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12-letter words containing o, g, d, a

  • beardtongues — Plural form of beardtongue.
  • bearing down — to hold up; support: to bear the weight of the roof.
  • blood orange — a variety of orange all or part of the pulp of which is dark red when ripe
  • bloomingdale — a town in NE Illinois.
  • blotting-pad — an object to one side of which a piece of blotting paper is attached for blotting text handwritten in ink
  • boarding out — the local-authority practice of placing a client in a foster family or voluntary establishment and paying for it
  • boardsailing — windsurfing
  • boatbuilding — Boatbuilding is the craft or industry of making boats.
  • bodyboarding — the sport of surfing using a bodyboard
  • bog asphodel — either of two liliaceous plants, Narthecium ossifragum of Europe or N. americanum of North America, that grow in boggy places and have small yellow flowers and grasslike leaves
  • bog-standard — If you describe something as bog-standard you mean that is an ordinary example of its kind, with no exciting or interesting features.
  • boghead coal — compact bituminous coal that burns brightly and yields large quantities of tar and oil upon distillation.
  • bond washing — a series of deals in bonds made with the intention of avoiding taxation
  • boogie board — a small, flexible plastic surfboard, ridden lying down.
  • border guard — a guard stationed on a border between countries
  • born-digital — relating to or noting documents, images, etc., that are created and managed in electronic form: electronic preservation of born-digital content; a born-digital e-book that will not be available in print.
  • bound charge — any electric charge that is bound to an atom or molecule (opposed to free charge).
  • braggadocios — empty boasting; bragging.
  • break ground — to do something that has not been done before
  • bring around — If you bring someone around when they are unconscious, you make them become conscious again.
  • broadcasting — Broadcasting is the making and sending out of television and radio programmes.
  • bur marigold — any plant of the genus Bidens that has yellow flowers and pointed fruits that cling to fur and clothing: family Asteraceae (composites)
  • campo grande — a city in SW Brazil, capital of Mato Grosso do Sul state on the São Paulo–Corumbá railway: market centre. Pop: 746 000 (2005 est)
  • canada goose — A Canada goose is a grayish-brown wild goose that comes from North America.
  • canned goods — tinned food produce
  • cap and gown — a cap with a flat top ( mortarboard) and a long robe, worn at some academic ceremonies, as commencement, and often used to symbolize the academic life
  • cape delgado — a headland on the NE coast of Mozambique
  • carbonadoing — Present participle of carbonado.
  • card catalog — a file of cards of uniform size arranged in some definite order and listing the items in the collection of a library or group of libraries, each card typically identifying a single item.
  • cardiographs — Plural form of cardiograph.
  • cardiography — electrocardiograph.
  • cardiologist — A cardiologist is a doctor who specializes in the heart and its diseases.
  • cardiomegaly — abnormal enlargement of the heart.
  • cardioplegia — deliberate arrest of the action of the heart, as by hypothermia or the injection of chemicals, to enable complex heart surgery to be carried out
  • carriage dog — Dalmatian (sense 4)
  • catalog code — the principles, rules, and regulations for entering and describing books or other library material in a catalog.
  • cathode glow — a luminous region between the Aston dark space and the Crookes dark space in a vacuum tube, occurring when the pressure is low.
  • cathodograph — a picture taken using cathode rays
  • chalcogenide — a binary compound consisting of a chalcogen and at least one other electropositive element
  • change round — to place in or adopt a different or opposite position
  • changearound — the act of changing to a different position
  • chord change — a movement from one chord to another
  • cigar holder — a mouthpiece of wood, ivory, etc, used for holding a cigar while it is smoked
  • cladogenesis — adaptive evolution leading to a greater variety of species
  • cladogenetic — relating to cladogenesis
  • clapboarding — Present participle of clapboard.
  • classloading — (computing, Java) The dynamic loading of classes into a virtual machine, as performed by a classloader.
  • closegrained — having a fine, compact grain or texture
  • closing date — The closing date for a competition or offer is the final date by which entries or applications must be received.
  • code-sharing — a commercial agreement between two airlines that allows passengers to use a ticket from one airline to travel on another
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