11-letter words containing g, i, r, a, d
- hang-glider — a kitelike glider consisting of a V -shaped wing underneath which the pilot is strapped: kept aloft by updrafts and guided by the pilot's shifting body weight.
- harbingered — Simple past tense and past participle of harbinger.
- hardscaping — Hardscape.
- hardwearing — resistant to extensive wear; durable: a pair of hardwearing jeans.
- hardworking — industrious; zealous: a hardworking family man.
- head margin — the empty space between the first line or other printed element on a page and the top of the page.
- hearing aid — a compact electronic amplifier worn to improve one's hearing, usually placed in or behind the ear.
- hearing dog — a dog that has been trained to alert a hearing-impaired person to sounds, as a telephone ringing or dangerous noises.
- highhearted — Alt form high-hearted.
- highlanders — Plural form of highlander.
- hydrargyria — mercurialism.
- hypoid gear — a gear resembling a bevel gear in form but designed to mesh with a similar gear in such a way that their axes would not intersect, one axis crossing over the other at approximately a right angle.
- ideogrammic — Being, or pertaining to, an ideogram.
- ideographic — an ideogram.
- idiographic — pertaining to or involving the study or explication of individual cases or events (opposed to nomothetic).
- impregnated — to make pregnant; get with child or young.
- inaugurated — to make a formal beginning of; initiate; commence; begin: The end of World War II inaugurated the era of nuclear power.
- infrigidate — (obsolete) To chill; to make cold.
- ingratiated — to establish (oneself or someone else) in the favor or good graces of someone, especially by deliberate effort (usually followed by with): He ingratiated himself with all the guests. She ingratiated her colleagues with her well-researched project proposal.
- ingratitude — the state of being ungrateful; unthankfulness.
- inorganized — Unorganized.
- intergraded — Simple past tense and past participle of intergrade.
- intergrades — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of intergrade.
- invigorated — Give strength or energy to.
- irradiating — Present participle of irradiate.
- isogradient — a line on a weather map or chart connecting points having the same horizontal gradient of a meteorological quantity, as temperature, pressure, or the like.
- jaguarundis — Plural form of jaguarundi.
- jawdropping — Alternative form of jaw-dropping.
- kaliningrad — a seaport in the W Russian Federation in Europe, on the Bay of Danzig.
- keyboarding — the row or set of keys on a piano, organ, or the like.
- kierkegaard — Sören Aabye [sœ-ruh n aw-by] /ˈsœ rən ˈɔ bü/ (Show IPA), 1813–55, Danish philosopher and theologian.
- ladyfingers — Plural form of ladyfinger.
- laggen-gird — the bottom hoop securing the staves of a tub or barrel.
- land bridge — Geology. an actual or hypothetical strip of land, subject to submergence, that connects adjacent continental landmasses and serves as a route of dispersal for plants and animals: a prehistoric land bridge between Asia and North America.
- landgravine — the wife of a landgrave.
- langobardic — Lombard1 (def 4).
- laterigrade — having a sideways manner of moving, as a crab.
- launderings — Plural form of laundering.
- lead singer — main singer in a popular music group
- legendaries — of, relating to, or of the nature of a legend.
- legendarily — of, relating to, or of the nature of a legend.
- legerdemain — sleight of hand.
- lethargized — Simple past tense and past participle of lethargize.
- life guards — (in Britain) a cavalry regiment forming part of the ceremonial guard of the monarch.
- light bread — white bread.
- light draft — the draft of a vessel at its light displacement.
- light-armed — carrying light weapons: light-armed troops.
- lip-reading — the reading or understanding, as by a deaf person, of spoken words from the movements of another's lips without hearing the sounds made.
- loading arm — A loading arm is a flexible piping unit that loads and unloads liquids and gases.
- long radius — the distance from the centre of a regular polygon to a vertex