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11-letter words containing a, g, e

  • grass green — a green colour like grass
  • grass snake — Also called ring snake. a common European snake, Natrix natrix, having a collar of bright orange or yellow.
  • grass snipe — the pectoral sandpiper.
  • grass style — a style of Japanese calligraphy and sumi-e painting, characterized chiefly by free or loose brush strokes.
  • grass-green — yellowish green.
  • grasscutter — a device used to cut grass, as a lawn mower.
  • grasshopper — any of numerous herbivorous, orthopterous insects, especially of the families Acrididae and Tettigoniidae, having the hind legs adapted for leaping and having chewing mouth parts, some species being highly destructive to vegetation. Compare locust (def 1), long-horned grasshopper.
  • gratifiable — to give pleasure to (a person or persons) by satisfying desires or humoring inclinations or feelings: Her praise will gratify all who worked so hard to earn it.
  • gravedigger — a person whose occupation is digging graves.
  • 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.
  • gravenstein — a variety of large, yellow apple with red streaks
  • graverobber — a person who steals valuables from graves and tombs: Graverobbers had emptied the Mayan tomb before archaeologists could examine its contents.
  • gravestones — Plural form of gravestone.
  • gravidities — Plural form of gravidity.
  • gravimeters — Plural form of gravimeter.
  • gravimetric — of or relating to measurement by weight.
  • gravisphere — the area in which the gravitational force of a celestial body is predominant.
  • gravitative — of or relating to gravitation.
  • gravity-fed — the supplying of fuel, materials, etc., by force of gravity.
  • gray market — a market operating within the law but charging prices substantially below list prices or those fixed by an official agency.
  • gray matter — Anatomy. nerve tissue, especially of the brain and spinal cord, that contains fibers and nerve cell bodies and is dark reddish-gray. Compare white matter.
  • gray mullet — mullet1 (def 1).
  • gray-headed — having gray hair.
  • grease wool — shorn fleece before it has been cleaned
  • greasepaint — an oily mixture of melted tallow or grease and a pigment, used by actors, clowns, etc., for making up their faces.
  • greaseproof — Resistant to grease.
  • greasewoods — Plural form of greasewood.
  • greasy pole — a pole covered with grease to make it slippery and difficult to climb, often used as entertainment
  • greasy wool — untreated wool, still retaining the lanolin, which is used for waterproof clothing
  • great abaco — two islands (Great Abaco and Little Abaco) in the N Bahamas. 776 sq. mi. (2010 sq. km).
  • great basin — a region in the Western U.S. that has no drainage to the ocean: includes most of Nevada and parts of Utah, California, Oregon, and Idaho. 210,000 sq. mi. (544,000 sq. km).
  • great egret — large heron
  • great falls — a city in central Montana, on the Missouri River.
  • great gross — a unit of quantity equivalent to 12 gross. Abbreviation: GGR.
  • great lakes — group of lakes in North America
  • great miami — Miami2 (def 2).
  • great mogul — the emperor of the former Mogul Empire in India founded in 1526 by Baber.
  • great power — a nation that has exceptional military and economic strength, and consequently plays a major, often decisive, role in international affairs.
  • 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 satan — any force, person, organization, or country that is regarded as evil, used esp of the United States by radical Islamists
  • great wheel — the wheel immediately driven by the power source.
  • great world — fashionable society and its way of life
  • great-niece — a daughter of one's nephew or niece; grandniece.
  • great-uncle — a granduncle.
  • greco-roman — of or having both Greek and Roman characteristics: the Greco-Roman influence.
  • 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 algae — type of seaweed
  • 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.
  • green beans — the narrow green edible pods of a green bean plant
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