11-letter words containing g, a, u, d
- guardhouses — Plural form of guardhouse.
- guardswoman — A female guardsman.
- guardswomen — Plural form of guardswoman.
- guide vanes — fixed aerofoils that direct air, gas, or water into the moving blades of a turbine or into or around bends in ducts with minimum loss of energy
- guided wave — a wave the energy of which is concentrated near a boundary or between parallel boundaries separating different materials and that has a direction of propagation parallel to these boundaries.
- guildswoman — a woman who is a member of a guild
- gum disease — dental infection
- guttae band — regula.
- handcuffing — Present participle of handcuff.
- handwrought — formed or shaped by hand, as metal objects.
- hang around — to fasten or attach (a thing) so that it is supported only from above or at a point near its own top; suspend.
- hard ground — an etching ground applied to the surface of a plate held over a small flame and spread by a dabber or brayer. Compare soft ground (def 1).
- hard-fought — firmly or passionately contested or struggled for
- headborough — the official in charge of a tithing
- headbutting — Present participle of headbutt.
- headhunting — a headhunting expedition: The men left the village to go on a headhunt.
- hedge about — If you say that something such as an offer is hedged about or is hedged around with rules or conditions, you mean that there are a lot of rules or conditions.
- honor guard — guard of honor.
- horse guard — a black and yellow sand wasp, Bembix carolina, of the southern U.S., preying on flies that gather around horses and cattle.
- hydragogues — Plural form of hydragogue.
- hydrargyrum — mercury.
- inaugurated — to make a formal beginning of; initiate; commence; begin: The end of World War II inaugurated the era of nuclear power.
- ingratitude — the state of being ungrateful; unthankfulness.
- jackpudding — An amusing person who acts foolishly in order to entertain people.
- jaguarundis — Plural form of jaguarundi.
- judgemental — involving the use or exercise of judgment.
- jugged hare — a stew made of wild rabbit, usually cooked in an earthenware jug or stone pot.
- landlubbing — an unseasoned sailor or someone unfamiliar with the sea.
- langue d'oc — the Romance language of medieval southern France: developed into modern Provençal.
- languidness — The property of being languid.
- launderings — Plural form of laundering.
- laundry bag — A laundry bag is a bag for clothes that that are about to be washed.
- legacy duty — estate tax; inheritance tax
- lenat, doug — Doug Lenat
- life guards — (in Britain) a cavalry regiment forming part of the ceremonial guard of the monarch.
- liquidating — Present participle of liquidate.
- load-lugger — a motor vehicle that is capable of carrying a load rather than, or as well as, passengers
- long radius — the distance from the centre of a regular polygon to a vertex
- longicaudal — having a long tail; macrutous.
- manducating — Present participle of manducate.
- marivaudage — Writing style characterized by the refined affection, originating from the writing of the French novelist w Pierre de Marivaux.
- maunderings — Plural form of maundering.
- media group — an association of companies involved with the means of mass communication
- misguidance — to guide wrongly; misdirect.
- molly-guard — /mol'ee-gard/ [University of Illinois] A shield to prevent tripping of some Big Red Switch by clumsy or ignorant hands. Originally used of the plexiglass covers improvised for the BRS on an IBM 4341 after a programmer's toddler daughter (named Molly) frobbed it twice in one day. Later generalised to covers over stop/reset switches on disk drives and networking equipment.
- mount guard — If you mount guard or if you mount a guard, you organize people to watch or protect a person or place.
- mouth guard — protective shield for teeth
- mustard gas — an oily liquid, C 4 H 8 Cl 2 S, used as a chemical-warfare gas, blistering the skin and damaging the lungs, often causing blindness and death: introduced by the Germans in World War I.
- nongraduate — a person who is not a graduate of an educational institution
- orphan drug — Pharmacology. a drug that remains undeveloped or untested or is otherwise neglected because of limited potential for commercial gain.