11-letter words containing k, g, o
- 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.
- dragon book — (publication) The classic text "Compilers: Principles, Techniques and Tools", by Alfred V. Aho, Ravi Sethi, and Jeffrey D. Ullman (Addison-Wesley 1986; ISBN 0-201-10088-6). So called because of the cover design featuring a dragon labelled "complexity of compiler design" and a knight bearing the lance "LALR parser generator" among his other trappings. This one is more specifically known as the "Red Dragon Book" (1986); an earlier edition, sans Sethi and titled "Principles Of Compiler Design" (Alfred V. Aho and Jeffrey D. Ullman; Addison-Wesley, 1977; ISBN 0-201-00022-9), was the "Green Dragon Book" (1977). (Also "New Dragon Book", "Old Dragon Book".) The horsed knight and the Green Dragon were warily eying each other at a distance; now the knight is typing (wearing gauntlets!) at a terminal showing a video-game representation of the Red Dragon's head while the rest of the beast extends back in normal space. See also book titles.
- drudge-work — work that is menial and tedious and therefore distasteful; drudgery.
- drunkalogue — an account of a person’s problems with alcohol
- dry-dockage — the act or fact of placing a ship in a dry dock.
- english oak — a species, Q. robur of the genus Quercus.
- folk singer — a singer who specializes in folk songs, usually providing his or her own accompaniment on a guitar.
- foreign key — (database) A column in a database table containing values that are also found in some primary key column (of a different table). By extension, any reference to entities of a different type. Some RDBMSs allow a column to be explicitly labelled as a foreign key and only allow values to be inserted if they already exist in the relevant primary key column.
- foreknowing — Present participle of foreknow.
- gamma stock — any of the third rank of active securities on the London Stock Exchange. Prices displayed by market makers are given as an indication rather than an offer to buy or sell
- gazingstock — (archaic) An object, event or person that is stared at (or gazed at) by many people.
- gentlefolks — (nonstandard) gentlefolk.
- george dick — George Frederick, 1881–1967, U.S. internist.
- gerlachovka — a mountain in N Slovakia: highest peak of the Carpathian Mountains. 8737 feet (2663 meters).
- get back to — resume
- glass block — a translucent, hollow or solid block of glass for glazing openings or constructing partitions, usually square on the face, with the outer surfaces treated in any of various ways.
- glassworker — a person who makes or does glasswork.
- glove maker — someone who makes gloves
- glucokinase — an enzyme, found in all living systems, that serves to catalyze the phosphorylation of gluconic acid.
- go crook at — to rebuke or upbraid
- go kerplunk — to make a noise when landing on or hitting the bottom of something
- goalkeepers — Plural form of goalkeeper.
- goalkeeping — The art of a goalkeeper.
- goalkicking — the act of taking a goal kick
- goatsuckers — Plural form of goatsucker.
- gob-smacked — utterly astounded; astonished.
- gobsmacking — Causing one to be gobsmacked; astounding, flabbergasting.
- godforsaken — desolate; remote; deserted: They live in some godforsaken place 40 miles from the nearest town.
- godlikeness — The quality of being godlike.
- goldbricked — Simple past tense and past participle of goldbrick.
- goldbricker — Informal. a brick made to look like gold, sold by a swindler.
- golden buck — a dish consisting of Welsh rabbit topped with a poached egg.
- good-looker — a person with a pleasingly attractive appearance.
- googlewhack — A Google search result consisting of a single hit, in response to a search on two separate words.
- goose creek — a town in SE South Carolina.
- gorillalike — (informal) Resembling or characteristic of a gorilla.
- grand forks — a town in E North Dakota.
- granny knot — a reef knot with the ends crossed the wrong way, making it liable to slip or jam
- greek cross — a cross consisting of an upright crossed in the middle by a horizontal piece of the same length.
- greenockite — a yellow mineral, cadmium sulfide, CdS, associated with zinc ores and used as a source of cadmium.
- ground pink — a plant, Linanthus dianthiflorus, of southern California, having pink or white flowers.
- groundworks — Plural form of groundwork.
- half-joking — something said or done to provoke laughter or cause amusement, as a witticism, a short and amusing anecdote, or a prankish act: He tells very funny jokes. She played a joke on him.
- hardworking — industrious; zealous: a hardworking family man.
- home baking — such things as bread, cakes and biscuits that are baked at home
- homeworking — Working from home, especially when in electronic contact with a central office.
- hoodwinking — Present participle of hoodwink.
- hop-picking — the activity of picking hops
- hot working — Hot working is a process in which a metal is shaped under pressure at a fairly high temperature.
- hot-desking — the practice of not assigning permanent desks in a workplace, so that employees may work at any available desk