9-letter words containing a, d, g
- gas-pedal — Automotive. gas (def 5b).
- gasconade — extravagant boasting; boastful talk.
- gasholder — gasometer (def 2).
- gastropod — any mollusk of the class Gastropoda, comprising the snails, whelks, slugs, etc.
- gatefolds — Plural form of gatefold.
- gateshead — a metropolitan borough in Tyne and Wear, in NE England: seaport on the Tyne River opposite Newcastle.
- gaudeamus — a university students' gathering or merry-making
- gaudiness — brilliantly or excessively showy: gaudy plumage.
- gavelkind — (originally) a tenure of land in which the tenant was liable for a rental in money or produce rather than for labor or military service.
- gavialoid — of or resembling gavials
- gawkihood — the state of being gawky
- gazehound — one of any of several breeds of hounds, as the Afghan, borzoi, greyhound, Saluki, or whippet, that hunts by sighting the game rather than by scent.
- gear down — Machinery. a part, as a disk, wheel, or section of a shaft, having cut teeth of such form, size, and spacing that they mesh with teeth in another part to transmit or receive force and motion. an assembly of such parts. one of several possible arrangements of such parts in a mechanism, as an automobile transmission, for affording different relations of torque and speed between the driving and the driven machinery, or for permitting the driven machinery to run in either direction: first gear; reverse gear. a mechanism or group of parts performing one function or serving one purpose in a complex machine: steering gear.
- geminated — Simple past tense and past participle of geminate.
- gendarmes — Plural form of gendarme.
- generated — to bring into existence; cause to be; produce.
- genocidal — the deliberate and systematic extermination of a national, racial, political, or cultural group.
- geraldine — a female given name: derived from Gerald.
- geraldton — a seaport in W Australia.
- germander — any of several plants or shrubs belonging to the genus Teucrium, of the mint family, as T. chamaedrys, of Europe, and T. canadense, of eastern North America.
- germanide — (chemistry) any binary compound of germanium and a more electropositive element.
- gerundial — (in certain languages, as Latin) a form regularly derived from a verb and functioning as a noun, having in Latin all case forms but the nominative, as Latin dicendī gen., dicendō, dat., abl., etc., “saying.”. See also gerundive (def 1).
- gesneriad — any of various, chiefly tropical plants of the gesneria family.
- get ahead — to receive or come to have possession, use, or enjoyment of: to get a birthday present; to get a pension.
- get ideas — to become ambitious, restless, etc
- get naked — undress
- get ready — the state or condition of being ready.
- ghaziabad — a city in Uttar Pradesh, N central India, near New Delhi.
- gianthood — the condition of being a giant
- gift card — gift voucher in plastic card form
- gileadite — a member of a branch of the Israelite tribe descended from Manasseh.
- giltheads — Plural form of gilthead.
- gimmalled — (of a mechanism) jointed
- gippsland — a fertile region of SE Australia, in SE Victoria, extending east along the coast from Melbourne to the New South Wales border. Area: 35 200 sq km (13 600 sq miles)
- girandole — a rotating and radiating firework.
- giraudoux — Jean [zhahn] /ʒɑ̃/ (Show IPA), 1882–1944, French novelist, playwright, and diplomat.
- girl band — A girl band is a band consisting of young women who sing pop music and dance.
- give head — the upper part of the body in humans, joined to the trunk by the neck, containing the brain, eyes, ears, nose, and mouth.
- glaciated — Covered or having been covered by glaciers or ice sheets.
- glaciered — covered by, or coming from, glaciers
- glad hand — greet insincerely
- glad rags — You can refer to clothes that you wear to parties and other special occasions as your glad rags.
- glad-hand — to greet warmly.
- gladdened — Simple past tense and past participle of gladden.
- gladiator — (in ancient Rome) a person, often a slave or captive, who was armed with a sword or other weapon and compelled to fight to the death in a public arena against another person or a wild animal, for the entertainment of the spectators.
- gladiolus — any plant of the genus Gladiolus, of the iris family, native especially to Africa, having erect, sword-shaped leaves and spikes of flowers in a variety of colors.
- gladsheim — the golden palace of Odin, of which Valhalla was a part.
- gladstone — William Ewart [yoo-ert] /ˈyu ərt/ (Show IPA), 1809–98, British statesman: prime minister four times between 1868 and 1894.
- glamoured — Simple past tense and past participle of glamour.
- glandered — affected with glanders.