10-letter words containing d, r, e, g
- minifridge — A small refrigerator, such as is often found in hotel or dormitory rooms.
- mischarged — Simple past tense and past participle of mischarge.
- misreading — Present participle of misread.
- moderating — kept or keeping within reasonable or proper limits; not extreme, excessive, or intense: a moderate price.
- mondegreen — a word or phrase resulting from a mishearing of another word or phrase, especially in a song or poem.
- mouldering — to turn to dust by natural decay; crumble; disintegrate; waste away: a house that had been left to molder.
- mudslinger — One who casts aspersion, who insults. Especially a political candidate who makes negative statements about the opposition.
- multigrade — a degree or step in a scale, as of rank, advancement, quality, value, or intensity: the best grade of paper.
- negri body — any of the microscopic bodies found in the nerve cells of animals affected with rabies.
- neighbored — Simple past tense and past participle of neighbor.
- niger seed — the black seed of a tropical African composite plant, Guizotia abyssinica, yielding an oil used as food, in the manufacture of soap, etc.
- niggardize — to act or treat in a niggardly fashion
- niggerhead — (nautical, dated, now offensive) A bollard made from an old cannon.
- nightdream — A dream that is experienced at night, sometimes as distinguished from a daydream. (from 16th c.).
- nightdress — nightclothes.
- nightrider — one of a band of mounted men, especially in the southern U.S. during Reconstruction, who committed nocturnal acts of violence and intimidation against blacks and black sympathizers.
- nonreading — Not reading.
- nose guard — middle guard.
- noseguards — Plural form of noseguard.
- objurgated — Simple past tense and past participle of objurgate.
- ogdensburg — a city in NE New York, on the St. Lawrence River.
- old geezer — elderly man
- old stager — stager (def 1).
- orangewood — the hard, fine-grained, yellowish wood of the orange tree, used in inlaid work and fine turnery.
- ore bridge — a gantry crane used for transferring ore to and from stockpiles.
- originated — Simple past tense and past participle of originate.
- orthograde — walking in an upright manner
- outredding — the act of redeeming land or goods
- overbridge — (British) A bridge that allows traffic to pass over a road, river, railway etc.
- overbudget — costing or being more than the amount alloted or budgeted: The building is half-finished and it's already overbudget.
- overdesign — to prepare the preliminary sketch or the plans for (a work to be executed), especially to plan the form and structure of: to design a new bridge.
- overdosage — Excessive dosage; taking too much of a pharmaceutical drug.
- overdosing — Present participle of overdose.
- overgrazed — to graze (land) to excess.
- overgreedy — too greedy
- overground — In an overground transport system, vehicles run on the surface of the ground, rather than below it.
- overriding — taking precedence over all other considerations.
- paper gold — special drawing rights.
- paraglider — Also called parawing. a steerable glider with inflatable wings proposed for use as an emergency vehicle for travel between a space station and the earth or for the recovery of rocket boosters.
- park ridge — a city in NE Illinois.
- pasargadae — an ancient ruined city in S Iran, NE of Persepolis: an early capital of ancient Persia; tomb of Cyrus the Great.
- pepperidge — sour gum.
- periwigged — wearing a periwig; by extension, excessively adorned
- pinnigrade — moving by means of finlike parts or flippers, as the seals and walruses.
- plunderage — act of plundering; pillage.
- portending — to indicate in advance; to foreshadow or presage, as an omen does: The street incident may portend a general uprising.
- powder keg — a small, metal, barrellike container for gunpowder or blasting powder.
- power grid — A power grid is a network of power lines and associated equipment used to transmit and distribute electricity over a geographic area.
- pre-degree — any of a series of steps or stages, as in a process or course of action; a point in any scale.
- pre-design — to prepare the preliminary sketch or the plans for (a work to be executed), especially to plan the form and structure of: to design a new bridge.