11-letter words containing e, d, g, h
- ditchdigger — a worker whose occupation is digging ditches, especially with pick and shovel.
- dog handler — a member of the police force, a security organization, etc, who works in collaboration with a specially trained dog
- dog whistle — Politics. a political strategy, statement, slogan, etc., that conveys a controversial, secondary message understood only by those who support the message: His criticism of welfare was a dog whistle appealing to racist voters.
- dog-catcher — a person employed by a municipal pound, humane society, or the like, to find and impound stray or homeless dogs, cats, etc.
- dog-whistle — Politics. a political strategy, statement, slogan, etc., that conveys a controversial, secondary message understood only by those who support the message: His criticism of welfare was a dog whistle appealing to racist voters.
- dogcatchers — Plural form of dogcatcher.
- doggishness — The quality of being doggish.
- door charge — an entrance fee.
- dot etching — a method of making corrections in halftone positives or negatives by using chemicals to reduce the size of halftone dots.
- double-hung — (of a window) having two vertically sliding sashes, each closing a different part of the opening.
- doughtiness — steadfastly courageous and resolute; valiant.
- downlighter — Downlight.
- doxographer — a person who collects the opinions and conjectures of ancient Greek philosophers
- dragon-head — dragonhead.
- draughtiest — Superlative form of draughty.
- draughtsmen — Plural form of draughtsman.
- draw weight — the measured force, in foot-pounds, stored by an archery bow when fully drawn.
- dreadnaught — a type of battleship armed with heavy-caliber guns in turrets: so called from the British battleship Dreadnought, launched in 1906, the first of its type.
- dreadnought — a type of battleship armed with heavy-caliber guns in turrets: so called from the British battleship Dreadnought, launched in 1906, the first of its type.
- drug pusher — someone who encourages others to take illegal drugs and who makes money supplying illegal drugs
- earth lodge — a circular, usually dome-shaped dwelling of certain North American Indians, made of posts and beams covered variously with branches, grass, sod, or earth and having a central opening in the roof, a tamped earth floor, and frequently a vestibule.
- endophagous — relating to endophagy
- engine shed — the large shed in which trains are kept when not in service
- enlightened — Having or showing a rational, modern, and well-informed outlook.
- enough said — understood
- enshrouding — Present participle of enshroud.
- far-sighted — seeing objects at a distance more clearly than those near at hand; hyperopic.
- featheredge — an edge that thins out like a feather.
- feedthrough — a connector used to pass a conductor through a circuit board or enclosure.
- fifth grade — the fifth year of school, when children are ten or eleven years old
- figureheads — Plural form of figurehead.
- flight deck — Navy. the upper deck of an aircraft carrier, constructed and equipped for the landing and takeoff of aircraft.
- flying head — a read/write head supported on a thin cushion of air over a rotating magnetic disk.
- foresighted — Having or using foresight.
- forgathered — Simple past tense and past participle of forgather.
- forge ahead — move forward with determination
- freeholding — Property held in freehold.
- frogmarched — Simple past tense and past participle of frogmarch.
- gap-toothed — having a noticeable space between two teeth.
- garden hose — tube for spraying plants with water
- garden path — paved walkway
- garden-path — noting or pertaining to a sentence that is easily parsed incorrectly because its beginning suggests it has an interpretation that it clearly does not have.
- gat-toothed — gap-toothed.
- gatecrashed — Simple past tense and past participle of gatecrash.
- gene amdahl — (person) A former IBM engineer who founded Amdahl Corporation.
- get hitched — get married
- get hold of — to have or keep in the hand; keep fast; grasp: She held the purse in her right hand. He held the child's hand in his.
- get the nod — sb: have permission
- ghetto code — (humour, programming) A particularly inelegant and obviously suboptimal section of code that still meets the original requirements.
- ghost dance — a ritual dance intended to establish communion with the dead, especially such a dance as performed by various messianic western American Indian cults in the late 19th century.