14-letter words containing g, o, d
- groundlessness — The state or condition of being groundless.
- groundsel tree — a composite shrub, Baccharis halimifolia, having dull, gray-green leaves and fruit with tufts of long, white hair, growing in salt marshes of eastern North America.
- groundskeepers — Plural form of groundskeeper.
- groundskeeping — The activity of tending an area of land for aesthetic or functional purposes; typically as an employee of a person or institution.
- group dynamics — (used with a plural verb) the interactions that influence the attitudes and behavior of people when they are grouped with others through either choice or accidental circumstances.
- group medicine — the practice of medicine by a number of specialists working together in association
- grow the beard — (of a TV series) to gain credibility or improve in quality during the course of a series following a specified development
- grylloblattids — Plural form of grylloblattid.
- guard of honor — a guard specially designated for welcoming or escorting distinguished guests or for accompanying a casket in a military funeral.
- guido d'arezzo — (Guido Aretinus"Fra Guittone") c995–1049? Italian monk and music theorist: reformer of musical notation.
- gulf of anadyr — an inlet of the Bering Sea, off the coast of NE Russia
- gull-wing door — a car door that opens upwards
- gunpowder plot — an unsuccessful plot to kill King James I and the assembled Lords and Commons by blowing up Parliament, November 5, 1605, in revenge for the laws against Roman Catholics.
- gynandromorphs — Plural form of gynandromorph.
- gyrostabilized — stabilized by means of a gyrostabilizer.
- heading course — (in brickwork) a course of headers.
- headstrongness — The property of being headstrong, stubbornness.
- heavy hydrogen — either of the heavy isotopes of hydrogen, especially deuterium.
- hedgehog gourd — a prickly-stemmed Arabian vine, Cucumis dipsaceus, of the gourd family, having burlike, bristly fruit.
- height of land — a watershed
- hermit kingdom — Korea during the period, c1637–c1876, when it was cut off from contact with all countries except China.
- high-card pool — red dog.
- highs and lows — If you refer to the highs and lows of someone's life or career, you are referring to both the successful or happy times, and the unsuccessful or bad times.
- hognosed skunk — Also called badger skunk, rooter skunk. a large, naked-muzzled skunk, Conepatus mesoleucus, common in the southwestern U.S. and Mexico, having a black coat with one broad white stripe down the back and tail.
- holding thumbs — holding the thumb of one hand with the other, in the hope of bringing good luck
- honours degree — a degree at honours level
- hound's-tongue — any of various plants belonging to the genus Cynoglossum, of the borage family, especially C. officinale, having coarse, tongue-shaped leaves, dull purple flowers, and prickly nutlets.
- household gods — a god presiding over and protecting the home, especially in the religion of ancient Rome.
- huffman coding — (algorithm) A data compression technique which varies the length of the encoded symbol in proportion to its information content, that is the more often a symbol or token is used, the shorter the binary string used to represent it in the compressed stream. Huffman codes can be properly decoded because they obey the prefix property, which means that no code can be a prefix of another code, and so the complete set of codes can be represented as a binary tree, known as a Huffman tree. Huffman coding was first described in a seminal paper by D.A. Huffman in 1952.
- hungtow island — an island off the SE coast of Taiwan. 8 miles (13 km) long.
- hunting ground — a section or area for hunting game.
- hydrobiologist — someone who studies or specializes in hydrobiology
- hydrogenolysis — decomposition of a compound resulting from its interaction with hydrogen.
- hydrographical — Hydrographic.
- hydrologically — the science dealing with the occurrence, circulation, distribution, and properties of the waters of the earth and its atmosphere.
- hydromagnetics — magnetohydrodynamics.
- hydroxyl group — the univalent group –OH, as in inorganic compounds, such as sodium hydroxide, NaOH, or as in organic compounds, such as ethyl alcohol, C 2 H 6 O.
- in a good seam — doing well, esp financially
- in good season — early enough
- indigenisation — Alternative spelling of indigenization.
- indigenization — to make indigenous.
- indigenousness — The quality or state of being indigenous.
- indigo bunting — a North American bunting, Passerina cyanea, the male of which is indigo.
- indoctrinating — Present participle of indoctrinate.
- infant prodigy — an exceptionally talented child
- intergradation — the act or process of intergrading or the state of being intergraded.
- inward-looking — person
- island-hopping — to travel from island to island, especially to visit a series of islands in the same chain or area.
- itching powder — a powder that causes itching when applied to human skin. usually used as a practical joke on an unsuspecting victim
- jelly doughnut — a raised doughnut filled with jelly or jam and sometimes sprinkled with powdered sugar.