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14-letter words containing d, o, g, p

  • geodemographic — Of or pertaining to geography and demography.
  • glacial period — Also called glacial period, ice age. the geologically recent Pleistocene Epoch, during which much of the Northern Hemisphere was covered by great ice sheets.
  • global product — a commercial product that is marketed throughout the world under the same brand name
  • go pear-shaped — If a situation goes pear-shaped, bad things start happening.
  • goodfellowship — cheerful company
  • grand ole opry — a successful radio show from Nashville, Tenn., first broadcast on Nov. 28, 1925, noted for its playing of and continuing importance to country music.
  • grapple ground — an anchorage, especially for small vessels.
  • great red spot — a large, usually reddish gaseous vortex on the surface of Jupiter, about 14,000 by 30,000 km, that drifts about slowly as the planet rotates and has been observed for several hundred years.
  • grid capacitor — a capacitor connected in series with the grid.
  • groundskeepers — Plural form of groundskeeper.
  • groundskeeping — The activity of tending an area of land for aesthetic or functional purposes; typically as an employee of a person or institution.
  • group dynamics — (used with a plural verb) the interactions that influence the attitudes and behavior of people when they are grouped with others through either choice or accidental circumstances.
  • group medicine — the practice of medicine by a number of specialists working together in association
  • gunpowder plot — an unsuccessful plot to kill King James I and the assembled Lords and Commons by blowing up Parliament, November 5, 1605, in revenge for the laws against Roman Catholics.
  • gynandromorphs — Plural form of gynandromorph.
  • high-card pool — red dog.
  • hydrographical — Hydrographic.
  • hydroxyl group — the univalent group –OH, as in inorganic compounds, such as sodium hydroxide, NaOH, or as in organic compounds, such as ethyl alcohol, C 2 H 6 O.
  • infant prodigy — an exceptionally talented child
  • island-hopping — to travel from island to island, especially to visit a series of islands in the same chain or area.
  • itching powder — a powder that causes itching when applied to human skin. usually used as a practical joke on an unsuspecting victim
  • lead poisoning — Pathology. a toxic condition produced by ingestion, inhalation, or skin absorption of lead or lead compounds, resulting in various dose-related symptoms including anemia, nausea, muscle weakness, confusion, blindness, and coma. Also called plumbism, saturnism. this condition occurring in adults whose work involves contact with lead products.
  • lending policy — a set of guidelines and criteria developed by a bank and used by its employees to determine whether an applicant for a loan should be granted or refused the loan
  • lodgepole pine — a tall, narrow, slow-growing coniferous tree, Pinus contorta, of western North America, having egg-shaped cones that remain closed for years.
  • lymphoglandula — (anatomy) An alternative name for a lymph node.
  • medigap policy — A Medigap policy is a private extra health insurance plan in the U.S. that provides coverage for medical expenses that are not or only partially covered by Medicare.
  • mind uploading — (application)   The science fiction concept of copying one's mind into an artificial body or computer.
  • modular prolog — An interpreter for SB-Prolog version 3.1 extended with ML-style modules. Runs on SPARC. Distributed under GNU General Public License.
  • myocardiograph — an instrument for recording the movements of the heart.
  • old portuguese — the language of Portugal as spoken and written from the 14th to the middle of the 16th centuries.
  • on the upgrade — improving or progressing, as in importance, status, health, etc
  • overdeveloping — Present participle of overdevelop.
  • overprivileged — having too many advantages or opportunities compared to others.
  • overprogrammed — characterized by overprogramming
  • page mode dram — Page Mode Dynamic Random Access Memory
  • painted tongue — a Chilean plant, Salpiglossis sinuata, of the nightshade family, having large, funnel-shaped flowers in a variety of colors.
  • palaeopedology — the study of ancient soils
  • partridge wood — the rotted condition of the wood of certain trees, especially oaks, caused by a parasitic fungus, Xylobolus frustulatus.
  • partridge-wood — the rotted condition of the wood of certain trees, especially oaks, caused by a parasitic fungus, Xylobolus frustulatus.
  • passenger door — a car door that is used by a passenger
  • perhydrogenate — to hydrogenate as completely as possible.
  • perhydrogenize — perhydrogenate.
  • periodic group — (database)   (PE) Groups of logically related fields which occur multiple times within a group. Periodic groups are a non-relational technique. An example of a PE would be for storing the history of a person's name changes, where name was kept in logically related fields such as surname, first name and middle name - with the person having changed their name more than once.
  • periodontology — periodontics.
  • photorecording — the act of making photographic records, especially of documents.
  • pigeon-chested — having a narrow chest that sticks out at the front in an unusual way
  • pigeon-hearted — timid; meek.
  • pigeon-livered — meek-tempered; spiritless; mild.
  • piston-engined — powered by a piston engine
  • planning board — development group
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