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11-letter words containing d, o, u, g

  • foregrounds — Plural form of foreground.
  • four-legged — having four legs.
  • fundholding — (economics) The holding of a fund.
  • gain ground — profit or advantage.
  • get used to — develop habit
  • give ground — the quality or state of being resilient; springiness.
  • glamourized — Simple past tense and past participle of glamourize.
  • glucosidase — (enzyme) Any enzyme that hydrolyses glucosides.
  • glucuronide — a glycoside that yields glucuronic acid upon hydrolysis.
  • god help us — If you say God help us, you mean that you have negative feelings about the person or situation you are talking about.
  • goddaughter — a female godchild.
  • goes around — to move or proceed, especially to or from something: They're going by bus.
  • golden buck — a dish consisting of Welsh rabbit topped with a poached egg.
  • golden bull — an edict of Charles IV, emperor of the Holy Roman Empire, issued in 1356 and in force until the extinction of the empire in 1806, in which the selection of the emperor was entrusted to seven Electors.
  • 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.
  • golden hour — the first hour after a serious accident, when it is crucial that the victim receives medical treatment in order to have a chance of surviving
  • golden rule — a rule of ethical conduct, usually phrased “Do unto others as you would have them do unto you,” or, as in the Sermon on the Mount, “Whatsoever ye would that men should do to you, do ye even so unto them.” Matt. 7:12; Luke 6:31.
  • good nature — pleasant disposition; kindly nature; amiability.
  • good on you — well done, well said, etc: a term of congratulation
  • goodnatured — Alternative spelling of good-natured.
  • goof around — to blunder; make an error, misjudgment, etc.
  • gourmandise — unrestrained enjoyment of fine foods, wines, and the like.
  • gourmandism — a person who is fond of good eating, often indiscriminatingly and to excess.
  • gourmandize — to enjoy fine food and drink, especially often and in lavish quantity.
  • graduations — Plural form of graduation.
  • grand juror — a person serving on a grand jury.
  • green pound — a unit of account used in calculating Britain's contributions to and payments from the Community Agricultural Fund of the EU
  • grind house — a burlesque house, especially one providing continuous entertainment at reduced prices.
  • grind-house — a burlesque house, especially one providing continuous entertainment at reduced prices.
  • grossed out — without deductions; total, as the amount of sales, salary, profit, etc., before taking deductions for expenses, taxes, or the like (opposed to net2. ): gross earnings; gross sales.
  • ground bait — chum2 (def 1).
  • ground ball — a batted ball that rolls or bounces along the ground.
  • ground bass — a short fundamental bass part continually repeated throughout a movement.
  • ground beam — a reinforced concrete beam for supporting walls, joists, etc., at or near ground level, itself either resting directly upon the ground or supported at both ends by piers.
  • ground beef — meat: minced beef
  • ground crew — ground personnel responsible for the maintenance and repair of aircraft.
  • ground dove — any of several small terrestrial doves of the warmer parts of the Americas, especially Columbina passerina.
  • ground game — game animals, such as hares or deer, found on the earth's surface: distinguished from game birds
  • ground itch — a disease of the skin of the feet, caused by penetration of hookworm larvae, characterized by a blisterlike eruption and itching.
  • ground loop — a sharp horizontal loop performed, usually involuntarily, while touching the ground.
  • ground pine — any of several species of club moss, especially Lycopodium obscurum or L. complanatum.
  • ground pink — a plant, Linanthus dianthiflorus, of southern California, having pink or white flowers.
  • ground plan — Also called groundplot. the plan of a floor of a building.
  • ground plum — a prostrate milk vetch, Astragalus crassicarpus, of the legume family, growing in the prairie regions of North America.
  • ground rent — the rent at which land is let to a tenant either for a long term or perpetually.
  • ground rule — Usually, ground rules. basic or governing principles of conduct in any situation or field of endeavor: the ground rules of press conferences.
  • ground wave — a radio wave that propagates on or near the earth's surface and is affected by the ground and the troposphere.
  • ground wire — a lead from an electric apparatus to the earth or to a ground connection.
  • ground zero — the point on the surface of the earth or water directly below, directly above, or at which an atomic or hydrogen bomb explodes.
  • ground-fish — bottom-fish.
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