9-letter words containing a, d, o, g
- good deal — to occupy oneself or itself (usually followed by with or in): Botany deals with the study of plants. He deals in generalities.
- good hair — hair showing evidence of some European strain in a person's blood
- good name — reputation
- goodfaced — with a handsome face
- goodfella — a gangster, esp one in the Mafia
- goody bag — A goody bag is a bag of little gifts, often given away by manufacturers in order to encourage people to try their products.
- goosander — a common merganser, Mergus merganser, of Eurasia and North America.
- gourmands — Plural form of gourmand.
- gradation — any process or change taking place through a series of stages, by degrees, or in a gradual manner.
- gradatory — (architecture) A series of steps from a cloister into a church.
- graduator — One who determines or indicates graduation.
- grandiose — affectedly grand or important; pompous: grandiose words.
- grandioso — grand and imposing.
- grandsons — Plural form of grandson.
- granitoid — resembling or having the texture of granite.
- gray body — any body that emits radiation at each wavelength in a constant ratio less than unity to that emitted by a black body at the same temperature.
- gray code — (hardware) A binary sequence with the property that only one bit changes between any two consecutive elements (the two codes have a Hamming distance of one). The Gray code originated when digital logic circuits were built from vacuum tubes and electromechanical relays. Counters generated tremendous power demands and noise spikes when many bits changed at once. E.g. when incrementing a register containing 11111111, the back-EMF from the relays' collapsing magnetic fields required copious noise suppression. Using Gray code counters, any increment or decrement changed only one bit, regardless of the size of the number. Gray code can also be used to convert the angular position of a disk to digital form. A radial line of sensors reads the code off the surface of the disk and if the disk is half-way between two positions each sensor might read its bit from both positions at once but since only one bit differs between the two, the value read is guaranteed to be one of the two valid values rather than some third (invalid) combination (a glitch). One possible algorithm for generating a Gray code sequence is to toggle the lowest numbered bit that results in a new code each time. Here is a four bit Gray code sequence generated in this way: 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 0 0 1 1 0 0 1 0 0 1 1 0 0 1 1 1 0 1 0 1 0 1 0 0 1 1 0 0 1 1 0 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 0 1 0 1 0 1 0 1 1 1 0 0 1 1 0 0 0 The codes were patented in 1953 by Frank Gray, a Bell Labs researcher.
- gray mold — a disease of plants, characterized by a gray, furry coating on the decaying parts, caused by any of several fungi.
- grayhound — one of a breed of tall, slender, short-haired dogs, noted for its keen sight and swiftness.
- great dog — the constellation Canis Major.
- grid road — a municipal road that follows a grid line established by the original survey of the area.
- groundage — a tax levied on ships that anchor in a port.
- groundman — a groundsman
- guangdong — a province in SE China. 89,344 sq. mi. (231,401 sq. km). Capital: Canton.
- guanodine — (biochemistry, genetics) any of the three nucleotides guanosine monophosphate, guanosine diphosphate and guanosine triphosphate.
- guard dog — a large, aggressive dog, as a German shepherd or Doberman pinscher, trained to guard persons or property and often to attack or restrain on command.
- guardpost — Alternative spelling of guard post.
- guardroom — a room used by military guards during the period they are on duty.
- gynaecoid — Characteristic of a woman.
- hardgoods — durable goods, such as automobiles, furniture, etc.
- harmdoing — the doing of harm
- helgoland — a German island in the North Sea. ¼ sq. mi. (0.6 sq. km).
- high road — A high road is a main road.
- hoardings — Plural form of hoarding.
- hodograph — the figure described by the extremity of a vector that has a fixed origin and a position vector equal to the velocity of a moving particle.
- hogsheads — Plural form of hogshead.
- idealogue — One given to fanciful ideas or theories, someone who theorizes.
- ideograms — Plural form of ideogram.
- ideograph — an ideogram.
- idiograms — Plural form of idiogram.
- idiograph — a mark or signature characteristic of a particular person, organization, etc.; trademark. Compare logotype (def 2).
- iguanodon — a plant-eating dinosaur of the genus Iguanodon that lived in Europe early in the Cretaceous Period and grew to a length of from 15 to 30 feet (4.5 to 9 meters) and walked erect on its hind feet.
- indagator — to investigate; research.
- inroading — Present participle of inroad.
- langobard — Lombard1 (def 2).
- languedoc — a former province in S France. Capital: Toulouse.
- lodgeable — Capable of being lodged.
- logaoedic — composed of dactyls and trochees or of anapests and iambs, producing a movement somewhat suggestive of prose.
- long card — a card remaining in a hand after all the opponents' cards in that particular suit have been drawn.
- longbeard — bellarmine.