9-letter words containing g, c, o, d
- demagogic — If you say that someone such as a politician is demagogic, you are criticizing them because you think they try to win people's support by appealing to their emotions rather than using reasonable arguments.
- devoicing — the process by which a consonant that is usually voiced becomes devoiced
- dichogamy — the maturation of male and female parts of a flower at different times, preventing automatic self-pollination
- dictyogen — a monocotyledon with reticulated leaves
- diglossic — the widespread existence within a society of sharply divergent formal and informal varieties of a language each used in different social contexts or for performing different functions, as the existence of Katharevusa and Demotic in modern Greece.
- discology — the study of gramophone records
- divorcing — Present participle of divorce.
- dizygotic — developed from two fertilized ova, as fraternal twins.
- docketing — Also called trial docket. a list of cases in court for trial, or the names of the parties who have cases pending.
- doctoring — Present participle of doctor.
- dodecagon — a polygon having 12 angles and 12 sides.
- dog track — racing circuit for dogs
- dog-cheap — very inexpensive.
- dogmatics — the study of the arrangement and statement of religious doctrines, especially of the doctrines received in and taught by the Christian church.
- douchebag — a small syringe having detachable nozzles for fluid injections, used chiefly for vaginal lavage and for enemas.
- doughface — a Northerner who sympathized with the South during the controversies over new territories and slavery before the Civil War.
- encodings — Plural form of encoding.
- endecagon — Alternative form of hendecagon.
- endoergic — (physics, and, chemistry) Occurring with the absorption of energy; endothermic.
- endogenic — Formed or occurring beneath the surface of the earth.
- galactoid — resembling milk; milky.
- gasconade — extravagant boasting; boastful talk.
- genocidal — the deliberate and systematic extermination of a national, racial, political, or cultural group.
- genocider — One who commits genocide.
- genocides — Plural form of genocide.
- geodesics — Plural form of geodesic.
- geodetics — The scientific discipline that deals with the measurement and representation of the earth, its gravitational field and geodynamic phenomena (polar motion, earth tides, and tectonic motion) in three-dimensional, time-varying space.
- glaucodot — a mineral, iron and cobalt sulfarsenide, (Co,Fe)AsS, occurring in grayish-white crystals.
- glochidia — glochid.
- glucoside — any of an extensive group of compounds that yield glucose and some other substance or substances when treated with a dilute acid or decomposed by a ferment or enzyme.
- glycoside — any of the class of compounds that yield a sugar and an aglycon upon hydrolysis.
- gold card — A gold card is a special type of credit card that gives you extra benefits such as a higher spending limit.
- gold disc — (in Britain) an album certified to have sold 250 000 copies or a single certified to have sold 500 000 copies
- goldbrick — Informal. a brick made to look like gold, sold by a swindler.
- goldcrest — a Eurasian kinglet, Regulus regulus, having a bright yellow patch on the top of the head.
- goldfinch — a European finch, Carduelis carduelis, having a crimson face and wings marked with yellow.
- goldstick — a gilt rod carried by the colonel of the Life Guards or the captain of the gentlemen-at-arms
- good luck — good fortune
- good-copy — an imitation, reproduction, or transcript of an original: a copy of a famous painting.
- goodfaced — with a handsome face
- gottsched — Johann Christoph. 1700–66, German critic, dramatist, and translator
- gourd cup — a metal cup of the 16th and 17th centuries having a gourd-shaped bowl mounted on a stem.
- gray code — (hardware) A binary sequence with the property that only one bit changes between any two consecutive elements (the two codes have a Hamming distance of one). The Gray code originated when digital logic circuits were built from vacuum tubes and electromechanical relays. Counters generated tremendous power demands and noise spikes when many bits changed at once. E.g. when incrementing a register containing 11111111, the back-EMF from the relays' collapsing magnetic fields required copious noise suppression. Using Gray code counters, any increment or decrement changed only one bit, regardless of the size of the number. Gray code can also be used to convert the angular position of a disk to digital form. A radial line of sensors reads the code off the surface of the disk and if the disk is half-way between two positions each sensor might read its bit from both positions at once but since only one bit differs between the two, the value read is guaranteed to be one of the two valid values rather than some third (invalid) combination (a glitch). One possible algorithm for generating a Gray code sequence is to toggle the lowest numbered bit that results in a new code each time. Here is a four bit Gray code sequence generated in this way: 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 0 0 1 1 0 0 1 0 0 1 1 0 0 1 1 1 0 1 0 1 0 1 0 0 1 1 0 0 1 1 0 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 0 1 0 1 0 1 0 1 1 1 0 0 1 1 0 0 0 The codes were patented in 1953 by Frank Gray, a Bell Labs researcher.
- gynaecoid — Characteristic of a woman.
- ideologic — of or relating to ideology.
- indigotic — indigo (def 5).
- languedoc — a former province in S France. Capital: Toulouse.
- logaoedic — composed of dactyls and trochees or of anapests and iambs, producing a movement somewhat suggestive of prose.
- logopedic — the study and treatment of speech defects.
- long card — a card remaining in a hand after all the opponents' cards in that particular suit have been drawn.