6-letter words containing d, a, n, g
- gonads — a sex gland in which gametes are produced; an ovary or testis.
- gondar — a former kingdom in E Africa: now a province in NW Ethiopia. Capital: Gondar.
- goonda — a rogue or hoodlum.
- gradin — one of a series of steps or seats raised one above another.
- grand- — (in designations of kinship) one generation removed in ascent or descent
- granda — (informal) (Scots, Northern England) grandfather.
- grande — a town in NE Oregon.
- hading — Geology. the angle between a fault plane and the vertical, measured perpendicular to the strike of the fault; complement of the dip.
- hagdon — any of various oceanic birds of the North Atlantic coasts of Europe and America, especially the greater shearwater.
- hanged — to fasten or attach (a thing) so that it is supported only from above or at a point near its own top; suspend.
- jading — a worn-out, broken-down, worthless, or vicious horse.
- lading — the act of lading.
- ligand — Biochemistry. a molecule, as an antibody, hormone, or drug, that binds to a receptor.
- madang — a seaport on the N coast of New Guinea, in Papua New Guinea.
- manged — /mahnjd/ [probably from the French "manger" or Italian "mangiare", to eat; perhaps influenced by English "mange", "mangy"] Refers to anything that is mangled or damaged, usually beyond repair. "The disk was manged after the electrical storm." Compare mung.
- nadger — (jargon) /nad'jr/ [Great Britain] To modify software or hardware in a hidden manner, generally so that it conforms better to some format. For instance, an assembly code string printing subroutine that takes its string argument from the instruction stream would be called like this: jsr print:"Hello world" The print routine would use the saved instruction pointer (its return address) to find its argument and would have to "nadger" it so that the processor returns to the instruction after the string.
- nagged — Simple past tense and past participle of nag.
- ngadju — a member of any of several Dayak tribes of southern Borneo.
- ogaden — an arid region in SE Ethiopia.
- padang — a seaport in W central Sumatra, in W Indonesia.
- padnag — an ambling horse
- ranged — working or grazing on a range: range horses; range animals like steer and sheep.
- tanged — a sharp ringing or twanging sound; clang.
- uganda — an independent state in E Africa, between the NE Democratic Republic of the Congo and Kenya: member of the Commonwealth of Nations; formerly a British protectorate. 91,065 sq. mi. (241,068 sq. km). Capital: Kampala.
- unaged — having lived or existed long; of advanced age; old: an aged man; an aged tree.
- unglad — not glad
- wading — to walk in water, when partially immersed: He wasn't swimming, he was wading.
- wanged — Simple past tense and past participle of wang.