9-letter words containing a, d, g
- megafarad — a unit of electric capacitance equal to one million farads
- megalodon — Any of a group of extinct sharks from the Oligocene to Pleistocene epochs.
- megapodes — Plural form of megapode.
- megatrend — a major trend or movement.
- mid-range — You can use mid-range to describe products or services which are neither the most expensive nor the cheapest of their type.
- mind game — an action or statement intended to undermine or mislead someone else, often to gain advantage for oneself
- misdating — Present participle of misdate.
- misgauged — Simple past tense and past participle of misgauge.
- misregard — (obsolete) Wrong understanding; misconstruction.
- mitigated — to lessen in force or intensity, as wrath, grief, harshness, or pain; moderate.
- mitnagged — a member of an Orthodox Jewish movement in central or eastern Europe in the 18th and 19th centuries that advocated an intellectual, legalistic approach to Judaism and opposed the emotional, mystical approach of the Hasidim. Compare Hasid (def 1).
- mixed bag — an often unexpected assortment of various things, people, or ideas: The concert was a mixed bag of works from three centuries.
- mogadishu — an independent republic on the E coast of Africa, formed from the former British Somaliland and the former Italian Somaliland. 246,198 sq. mi. (637,653 sq. km). Capital: Mogadishu.
- moonglade — (poetic, rare) The bright reflection of moonlight on a body of water.
- mortgaged — a conveyance of an interest in property as security for the repayment of money borrowed.
- mossadegh — Mohammed, 1880–1967, Iranian statesman: premier 1951–53.
- mridangam — an ancient drum of India shaped like a long conical barrel with two tuned heads of different sizes.
- mudguards — Plural form of mudguard.
- nagyvarad — Hungarian name of Oradea.
- nand gate — Computers. a circuit that is energized when any one of its inputs is not energized.
- naugahyde — a brand of synthetic leather made from vinyl-coated fabric
- navigated — Simple past tense and past participle of navigate.
- negatived — Simple past tense and past participle of negative.
- negrohead — a type of low-quality India rubber
- niggardly — reluctant to give or spend; stingy; miserly.
- nightward — heading towards night, heading westwards
- nonfading — not fading
- nonglazed — not glazed
- nongraded — without grade levels: a nongraded school.
- noseguard — middle guard.
- oak ridge — a city in E Tennessee, near Knoxville: atomic research center.
- obligated — to bind or oblige morally or legally: to obligate oneself to purchase a building.
- off guard — to keep safe from harm or danger; protect; watch over: to guard the ruler.
- off-guard — to keep safe from harm or danger; protect; watch over: to guard the ruler.
- oil gland — uropygial gland.
- old guard — the imperial guard created in 1804 by Napoleon: it made the last French charge at Waterloo.
- ondograph — an instrument for graphically recording oscillatory variations, as in alternating currents.
- onondagan — a member of a tribe of Iroquoian Indians formerly inhabiting the region of Onondaga Lake.
- orangeade — a beverage consisting of orange juice, sweetener, and water, sometimes carbonated.
- ordaining — Present participle of ordain.
- organised — to form as or into a whole consisting of interdependent or coordinated parts, especially for united action: to organize a committee.
- organized — affiliated in an organization, especially a union: organized dockworkers.
- outdating — Present participle of outdate.
- outgassed — Simple past tense and past participle of outgas.
- outranged — Simple past tense and past participle of outrange.
- overgrade — to grade too highly
- paedology — the study of the character, growth, and development of children
- page mode — 1. (hardware, storage) See page mode DRAM. 2. (hardware) An operation mode of video terminals like the IBM 3270, in which the terminal only sends a completed input screen (page) to the host instead of sending each character as the keys are pressed.
- paginated — to indicate the sequence of pages in (a book, manuscript, etc.) by placing numbers or other characters on each leaf; to number the pages of.
- pandering — a person who furnishes clients for a prostitute or supplies persons for illicit sexual intercourse; procurer; pimp.