11-letter words containing n, a, g, o, r
- craniograph — an instrument that outlines the skull.
- craniopagus — the condition of Siamese twins joined at the head
- crown agent — a member of a board appointed by the Minister for Overseas Development to provide financial, commercial, and professional services for a number of overseas governments and international bodies
- crown glass — an old form of window glass made by blowing a globe and spinning it until it formed a flat disc
- crown graft — a type of graft in which the scion is inserted at the crown of the stock
- cyano group — the univalent group CN; cyanogen.
- danger zone — a dangerous area
- dangerously — full of danger or risk; causing danger; perilous; risky; hazardous; unsafe.
- degradation — You use degradation to refer to a situation, condition, or experience which you consider shameful and disgusting, especially one which involves poverty or immorality.
- demigration — moving from one place to another
- dendrograms — Plural form of dendrogram.
- denigration — to speak damagingly of; criticize in a derogatory manner; sully; defame: to denigrate someone's character.
- denigratory — to speak damagingly of; criticize in a derogatory manner; sully; defame: to denigrate someone's character.
- derogations — Plural form of derogation.
- designators — Plural form of designator.
- designatory — to mark or point out; indicate; show; specify.
- disfavoring — Present participle of disfavor.
- disgarrison — To deprive of a garrison.
- disorganise — To make less organised; to reduce to chaos.
- disorganize — to destroy the organization, systematic arrangement, or orderly connection of; throw into confusion or disorder.
- dog curtain — a flap on a canvas cover for a binnacle, affording a view of the compass when raised.
- dog fancier — a person with a special interest in dogs
- dog handler — a member of the police force, a security organization, etc, who works in collaboration with a specially trained dog
- dogger bank — a shoal in the North Sea, between N England and Denmark: fishing grounds; naval battle 1915.
- dollar sign — the symbol $ before a number indicating that the number represents dollars.
- donor organ — an organ which has been voluntarily given for the use of another person
- dorset naga — a British-grown variety of the Naga Jolokia chilli pepper, noted for its extreme heat
- downdraught — Alternative spelling of downdraft.
- downgrading — Present participle of downgrade.
- drag anchor — (of a vessel) to move away from its mooring because the anchor has failed to hold
- drag-n-drop — (spelling) Stupid spelling of drag and drop.
- dragon beam — dragging piece.
- 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.
- dragon lady — (often initial capital letters) a woman of somewhat sinister glamour often perceived as wielding ruthless or corrupt power.
- 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.
- drunkalogue — an account of a person’s problems with alcohol
- dynamograph — a device for registering the quantity of force applied
- earthmoving — of or relating to earthmovers: earthmoving machinery.
- east orange — a city in NE New Jersey, near Newark.
- elaborating — Present participle of elaborate.
- embrocating — Present participle of embrocate.
- emigrations — Plural form of emigration.
- encouraging — Giving someone support or confidence; supportive.
- encroaching — That encroaches.
- endeavoring — Present participle of endeavor.
- entogastric — (zoology) Relating to the interior of the stomach; applied to a mode of budding from the interior of the gastric cavity, in certain hydroids.
- envigorates — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of envigorate.