11-letter words containing g, o, r, e, d
- downlighter — Downlight.
- downriggers — Plural form of downrigger.
- doxographer — a person who collects the opinions and conjectures of ancient Greek philosophers
- dragon beam — dragging piece.
- dragon tree — a tall, treelike plant, Dracaena draco, of the Canary Islands, scarce in the wild but common in cultivation, yielding a variety of dragon's blood.
- dragon-head — dragonhead.
- dragonflies — Plural form of dragonfly.
- 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.
- dress goods — cloth or material for dresses.
- dropped egg — a poached egg.
- drudge-work — work that is menial and tedious and therefore distasteful; drudgery.
- drug report — (humour) A bug report so utterly incomprehensible that whoever submitted it must have been smoking crack. Even worse than a chug report.
- drugged-out — being under the influence of drugs, especially a narcotic or an illicit drug.
- drunkalogue — an account of a person’s problems with alcohol
- dry-dockage — the act or fact of placing a ship in a dry dock.
- 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.
- endeavoring — Present participle of endeavor.
- enshrouding — Present participle of enshroud.
- fare-dodger — a person who tries to travel on public transport without paying the fare
- feedthrough — a connector used to pass a conductor through a circuit board or enclosure.
- field grown — (of a plant) grown in a field rather than in a pot or other artificial environment
- finger food — food intended to be picked up with the fingers and eaten.
- fingerboard — (of a violin, cello, etc.) the strip of wood on the neck against which the strings are stopped by the fingers.
- 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.
- footbridges — Plural form of footbridge.
- footdragger — One who deliberately delays obligatory action.
- forebodings — Plural form of foreboding.
- foredooming — Present participle of foredoom.
- foregrounds — Plural form of foreground.
- foreign aid — economic, technical, or military aid given by one nation to another for purposes of relief and rehabilitation, for economic stabilization, or for mutual defense.
- foresighted — Having or using foresight.
- forgathered — Simple past tense and past participle of forgather.
- forge ahead — move forward with determination
- four-legged — having four legs.
- freeholding — Property held in freehold.
- freeloading — to take advantage of others for free food, entertainment, etc.
- frigid zone — either of two regions, one between the Arctic Circle and the North Pole, or one between the Antarctic Circle and the South Pole.
- frogmarched — Simple past tense and past participle of frogmarch.
- gangsterdom — the world of gangsters; gangland
- garden hose — tube for spraying plants with water
- gender role — the public image of being a particular gender that a person presents to others: conventional notions of female gender roles.
- genocidaire — a person who is guilty of genocide
- geometrized — Simple past tense and past participle of geometrize.
- george dick — George Frederick, 1881–1967, U.S. internist.
- gerodontics — the branch of dentistry dealing with aging and aged persons.
- get rooted! — an exclamation of contemptuous anger or annoyance, esp against another person
- give ground — the quality or state of being resilient; springiness.
- glamourized — Simple past tense and past participle of glamourize.
- glucuronide — a glycoside that yields glucuronic acid upon hydrolysis.
- goaltenders — Plural form of goaltender.