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11-letter words containing c, o, r, d, g

  • dog curtain — a flap on a canvas cover for a binnacle, affording a view of the compass when raised.
  • dog fancier — a person with a special interest in dogs
  • dog officer — dogcatcher.
  • dog-catcher — a person employed by a municipal pound, humane society, or the like, to find and impound stray or homeless dogs, cats, etc.
  • dogcatchers — Plural form of dogcatcher.
  • door charge — an entrance fee.
  • drag anchor — (of a vessel) to move away from its mooring because the anchor has failed to hold
  • dry-dockage — the act or fact of placing a ship in a dry dock.
  • forcing bid — a bid, often at a higher level than is required, that is understood to oblige the bidder's partner to reply
  • frog orchid — any of several orchids having greenish flowers thought to resemble small frogs, esp Coeloglossum viride of calcareous turf
  • frogmarched — Simple past tense and past participle of frogmarch.
  • genocidaire — a person who is guilty of genocide
  • george dickGeorge Frederick, 1881–1967, U.S. internist.
  • gerodontics — the branch of dentistry dealing with aging and aged persons.
  • glucuronide — a glycoside that yields glucuronic acid upon hydrolysis.
  • godchildren — Plural form of godchild.
  • goldbricked — Simple past tense and past participle of goldbrick.
  • goldbricker — Informal. a brick made to look like gold, sold by a swindler.
  • good graces — If you are in someone's good graces, they are pleased with you.
  • ground crew — ground personnel responsible for the maintenance and repair of aircraft.
  • ground itch — a disease of the skin of the feet, caused by penetration of hookworm larvae, characterized by a blisterlike eruption and itching.
  • groundcloth — A groundcloth is a piece of waterproof material which you put on the ground to sleep on when you are camping.
  • groundcover — Alternative spelling of ground cover.
  • ideogrammic — Being, or pertaining to, an ideogram.
  • ideographic — an ideogram.
  • idiographic — pertaining to or involving the study or explication of individual cases or events (opposed to nomothetic).
  • introducing — to present (a person) to another so as to make acquainted.
  • langobardic — Lombard1 (def 4).
  • mockingbird — any of several gray, black, and white songbirds of the genus Mimus, especially M. polyglottos, of the U.S. and Mexico, noted for their ability to mimic the songs of other birds.
  • nonreducing — that does not reduce
  • odd pricing — a strategy whereby retail prices are set at levels a little less than a round number, for example $19.99, £8.98, £99.95
  • orchidology — the branch of botany or horticulture dealing with orchids.
  • overcharged — Simple past tense and past participle of overcharge.
  • piping cord — Cord that is covered in fabric and used to decorate a seam
  • proceedings — a particular action or course or manner of action.
  • raccoon dog — a small wild dog of the genus Nyctereutes, common in Asia, resembling a raccoon in coat and coloration.
  • reconsigned — to hand over or deliver formally or officially; commit (often followed by to).
  • rerecording — the preparation of the final sound track of a film or video production, including the mixing of sound effects and dialogue, the recording of additional dialogue, and the addition of music.
  • riding crop — crop (def 7).
  • road racing — a competitive event of racing in automobiles, motorcycles, or bicycles over public roads or a twisting course simulating a public road, as opposed to a closed, banked track or a drag strip.
  • rock garden — a garden on rocky ground or among rocks, for the growing of alpine or other plants.
  • rock-garden — a garden on rocky ground or among rocks, for the growing of alpine or other plants.
  • ropedancing — the act of dancing on a rope
  • scattergood — a spendthrift.
  • schrödinbug — (jargon, programming)   /shroh'din-buhg/ (MIT, from the Schrödinger's Cat thought-experiment in quantum physics) A design or implementation bug that doesn't manifest until someone reading the source code or using the program in an unusual way notices that it never should have worked, at which point it stops working until fixed. Though (like bit rot) this sounds impossible, it happens; some programs have harboured schrödinbugs for years. Compare heisenbug, Bohr bug, mandelbug.
  • schrodinger — Erwin [er-vin] /ˈɛr vɪn/ (Show IPA), 1887–1961, German physicist: Nobel prize 1933.
  • service dog — a dog trained to assist a person with a disability that is not related to vision or hearing.
  • sockdolager — something unusually large, heavy, etc.
  • sockdoliger — a conclusive argument; a hard blow
  • sockdologer — a decisive blow or remark
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