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11-letter words containing a, g, e

  • geophysical — the branch of geology that deals with the physics of the earth and its atmosphere, including oceanography, seismology, volcanology, and geomagnetism.
  • geostrategy — The strategic use of geopolitics.
  • geotactical — relating to geotaxis
  • gerlachovka — a mountain in N Slovakia: highest peak of the Carpathian Mountains. 8737 feet (2663 meters).
  • germaneness — The property of being germane.
  • germaphobia — Pathological fear of germs.
  • germaphobic — Alternative form of germophobic.
  • germinating — Present participle of germinate.
  • germination — to begin to grow or develop.
  • germinative — capable of germinating, developing, or creating; of or pertaining to germination.
  • gerontocrat — A member of a gerontocracy; an aged leader, especially one clinging on to power or ruling only by virtue of age.
  • gerrymander — U.S. Politics. the dividing of a state, county, etc., into election districts so as to give one political party a majority in many districts while concentrating the voting strength of the other party into as few districts as possible.
  • gestational — the process, state, or period of gestating.
  • gestatorial — related to carrying
  • gesticulant — making or tending to make gestures or gesticulations: a gesticulant speaker.
  • gesticulate — to make or use gestures, especially in an animated or excited manner with or instead of speech.
  • get a laugh — If a person or their comment gets a laugh or raises a laugh, they make the people listening to them laugh.
  • get a life! — (abuse)   Standard way of suggesting that someone has succumbed to terminal geekdom. Often heard on Usenet, especially as a way of suggesting that the target is taking some obscure issue of theology too seriously. This exhortation was popularised by William Shatner on a "Saturday Night Live" episode in a speech that ended "Get a *life*!", but some respondents believe it to have been in use before then. It was certainly in wide use among hackers for at least five years before achieving mainstream currency in early 1992.
  • get back at — take revenge on
  • get back to — resume
  • get it made — to be assured of success
  • get the air — a mixture of nitrogen, oxygen, and minute amounts of other gases that surrounds the earth and forms its atmosphere.
  • get weaving — to hurry; start to do something
  • get-at-able — accessible
  • getaway car — an automobile used by criminals in order to leave the scene of a crime quickly
  • ghastliness — The state of being ghastly.
  • ghost dance — a ritual dance intended to establish communion with the dead, especially such a dance as performed by various messianic western American Indian cults in the late 19th century.
  • ghost image — ghost (def 8).
  • giant eland — a similar but larger animal, T. derbianus, living in wooded areas of central and W Africa
  • giant otter — a large brown South American river otter, Pteronura brasiliensis, having a creamy chest patch and a long flat tail with a flanged border, hunted for its hide: now greatly reduced in number and endangered in some areas.
  • giant steps — a children's game in which a leader calls upon individual players to advance toward him or her in a given number and variety of steps, the object being for one person to tag the leader and for all of them to run back to the starting line without being caught by the leader. Any player who is caught becomes the leader.
  • giant-sized — An object that is giant-sized is much bigger than objects of its kind usually are.
  • giftwrapped — wrapped attractively in pretty paper, perhaps with ribbons or other decorations
  • gigantesque — of a huge or gigantic size; of or suited to a giant.
  • giganticide — the slaughter of giants
  • gilded cage — a place where someone appears to live in luxury but where he or she has very little freedom
  • gimcrackery — cheap, showy, useless trifles, ornaments, trinkets, etc.
  • gingerbread — a type of cake flavored with ginger and molasses.
  • gingersnaps — Plural form of gingersnap.
  • girdlestead — the waist
  • give a damn — to declare (something) to be bad, unfit, invalid, or illegal.
  • give a hand — the terminal, prehensile part of the upper limb in humans and other primates, consisting of the wrist, metacarpal area, fingers, and thumb.
  • give a hoot — not care
  • give a shit — excrement; feces.
  • give a toss — If you say that you do not give a toss about someone or something, you are emphasizing that you do not care about them at all.
  • give battle — to commence fighting
  • give thanks — be thankful, express thankfulness
  • give way to — manner, mode, or fashion: a new way of looking at a matter; to reply in a polite way.
  • glabrescent — becoming glabrous.
  • glacier bay — a national park in SE Alaska, made up of large tidewater glaciers. 4381 sq. mi. (11,347 sq. km).
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