11-letter words containing b, e, g
- goatsbeards — Plural form of goatsbeard.
- gob-smacked — utterly astounded; astonished.
- gob-stopper — a large piece of hard candy.
- gobble down — eat hungrily
- goblet cell — a type of epithelial cell that secretes mucin, so called after its shape.
- gobstoppers — Plural form of gobstopper.
- gold beetle — any of several beetles having a golden luster, as a chrysomelid, Metriona bicolor, that feeds on morning glories and roses.
- gold bronze — an alloy of about 90 percent copper, 5 percent zinc, 3 percent lead, and 2 percent tin.
- goldbeating — the art or process of beating out gold into gold leaf.
- goldbergian — Rube Goldberg.
- goldbricked — Simple past tense and past participle of goldbrick.
- goldbricker — Informal. a brick made to look like gold, sold by a swindler.
- golden buck — a dish consisting of Welsh rabbit topped with a poached egg.
- golden bull — an edict of Charles IV, emperor of the Holy Roman Empire, issued in 1356 and in force until the extinction of the empire in 1806, in which the selection of the emperor was entrusted to seven Electors.
- golden club — an aquatic plant, Orontium aquaticum, of the arum family, native to the eastern U.S., having blue-green leaves and a clublike spadix covered with tiny yellow flowers.
- goldenberry — the Cape gooseberry
- gombeen-man — a usurer or moneylender.
- google bomb — an effort to move a website to the top of search-engine results for a particular word or phrase, by creating a large number of links that contain this search text.
- gooney bird — any of several albatrosses, especially the black-footed albatross and the Laysan albatross, occurring on islands in the Pacific Ocean, often near naval bases.
- goose bumps — If you get goose bumps, the hairs on your skin stand up so that it is covered with tiny bumps. You get goose bumps when you are cold, frightened, or excited.
- gopher ball — a pitched ball hit for a home run: leading the league in gopher balls.
- gopherberry — bush huckleberry.
- grab handle — A grab handle is a handle on the side of an object such as a bathtub that you hold in order to help you get in and out.
- grandbabies — Plural form of grandbaby.
- gratifiable — to give pleasure to (a person or persons) by satisfying desires or humoring inclinations or feelings: Her praise will gratify all who worked so hard to earn it.
- graverobber — a person who steals valuables from graves and tombs: Graverobbers had emptied the Mayan tomb before archaeologists could examine its contents.
- great abaco — two islands (Great Abaco and Little Abaco) in the N Bahamas. 776 sq. mi. (2010 sq. km).
- 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).
- green beans — the narrow green edible pods of a green bean plant
- green beret — a member of the U.S. Army Special Forces.
- green bytes — (jargon) (Or "green words") Meta-information embedded in a file, such as the length of the file or its name; as opposed to keeping such information in a separate description file or record. By extension, the non-data bits in any self-describing format. "A GIF file contains, among other things, green bytes describing the packing method for the image". At a meeting of the SHARE Systems Division, November 22, 1964, in Washington, DC, George Mealy of IBM described the new block tape format for FORTRAN in which unformatted binary records had a Control Word. George used green chalk to describe it. No one liked the contents of the Green Word (not information, wrong location, etc.) so Conrad Weisert and Channing Jackson made badges saying "Stamp out Green Words". This was the first computer badge. Compare out-of-band, zigamorph, fence.
- green thumb — an exceptional aptitude for gardening or for growing plants successfully: Houseplants provide much pleasure for the city dweller with a green thumb.
- greenbottle — any of several metallic-green blowflies, as Phaenicia sericata.
- greenbriers — Plural form of greenbrier.
- ground beam — a reinforced concrete beam for supporting walls, joists, etc., at or near ground level, itself either resting directly upon the ground or supported at both ends by piers.
- ground beef — meat: minced beef
- grub street — a street in London, England: formerly inhabited by many impoverished minor writers and literary hacks; now called Milton Street.
- gubernation — the act of governing or ruling
- gum benzoin — Also called gum benjamin, gum benzoin. a reddish-brown, aromatic balsamic resin occurring in almondlike fragments and having a vanillalike odor, obtained from trees of the genus Styrax, especially S. benzoin, of Java, Sumatra, etc.: used in the manufacture of perfume and cosmetics and in medicine internally as an expectorant and externally as an antiseptic.
- guttae band — regula.
- gutter ball — a bowling ball that is rolled into one of the gutters and does not hit any pins.
- gutterblood — a low person of inferior breeding
- haemoglobin — (protein) alternative spelling of hemoglobin.
- hang behind — to remain in a place after others have left; linger
- harbingered — Simple past tense and past participle of harbinger.
- hattiesburg — a city in SE Mississippi.
- head-banger — metalhead.
- headbangers — Plural form of headbanger.
- headbanging — rhythmical moving of the head up and down in dancing to heavy metal
- headborough — the official in charge of a tithing