9-letter words containing o, d, g, r, a
- draghound — a hound for use in following a hunting drag, specifically bred for speed and stamina rather than subtlety of sense of smell.
- dragomans — Plural form of dragoman.
- dragonets — Plural form of dragonet.
- dragonfly — any of numerous stout-bodied, nonstinging insects of the order Odonata (suborder Anisoptera), the species of which prey on mosquitoes and other insects and are distinguished from the damselflies by having the wings outstretched rather than folded when at rest.
- dragonish — Having the characteristics of a dragon.
- dragonism — a strict and domineering manner
- dragonize — to turn into a dragon
- dragooned — Simple past tense and past participle of dragoon.
- dragooner — (obsolete) A dragoon.
- drop goal — In rugby, a drop goal is a goal that a player scores by dropping the ball and kicking it between the posts.
- earth-god — a god of fertility and vegetation.
- eidograph — a type of pantograph that was invented by the Scottish mathematician William Wallace in 1821 and which was more accurate than other pantographs
- embargoed — Simple past tense and past participle of embargo.
- end organ — the expanded end of a peripheral motor or sensory nerve
- foodgrain — Cereal (grain grown as human food).
- form drag — the portion of the resisting force encountered by a body moving through a fluid that is due to the irregularity of shape of the body, reducible to a minimum by streamlining.
- fragonard — Jean Honoré [zhahn aw-naw-rey] /ʒɑ̃ ɔ nɔˈreɪ/ (Show IPA), 1732–1806, French painter.
- gag order — a court order banning reporters, attorneys, and other parties involved in a case before a court of law from reporting on or publicly disclosing anything relating to the case.
- gameboard — A portable surface on which a game is played, and which is marked for play of that game.
- gangboard — a raised walk on a sailing ship, crossing the waist and connecting the forecastle directly with the quarterdeck.
- garderobe — a wardrobe or its contents.
- gargoyled — (of a building) Having gargoyles carved into it.
- garrotted — to execute by the garrote.
- gasholder — gasometer (def 2).
- gastropod — any mollusk of the class Gastropoda, comprising the snails, whelks, slugs, etc.
- gear down — Machinery. a part, as a disk, wheel, or section of a shaft, having cut teeth of such form, size, and spacing that they mesh with teeth in another part to transmit or receive force and motion. an assembly of such parts. one of several possible arrangements of such parts in a mechanism, as an automobile transmission, for affording different relations of torque and speed between the driving and the driven machinery, or for permitting the driven machinery to run in either direction: first gear; reverse gear. a mechanism or group of parts performing one function or serving one purpose in a complex machine: steering gear.
- geraldton — a seaport in W Australia.
- girandole — a rotating and radiating firework.
- giraudoux — Jean [zhahn] /ʒɑ̃/ (Show IPA), 1882–1944, French novelist, playwright, and diplomat.
- gladiator — (in ancient Rome) a person, often a slave or captive, who was armed with a sword or other weapon and compelled to fight to the death in a public arena against another person or a wild animal, for the entertainment of the spectators.
- glamoured — Simple past tense and past participle of glamour.
- go around — an act or instance of going around something, as a circle, course, or traffic pattern, and returning to the starting point.
- go-around — an act or instance of going around something, as a circle, course, or traffic pattern, and returning to the starting point.
- goalwards — toward or in the direction of the opposing team's goal
- goatherds — Plural form of goatherd.
- godfather — a novel (1969) by Mario Puzo.
- godparent — a godfather or godmother.
- gold card — A gold card is a special type of credit card that gives you extra benefits such as a higher spending limit.
- gold star — a gold-colored star displayed, as on a service flag, to indicate that a member of one's family, organization, or the like, was killed in war as a member of the armed forces.
- goldarned — goddamn (used as a euphemism in expressions of anger, disgust, surprise, etc.).
- goldwater — Barry Morris, 1909–1998, U.S. politician: U.S senator 1953–64 and 1968–87.
- good hair — hair showing evidence of some European strain in a person's blood
- goosander — a common merganser, Mergus merganser, of Eurasia and North America.
- gourmands — Plural form of gourmand.
- gradation — any process or change taking place through a series of stages, by degrees, or in a gradual manner.
- gradatory — (architecture) A series of steps from a cloister into a church.
- graduator — One who determines or indicates graduation.
- grandiose — affectedly grand or important; pompous: grandiose words.
- grandioso — grand and imposing.
- grandsons — Plural form of grandson.