11-letter words containing o, r, g
- 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.
- dittography — reduplication of letters or syllables in writing, printing, etc., usually through error.
- divulgatory — to make publicly known; publish.
- do up right — to do carefully or thoroughly
- dog breeder — a person who breeds canines
- 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
- dog officer — dogcatcher.
- dog-catcher — a person employed by a municipal pound, humane society, or the like, to find and impound stray or homeless dogs, cats, etc.
- dogcatchers — Plural form of dogcatcher.
- dogger bank — a shoal in the North Sea, between N England and Denmark: fishing grounds; naval battle 1915.
- dogtrotting — Present participle of dogtrot.
- dollar sign — the symbol $ before a number indicating that the number represents dollars.
- domineering — inclined to rule arbitrarily or despotically; overbearing; tyrannical: domineering parents.
- donor organ — an organ which has been voluntarily given for the use of another person
- door charge — an entrance fee.
- dorset naga — a British-grown variety of the Naga Jolokia chilli pepper, noted for its extreme heat
- double-ring — being or pertaining to a marriage ceremony in which the partners give rings to one another.
- douglas fir — a coniferous tree, Pseudotsuga menziesii, of western North America, often more than 200 feet (60 meters) high, having reddish-brown bark, flattened needles, and narrow, light-brown cones, and yielding a strong, durable timber: the state tree of Oregon.
- downdraught — Alternative spelling of downdraft.
- downgrading — Present participle of downgrade.
- downlighter — Downlight.
- downriggers — Plural form of downrigger.
- dowsing rod — Also called dowsing rod [dou-zing] /ˈdaʊ zɪŋ/ (Show IPA). divining rod.
- dowsing-rod — Also called dowsing rod [dou-zing] /ˈdaʊ zɪŋ/ (Show IPA). divining rod.
- doxographer — a person who collects the opinions and conjectures of ancient Greek philosophers
- dr. zhivago — a novel (1958) by Boris Pasternak.
- drag anchor — (of a vessel) to move away from its mooring because the anchor has failed to hold
- drag harrow — a type of harrow consisting of heavy beams, often with spikes inserted, used to crush clods, level soil, or prepare seedbeds
- drag out of — to obtain or extract (a confession, statement, etc), esp by force
- 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.
- dress goods — cloth or material for dresses.
- driving dog — (on a lathe) a clamp securing a piece of work and engaging with a slot in a faceplate.
- drop siding — weatherboarding having its upper edges narrowed to fit into grooves or rabbets in its lower edges, and its backs flat against the sheathing or studs of the wall.
- dropped egg — a poached egg.
- drudge-work — work that is menial and tedious and therefore distasteful; drudgery.
- drug report — (humour) A bug report so utterly incomprehensible that whoever submitted it must have been smoking crack. Even worse than a chug report.
- drugged-out — being under the influence of drugs, especially a narcotic or an illicit drug.
- drunkalogue — an account of a person’s problems with alcohol
- dry-dockage — the act or fact of placing a ship in a dry dock.
- dry-footing — removal of glaze from the rim at the bottom of a piece.