11-letter words containing r, e, d, g
- fire damage — damage caused to a building or other object by fire
- first grade — school year: age 6-7
- floundering — to struggle with stumbling or plunging movements (usually followed by about, along, on, through, etc.): He saw the child floundering about in the water.
- footbridges — Plural form of footbridge.
- footdragger — One who deliberately delays obligatory action.
- forebodings — Plural form of foreboding.
- foredooming — Present participle of foredoom.
- foregrounds — Plural form of foreground.
- 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.
- foresighted — Having or using foresight.
- forgathered — Simple past tense and past participle of forgather.
- forge ahead — move forward with determination
- four-legged — having four legs.
- 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.
- free diving — skin diving.
- freeholding — Property held in freehold.
- freeloading — to take advantage of others for free food, entertainment, etc.
- frigatebird — Any of five species of bird in the genus Fregata, the only genus in the family Fregatidae.
- frigid zone — either of two regions, one between the Arctic Circle and the North Pole, or one between the Antarctic Circle and the South Pole.
- frogmarched — Simple past tense and past participle of frogmarch.
- full-rigged — (of a sailing vessel) rigged as a ship; square-rigged on all of three or more masts.
- fur brigade — (formerly) a convoy of canoes, horses, or dog sleighs that transported furs and other goods between trading posts and towns or factories
- gaff-rigged — (of a sailboat) having one or more gaff sails.
- gallbladder — a pear-shaped, muscular sac attached to the undersurface of the right lobe of the liver, in which bile is stored and concentrated.
- galliardise — the state of being gay or merry
- game warden — a public official who enforces game laws.
- 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.
- gas bladder — air bladder (def 2).
- gas-bladder — a vesicle or sac containing air.
- gatecrashed — Simple past tense and past participle of gatecrash.
- gazundering — Present participle of gazunder.
- gendarmerie — gendarmes collectively; a body of gendarmes.
- gender bias — sexual discrimination
- gender role — the public image of being a particular gender that a person presents to others: conventional notions of female gender roles.
- genderfluid — Not conforming to fixed gender roles.
- genderising — to divide, categorize, or deal with on the basis of gender distinctions: to genderize a list of first names.
- genderlects — a type or style of speech used by a particular gender.
- genderqueer — relating to or having a gender identity that is other than male or female, is a combination of the two genders, or is on a continuum between the two genders: She identifies as genderqueer.
- generalised — Alternative spelling of generalized.