11-letter words containing a, g, e
- green earth — a pigment used in painting consisting mainly of iron silicate, characterized chiefly by its variable grayish-green hue, lack of tinting strength, and permanence.
- green flash — a green coloration of the upper portion of the sun, caused by atmospheric refraction and occasionally seen as the sun rises above or sinks below the horizon.
- 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 glass — glass of low quality, colored green by impurities in the materials from which it is made.
- green paper — a report presenting the policy proposals of the government, to be discussed in Parliament.
- green party — a liberal political party especially in Germany focusing on environmental issues.
- green salad — salad consisting of lettuce, etc.
- green snake — any slender, green snake of the genus Opheodrys, of North America, feeding chiefly on insects.
- green stamp — Citizens Band Radio Slang. a speeding ticket. Usually, Green Stamps. money; currency.
- greenhearts — Plural form of greenheart.
- 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.
- greenmailer — One who greenmails.
- greenmarket — farmers' market.
- greenshanks — Plural form of greenshank.
- greenswards — Plural form of greensward.
- grenadelike — Resembling a grenade (weapon).
- grey market — Grey market goods are bought unofficially and then sold to customers at lower prices than usual.
- grey matter — You can refer to your intelligence or your brains as grey matter.
- grey-haired — having grey hair
- grey-headed — having gray hair.
- griddlecake — a thin cake of batter cooked on a griddle; pancake.
- grillparzer — Franz [frahnts] /frɑnts/ (Show IPA), 1791–1872, Austrian poet and dramatist.
- grim reaper — the personification of death as a man or cloaked skeleton holding a scythe.
- grindelwald — a valley and resort in central Switzerland, in the Bernese Oberland: mountaineering centre, with the Wetterhorn and the Eiger nearby
- gripe water — a solution given to infants to relieve colic
- groenendael — former name of Belgian sheepdog.
- 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.
- growth area — a geographic or economic area in which there is noticeable growth
- growth rate — increase per unit
- guaifenesin — An expectorant used in cough syrups and sometimes for pain relief from fibromyalgia.
- 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
- guesstimate — to estimate without substantial basis in facts or statistics.
- guestimates — Plural form of guestimate.
- guide vanes — fixed aerofoils that direct air, gas, or water into the moving blades of a turbine or into or around bends in ducts with minimum loss of energy
- guided wave — a wave the energy of which is concentrated near a boundary or between parallel boundaries separating different materials and that has a direction of propagation parallel to these boundaries.
- guinea corn — durra.
- guinea fowl — any of several African, gallinaceous birds of the subfamily Numidinae, especially a common species, Numida meleagris, that has a bony casque on the head and dark gray plumage spotted with white and that is now domesticated and raised for its flesh and eggs.
- guinea worm — a long, slender roundworm, Dracunculus medinensis, parasitic under the skin of humans and animals, common in parts of India and Africa.
- gulf states — the oil-producing states around the Persian Gulf: Iran, Iraq, Kuwait, Saudi Arabia, Bahrain, Qatar, the United Arab Emirates, and Oman
- gulf stream — a warm ocean current flowing N from the Gulf of Mexico, along the E coast of the U.S., to an area off the SE coast of Newfoundland, where it becomes the western terminus of the North Atlantic Current.