11-letter words containing n, d, r, a, g
- drunkalogue — an account of a person’s problems with alcohol
- dry farming — a system of growing crops in arid or semiarid regions without artificial irrigation, by reducing evaporation and by special methods of tillage
- dynamograph — a device for registering the quantity of force applied
- dyssynergia — (medicine) Failure of parts of the anatomy to work together correctly.
- east riding — a former administrative division of Yorkshire, in NE England, now part of Humberside.
- emarginated — (botany) Having the margin interrupted by a notch or shallow sinus.
- endangering — Present participle of endanger.
- endearingly — In an endearing manner.
- endeavoring — Present participle of endeavor.
- energy band — a range of energies associated with the quantum states of electrons in a crystalline solid. In a semiconductor or an insulator there is a valence band containing many states, most of which are occupied. Above this is a forbidden band with only a few isolated states caused by impurities. Above this is a conduction band containing many states most of which are empty. In a metal there is a continuous valence-conduction band
- eradicating — Present participle of eradicate.
- extraditing — Present participle of extradite.
- fairgrounds — Alternative spelling of fairground; the grounds where a fair is held.
- feed grains — grains used to feed livestock
- finedrawing — Present participle of finedraw.
- fingerboard — (of a violin, cello, etc.) the strip of wood on the neck against which the strings are stopped by the fingers.
- fingerguard — something that protects the fingers
- flap-dragon — an old game in which the players snatch raisins, plums, etc., out of burning brandy, and eat them.
- food grains — the small hard seedlike fruits of a grass, esp a cereal plant, used as a foodstuff
- 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.
- frankpledge — a system of dividing a community into tithings or groups of ten men, each member of which was responsible for the conduct of the other members of his group and for the assurance that a member charged with a breach of the law would be produced at court.
- freeloading — to take advantage of others for free food, entertainment, etc.
- fundraising — to collect by fund-raising: The charity needs to fund-raise more than a million dollars.
- gain ground — profit or advantage.
- game warden — a public official who enforces game laws.
- gandhinagar — a region in W India, N of the Narmada River.
- gangsterdom — the world of gangsters; gangland
- garage band — a rough-and-ready amateurish rock group
- garden city — a city in SE Michigan, near Detroit.
- garden flat — a flat with direct access to a garden: typically, a garden flat consists of basement accommodation in prewar property, but some are in purpose-built blocks in urban areas
- garden hose — tube for spraying plants with water
- garden path — paved walkway
- garden pink — the plant Dianthus plumarius
- garden seat — a seat, usually kept permanently outdoors in a garden
- garden wall — a wall surrounding a garden or separating two gardens
- garden-path — noting or pertaining to a sentence that is easily parsed incorrectly because its beginning suggests it has an interpretation that it clearly does not have.
- garlandless — without a garland or garlands
- garnet jade — a green grossularite, used as a gem: not a true jade.
- gastrodynia — (pathology) gastralgia (stomach pain).
- gay gordons — an energetic old-time dance
- gazundering — Present participle of gazunder.
- gendarmerie — gendarmes collectively; a body of gendarmes.
- gender bias — sexual discrimination
- generalised — Alternative spelling of generalized.
- generalized — to infer (a general principle, trend, etc.) from particular facts, statistics, or the like.
- genocidaire — a person who is guilty of genocide
- gerrymander — U.S. Politics. the dividing of a state, county, etc., into election districts so as to give one political party a majority in many districts while concentrating the voting strength of the other party into as few districts as possible.
- ghirlandaio — (Domenico di Tommaso Curradi di Doffo Bigordi) 1449–94, Italian painter.
- gingerbread — a type of cake flavored with ginger and molasses.
- glad-hander — to greet warmly.