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10-letter words containing a, n, d, g

  • ride again — to return to a former activity or scene of activity
  • right-hand — on the right.
  • ring dance — round dance.
  • ringleader — a person who leads others, especially in opposition to authority, law, etc.: a ringleader of revolutionary activities.
  • rio grande — a city in NE Puerto Rico.
  • road agent — (formerly) a highwayman, especially along stagecoach routes in the western U.S.
  • roadmaking — road building
  • run ragged — to cause to be exhausted, as by constant pressure or harassment
  • salmagundi — a mixed dish consisting usually of cubed poultry or fish, chopped meat, anchovies, eggs, onions, oil, etc., often served as a salad.
  • salt gland — a gland, located in the head of seabirds and various marine mammals and reptiles, that secretes into the nasal passages the excess salt imbibed or ingested.
  • sand tiger — any of several sharks of the family Odontaspididae, especially Odontaspis taurus, inhabiting shallow waters on both sides of the Atlantic Ocean, having sharp, jagged teeth and sometimes dangerous to humans.
  • sand wedge — a club with a flanged sole and a face angle of more than 50°, used in bunker shots to cut through sand, get under the ball, and lift it clear
  • sandbagged — a bag filled with sand, used in fortification, as ballast, etc.
  • sandbagger — a bag filled with sand, used in fortification, as ballast, etc.
  • sanderling — a common, small sandpiper, Calidris alba, inhabiting sandy beaches.
  • sandgroper — a nickname for a Western Australian
  • sandgrouse — any of several birds of the family Pteroclididae inhabiting sandy areas of the Old World, resembling both pigeons and shorebirds and having precocial young.
  • sang-froid — coolness of mind; calmness; composure: They committed the robbery with complete sang-froid.
  • scandaling — a disgraceful or discreditable action, circumstance, etc.
  • scanderbeg — (George Castriota) 1403?–68, Albanian chief and revolutionary leader.
  • serenading — a complimentary performance of vocal or instrumental music in the open air at night, as by a lover under the window of his lady.
  • shagreened — made, covered with, or resembling shagreen
  • shandygaff — a mixed drink of beer with ginger beer.
  • shanghaied — to enroll or obtain (a sailor) for the crew of a ship by unscrupulous means, as by force or the use of liquor or drugs.
  • shin guard — a protective covering, usually of leather or plastic and often padded, for the shins and sometimes the knees, worn chiefly by catchers in baseball and goalkeepers in ice hockey.
  • signal red — pimento (def 3).
  • silk gland — any of several glands, as in various insects and spiders, that secrete a viscid protein substance which hardens into silk on contact with air.
  • smaragdine — of or relating to emeralds.
  • snapdragon — any plant belonging to the genus Antirrhinum, of the figwort family, especially A. majus, cultivated for its spikes of showy flowers, each having a corolla supposed to resemble the mouth of a dragon.
  • sodcasting — the practice of playing music through the speakers of a mobile phone in a public space
  • sognafjord — a fjord in the Norwegian Sea in SW Norway: the longest in Norway. 126 miles (203 km) long and up to 4291 feet (1308 meters) deep.
  • soundstage — a soundproof room or building in which cinematic films are shot
  • spatangoid — a type of sea urchin
  • spindleage — total number or capacity of spindles in a mill, area, etc.
  • spinigrade — a type of spiny echinoderm
  • springdale — a city in NW Arkansas.
  • springhead — a spring or fountainhead from which a stream flows.
  • stalingrad — former name of Volgograd.
  • standing o — standing ovation
  • staudinger — Hermann [her-mahn] /ˈhɛr mɑn/ (Show IPA), 1881–1965, German chemist: Nobel prize 1953.
  • steganopod — a bird belonging to the Steganopodes, a group of swimming birds such as pelicans and cormorants
  • stewarding — a person who manages another's property or financial affairs; one who administers anything as the agent of another or others.
  • subheading — a subordinate division of a title or heading.
  • swing band — a band that plays swing jazz
  • swung dash — a mark of punctuation (∼) used in place of a word or part of a word previously spelled out.
  • tanglewood — a town in W Massachusetts, in the Berkshire Hills: a former estate (Tanglewood) in the area is the site of annual summer music festivals.
  • tea garden — a tea plantation.
  • tender age — youth
  • the dragon — the constellation Draco
  • the ogaden — a region of SE Ethiopia, bordering on Somalia: consists of a desert plateau, inhabited by Somali nomads; a secessionist movement, supported by Somalia, has existed within the region since the early 1960s and led to bitter fighting between Ethiopia and Somalia (1977–78)
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