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11-letter words containing d, o, c

  • funduscopic — Relating to funduscopy.
  • galactoside — A glycoside yielding galactose on hydrolysis.
  • gasconading — extravagant boasting; boastful talk.
  • 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.
  • geomedicine — the branch of medicine dealing with the effect of geography on disease.
  • george dick — George Frederick, 1881–1967, U.S. internist.
  • gerodontics — the branch of dentistry dealing with aging and aged persons.
  • ghetto code — (humour, programming)   A particularly inelegant and obviously suboptimal section of code that still meets the original requirements.
  • 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.
  • glochidiate — (botany) Having barbs.
  • glucosidase — (enzyme) Any enzyme that hydrolyses glucosides.
  • glucuronide — a glycoside that yields glucuronic acid upon hydrolysis.
  • glycolipids — Plural form of glycolipid.
  • glycosidase — (enzyme) Any enzyme that catalyses the hydrolysis of a glycoside.
  • go commando — to wear no underpants
  • go-go dance — a dance performed by a go-go dancer
  • gob-smacked — utterly astounded; astonished.
  • 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.
  • golden buck — a dish consisting of Welsh rabbit topped with a poached egg.
  • golden calf — a golden idol set up by Aaron and worshiped by the Israelites. Ex. 32.
  • golden club — an aquatic plant, Orontium aquaticum, of the arum family, native to the eastern U.S., having blue-green leaves and a clublike spadix covered with tiny yellow flowers.
  • goldfinches — Plural form of goldfinch.
  • goldschmidt — Richard Benedikt. 1878–1958, US geneticist, born in Germany. He advanced the theory that heredity is determined by the chemical configuration of the chromosome molecule rather than by the qualities of the individual genes
  • gonadectomy — (surgery) The procedure to remove an ovary or testis.
  • 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.
  • hack around — to cut, notch, slice, chop, or sever (something) with or as with heavy, irregular blows (often followed by up or down): to hack meat; to hack down trees.
  • half cocked — to set the hammer of (a firearm) at half cock.
  • half-closed — having or forming a boundary or barrier: He was blocked by a closed door. The house had a closed porch.
  • half-cocked — (of a firearm) at the position of half cock.
  • half-cooked — not cooked thoroughly
  • half-second — 1/120 of a minute of time
  • hand scroll — a roll of parchment, paper, copper, or other material, especially one with writing on it: a scroll containing the entire Old Testament.
  • handscrolls — Plural form of handscroll.
  • hard sector — (storage)   An archaic floppy disk format employing multiple synchronisation holes in the media to define the sectors.
  • hard-coated — having a coarsely textured coat, as a dog.
  • harmolodics — the technique of each musician in a group simultaneously improvising around the melodic and rhythmic patterns in a tune, rather than one musician improvising on its underlying harmonic pattern while the others play an accompaniment
  • harpsichord — a keyboard instrument, precursor of the piano, in which the strings are plucked by leather or quill points connected with the keys, in common use from the 16th to the 18th century, and revived in the 20th.
  • hash coding — (programming, algorithm)   (Or "hashing") A scheme for providing rapid access to data items which are distinguished by some key. Each data item to be stored is associated with a key, e.g. the name of a person. A hash function is applied to the item's key and the resulting hash value is used as an index to select one of a number of "hash buckets" in a hash table. The table contains pointers to the original items. If, when adding a new item, the hash table already has an entry at the indicated location then that entry's key must be compared with the given key to see if it is the same. If two items' keys hash to the same value (a "hash collision") then some alternative location is used (e.g. the next free location cyclically following the indicated one). For best performance, the table size and hash function must be tailored to the number of entries and range of keys to be used. The hash function usually depends on the table size so if the table needs to be enlarged it must usually be completely rebuilt. When you look up a name in the phone book (for example), you typically hash it by extracting its first letter; the hash buckets are the alphabetically ordered letter sections. See also: btree, checksum, CRC, pseudorandom number, random, random number, soundex.
  • head collar — the part of a bridle that fits round a horse's head
  • head doctor — chief medical officer
  • head office — headquarters
  • hederaceous — (rare) Of, pertaining to, or resembling ivy.
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