11-letter words containing a, g, e, d, l
- glycosidase — (enzyme) Any enzyme that catalyses the hydrolysis of a glycoside.
- goaltenders — Plural form of goaltender.
- goaltending — goalkeeping.
- gold orange — an orange-yellow, slightly water-soluble powder, C 1 4 H 1 4 N 3 NaO 3 S, used chiefly as an acid-base indicator.
- gold-plated — secure, valuable
- goldbeating — the art or process of beating out gold into gold leaf.
- goldbergian — Rube Goldberg.
- golden ager — an elderly person, especially one who has retired.
- golden calf — a golden idol set up by Aaron and worshiped by the Israelites. Ex. 32.
- golden gate — a strait in W California, between San Francisco Bay and the Pacific. 2 miles (3.2 km) wide.
- golden goal — In some football matches, a golden goal is the first goal scored in extra time, which wins the match for the team that scores it.
- golden gram — (in the East Indies) the chickpea used as a food for people and cattle.
- golden mean — the perfect moderate course or position that avoids extremes; the happy medium.
- golden-ager — an elderly person, especially one who has retired.
- goldthreads — Plural form of goldthread.
- grab handle — A grab handle is a handle on the side of an object such as a bathtub that you hold in order to help you get in and out.
- gradualness — The condition of being gradual.
- grand-scale — of large proportion, extent, magnitude, etc.: grand-scale efforts; a grand-scale approach.
- grandiosely — affectedly grand or important; pompous: grandiose words.
- granduncles — Plural form of granduncle.
- graveldiver — any of several eellike fishes of the family Scytalinidae, found off the Pacific coast of North America, especially Scytalina cerdale, which burrows among rocks.
- great world — fashionable society and its way of life
- greek salad — a salad of lettuce, tomatoes, cucumbers, olives, onions, and feta cheese, served with a vinaigrette.
- green alder — a variety of alder (Alnus viridis) common in temperate areas of the northern hemisphere
- green gland — one of the pair of excretory organs in each side of the head region of decapod crustaceans, emptying at the base of the antennae.
- green salad — salad consisting of lettuce, etc.
- greenlander — a self-governing island belonging to Denmark, located NE of North America: the largest island in the world. About 844,000 sq. mi. (2,186,000 sq. km); about 700,000 sq. mi. (1,800,000 sq. km) icecapped. Capital: Godthåb.
- greenlandic — a dialect of Inuit, spoken in Greenland.
- grenadelike — Resembling a grenade (weapon).
- griddlecake — a thin cake of batter cooked on a griddle; pancake.
- grindelwald — a valley and resort in central Switzerland, in the Bernese Oberland: mountaineering centre, with the Wetterhorn and the Eiger nearby
- groenendael — former name of Belgian sheepdog.
- halogenated — Simple past tense and past participle of halogenate.
- handselling — The practice of promoting books by personal recommendation rather than by publisher-sponsored marketing.
- hang glider — a kitelike glider consisting of a V -shaped wing underneath which the pilot is strapped: kept aloft by updrafts and guided by the pilot's shifting body weight.
- hang-glider — a kitelike glider consisting of a V -shaped wing underneath which the pilot is strapped: kept aloft by updrafts and guided by the pilot's shifting body weight.
- hedge apple — osage orange.
- hedgeapples — Plural form of hedgeapple.
- hidden flag — (scientific computation) An extra option added to a routine without changing the calling sequence. For example, instead of adding an explicit input variable to instruct a routine to give extra diagnostic output, the programmer might just add a test for some otherwise meaningless feature of the existing inputs, such as a negative mass. The use of hidden flags can make a program very hard to debug and understand, but is all too common wherever programs are hacked in a hurry.
- highlanders — Plural form of highlander.
- holographed — to make by the use of holography.
- homologated — Simple past tense and past participle of homologate.
- idealogical — Ideologic.
- ideological — of or relating to ideology.
- illegalised — to make illegal: They even wanted to illegalize smoking.
- illegalized — Simple past tense and past participle of illegalize.
- intagliated — Carved or engraved on the surface.
- invigilated — Simple past tense and past participle of invigilate.
- judgemental — involving the use or exercise of judgment.
- ladyfingers — Plural form of ladyfinger.