11-letter words containing d, o, u, g
- misdoubting — Present participle of misdoubt.
- molly-guard — /mol'ee-gard/ [University of Illinois] A shield to prevent tripping of some Big Red Switch by clumsy or ignorant hands. Originally used of the plexiglass covers improvised for the BRS on an IBM 4341 after a programmer's toddler daughter (named Molly) frobbed it twice in one day. Later generalised to covers over stop/reset switches on disk drives and networking equipment.
- mount guard — If you mount guard or if you mount a guard, you organize people to watch or protect a person or place.
- mouth guard — protective shield for teeth
- nonbuilding — Not being or pertaining to a building.
- nongraduate — a person who is not a graduate of an educational institution
- nonreducing — that does not reduce
- open ground — uncovered or unobstructed ground in a wide open space
- orphan drug — Pharmacology. a drug that remains undeveloped or untested or is otherwise neglected because of limited potential for commercial gain.
- ouagadougou — a republic in W Africa: formerly part of French West Africa. 106,111 sq. mi. (274,827 sq. km). Capital: Ouagadougou.
- out-lodging — a lodging found outside an area
- outbreeding — to breed selected individuals outside the limits of the breed or variety.
- outbuilding — a detached building subordinate to a main building.
- outdazzling — Present participle of outdazzles.
- outdrinking — Present participle of outdrink.
- outspeeding — Present participle of outspeed.
- outstanding — prominent; conspicuous; striking: an outstanding example of courage.
- over-budget — costing or being more than the amount alloted or budgeted: The building is half-finished and it's already overbudget.
- overdraught — (chiefly, British) An overdraft.
- overdubbing — Present participle of overdub.
- overfunding — a supply of money or pecuniary resources, as for some purpose: a fund for his education; a retirement fund.
- overindulge — eat, do to excess
- pedagoguery — a teacher; schoolteacher.
- pedagoguish — resembling or reminiscent of a pedagogue
- point guard — Basketball. the guard who directs the team's offense from the point.
- promulgated — to make known by open declaration; publish; proclaim formally or put into operation (a law, decree of a court, etc.).
- pseudograph — a piece of writing that is falsely ascribed
- pseudologia — a psychological condition in which a patient tells elaborate, false stories believing them to be true
- pseudologue — a person who suffers from pseudologia
- public good — benefit of all people
- puget sound — an arm of the Pacific, in NW Washington.
- qinhuangdao — a seaport in NE Hebei province, in NE China, on the Bohai.
- quinagolide — A dopamine agonist used to treat elevated levels of prolactin.
- quindecagon — a polygon having 15 angles and 15 sides.
- readthrough — reading (def 1).
- rough draft — writing: unfinished version
- rough edges — lack of refinement
- rough trade — male homosexual prostitution, especially involving brutality or sadism.
- round angle — perigon.
- ruling body — authority, group in charge
- running dog — Disparaging. a person or institution subservient to counterrevolutionary interests. a manipulable, servile follower; lackey: to be reviled as a running dog of the colonialists.
- sand grouse — any of several birds of the family Pteroclididae inhabiting sandy areas of the Old World, resembling both pigeons and shorebirds and having precocial young.
- 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.
- shogun bond — a bond sold on the Japanese market by a foreign institution and denominated in a foreign currency
- smouldering — burning slowly without flame, usually emitting smoke
- soft ground — an etching ground usually mixed with tallow. Compare hard ground.
- sound stage — a large, soundproof studio used for filming motion pictures.
- south ogden — a town in N Utah.
- southbridge — a town in S Massachusetts.
- spotted gum — an Australian eucalyptus tree, Eucalyptus maculata