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11-letter words containing g, o, d, l

  • dog-whistle — Politics. a political strategy, statement, slogan, etc., that conveys a controversial, secondary message understood only by those who support the message: His criticism of welfare was a dog whistle appealing to racist voters.
  • doggy style — of sexual intercourse, a position whereby the female is on all fours and the male is behind her
  • dogmatology — the study and science of religious dogma
  • dollar sign — the symbol $ before a number indicating that the number represents dollars.
  • dongle-disk — /don'gl disk/ (Or "key disk") A kind of dongle consisting of a special floppy disk that is required in order to perform some task. Some contain special coding that allows an application to identify it uniquely, others *are* special code that does something that normally-resident programs don't or can't. For example, AT&T's "Unix PC" would only come up in root mode with a special boot disk.
  • double-hung — (of a window) having two vertically sliding sashes, each closing a different part of the opening.
  • double-ring — being or pertaining to a marriage ceremony in which the partners give rings to one another.
  • doubled sig — A sig block that has been included twice in a Usenet article or, less commonly, in an electronic mail message. An article or message with a doubled sig can be caused by improperly configured software. More often, however, it reveals the author's lack of experience in electronic communication. See BIFF, pseudo.
  • douglas bag — an airtight bag used to collect expired air for analysis of oxygen consumption.
  • douglas fir — a coniferous tree, Pseudotsuga menziesii, of western North America, often more than 200 feet (60 meters) high, having reddish-brown bark, flattened needles, and narrow, light-brown cones, and yielding a strong, durable timber: the state tree of Oregon.
  • douglas sbd — dauntless (def 2).
  • dovetailing — a tenon broader at its end than at its base; pin.
  • downlighter — Downlight.
  • downloading — download
  • downplaying — Present participle of downplay.
  • downscaling — Present participle of downscale.
  • downwelling — a downward current of surface water in the ocean, usually caused by differences in the density of seawater.
  • doxological — Of or pertaining to doxology.
  • dragon lady — (often initial capital letters) a woman of somewhat sinister glamour often perceived as wielding ruthless or corrupt power.
  • dragonflies — Plural form of dragonfly.
  • drunkalogue — an account of a person’s problems with alcohol
  • dyslogistic — conveying disapproval or censure; not complimentary or eulogistic.
  • 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.
  • eglandulose — eglandular
  • emboldening — Present participle of embolden.
  • endemiology — the study of endemic disease
  • epidemology — Misspelling of epidemiology.
  • field grown — (of a plant) grown in a field rather than in a pot or other artificial environment
  • filled gold — a composition consisting of gold-plating welded to and rolled with a backing of brass or other base metal, at least 1/20 (0.05) of the total weight being that of the gold.
  • flap-dragon — an old game in which the players snatch raisins, plums, etc., out of burning brandy, and eat them.
  • flood-light — an artificial light so directed or diffused as to give a comparatively uniform illumination over a rather large given area.
  • flooded gum — any of various eucalyptus trees of Australia, esp Eucalyptus saligna (the Sydney blue gum), that grow in damp soil
  • floodlights — Plural form of floodlight.
  • floundering — to struggle with stumbling or plunging movements (usually followed by about, along, on, through, etc.): He saw the child floundering about in the water.
  • flying bond — a brickwork bond having random, widely spaced headers.
  • folding top — A folding top is a soft roof of a vehicle that can be folded down or removed.
  • fool's gold — iron or copper pyrites, sometimes mistaken for gold.
  • footslogged — Simple past tense and past participle of footslog.
  • four-legged — having four legs.
  • freeholding — Property held in freehold.
  • freeloading — to take advantage of others for free food, entertainment, etc.
  • fundholding — (economics) The holding of a fund.
  • galactoside — A glycoside yielding galactose on hydrolysis.
  • gallovidian — a native or inhabitant of Galloway
  • ganglioside — any of a class of glycolipids, found chiefly in nerve ganglia, that upon hydrolysis yield sphingosine, neuraminic acid, a fatty acid, and a monosaccharide.
  • gender role — the public image of being a particular gender that a person presents to others: conventional notions of female gender roles.
  • 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.
  • ghirlandaio — (Domenico di Tommaso Curradi di Doffo Bigordi) 1449–94, Italian painter.
  • glamourized — Simple past tense and past participle of glamourize.
  • glide slope — the angle that the glidepath of an aircraft or spacecraft makes with the horizontal.
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