, and fruit usually in dry pods, and including the dogbane, oleander, periwinkle, and plumeria.
- dogmaticalness — The quality of being dogmatical.
- dogwood family — the plant family Cornaceae, characterized by trees and shrubs having simple opposite leaves, small flowers often surrounded by showy, petallike bracts, and berrylike fruit, including the bunchberry, cornelian cherry, and dogwood.
- 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.
- doom and gloom — gloom and doom.
- double glazing — glazing consisting of two thicknesses of glass with a dead air space between them.
- 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
- double spacing — text layout: extra space between lines
- double-dealing — duplicity; treachery; deception.
- 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.
- 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.
- draining spoon — a spoon with holes in it
- draughts board — A draughts board is a square board for playing draughts, with 64 equal-sized, black and white squares.
- draughtsperson — Alternative spelling of draftsperson.
- drawing office — an office where drawings are made
- drop a clanger — If you say that you have dropped a clanger, you mean that you have done or said something stupid or embarrassing.
- drug addiction — dependence on a chemical substance
- dutchman's log — a method of gauging a ship's speed, in which the distance between two shipboard observation stations is divided by the time elapsing between the throwing overboard of an object by the first station and the sighting of it by the second.
- dyalog limited — (company) The company that distributes Dyalog APL. Previously known as Dyadic Systems Limited.
- eau de cologne — cologne.
- eaves-dropping — to listen secretly to a private conversation.
- echocardiogram — a graphic record produced by an echocardiograph.
- edging lobelia — a trailing lobelia, Lobelia erinus, of southern Africa, having loose clusters of blue flowers.
- editorializing — Present participle of editorialize.
- education page — a page in a newspaper devoted to news relating to education or teaching
- effort bargain — a bargain in which the reward to an employee is based on the effort that the employee puts in
- egocentrically — In an egocentric manner.
- electric organ — a pipe organ operated by electrical means
- electromagnets — Plural form of electromagnet.
- electromyogram — A record or display produced by electromyography.