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11-letter words containing a, n, t, g, o

  • gentlewoman — a woman of good family, breeding, or social position.
  • geobotanist — a person who studies geobotany
  • geolocation — the process of determining the location of an electronic device, as a computer, cell phone, satellite, etc.
  • geomagnetic — of or relating to geomagnetism.
  • germination — to begin to grow or develop.
  • gerontocrat — A member of a gerontocracy; an aged leader, especially one clinging on to power or ruling only by virtue of age.
  • gestational — the process, state, or period of gestating.
  • 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 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.
  • gigantology — the study or description of giants
  • 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.
  • glauconitic — a greenish micaceous mineral consisting essentially of a hydrous silicate of potassium, aluminum, and iron and occurring in greensand, clays, etc.
  • glomerating — Present participle of glomerate.
  • glomeration — a glomerate condition; conglomeration.
  • gloss paint — Gloss paint is paint that forms a shiny surface when it dries.
  • glutathione — a crystalline, water-soluble peptide of glutamic acid, cysteine, and glycine, C 10 H 17 N 3 O 6 S, found in blood and in animal and plant tissues, and important in tissue oxidations and in the activation of some enzymes.
  • gnathostome — (zoology) Any vertebrate with jaws, including amphibians, reptiles, mammals, and most modern fish.
  • go flatline — [Cyberpunk SF, refers to flattening of EEG traces upon brain-death] also "flatlined". 1. To die, terminate, or fail, especially irreversibly. In hacker parlance, this is used of machines only, human death being considered somewhat too serious a matter to employ jargon-jokes about. 2. To go completely quiescent; said of machines undergoing controlled shutdown. "You can suffer file damage if you shut down Unix but power off before the system has gone flatline." 3. Of a video tube, to fail by losing vertical scan, so all one sees is a bright horizontal line bisecting the screen.
  • go it alone — to move or proceed, especially to or from something: They're going by bus.
  • go-it-alone — to move or proceed, especially to or from something: They're going by bus.
  • goaltenders — Plural form of goaltender.
  • goaltending — goalkeeping.
  • 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.
  • going train — the gear train for moving the hands of a timepiece or giving some other visual indication of the time.
  • goldbeating — the art or process of beating out gold into gold leaf.
  • golden gate — a strait in W California, between San Francisco Bay and the Pacific. 2 miles (3.2 km) wide.
  • gonadectomy — (surgery) The procedure to remove an ovary or testis.
  • gonadotrope — a gonadotropic substance.
  • goniatitoid — relating to goniatite
  • gonimoblast — a spore-bearing filament in the carpogonium of red algae
  • good nature — pleasant disposition; kindly nature; amiability.
  • goodnatured — Alternative spelling of good-natured.
  • goods train — freight train.
  • gouvernante — (archaic) governess.
  • governorate — an administrative division of a country, especially Egypt.
  • gradational — any process or change taking place through a series of stages, by degrees, or in a gradual manner.
  • grade point — Education. a numerical equivalent to a received letter grade, usually 0 for F, 1 for D, 2 for C, 3 for B, and 4 for A, that is multiplied by the number of credits for the course: used to compute a grade point average.
  • graduations — Plural form of graduation.
  • grain coast — a historic region on the Gulf of Guinea, in W Africa, in present-day Liberia.
  • grand total — final sum or amount
  • grandiosity — affectedly grand or important; pompous: grandiose words.
  • grandmother — the mother of one's father or mother.
  • grangemouth — a port in Scotland, in Falkirk council area: now Scotland's second port, with oil refineries, shipyards, and chemical industries. Pop: 17 771 (2001)
  • granitiform — resembling granite
  • granny knot — a reef knot with the ends crossed the wrong way, making it liable to slip or jam
  • granolithic — (of concrete) containing fine granite chippings or crushed granite, used to render floors and surfaces.
  • granulation — the act or process of granulating.
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