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11-letter words containing r, o, d

  • good-looker — a person with a pleasingly attractive appearance.
  • goodhearted — Kind, generous and altruistic.
  • goodnatured — Alternative spelling of good-natured.
  • goods train — freight train.
  • goof around — to blunder; make an error, misjudgment, etc.
  • gooney bird — any of several albatrosses, especially the black-footed albatross and the Laysan albatross, occurring on islands in the Pacific Ocean, often near naval bases.
  • gopher wood — an unidentified wood used in building Noah's ark. Gen. 6:14.
  • gormandized — Simple past tense and past participle of gormandize.
  • gormandizer — A person who gormandizes; a glutton or gourmand.
  • gormandizes — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of gormandize.
  • gourmandise — unrestrained enjoyment of fine foods, wines, and the like.
  • gourmandism — a person who is fond of good eating, often indiscriminatingly and to excess.
  • gourmandize — to enjoy fine food and drink, especially often and in lavish quantity.
  • gradational — any process or change taking place through a series of stages, by degrees, or in a gradual manner.
  • grade point — Education. a numerical equivalent to a received letter grade, usually 0 for F, 1 for D, 2 for C, 3 for B, and 4 for A, that is multiplied by the number of credits for the course: used to compute a grade point average.
  • graded post — a position in a school having special responsibility for which additional payment is given
  • gradiometer — any instrument used to measure a gradient, as the rate of change of the geomagnetic field. Compare gradient (def 3a).
  • graduations — Plural form of graduation.
  • grand forks — a town in E North Dakota.
  • grand juror — a person serving on a grand jury.
  • grand monde — fashionable society; high society
  • grand opera — a serious, usually tragic, opera in which most of the text is set to music.
  • grand piano — a piano having the frame supported horizontally on three legs.
  • grand total — final sum or amount
  • grandiflora — any of several plant varieties or hybrids characterized by large showy flowers, as certain kinds of petunias, baby's breath, or roses.
  • grandiosely — affectedly grand or important; pompous: grandiose words.
  • grandiosity — affectedly grand or important; pompous: grandiose words.
  • grandmother — the mother of one's father or mother.
  • granny bond — (in Britain) an informal name for retirement issue certificate, an index-linked savings certificate, originally available only to people over retirement age
  • grass widow — a woman who is separated, divorced, or lives apart from her husband.
  • gravidation — (obsolete) gravidity.
  • greasewoods — Plural form of greasewood.
  • great world — fashionable society and its way of life
  • green pound — a unit of account used in calculating Britain's contributions to and payments from the Community Agricultural Fund of the EU
  • green words — green bytes
  • grind house — a burlesque house, especially one providing continuous entertainment at reduced prices.
  • grind-house — a burlesque house, especially one providing continuous entertainment at reduced prices.
  • grindstones — Plural form of grindstone.
  • groenendael — former name of Belgian sheepdog.
  • grossed out — without deductions; total, as the amount of sales, salary, profit, etc., before taking deductions for expenses, taxes, or the like (opposed to net2. ): gross earnings; gross sales.
  • ground bait — chum2 (def 1).
  • ground ball — a batted ball that rolls or bounces along the ground.
  • ground bass — a short fundamental bass part continually repeated throughout a movement.
  • ground beam — a reinforced concrete beam for supporting walls, joists, etc., at or near ground level, itself either resting directly upon the ground or supported at both ends by piers.
  • ground beef — meat: minced beef
  • ground crew — ground personnel responsible for the maintenance and repair of aircraft.
  • ground dove — any of several small terrestrial doves of the warmer parts of the Americas, especially Columbina passerina.
  • ground game — game animals, such as hares or deer, found on the earth's surface: distinguished from game birds
  • ground itch — a disease of the skin of the feet, caused by penetration of hookworm larvae, characterized by a blisterlike eruption and itching.
  • ground loop — a sharp horizontal loop performed, usually involuntarily, while touching the ground.
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