9-letter words containing g, a, d, e
- grapeseed — The seed of the grape.
- graphited — Modified by the addition of graphite.
- gratified — Obsolete. to reward; remunerate.
- gratineed — to bake or broil (food) in au gratin style.
- gratitude — the quality or feeling of being grateful or thankful: He expressed his gratitude to everyone on the staff.
- gravelled — Simple past tense and past participle of gravel.
- gravesend — a seaport in NW Kent, in SE England, on the Thames River: incorporated into Gravesham 1974.
- graveside — the area beside a grave.
- 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.
- 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.
- 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.
- greybeard — Sometimes Disparaging. a man whose beard is gray; old man; sage.
- 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.
- groundage — a tax levied on ships that anchor in a port.
- 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.
- guideways — Plural form of guideway.
- gynaecoid — Characteristic of a woman.
- gypsyhead — a flanged drum on a winch, for winding in lines.
- hagridden — worried or tormented, as by a witch.
- harangued — a scolding or a long or intense verbal attack; diatribe.
- hard-edge — of, relating to, or characteristic of a style of abstract painting associated with the 1960s and marked chiefly by sharply outlined geometric or nongeometric forms.
- hardanger — embroidery openwork having elaborate symmetrical designs created by blocks of satin stitches within which threads of the embroidery fabric are removed.
- hardening — a material that hardens another, as an alloy added to iron to make steel.
- head game — effort to confuse or delude sb
- head gate — a control gate at the upstream end of a canal or lock.
- head girl — The head girl of a school is the girl who is the leader of the prefects and who often represents the school on public occasions.
- headguard — a padded helmet worn to protect the head in contact sports such as rugby and boxing
- headlight — a light or lamp, usually equipped with a reflector, on the front of an automobile, locomotive, etc.
- headright — Law. a beneficial interest for each member of an Indian tribe in the tribal trust fund accruing from the lease of tribal oil, gas, and mineral rights, the sale of tribal lands, etc.
- helengrad — a satirical name for Wellington as the seat of Helen Clark's socialist government from 1999 to 2008
- helgoland — a German island in the North Sea. ¼ sq. mi. (0.6 sq. km).