9-letter words containing d, r, e, a
- godparent — a godfather or godmother.
- goldarned — goddamn (used as a euphemism in expressions of anger, disgust, surprise, etc.).
- goldwater — Barry Morris, 1909–1998, U.S. politician: U.S senator 1953–64 and 1968–87.
- goosander — a common merganser, Mergus merganser, of Eurasia and North America.
- gradeless — Without a grade.
- grademark — a symbol noting the relative quality of a product, as lumber.
- gradients — Plural form of gradient.
- graduated — of, relating to, or involved in academic study beyond the first or bachelor's degree: graduate courses in business; a graduate student.
- graduates — Plural form of graduate.
- grand feu — a firing of ceramics at a high temperature.
- grand pre — a village in central Nova Scotia, on Minas Basin: locale of Longfellow's Evangeline.
- grandeurs — the quality or state of being impressive or awesome: the grandeur of the Rocky Mountains.
- grandezza — Magnificent or stately appearance; grandeur.
- grandgent — Charles Hall, 1862–1939, U.S. philologist and essayist.
- grandiose — affectedly grand or important; pompous: grandiose words.
- grandness — impressive in size, appearance, or general effect: grand mountain scenery.
- grandsire — a grandfather.
- grandview — a town in W Missouri.
- grapeseed — The seed of the grape.
- graphited — Modified by the addition of graphite.
- gratified — Obsolete. to reward; remunerate.
- gratineed — to bake or broil (food) in au gratin style.
- gratitude — the quality or feeling of being grateful or thankful: He expressed his gratitude to everyone on the staff.
- gravelled — Simple past tense and past participle of gravel.
- gravesend — a seaport in NW Kent, in SE England, on the Thames River: incorporated into Gravesham 1974.
- graveside — the area beside a grave.
- graveward — moving towards the grave or death
- graveyard — a burial ground, often associated with smaller rural churches, as distinct from a larger urban or public cemetery.
- gray code — (hardware) A binary sequence with the property that only one bit changes between any two consecutive elements (the two codes have a Hamming distance of one). The Gray code originated when digital logic circuits were built from vacuum tubes and electromechanical relays. Counters generated tremendous power demands and noise spikes when many bits changed at once. E.g. when incrementing a register containing 11111111, the back-EMF from the relays' collapsing magnetic fields required copious noise suppression. Using Gray code counters, any increment or decrement changed only one bit, regardless of the size of the number. Gray code can also be used to convert the angular position of a disk to digital form. A radial line of sensors reads the code off the surface of the disk and if the disk is half-way between two positions each sensor might read its bit from both positions at once but since only one bit differs between the two, the value read is guaranteed to be one of the two valid values rather than some third (invalid) combination (a glitch). One possible algorithm for generating a Gray code sequence is to toggle the lowest numbered bit that results in a new code each time. Here is a four bit Gray code sequence generated in this way: 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 0 0 1 1 0 0 1 0 0 1 1 0 0 1 1 1 0 1 0 1 0 1 0 0 1 1 0 0 1 1 0 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 0 1 0 1 0 1 0 1 1 1 0 0 1 1 0 0 0 The codes were patented in 1953 by Frank Gray, a Bell Labs researcher.
- graybeard — Sometimes Disparaging. a man whose beard is gray; old man; sage.
- great dog — the constellation Canis Major.
- greendale — a town in SE Wisconsin.
- greenhand — an inexperienced person, esp a sailor
- greenhead — a male mallard.
- greenland — a self-governing island belonging to Denmark, located NE of North America: the largest island in the world. About 844,000 sq. mi. (2,186,000 sq. km); about 700,000 sq. mi. (1,800,000 sq. km) icecapped. Capital: Godthåb.
- greensand — a sandstone containing much glauconite, which gives it a greenish hue.
- greenward — Towards an ecologically friendly situation.
- grenadian — one of the Windward Islands, in the E West Indies.
- grenadier — (in the British army) a member of the first regiment of household infantry (Grenadier Guards)
- grenadine — a syrup made from pomegranate juice.
- greybeard — Sometimes Disparaging. a man whose beard is gray; old man; sage.
- grid leak — a high-resistance device that permits excessive charges on the grid to leak off or escape.
- grindelia — any of various composite plants of the genus Grindelia, comprising the gumweeds.
- groundage — a tax levied on ships that anchor in a port.
- grunewald — Mathias [mah-tee-ahs] /mɑˈti ɑs/ (Show IPA), (Mathias Neithardt-Gothardt) c1470–1528, German painter and architect.
- guanadrel — a substance, C 20 H 40 N 6 O 8 S, used as an antihypertensive.
- guardedly — cautious; careful; prudent: to be guarded in one's speech.
- guardless — Defenceless.
- guardsmen — Plural form of guardsman.
- haberdash — To deal in small wares.