10-letter words containing a, g, v
- glaze over — If your eyes glaze over, they become dull and lose all expression, usually because you are bored or are thinking about something else.
- glovemaker — A maker of gloves; a glover.
- go private — to restore private ownership of a corporation by buying back publicly held stock
- governable — to rule over by right of authority: to govern a nation.
- governance — information technology governance
- governante — a housekeeper
- grandville — a town in SW Michigan.
- grapevines — Plural form of grapevine.
- grass over — If an area of ground is grassed over, grass is planted all over it.
- gravel pit — an open cast working for the extraction of gravel
- gravelling — Present participle of gravel.
- gravenhage — a Dutch name of The Hague.
- graveolent — That has a rank smell.
- gravesides — Plural form of graveside.
- gravesites — Plural form of gravesite.
- gravestone — a stone marking a grave, usually giving the name, date of death, etc., of the person buried there.
- gravettian — of, relating to, or characteristic of an advanced Upper Paleolithic industry of Europe dating to c25,000 b.c. and characterized by straight, blunt-backed blades.
- graveyards — Plural form of graveyard.
- gravimeter — an instrument for measuring the specific gravity of a solid or liquid.
- gravimetry — the measurement of weight or density.
- gravitated — Simple past tense and past participle of gravitate.
- gravitates — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of gravitate.
- gravitonic — Relating to gravitons.
- gravy boat — a small dish, often boat-shaped, for serving gravy or sauce.
- grievances — Plural form of grievance.
- guarapuava — a city in S Brazil.
- gustavus i — (Gustavus Vasa) 1496–1560, king of Sweden 1523–60.
- gustavus v — 1858–1950, king of Sweden 1907–50: advocate of Swedish neutrality during World Wars I and II.
- hang heavy — to pass tediously; drag
- hargreaves — James, died 1778, English inventor of spinning machinery.
- harvesting — Also, harvesting. the gathering of crops.
- hog heaven — heaven (def 6).
- indagative — (obsolete) Searching; exploring; investigating.
- innovating — Make changes in something established, esp. by introducing new methods, ideas, or products.
- invaginate — to insert or receive, as into a sheath; sheathe.
- invaliding — Present participle of invalid.
- invigilate — to keep watch.
- invigorant — a tonic.
- invigorate — to give vigor to; fill with life and energy; energize.
- invocating — invoke.
- irrigative — serving for or pertaining to irrigation.
- ivy league — a group of colleges and universities in the northeastern U.S., consisting of Yale, Harvard, Princeton, Columbia, Dartmouth, Cornell, the University of Pennsylvania, and Brown, having a reputation for high scholastic achievement and social prestige.
- jugoslavia — formerly, a federal republic in S Europe: since 1992 comprised of Serbia and Montenegro; disbanded into independent countries in 2006. 39,449 sq. mi. (102,173 sq. km). Capital: Belgrade.
- kirovograd — a city in S central Ukraine.
- kragujevac — a town in E central Serbia; capital of Serbia (1818–39); automobile industry. Pop: 145 890 (2002)
- lagerkvist — Pär [par] /pær/ (Show IPA), 1891–1974, Swedish novelist, poet, and essayist: Nobel Prize 1951.
- landgraves — Plural form of landgrave.
- leveraging — the action of a lever, a rigid bar that pivots about one point and that is used to move an object at a second point by a force applied at a third.
- levigating — Present participle of levigate.
- levigation — to rub, grind, or reduce to a fine powder, as in a mortar, with or without the addition of a liquid.