11-letter words containing g, a
- 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.
- dressmaking — a person whose occupation is the making or alteration of women's dresses, coats, etc.
- drift angle — the angle made by the path of a drifting vessel with its heading.
- drug addict — a person who is addicted to a narcotic.
- drug dealer — sb who sells illegal drugs
- drug-taking — the activity of taking illegal drugs
- drumbeating — That to beat on drums.
- drunkalogue — an account of a person’s problems with alcohol
- dry farming — a system of growing crops in arid or semiarid regions without artificial irrigation, by reducing evaporation and by special methods of tillage
- dry-dockage — the act or fact of placing a ship in a dry dock.
- du vigneaud — Vincent, 1901–78, U.S. biochemist: Nobel Prize in Chemistry 1955.
- duck plague — an acute, highly fatal disease of ducks caused by a herpesvirus
- dues-paying — gaining experience, especially by hard and often unpleasant or uncongenial work: He spent his dues-paying years as a cocktail pianist.
- duo-decagon — dodecagon.
- duplicating — Present participle of duplicate.
- dwell angle — Dwell angle is the amount of time, measured as degrees of rotation, that contact breakers close in a distributor.
- dynamograph — a device for registering the quantity of force applied
- dysregulate — (biology) To cause a dysfunctional level of an activity or chemical in an organism by disrupting normal function of a regulatory mechanism.
- dyssynergia — (medicine) Failure of parts of the anatomy to work together correctly.
- e-cigarette — a device used to simulate the experience of smoking, having a cartridge with a heater that vaporizes liquid nicotine instead of burning tobacco.
- e-marketing — the practice of marketing by means of the internet
- e-signature — a technology that allows a person to electronically affix a signature or its equivalent to an electronic document, as when consenting to an online contract.
- eagle scout — a boy scout who has achieved the highest rank in U.S. scouting.
- early night — If you have an early night, you go to bed early. If you have a late night, you go to bed late.
- earth auger — a drill for boring holes in the ground, as to tap springs.
- 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.
- earthmoving — of or relating to earthmovers: earthmoving machinery.
- east anglia — an early English kingdom in SE Britain: modern Norfolk and Suffolk.
- east bengal — formerly a part of the Indian province of Bengal; now coextensive with Bangladesh. Compare Bengal (def 1).
- east german — a former country in central Europe: created in 1949 from the Soviet zone of occupied Germany established in 1945: reunited with West Germany in 1990. 41,827 sq. mi. (108,333 sq. km). Capital: East Berlin.
- east orange — a city in NE New Jersey, near Newark.
- east riding — a former administrative division of Yorkshire, in NE England, now part of Humberside.
- east-facing — facing towards the east
- eave trough — gutter (def 3).
- eavestrough — gutter (def 3).
- ecovillages — Plural form of ecovillage.
- edgar guest — Edgar A(lbert) 1881–1959, U.S. journalist and writer of verse, born in England.
- egalitarian — asserting, resulting from, or characterized by belief in the equality of all people, especially in political, economic, or social life.
- egg custard — sweet custard made with milk and egg and baked
- egg tempera — egg-based paint
- eglandulose — eglandular
- egomaniacal — Having the psychological condition of egomania.
- egotistical — Excessively conceited or absorbed in oneself; self-centered.
- eigenvalues — Plural form of eigenvalue.
- ejaculating — Present participle of ejaculate.
- elaborating — Present participle of elaborate.
- electrogram — a record of an organ's electrical activity, measured by monitoring changes in electric potential
- elegiacally — In the manner of an elegy, or funeral poem.
- eliminating — Present participle of eliminate.