9-letter words containing a, g, o, d, e
- goddamned — damned.
- godfather — a novel (1969) by Mario Puzo.
- godparent — a godfather or godmother.
- gold leaf — gold in the form of very thin foil, as for gilding.
- goldarned — goddamn (used as a euphemism in expressions of anger, disgust, surprise, etc.).
- goldwater — Barry Morris, 1909–1998, U.S. politician: U.S senator 1953–64 and 1968–87.
- good deal — to occupy oneself or itself (usually followed by with or in): Botany deals with the study of plants. He deals in generalities.
- good name — reputation
- goodfaced — with a handsome face
- goodfella — a gangster, esp one in the Mafia
- goosander — a common merganser, Mergus merganser, of Eurasia and North America.
- 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.
- groundage — a tax levied on ships that anchor in a port.
- guanodine — (biochemistry, genetics) any of the three nucleotides guanosine monophosphate, guanosine diphosphate and guanosine triphosphate.
- gynaecoid — Characteristic of a woman.
- helgoland — a German island in the North Sea. ¼ sq. mi. (0.6 sq. km).
- hogsheads — Plural form of hogshead.
- idealogue — One given to fanciful ideas or theories, someone who theorizes.
- ideograms — Plural form of ideogram.
- ideograph — an ideogram.
- languedoc — a former province in S France. Capital: Toulouse.
- lodgeable — Capable of being lodged.
- logaoedic — composed of dactyls and trochees or of anapests and iambs, producing a movement somewhat suggestive of prose.
- longbeard — bellarmine.
- low-grade — of an inferior quality, worth, value, etc.: The mine yields low-grade silver ore.
- make good — morally excellent; virtuous; righteous; pious: a good man.
- megadoses — Plural form of megadose.
- megalodon — Any of a group of extinct sharks from the Oligocene to Pleistocene epochs.
- megapodes — Plural form of megapode.
- moonglade — (poetic, rare) The bright reflection of moonlight on a body of water.
- mortgaged — a conveyance of an interest in property as security for the repayment of money borrowed.
- mossadegh — Mohammed, 1880–1967, Iranian statesman: premier 1951–53.
- negrohead — a type of low-quality India rubber
- nonglazed — not glazed
- nongraded — without grade levels: a nongraded school.
- noseguard — middle guard.
- oak ridge — a city in E Tennessee, near Knoxville: atomic research center.
- obligated — to bind or oblige morally or legally: to obligate oneself to purchase a building.
- orangeade — a beverage consisting of orange juice, sweetener, and water, sometimes carbonated.
- 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.
- outgassed — Simple past tense and past participle of outgas.
- outranged — Simple past tense and past participle of outrange.
- overgrade — to grade too highly
- paedology — the study of the character, growth, and development of children
- page mode — 1. (hardware, storage) See page mode DRAM. 2. (hardware) An operation mode of video terminals like the IBM 3270, in which the terminal only sends a completed input screen (page) to the host instead of sending each character as the keys are pressed.
- pedagogic — of or relating to a pedagogue or pedagogy.
- pedagogue — a teacher; schoolteacher.