11-letter words containing a, v, i, g
- gravitation — Physics. the force of attraction between any two masses. Compare law of gravitation. an act or process caused by this force.
- gravitative — of or relating to gravitation.
- gravity dam — a dam resisting the pressure of impounded water through its own weight.
- gravity-fed — the supplying of fuel, materials, etc., by force of gravity.
- gravy train — a position in which a person or group receives excessive and unjustified money or advantages with little or no effort: The top executives were on the gravy train with their huge bonuses.
- groin-vault — a vault or ceiling created by the intersection of vaults.
- 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.
- gustavus ii — (Gustavus Adolphus"Lion of the North") 1594–1632, king of Sweden 1611–32: national military hero (grandson of Gustavus I).
- gustavus iv — (Gustavus Adolphus) 1778–1837, king of Sweden 1792–1809 (son of Gustavus III).
- gustavus vi — (Gustaf Adolf) 1882–1973, king of Sweden 1950–73 (son of Gustavus V).
- hairweaving — the attachment of matching hair to a base of nylon thread interwoven with a person's own hair, as to cover a bald area or to add length: Three of the makeovers involved hairweaving.
- hand waving — insubstantial words, arguments, gestures, or actions used in an attempt to explain or persuade.
- hand-waving — insubstantial words, arguments, gestures, or actions used in an attempt to explain or persuade.
- handweaving — the art or technique of weaving on a handloom.
- heavy going — a soft and muddy surface to race on
- heavyweight — heavy in weight.
- hercegovina — Herzegovina.
- herzegovina — a historic region in SE Europe: a former Turkish province; a part of Austria-Hungary 1878–1914; now part of Bosnia and Herzegovina.
- hypogravity — The presence of an apparently decreased gravitational field (such as in an aircraft following a parabolic path).
- imaginative — characterized by or bearing evidence of imagination: an imaginative tale.
- incurvating — Present participle of incurvate.
- innavigable — unable to be navigated
- innavigably — in an innavigable manner
- innervating — Present participle of innervate.
- instigative — Tending to instigate.
- integrative — to bring together or incorporate (parts) into a whole.
- invaginable — capable of being invaginated; susceptible of invagination.
- invaginated — Simple past tense and past participle of invaginate.
- invaginates — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of invaginate.
- investigate — to examine, study, or inquire into systematically; search or examine into the particulars of; examine in detail.
- invigilated — Simple past tense and past participle of invigilate.
- invigilates — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of invigilate.
- invigilator — to keep watch.
- invigorated — Give strength or energy to.
- invigorates — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of invigorate.
- invigorator — One who, or that which, invigorates.
- invigourate — Alternative spelling of invigorate.
- inviscating — Present participle of inviscate.
- kilovoltage — electric potential difference or electromotive force, as measured in kilovolts.
- laborsaving — designed or intended to reduce or replace human labor: The dishwasher is a laborsaving device.
- landgravine — the wife of a landgrave.
- legislative — having the function of making laws: a legislative body.
- life-saving — a person who rescues another from danger of death, especially from drowning.
- light valve — a light-transmitting device having transmissions that vary in accordance with an electric input, as voltage, current, or an electron beam, used chiefly for recording sound on motion-picture film.
- living bank — a facility in which donated human organs or tissues are preserved for subsequent transplantation.
- living dead — people who are very dull and boring
- living wage — a wage on which it is possible for a wage earner or an individual and his or her family to live at least according to minimum customary standards.
- magen david — Star of David.
- maneuvering — a planned and regulated movement or evolution of troops, warships, etc.