9-letter words containing r, o, d, g, e
- goldminer — a person who mines gold or works in a gold mine.
- goldurned — goldarn.
- goldwater — Barry Morris, 1909–1998, U.S. politician: U.S senator 1953–64 and 1968–87.
- gondolier — a person who rows or poles a gondola.
- goosander — a common merganser, Mergus merganser, of Eurasia and North America.
- gooseherd — a person who tends geese.
- gorehound — an enthusiast of gory horror films
- grandiose — affectedly grand or important; pompous: grandiose words.
- gray code — (hardware) A binary sequence with the property that only one bit changes between any two consecutive elements (the two codes have a Hamming distance of one). The Gray code originated when digital logic circuits were built from vacuum tubes and electromechanical relays. Counters generated tremendous power demands and noise spikes when many bits changed at once. E.g. when incrementing a register containing 11111111, the back-EMF from the relays' collapsing magnetic fields required copious noise suppression. Using Gray code counters, any increment or decrement changed only one bit, regardless of the size of the number. Gray code can also be used to convert the angular position of a disk to digital form. A radial line of sensors reads the code off the surface of the disk and if the disk is half-way between two positions each sensor might read its bit from both positions at once but since only one bit differs between the two, the value read is guaranteed to be one of the two valid values rather than some third (invalid) combination (a glitch). One possible algorithm for generating a Gray code sequence is to toggle the lowest numbered bit that results in a new code each time. Here is a four bit Gray code sequence generated in this way: 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 0 0 1 1 0 0 1 0 0 1 1 0 0 1 1 1 0 1 0 1 0 1 0 0 1 1 0 0 1 1 0 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 0 1 0 1 0 1 0 1 1 1 0 0 1 1 0 0 0 The codes were patented in 1953 by Frank Gray, a Bell Labs researcher.
- great dog — the constellation Canis Major.
- greedsome — greedy
- greek god — a man who is strikingly handsome and well built.
- greenwood — a city in W South Carolina.
- grewhound — a greyhound
- grey body — a body that emits radiation in constant proportion to the corresponding black-body radiation
- greyhound — one of a breed of tall, slender, short-haired dogs, noted for its keen sight and swiftness.
- grommeted — Machinery. any of various rings or eyelets of metal or the like. an insulated washer of rubber or plastic, inserted in a hole in a metal part to prevent grounding of a wire passing through the hole.
- groundage — a tax levied on ships that anchor in a port.
- grounders — Plural form of grounder.
- groundsel — groundsill.
- grovelled — to humble oneself or act in an abject manner, as in great fear or utter servility.
- guideword — A watchword; a word or phrase that serves as one's guide.
- gunpowder — an explosive mixture, as of potassium nitrate, sulfur, and charcoal, used in shells and cartridges, in fireworks, for blasting, etc.
- hedgerows — Plural form of hedgerow.
- hotdogger — One who hotdogs; a sporting show-off.
- hydrogels — Plural form of hydrogel.
- hydrogens — Plural form of hydrogen.
- hygrodeik — A form of hygrometer having wet and dry bulb thermometers, with an adjustable index showing the percentage of moisture in the air, etc.
- ideograms — Plural form of ideogram.
- ideograph — an ideogram.
- ingrossed — Simple past tense and past participle of ingross.
- logrolled — Simple past tense and past participle of logroll.
- longbeard — bellarmine.
- low-grade — of an inferior quality, worth, value, etc.: The mine yields low-grade silver ore.
- moldering — to turn to dust by natural decay; crumble; disintegrate; waste away: a house that had been left to molder.
- mortgaged — a conveyance of an interest in property as security for the repayment of money borrowed.
- mudlogger — a person in the oil industry who checks the mud for traces of oil or gas
- negrohead — a type of low-quality India rubber
- newground — a tract of land recently cleared for cultivation.
- niggerdom — the condition of being a Black person
- nondegree — not leading to a degree
- nongraded — without grade levels: a nongraded school.
- nosegrind — (skateboarding) A trick where the skater grinds with only the front truck of the board.
- noseguard — middle guard.
- oak ridge — a city in E Tennessee, near Knoxville: atomic research center.
- oldenburg — Claes (Thure) [klous too r-uh] /klaʊs ˈtʊər ə/ (Show IPA), born 1929, U.S. sculptor, born in Sweden.
- orangeade — a beverage consisting of orange juice, sweetener, and water, sometimes carbonated.
- orderings — Plural form of ordering.
- organised — to form as or into a whole consisting of interdependent or coordinated parts, especially for united action: to organize a committee.
- organized — affiliated in an organization, especially a union: organized dockworkers.