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11-letter words containing a, e, r, u, g

  • furtwangler — Wilhelm [vil-helm] /ˈvɪl hɛlm/ (Show IPA), 1886–1954, German orchestral conductor.
  • gaberlunzie — a wandering beggar
  • gangbusters — a law-enforcement officer who specializes in breaking up organized crime, often by forceful or sensational means.
  • gas fixture — a heating or lighting fixture that uses gas
  • gas furnace — a furnace using gas as a fuel.
  • gas guzzler — an automobile that has low fuel efficiency, getting relatively few miles per gallon.
  • gas turbine — a turbine utilizing the gaseous products of combustion.
  • gas-guzzler — an automobile that has low fuel efficiency, getting relatively few miles per gallon.
  • gazundering — Present participle of gazunder.
  • gemmiparous — producing or reproducing by buds or gemmae.
  • glamourized — Simple past tense and past participle of glamourize.
  • glamourless — Without glamour; unglamorous, mundane.
  • glasscutter — a small hand tool that is specially designed for cutting sheets of glass, having a cutting wheel of steel or tungsten carbide and notches for snapping the glass
  • global rule — (in transformational grammar) a rule that makes reference to nonconsecutive stages of a derivation
  • glomerulate — grouped in small, dense clusters
  • goatsuckers — Plural form of goatsucker.
  • goddaughter — a female godchild.
  • goes around — to move or proceed, especially to or from something: They're going by bus.
  • good nature — pleasant disposition; kindly nature; amiability.
  • goodnatured — Alternative spelling of good-natured.
  • gourmandise — unrestrained enjoyment of fine foods, wines, and the like.
  • gourmandize — to enjoy fine food and drink, especially often and in lavish quantity.
  • gouvernante — (archaic) governess.
  • gradualness — The condition of being gradual.
  • grammalogue — a word symbolized by a sign or letter.
  • granduncles — Plural form of granduncle.
  • grangemouth — a port in Scotland, in Falkirk council area: now Scotland's second port, with oil refineries, shipyards, and chemical industries. Pop: 17 771 (2001)
  • graniferous — bearing grain
  • granulocyte — a circulating white blood cell having prominent granules in the cytoplasm and a nucleus of two or more lobes.
  • grape juice — nectar of the grape
  • grape sugar — dextrose.
  • grapefruits — Plural form of grapefruit.
  • grapefruity — Resembling or characteristic of grapefruit.
  • grasscutter — a device used to cut grass, as a lawn mower.
  • gray mullet — mullet1 (def 1).
  • great mogul — the emperor of the former Mogul Empire in India founded in 1526 by Baber.
  • great runes — Uppercase-only text or display messages. Some archaic operating systems still emit these. See also runes, smash case, fold case. Decades ago, back in the days when it was the sole supplier of long-distance hardcopy transmittal devices, the Teletype Corporation was faced with a major design choice. To shorten code lengths and cut complexity in the printing mechanism, it had been decided that teletypes would use a monocase font, either ALL UPPER or all lower. The Question Of The Day was therefore, which one to choose. A study was conducted on readability under various conditions of bad ribbon, worn print hammers, etc. Lowercase won; it is less dense and has more distinctive letterforms, and is thus much easier to read both under ideal conditions and when the letters are mangled or partly obscured. The results were filtered up through management. The chairman of Teletype killed the proposal because it failed one incredibly important criterion: "It would be impossible to spell the name of the Deity correctly." In this way (or so, at least, hacker folklore has it) superstition triumphed over utility. Teletypes were the major input devices on most early computers, and terminal manufacturers looking for corners to cut naturally followed suit until well into the 1970s. Thus, that one bad call stuck us with Great Runes for thirty years.
  • great-uncle — a granduncle.
  • green audit — the process of assessing the environmental impact of an organization, process, project, product, etc.: A green audit of your home can reveal ways in which you can reduce energy consumption.
  • 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 game — game animals, such as hares or deer, found on the earth's surface: distinguished from game birds
  • ground wave — a radio wave that propagates on or near the earth's surface and is affected by the ground and the troposphere.
  • groundshare — to share the facilities and running costs of a single stadium with another team
  • groundwater — the water beneath the surface of the ground, consisting largely of surface water that has seeped down: the source of water in springs and wells.
  • guaniferous — yielding guano
  • guaranteers — Plural form of guaranteer.
  • guardedness — The state or condition of being guarded.
  • guardhouses — Plural form of guardhouse.
  • guardswomen — Plural form of guardswoman.
  • gubernation — the act of governing or ruling
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