11-letter words containing a, g, e, n, d
- finedrawing — Present participle of finedraw.
- fingerboard — (of a violin, cello, etc.) the strip of wood on the neck against which the strings are stopped by the fingers.
- fingerguard — something that protects the fingers
- flying head — a read/write head supported on a thin cushion of air over a rotating magnetic disk.
- foreign aid — economic, technical, or military aid given by one nation to another for purposes of relief and rehabilitation, for economic stabilization, or for mutual defense.
- frankpledge — a system of dividing a community into tithings or groups of ten men, each member of which was responsible for the conduct of the other members of his group and for the assurance that a member charged with a breach of the law would be produced at court.
- freeloading — to take advantage of others for free food, entertainment, etc.
- gallivanted — Simple past tense and past participle of gallivant.
- game warden — a public official who enforces game laws.
- ganglioside — any of a class of glycolipids, found chiefly in nerve ganglia, that upon hydrolysis yield sphingosine, neuraminic acid, a fatty acid, and a monosaccharide.
- gangsterdom — the world of gangsters; gangland
- garage band — a rough-and-ready amateurish rock group
- garden city — a city in SE Michigan, near Detroit.
- garden flat — a flat with direct access to a garden: typically, a garden flat consists of basement accommodation in prewar property, but some are in purpose-built blocks in urban areas
- garden hose — tube for spraying plants with water
- garden path — paved walkway
- garden pink — the plant Dianthus plumarius
- garden seat — a seat, usually kept permanently outdoors in a garden
- garden wall — a wall surrounding a garden or separating two gardens
- garden-path — noting or pertaining to a sentence that is easily parsed incorrectly because its beginning suggests it has an interpretation that it clearly does not have.
- garlandless — without a garland or garlands
- garnet jade — a green grossularite, used as a gem: not a true jade.
- gas welding — a method of welding in which a combination of gases, usually oxyacetylene, is used to provide a hot flame
- gazundering — Present participle of gazunder.
- gelatinated — Simple past tense and past participle of gelatinate.
- gelatinized — Simple past tense and past participle of gelatinize.
- gendarmerie — gendarmes collectively; a body of gendarmes.
- gender bias — sexual discrimination
- gene amdahl — (person) A former IBM engineer who founded Amdahl Corporation.
- generalised — Alternative spelling of generalized.
- generalized — to infer (a general principle, trend, etc.) from particular facts, statistics, or the like.
- geniculated — Geniculate.
- genocidaire — a person who is guilty of genocide
- genomic dna — the DNA constituting the genome of a cell or organism, as distinguished from extrachromosomal DNAs, such as plasmids. Abbreviation: gDNA.
- geodynamics — (used with a singular verb) the science dealing with dynamic processes or forces within the earth.
- gerrymander — U.S. Politics. the dividing of a state, county, etc., into election districts so as to give one political party a majority in many districts while concentrating the voting strength of the other party into as few districts as possible.
- ghost dance — a ritual dance intended to establish communion with the dead, especially such a dance as performed by various messianic western American Indian cults in the late 19th century.
- giant eland — a similar but larger animal, T. derbianus, living in wooded areas of central and W Africa
- giant-sized — An object that is giant-sized is much bigger than objects of its kind usually are.
- giganticide — the slaughter of giants
- gingerbread — a type of cake flavored with ginger and molasses.
- give a damn — to declare (something) to be bad, unfit, invalid, or illegal.
- give a hand — the terminal, prehensile part of the upper limb in humans and other primates, consisting of the wrist, metacarpal area, fingers, and thumb.
- glad-hander — to greet warmly.
- gladfulness — The quality of being gladful.
- glide plane — a symmetry element of a space group such that a reflection of the lattice with respect to the plane and a translation of the lattice parallel to the plane bring the lattice back to its original position.
- go-go dance — a dance performed by a go-go dancer
- goaltenders — Plural form of goaltender.
- goaltending — goalkeeping.
- god-fearing — deeply respectful or fearful of God.