11-letter words containing o, d, g, r, a
- overloading — (language) (Or "Operator overloading"). Use of a single symbol to represent operators with different argument types, e.g. "-", used either, as a monadic operator to negate an expression, or as a dyadic operator to return the difference between two expressions. Another example is "+" used to add either integers or floating-point numbers. Overloading is also known as ad-hoc polymorphism. User-defined operator overloading is provided by several modern programming languages, e.g. C++'s class system and the functional programming language Haskell's type classes. Ad-hoc polymorphism (better described as overloading) is the ability to use the same syntax for objects of different types, e.g. "+" for addition of reals and integers or "-" for unary negation or diadic subtraction. Parametric polymorphism allows the same object code for a function to handle arguments of many types but overloading only reuses syntax and requires different code to handle different types.
- oxford bags — trousers with very wide baggy legs, originally popular in the 1920s
- oxford gray — medium to dark gray.
- pagoda tree — a Chinese leguminous tree, Sophora japonica, with ornamental white flowers and dark green foliage
- pedagoguery — a teacher; schoolteacher.
- perigordian — of, relating to, or characteristic of an Upper Paleolithic cultural epoch in southern France, especially of the Périgord region.
- point guard — Basketball. the guard who directs the team's offense from the point.
- powder flag — red flag (def 4).
- prairie dog — any of several burrowing rodents of the genus Cynomys, of North American prairies, having a barklike cry: some are endangered.
- preboarding — to put or allow to go aboard in advance of the usual time or before others: Passengers with disabilities will be preboarded.
- prodigality — the quality or fact of being prodigal; wasteful extravagance in spending.
- prodigalize — to spend lavishly
- prolongated — to prolong.
- promenading — a stroll or walk, especially in a public place, as for pleasure or display.
- promulgated — to make known by open declaration; publish; proclaim formally or put into operation (a law, decree of a court, etc.).
- propagandas — information, ideas, or rumors deliberately spread widely to help or harm a person, group, movement, institution, nation, etc.
- pseudograph — a piece of writing that is falsely ascribed
- raccoon dog — a small wild dog of the genus Nyctereutes, common in Asia, resembling a raccoon in coat and coloration.
- radiography — the production of radiographs.
- radiologist — the science dealing with x-rays or nuclear radiation, especially for medical uses.
- railroading — a permanent road laid with rails, commonly in one or more pairs of continuous lines forming a track or tracks, on which locomotives and cars are run for the transportation of passengers, freight, and mail.
- raking bond — a brickwork bond in which concealed courses of diagonally laid bricks are used to bond exposed brickwork to the wall structure.
- razor-edged — having an extremely sharp edge or blade
- readthrough — reading (def 1).
- rhagadiform — of or relating to rhagades
- road bridge — a bridge for road traffic
- road racing — a competitive event of racing in automobiles, motorcycles, or bicycles over public roads or a twisting course simulating a public road, as opposed to a closed, banked track or a drag strip.
- roadholding — A vehicle's roadholding is how easy it is to control safely in difficult driving conditions or when going round bends.
- rock garden — a garden on rocky ground or among rocks, for the growing of alpine or other plants.
- rock-garden — a garden on rocky ground or among rocks, for the growing of alpine or other plants.
- rod bearing — a bearing in the metal shaft that transmits power in axial reciprocating motion
- roof garden — a garden on the flat roof of a house or other building.
- ropedancing — the act of dancing on a rope
- rose garden — where roses are grown
- rough draft — writing: unfinished version
- rough trade — male homosexual prostitution, especially involving brutality or sadism.
- round angle — perigon.
- sand grouse — any of several birds of the family Pteroclididae inhabiting sandy areas of the Old World, resembling both pigeons and shorebirds and having precocial young.
- sand-groper — a native of the arid region of Western Australia.
- scattergood — a spendthrift.
- shade-grown — grown in the shade, especially in artificial shade, as under a cloth.
- shadowgraph — a picture produced by throwing a shadow, as of the hands, on a lighted screen, wall, or the like.
- smorgasbord — a buffet meal of various hot and cold hors d'oeuvres, salads, casserole dishes, meats, cheeses, etc.
- sockdolager — something unusually large, heavy, etc.
- springboard — a flexible board, projecting over water, from which divers leap or spring.
- stock guard — a barrier for keeping cattle and other animals off the tracks or right of way.
- stringboard — a board or facing covering the ends of the steps in a staircase.
- sugarcoated — to cover with sugar: to sugarcoat a pill.
- sword grass — any of various grasses or plants having swordlike or sharp leaves, as the sword lily.
- ticonderoga — a village in NE New York, on Lake Champlain: site of French fort captured by the English 1759 and by Americans under Ethan Allen 1775.