11-letter words containing d, r, y, g, a
- grandiosity — affectedly grand or important; pompous: grandiose words.
- granny bond — (in Britain) an informal name for retirement issue certificate, an index-linked savings certificate, originally available only to people over retirement age
- gravity dam — a dam resisting the pressure of impounded water through its own weight.
- gravity-fed — the supplying of fuel, materials, etc., by force of gravity.
- gray-headed — having gray hair.
- grey-haired — having grey hair
- grey-headed — having gray hair.
- hydragogues — Plural form of hydragogue.
- hydrargyria — mercurialism.
- hydrargyrum — mercury.
- hydrogenase — an enzyme in certain microorganisms that speeds up the reversible oxidation of hydrogen
- hydrogenate — to combine or treat with hydrogen, especially to add hydrogen to the molecule of (an unsaturated organic compound).
- hydrography — the science of the measurement, description, and mapping of the surface waters of the earth, with special reference to their use for navigation.
- hypoid gear — a gear resembling a bevel gear in form but designed to mesh with a similar gear in such a way that their axes would not intersect, one axis crossing over the other at approximately a right angle.
- keyboarding — the row or set of keys on a piano, organ, or the like.
- ladyfingers — Plural form of ladyfinger.
- laundry bag — A laundry bag is a bag for clothes that that are about to be washed.
- legendarily — of, relating to, or of the nature of a legend.
- 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.
- oxford gray — medium to dark gray.
- pedagoguery — a teacher; schoolteacher.
- prodigality — the quality or fact of being prodigal; wasteful extravagance in spending.
- radiography — the production of radiographs.
- rewardingly — in a rewarding way or manner
- spreadingly — in a spreading manner
- sugar candy — large crystals of sugar formed by suspending strings in a strong sugar solution that hardens on the strings, used chiefly for sweetening coffee
- sugar daddy — a wealthy, middle-aged man who spends freely on a young woman in return for her companionship or intimacy.
- sugar-candy — excessively sweet; saccharine: sugar-candy stories in family magazines.
- traducingly — in a traducing manner
- tragicomedy — a dramatic or other literary composition combining elements of both tragedy and comedy.
- videography — the art or process of making films with a video camera.
- wanderingly — In a way that wanders.
- windbaggery — Informal. an empty, voluble, pretentious talker.
- working day — daytime hours occupied by work
- working-day — workaday; everyday.
- xylographed — Simple past tense and past participle of xylograph.
- yawl-rigged — rigged in the manner of a yawl.
- zygocardiac — relating to a small bone in the stomach of a crayfish and other crustaceans