10-letter words containing g, a, d
- farsighted — seeing objects at a distance more clearly than those near at hand; hyperopic.
- federating — Present participle of federate.
- field goal — Football. a three-point goal made by place-kicking or drop-kicking the ball between the opponent's goalposts above the crossbar.
- figurehead — a person who is head of a group, company, etc., in title but actually has no real authority or responsibility: Most modern kings and queens are figureheads.
- film badge — a badgelike device that, when processed, indicates whether a dose of radiation has been received: worn by workers subject to radiation exposure.
- fireguards — Plural form of fireguard.
- fitzgerald — Edward, 1809–83, English poet: translator of drama and poetry, especially of Omar Khayyám.
- fixed-gear — Also called fixed-gear bicycle; Informal, fixie. a bicycle having a single-gear system and lacking a freewheel mechanism, so that the wheels only move when the pedals move.
- flagstoned — Paved with flagstones.
- flapdragon — an old game in which the players snatch raisins, plums, etc., out of burning brandy, and eat them.
- floodgates — Plural form of floodgate.
- food grain — any cereal grain produced for human consumption.
- foodgrains — Plural form of foodgrain.
- footguards — foot soldiers with ceremonial duties
- foredating — Present participle of foredate.
- forwarding — Sports. a player stationed in advance of others on a team. Football. a lineman. Basketball. either of two players stationed in the forecourt.
- fragmented — reduced to fragments.
- frigidaire — (now historical) A refrigerator.
- fringehead — any fish of the genus Neoclinus, characterized by a row of fleshy processes on the head, as N. blanchardi (sarcastic fringehead) of California coastal waters.
- fulgurated — Simple past tense and past participle of fulgurate.
- fungicidal — a substance or preparation, as a spray or dust, used for destroying fungi.
- fustigated — Simple past tense and past participle of fustigate.
- gabardines — Plural form of gabardine.
- gadgeteers — Plural form of gadgeteer.
- gadolinite — a silicate mineral from which the rare-earth metals gadolinium, holmium, and rhenium are extracted.
- gadolinium — a rare-earth metallic element. Symbol: Gd; atomic weight: 157.25; atomic number: 64.
- gadrooning — ornamentation with gadroons.
- gadzookery — the use or overuse of period-specific or archaic expressions, as in a historical novel: Without any gadzookery and its excessive use of “forsooth,” “prithee,” etc., her first historical novel conveys a superb sense of the period.
- gaffrigged — (of a sailboat) having one or more gaff sails.
- gaillardia — any composite plant of the genus Gaillardia, including the blanket-flowers.
- gal friday — Older Use: Sometimes Offensive. a woman who acts as a general assistant in a business office or to an executive and has a wide variety of especially secretarial and clerical duties.
- gala dress — a formal dress worn to a gala or festive occasion
- galavanted — Simple past tense and past participle of galavant.
- galaxywide — Throughout a galaxy.
- gall midge — any of various small fragile mosquito-like dipterous flies constituting the widely distributed family Cecidomyidae, many of which have larvae that produce galls on plants
- gallicized — Simple past tense and past participle of gallicize.
- gallopades — Plural form of gallopade.
- galvanised — to stimulate by or as if by a galvanic current.
- galvanized — to stimulate by or as if by a galvanic current.
- gametocide — a substance that kills gametes or gametocytes.
- gammadions — Plural form of gammadion.
- gandhi cap — a white cap, pointed in front and back and having a wide band, worn by men in India.
- gang drill — a drilling machine having a number of separately driven vertical spindles in a row, used for drilling holes in a piece successively.
- gangliated — having ganglia.
- gaptoothed — having a gap between two teeth, as because of a missing tooth
- garden pea — pea1 (defs 1–3).
- gardenhood — The state of being a garden; the status, respect, or appearance befitting a proper garden.
- garderobes — Plural form of garderobe.
- garibaldis — Plural form of garibaldi.
- garlandage — an arrangement of garlands