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11-letter words containing g, o, d

  • disposingly — in a way that disposes
  • dissolvings — things that have been dissolved or partially dissolved
  • dittography — reduplication of letters or syllables in writing, printing, etc., usually through error.
  • diving boat — a boat used as a tender for divers or others working under water.
  • divulgation — to make publicly known; publish.
  • divulgatory — to make publicly known; publish.
  • do up right — to do carefully or thoroughly
  • documenting — Present participle of document.
  • dodecagonal — Having twelve sides and twelve angles.
  • dog biscuit — a hard biscuit for dogs, usually containing ground meat, bones, etc.
  • dog breeder — a person who breeds canines
  • dog curtain — a flap on a canvas cover for a binnacle, affording a view of the compass when raised.
  • dog eat dog — marked by destructive or ruthless competition; without self-restraint, ethics, etc.: It's a dog-eat-dog industry.
  • dog fancier — a person with a special interest in dogs
  • dog fouling — the offence of being in charge of a dog and failing to remove the faeces after it defecates in a public place
  • dog handler — a member of the police force, a security organization, etc, who works in collaboration with a specially trained dog
  • dog licence — a special license which permits the holder to be the keeper of a dog
  • dog officer — dogcatcher.
  • 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.
  • dog-catcher — a person employed by a municipal pound, humane society, or the like, to find and impound stray or homeless dogs, cats, etc.
  • dog-eat-dog — marked by destructive or ruthless competition; without self-restraint, ethics, etc.: It's a dog-eat-dog industry.
  • 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.
  • dogcatchers — Plural form of dogcatcher.
  • dogfighting — a violent fight between dogs.
  • dogger bank — a shoal in the North Sea, between N England and Denmark: fishing grounds; naval battle 1915.
  • doggishness — The quality of being doggish.
  • doggy style — of sexual intercourse, a position whereby the female is on all fours and the male is behind her
  • dogmatizing — Present participle of dogmatize.
  • dogmatology — the study and science of religious dogma
  • dogtrotting — Present participle of dogtrot.
  • dollar sign — the symbol $ before a number indicating that the number represents dollars.
  • domineering — inclined to rule arbitrarily or despotically; overbearing; tyrannical: domineering parents.
  • 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.
  • dongting hu — lake in Hunan province, SE China: c. 1,450 sq mi (3,755 sq km); during floods, over 4,000 sq mi (10,360 sq km)
  • donor organ — an organ which has been voluntarily given for the use of another person
  • door charge — an entrance fee.
  • dorset naga — a British-grown variety of the Naga Jolokia chilli pepper, noted for its extreme heat
  • dot etching — a method of making corrections in halftone positives or negatives by using chemicals to reduce the size of halftone dots.
  • 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.
  • doughtiness — steadfastly courageous and resolute; valiant.
  • 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.
  • downdraught — Alternative spelling of downdraft.
  • downgrading — Present participle of downgrade.
  • downlighter — Downlight.
  • downloading — download
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