10-letter words containing g, o, d
- coastguard — A coastguard is an official who watches the sea near a coast in order to get help for sailors when they need it and to stop illegal activities.
- coatbridge — an industrial town in central Scotland, in North Lanarkshire. Pop: 41 170 (2001)
- codicology — the study of manuscripts
- cofounding — to establish (an organization) with another or others.
- coinciding — to occupy the same place in space, the same point or period in time, or the same relative position: The centers of concentric circles coincide. Our vacations coincided this year.
- cold light — light emitted at low temperatures from a source that is not incandescent, such as fluorescence, phosphorescence, bioluminescence, or triboluminescence
- colligated — Simple past tense and past participle of colligate.
- comm badge — a small combined radio transmitter and receiver, carried around by one person, esp military personnel, in the form of a badge worn on the chest
- commanding — If you are in a commanding position or situation, you are in a strong or powerful position or situation.
- commending — Present participle of commend.
- commingled — Simple past tense and past participle of commingle.
- companding — a process in which the dynamic range of a signal is reduced for recording purposes and then expanded to its original value for reproduction or playback.
- concluding — final
- concording — Present participle of concord.
- condemning — Present participle of condemn.
- condensing — to make more dense or compact; reduce the volume or extent of; concentrate.
- condignity — merit earned through good works while in a state of grace, and having a just claim on such rewards as heavenly glory. Compare congruity (def 4).
- conducting — personal behavior; way of acting; bearing or deportment.
- confidings — Plural form of confiding.
- configured — Simple past tense and past participle of configure.
- conga drum — a large tubular bass drum, used chiefly in Latin American and funk music and played with the hands
- congressed — (initial capital letter) the national legislative body of the U.S., consisting of the Senate, or upper house, and the House of Representatives, or lower house, as a continuous institution. this body as it exists for a period of two years during which it has the same membership: the Ninety-Seventh Congress. a session of this body: to speak in Congress.
- conjugated — (of a molecule, compound, or substance) containing two or more double bonds alternating with single bonds
- contending — competing; opposed
- cord grass — any of several grasses of the genus Spartina, of coastal regions.
- coreid bug — leaf-footed bug.
- corndodger — a small cake of cornmeal, baked or fried hard
- corregidor — an island at the entrance to Manila Bay, in the Philippines: site of the defeat of American forces by the Japanese (1942) in World War II
- corrigenda — Plural form of corrigendum.
- corrugated — Corrugated metal or cardboard has been folded into a series of small parallel folds to make it stronger.
- cough drop — a lozenge to relieve a cough
- cradlesong — a lullaby
- cuckolding — Present participle of cuckold.
- curmudgeon — If you call someone a curmudgeon, you do not like them because they are mean or bad-tempered.
- dagobert i — a.d. 602?–639, Merovingian king of the Franks 628–639.
- darlington — an industrial town in NE England in Darlington unitary authority, S Durham: developed mainly with the opening of the Stockton-Darlington railway (1825). Pop: 86 082 (2001)
- data glove — (hardware, virtual reality) An input device for virtual reality in the form of a glove which measures the movements of the wearer's fingers and transmits them to the computer. Sophisticated data gloves also measure movement of the wrist and elbow. A data glove may also contain control buttons or act as an output device, e.g. vibrating under control of the computer. The user usually sees a virtual image of the data glove and can point or grip and push objects. Examples are Fifth Dimension Technologies (5DT)'s 5th Glove, and Virtual Technologies' CyberGlove. A cheaper alternative is InWorld VR's CyberWand.
- datagloves — Plural form of dataglove.
- davao gulf — a gulf of the Pacific Ocean on the SE coast of Mindanao, Philippines.
- de broglie — Prince Louis Victor (lwi viktɔr). 1892–1987, French physicist, noted for his research in quantum mechanics and his development of wave mechanics: Nobel prize for physics 1929
- de kooning — Willem (ˈwɪləm). 1904–97, US abstract expressionist painter, born in Holland
- deblocking — Present participle of deblock.
- debouching — Present participle of debouche.
- decadelong — lasting for a decade: After a decadelong study, the drug has finally been approved by the FDA.
- decalogist — a person who interprets and expounds on the Ten Commandments
- deck cargo — cargo that is carried on the deck of a ship
- declotting — a mass or lump.
- decorating — the painting or wallpapering of a room, house, etc
- decoupaged — Simple past tense and past participle of decoupage.
- decoupages — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of decoupage.