11-letter words containing a, i, r, o
- francomania — an obsession with France or French things
- francophile — friendly to or having a strong liking for France or the French.
- frank dobie — (James) Frank, 1888–1964, U.S. folklorist, educator, and author.
- frappuccino — Iced cappuccino.
- free-to-air — Free-to-air television programmes and channels do not require a subscription or payment.
- freeloading — to take advantage of others for free food, entertainment, etc.
- frescobaldi — Girolamo [jee-raw-lah-maw] /dʒiˈrɔ lɑ mɔ/ (Show IPA), 1583–1643, Italian organist and composer.
- friar minor — a friar belonging to the branch of the Franciscan order that observes the strict rule of St. Francis. Compare capuchin (def 4), Friar Minor Conventual.
- fructuation — the process of producing fruit
- frustration — act of frustrating; state of being frustrated: the frustration of the president's efforts.
- fulguration — to flash or dart like lightning.
- fulminatory — Thundering; striking terror.
- functionary — a person who functions in a specified capacity, especially in government service; an official: civil servants, bureaucrats, and other functionaries.
- gain ground — profit or advantage.
- gamotropism — the tendency of gametes to attract each other
- garbologist — the study of the material discarded by a society to learn what it reveals about social or cultural patterns.
- garçonnière — a bachelor's apartment or quarters
- garrisoning — Present participle of garrison.
- gastrocolic — of, relating to, or involving the stomach and colon.
- gastrodynia — (pathology) gastralgia (stomach pain).
- gastroliths — Plural form of gastrolith.
- gastronomic — the art or science of good eating.
- gastrotrich — any of the microscopic, multicellular animals of the class or phylum Gastrotricha, of fresh or salt waters, characterized by bands of cilia on the ventral surface of the bottle-shaped or ribbony body and by a protrusible feeding apparatus at the mouth.
- gemmiparous — producing or reproducing by buds or gemmae.
- generations — Plural form of generation.
- genocidaire — a person who is guilty of genocide
- geographies — the science dealing with the areal differentiation of the earth's surface, as shown in the character, arrangement, and interrelations over the world of such elements as climate, elevation, soil, vegetation, population, land use, industries, or states, and of the unit areas formed by the complex of these individual elements.
- geometrical — of or relating to geometry or to the principles of geometry.
- germaphobia — Pathological fear of germs.
- germaphobic — Alternative form of germophobic.
- germination — to begin to grow or develop.
- gestatorial — related to carrying
- ghirlandaio — (Domenico di Tommaso Curradi di Doffo Bigordi) 1449–94, Italian painter.
- ghost train — a small train at an amusement park that travels through a dark tunnel in which sounds, lights, and mechanized objects are used to scare the people in the train
- 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.
- glamorizing — Present participle of glamorize.
- glamourized — Simple past tense and past participle of glamourize.
- globigerina — any marine foraminifer of the genus Globigerina, having a calcareous shell, occurring either near the surface of the sea or in the mud at the bottom.
- glomerating — Present participle of glomerate.
- glomeration — a glomerate condition; conglomeration.
- go bail for — to furnish bail for
- go critical — (of a nuclear power station or reactor) to reach a state in which a nuclear-fission chain reaction becomes self-sustaining
- go straight — without a bend, angle, or curve; not curved; direct: a straight path.
- god-fearing — deeply respectful or fearful of God.
- going train — the gear train for moving the hands of a timepiece or giving some other visual indication of the time.
- goldbergian — Rube Goldberg.
- gonfalonier — the bearer of a gonfalon.
- good friday — the Friday before Easter, a holy day of the Christian church, observed as the anniversary of the Crucifixion of Jesus.
- goods train — freight train.
- gorilla arm — The side-effect that destroyed touch-screens as a mainstream input technology despite a promising start in the early 1980s. It seems the designers of all those spiffy touch-menu systems failed to notice that humans aren't designed to hold their arms in front of their faces making small motions. After more than a very few selections, the arm begins to feel sore, cramped, and oversized - the operator looks like a gorilla while using the touch screen and feels like one afterward. This is now considered a classic cautionary tale to human-factors designers; "Remember the gorilla arm!" is shorthand for "How is this going to fly in *real* use?".