11-letter words containing g, o, d, h
- dragon-head — dragonhead.
- 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.
- dynamograph — a device for registering the quantity of force applied
- 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.
- endophagous — relating to endophagy
- enough said — understood
- enshrouding — Present participle of enshroud.
- feedthrough — a connector used to pass a conductor through a circuit board or enclosure.
- fishing rod — a long, slender, cylindrical, flexible rod usually made of bamboo, steel, or fiberglass, for use with a reel and line in catching fish.
- flood-light — an artificial light so directed or diffused as to give a comparatively uniform illumination over a rather large given area.
- floodlights — Plural form of floodlight.
- foresighted — Having or using foresight.
- forgathered — Simple past tense and past participle of forgather.
- forge ahead — move forward with determination
- freeholding — Property held in freehold.
- frog orchid — any of several orchids having greenish flowers thought to resemble small frogs, esp Coeloglossum viride of calcareous turf
- frogmarched — Simple past tense and past participle of frogmarch.
- fundholding — (economics) The holding of a fund.
- gap-toothed — having a noticeable space between two teeth.
- garden hose — tube for spraying plants with water
- gat-toothed — gap-toothed.
- get hold of — to have or keep in the hand; keep fast; grasp: She held the purse in her right hand. He held the child's hand in his.
- get the nod — sb: have permission
- ghetto code — (humour, programming) A particularly inelegant and obviously suboptimal section of code that still meets the original requirements.
- ghirlandaio — (Domenico di Tommaso Curradi di Doffo Bigordi) 1449–94, Italian painter.
- ghost dance — a ritual dance intended to establish communion with the dead, especially such a dance as performed by various messianic western American Indian cults in the late 19th century.
- glochidiate — (botany) Having barbs.
- go downhill — travel down a slope
- god help us — If you say God help us, you mean that you have negative feelings about the person or situation you are talking about.
- godchildren — Plural form of godchild.
- goddaughter — a female godchild.
- goddessship — a female god or deity.
- golden horn — an inlet of the Bosporus, in European Turkey: forms the inner part of Istanbul.
- golden hour — the first hour after a serious accident, when it is crucial that the victim receives medical treatment in order to have a chance of surviving
- goldfinches — Plural form of goldfinch.
- goldschmidt — Richard Benedikt. 1878–1958, US geneticist, born in Germany. He advanced the theory that heredity is determined by the chemical configuration of the chromosome molecule rather than by the qualities of the individual genes
- goldthreads — Plural form of goldthread.
- goodhearted — Kind, generous and altruistic.
- gopher wood — an unidentified wood used in building Noah's ark. Gen. 6:14.
- grandmother — the mother of one's father or mother.
- grind house — a burlesque house, especially one providing continuous entertainment at reduced prices.
- grind-house — a burlesque house, especially one providing continuous entertainment at reduced prices.
- ground itch — a disease of the skin of the feet, caused by penetration of hookworm larvae, characterized by a blisterlike eruption and itching.
- ground-fish — bottom-fish.
- groundcloth — A groundcloth is a piece of waterproof material which you put on the ground to sleep on when you are camping.
- groundshare — to share the facilities and running costs of a single stadium with another team
- groundsheet — a waterproof sheet of plastic, canvas, or other durable material spread on the ground, as under a sleeping bag or in a tent, for protection against moisture.
- growth fund — a mutual fund that invests primarily in growth stocks.
- guardhouses — Plural form of guardhouse.
- halogenated — Simple past tense and past participle of halogenate.