10-letter words containing d, r, o, n, g
- orangewood — the hard, fine-grained, yellowish wood of the orange tree, used in inlaid work and fine turnery.
- orcharding — the cultivation of orchards
- ordinating — Present participle of ordinate.
- originated — Simple past tense and past participle of originate.
- outredding — the act of redeeming land or goods
- 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.
- overdosing — Present participle of overdose.
- 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.
- playground — an area used for outdoor play or recreation, especially by children, and often containing recreational equipment such as slides and swings.
- portending — to indicate in advance; to foreshadow or presage, as an omen does: The street incident may portend a general uprising.
- proceeding — proceeds. something that results or accrues. the total amount derived from a sale or other transaction: The proceeds from the deal were divided equally among us. the profits or returns from a sale, investment, etc.
- pronograde — walking with the body parallel to the ground
- propaganda — information, ideas, or rumors deliberately spread widely to help or harm a person, group, movement, institution, nation, etc.
- protruding — to project.
- pundigrion — a pun
- r-dropping — (of certain pronunciations of English) characterized by the absence of the sound (r) in postvocalic position in the same syllable, as often encountered in speech identified with the southern and eastern United States and with most of England; r-less.
- radiogenic — Physics. produced by radioactive decay: radiogenic lead; radiogenic heat.
- recognised — to identify as something or someone previously seen, known, etc.: He had changed so much that one could scarcely recognize him.
- recognized — to identify as something or someone previously seen, known, etc.: He had changed so much that one could scarcely recognize him.
- reed organ — a musical keyboard instrument, as the harmonium or American organ, having small metal reeds through which air is forced to produce the sound.
- remodeling — to model again.
- resounding — making an echoing sound: a resounding thud.
- ring round — If you ring round or ring around, you phone several people, usually when you are trying to organize something or to find some information.
- rio grande — a city in NE Puerto Rico.
- ripcording — (audio) (From "ripping" and "recording") Encoding streaming digital audio from the Internet to an MP3 file or similar. Ripcording is commononly used to copy commercial music from a free stream instead of paying to download.
- road agent — (formerly) a highwayman, especially along stagecoach routes in the western U.S.
- roadmaking — road building
- rodfishing — angling or fishing using a fishing rod
- sandgroper — a nickname for a Western Australian
- sandgrouse — any of several birds of the family Pteroclididae inhabiting sandy areas of the Old World, resembling both pigeons and shorebirds and having precocial young.
- sang-froid — coolness of mind; calmness; composure: They committed the robbery with complete sang-froid.
- showground — outdoor events venue
- smoldering — to burn without flame; undergo slow or suppressed combustion.
- snapdragon — any plant belonging to the genus Antirrhinum, of the figwort family, especially A. majus, cultivated for its spikes of showy flowers, each having a corolla supposed to resemble the mouth of a dragon.
- sognafjord — a fjord in the Norwegian Sea in SW Norway: the longest in Norway. 126 miles (203 km) long and up to 4291 feet (1308 meters) deep.
- solderings — any parts which have been soldered together
- soldiering — a person who serves in an army; a person engaged in military service.
- springwood — the part of an annual ring of wood, characterized by large, thin-walled cells, formed during the first part of the growing season.
- stringendo — to be performed with increasing speed
- stronghold — a well-fortified place; fortress.
- swedenborg — Emanuel [ih-man-yoo-uh l;; Swedish e-mah-noo-uh l] /ɪˈmæn yu əl;; Swedish ɛˈmɑ nu əl/ (Show IPA), (Emanuel Swedberg) 1688–1772, Swedish scientist, philosopher, and mystic.
- swing door — a door that swings open on being pushed or pulled from either side and then swings closed by itself.
- the dragon — the constellation Draco
- thornhedge — any hedge containing trees, bushes or shrubs that bear thorns
- togolander — a former German protectorate in W Africa, on the Gulf of Guinea: E part is now the Republic of Togo; W part, a British mandate 1922–46 and trusteeship 1946–57, is now part of Ghana.
- torpedoing — a self-propelled, cigar-shaped missile containing explosives and often equipped with a homing device, launched from a submarine or other warship, for destroying surface vessels or other submarines.
- un-grouted — a thin, coarse mortar poured into various narrow cavities, as masonry joints or rock fissures, to fill them and consolidate the adjoining objects into a solid mass.
- underbough — a low-lying tree branch
- undergrove — a covered grove