11-letter words containing a, n, g, s, t
- genioplasty — Mentoplasty.
- geobotanist — a person who studies geobotany
- gestational — the process, state, or period of gestating.
- gesticulant — making or tending to make gestures or gesticulations: a gesticulant speaker.
- 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 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 snail — any land snail of the genus Achatina and related genera, mostly of tropical Africa, having shells up to 9 inches (23 cm) high.
- giant squid — any squid of the genus Architeuthis, inhabiting deep ocean bottoms and sometimes attaining an arm span of 65 feet (20 meters) or more.
- 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.
- gigantesque — of a huge or gigantic size; of or suited to a giant.
- give thanks — be thankful, express thankfulness
- glabrescent — becoming glabrous.
- glaciations — Plural form of glaciation.
- glastonbury — a borough of SW England, in whose vicinity the ruins of an important Iron Age lake village have been found and to which in folklore both King Arthur and Joseph of Arimathaea have been linked, the latter as the founder of the abbey there.
- glaucescent — becoming glaucous; somewhat glaucous.
- gloss paint — Gloss paint is paint that forms a shiny surface when it dries.
- glutaminase — an enzyme used to treat cancer
- gnat's piss — a very weak-tasting and unappetizing drink
- gnathostome — (zoology) Any vertebrate with jaws, including amphibians, reptiles, mammals, and most modern fish.
- goaltenders — Plural form of goaltender.
- goat island — an island in the Niagara River in W New York, in the middle of Niagara Falls, dividing the American Falls from the Horseshoe (Canadian) Falls.
- goatishness — The state or condition of being goatish.
- gonimoblast — a spore-bearing filament in the carpogonium of red algae
- goods train — freight train.
- graduations — Plural form of graduation.
- grain coast — a historic region on the Gulf of Guinea, in W Africa, in present-day Liberia.
- grandiosity — affectedly grand or important; pompous: grandiose words.
- grandmaster — the head of a military order of knighthood, a lodge, fraternal order, or the like.
- grandstands — Plural form of grandstand.
- grants pass — a city in SW Oregon.
- gravenstein — a variety of large, yellow apple with red streaks
- gravestones — Plural form of gravestone.
- greasepaint — an oily mixture of melted tallow or grease and a pigment, used by actors, clowns, etc., for making up their faces.
- 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 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
- green stamp — Citizens Band Radio Slang. a speeding ticket. Usually, Green Stamps. money; currency.
- greenhearts — Plural form of greenheart.
- guaranteers — Plural form of guaranteer.
- gymnanthous — achlamydeous.
- gymnastical — Alternative form of gymnastic.
- gynaecomast — a man who suffers from gynaecomastia
- hairstyling — a person who designs and arranges hair styles.
- hamstringed — (in humans and other primates) any of the tendons that bound the ham of the knee.
- handfasting — Present participle of handfast.
- hatemongers — Plural form of hatemonger.
- haughtiness — disdainfully proud; snobbish; scornfully arrogant; supercilious: haughty aristocrats; a haughty salesclerk.
- hear things — a material object without life or consciousness; an inanimate object.