9-letter words containing e, d, g
- 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.
- greediest — Superlative form of greedy.
- greedless — excessive or rapacious desire, especially for wealth or possessions.
- greedsome — greedy
- greek god — a man who is strikingly handsome and well built.
- 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.
- greenweed — Any of several plants, of the genus Genista, related to broom.
- greenwood — a city in W South Carolina.
- 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.
- grewhound — a greyhound
- grey body — a body that emits radiation in constant proportion to the corresponding black-body radiation
- greybeard — Sometimes Disparaging. a man whose beard is gray; old man; sage.
- greyhound — one of a breed of tall, slender, short-haired dogs, noted for its keen sight and swiftness.
- 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.
- grommeted — Machinery. any of various rings or eyelets of metal or the like. an insulated washer of rubber or plastic, inserted in a hole in a metal part to prevent grounding of a wire passing through the hole.
- groundage — a tax levied on ships that anchor in a port.
- grounders — Plural form of grounder.
- groundsel — groundsill.
- grovelled — to humble oneself or act in an abject manner, as in great fear or utter servility.
- grudgeful — Full of grudge; envious.
- grummeted — grommeted, or having grommets
- 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.
- guanidine — a colorless, crystalline, strongly alkaline, water-soluble solid, CH 5 N 3 , used chiefly in the manufacture of plastics, resins, rubber accelerators, and explosives.
- guanodine — (biochemistry, genetics) any of the three nucleotides guanosine monophosphate, guanosine diphosphate and guanosine triphosphate.
- guardedly — cautious; careful; prudent: to be guarded in one's speech.
- guardless — Defenceless.
- guardsmen — Plural form of guardsman.
- guidances — the act or function of guiding; leadership; direction.
- guide dog — Seeing Eye dog.
- guidebook — a book of directions, advice, and information, especially for travelers or tourists.
- guideless — to assist (a person) to travel through, or reach a destination in, an unfamiliar area, as by accompanying or giving directions to the person: He guided us through the forest.
- guideline — any guide or indication of a future course of action: guidelines on the government's future policy.
- guidepost — a post, usually mounted on the roadside or at the intersection of two or more roads, bearing a sign for the guidance of travelers.
- guideship — the position of a guide
- guideways — Plural form of guideway.
- guideword — A watchword; a word or phrase that serves as one's guide.
- guildsmen — a member of a guild.