10-letter words containing g, a, d
- sandbagged — a bag filled with sand, used in fortification, as ballast, etc.
- sandbagger — a bag filled with sand, used in fortification, as ballast, etc.
- sanderling — a common, small sandpiper, Calidris alba, inhabiting sandy beaches.
- sandgroper — a nickname for a Western Australian
- sandgrouse — any of several birds of the family Pteroclididae inhabiting sandy areas of the Old World, resembling both pigeons and shorebirds and having precocial young.
- sang-froid — coolness of mind; calmness; composure: They committed the robbery with complete sang-froid.
- scandaling — a disgraceful or discreditable action, circumstance, etc.
- scanderbeg — (George Castriota) 1403?–68, Albanian chief and revolutionary leader.
- scrapegood — a stingy person; a miser
- search dog — a dog trained to assist rescue workers in finding people buried under rubble by detection by smell
- segregated — characterized by or practicing racial segregation: a segregated school system.
- seguidilla — Prosody. a stanza of four to seven lines with a distinctive rhythmic pattern.
- self-guard — to keep safe from harm or danger; protect; watch over: to guard the ruler.
- serenading — a complimentary performance of vocal or instrumental music in the open air at night, as by a lover under the window of his lady.
- shagreened — made, covered with, or resembling shagreen
- shandygaff — a mixed drink of beer with ginger beer.
- shanghaied — to enroll or obtain (a sailor) for the crew of a ship by unscrupulous means, as by force or the use of liquor or drugs.
- sharawadgi — a form of Chinese landscape architecture known for its irregular and asymmetrical plantings
- shin guard — a protective covering, usually of leather or plastic and often padded, for the shins and sometimes the knees, worn chiefly by catchers in baseball and goalkeepers in ice hockey.
- sight-read — Someone who can sight-read can play or sing music from a printed sheet the first time they see it, without practising it beforehand.
- sigillarid — a fossilized, tree-like plant of the genus Sigillaria
- signal red — pimento (def 3).
- silk gland — any of several glands, as in various insects and spiders, that secrete a viscid protein substance which hardens into silk on contact with air.
- skid a rig — If you skid a rig, you slide it from one well hole to another.
- sluggardly — like or befitting a sluggard; slothful; lazy.
- smaragdine — of or relating to emeralds.
- smaragdite — a green, foliated member of the amphibole group.
- smart drug — a drug or other substance that is claimed to enhance memory, concentration, or other mental functions.
- snapdragon — any plant belonging to the genus Antirrhinum, of the figwort family, especially A. majus, cultivated for its spikes of showy flowers, each having a corolla supposed to resemble the mouth of a dragon.
- sodcasting — the practice of playing music through the speakers of a mobile phone in a public space
- sognafjord — a fjord in the Norwegian Sea in SW Norway: the longest in Norway. 126 miles (203 km) long and up to 4291 feet (1308 meters) deep.
- soundstage — a soundproof room or building in which cinematic films are shot
- spatangoid — a type of sea urchin
- speed gear — an adjustable gear for driving a machine at various speeds.
- spindleage — total number or capacity of spindles in a mill, area, etc.
- spinigrade — a type of spiny echinoderm
- springdale — a city in NW Arkansas.
- springhead — a spring or fountainhead from which a stream flows.
- stage door — a door at the back or side of a theater, used by performers and theater personnel.
- stage-dive — to jump off the stage at a concert onto the crowd below
- stalingrad — former name of Volgograd.
- standing o — standing ovation
- staudinger — Hermann [her-mahn] /ˈhɛr mɑn/ (Show IPA), 1881–1965, German chemist: Nobel prize 1953.
- steganopod — a bird belonging to the Steganopodes, a group of swimming birds such as pelicans and cormorants
- stewarding — a person who manages another's property or financial affairs; one who administers anything as the agent of another or others.
- subheading — a subordinate division of a title or heading.
- sugar bird — any of various honeycreepers that feed on nectar.
- sulfa drug — any of a group of drugs closely related in chemical structure to sulfanilamide, having a bacteriostatic rather than a bacteriocidal effect: used in the treatment of various wounds, burns, and infections.
- supergrade — a high-level rank, Grade 16, 17, or 18, in the federal civil service.
- swing band — a band that plays swing jazz