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11-letter words containing g, a, d, h

  • dishwashing — the act of washing dishes.
  • diskography — discography.
  • dispatching — Send off to a destination or for a purpose.
  • dittography — reduplication of letters or syllables in writing, printing, etc., usually through error.
  • dog handler — a member of the police force, a security organization, etc, who works in collaboration with a specially trained dog
  • dog-catcher — a person employed by a municipal pound, humane society, or the like, to find and impound stray or homeless dogs, cats, etc.
  • dogcatchers — Plural form of dogcatcher.
  • door charge — an entrance fee.
  • downdraught — Alternative spelling of downdraft.
  • doxographer — a person who collects the opinions and conjectures of ancient Greek philosophers
  • dr. zhivago — a novel (1958) by Boris Pasternak.
  • drag anchor — (of a vessel) to move away from its mooring because the anchor has failed to hold
  • drag harrow — a type of harrow consisting of heavy beams, often with spikes inserted, used to crush clods, level soil, or prepare seedbeds
  • dragon-head — dragonhead.
  • draughtiest — Superlative form of draughty.
  • draughtsman — a checker, as used in the game of checkers.
  • 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.
  • dynamograph — a device for registering the quantity of force applied
  • 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
  • enough said — understood
  • far-sighted — seeing objects at a distance more clearly than those near at hand; hyperopic.
  • featheredge — an edge that thins out like a feather.
  • fifth grade — the fifth year of school, when children are ten or eleven years old
  • figureheads — Plural form of figurehead.
  • flying head — a read/write head supported on a thin cushion of air over a rotating magnetic disk.
  • forgathered — Simple past tense and past participle of forgather.
  • forge ahead — move forward with determination
  • frogmarched — Simple past tense and past participle of frogmarch.
  • gandhinagar — a region in W India, N of the Narmada River.
  • 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.
  • ghirlandaio — (Domenico di Tommaso Curradi di Doffo Bigordi) 1449–94, Italian painter.
  • 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.
  • give a hand — the terminal, prehensile part of the upper limb in humans and other primates, consisting of the wrist, metacarpal area, fingers, and thumb.
  • glad-hander — to greet warmly.
  • glochidiate — (botany) Having barbs.
  • goddaughter — a female godchild.
  • goldthreads — Plural form of goldthread.
  • goodhearted — Kind, generous and altruistic.
  • grab handle — A grab handle is a handle on the side of an object such as a bathtub that you hold in order to help you get in and out.
  • grade sheet — a piece of paper on which a student's grades are recorded
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