11-letter words containing c, i, r, g, a
- glacier bay — a national park in SE Alaska, made up of large tidewater glaciers. 4381 sq. mi. (11,347 sq. km).
- glacierized — Modified by the action of glaciers.
- glycerinate — to impregnate with glycerin.
- glycyrrhiza — Any legume (such as liquorice) of the genus [Glycyrrhiza]].
- go critical — (of a nuclear power station or reactor) to reach a state in which a nuclear-fission chain reaction becomes self-sustaining
- gothic arch — a pointed arch, especially one having only two centers and equal radii.
- gracileness — The state or quality of being gracile.
- grain coast — a historic region on the Gulf of Guinea, in W Africa, in present-day Liberia.
- grammatical — of or relating to grammar: grammatical analysis.
- grand chain — a figure in formation dances, such as the lancers and Scottish reels, in which couples split up and move around in a circle in opposite directions, passing all other dancers until reaching their original partners
- grandnieces — Plural form of grandniece.
- granolithic — (of concrete) containing fine granite chippings or crushed granite, used to render floors and surfaces.
- grape juice — nectar of the grape
- graphically — giving a clear and effective picture; vivid: a graphic account of an earthquake.
- graphicness — The quality of being graphic: grotesqueness or vividness.
- graptolitic — relating to, or containing, graptolites
- grass finch — any of several Australian weaverbirds, especially of the genus Poephila.
- gravimetric — of or relating to measurement by weight.
- great-niece — a daughter of one's nephew or niece; grandniece.
- greenlandic — a dialect of Inuit, spoken in Greenland.
- griddlecake — a thin cake of batter cooked on a griddle; pancake.
- grimacingly — With a grimace.
- grind crank — A mythical accessory to a terminal. A crank on the side of a monitor, which when operated makes a zizzing noise and causes the computer to run faster. Usually one does not refer to a grind crank out loud, but merely makes the appropriate gesture and noise. See grind. Historical note: At least one real machine actually had a grind crank - the R1, a research machine built toward the end of the days of the great vacuum tube computers, in 1959. R1 (also known as "The Rice Institute Computer" (TRIC) and later as "The Rice University Computer" (TRUC)) had a single-step/free-run switch for use when debugging programs. Since single-stepping through a large program was rather tedious, there was also a crank with a cam and gear arrangement that repeatedly pushed the single-step button. This allowed one to "crank" through a lot of code, then slow down to single-step for a bit when you got near the code of interest, poke at some registers using the console typewriter, and then keep on cranking.
- guinea corn — durra.
- gymnasiarch — (in ancient Greece) a magistrate who superintended the gymnasia and public games in certain cities.
- gyrostatics — the science that deals with the laws of rotating bodies.
- hacking run — (jargon) (Analogy with "bombing run" or "speed run") A hack session extended long outside normal working times, especially one longer than 12 hours. May cause you to "change phase the hard way".
- haircutting — an act or instance of cutting the hair.
- hardscaping — Hardscape.
- heartaching — emotional pain or distress; sorrow; grief; anguish.
- helicograph — an instrument for drawing helices.
- hemorrhagic — a profuse discharge of blood, as from a ruptured blood vessel; bleeding.
- hercegovina — Herzegovina.
- hierurgical — of or relating to sacred rites
- high arctic — the regions of Canada, esp the northern islands, within the Arctic Circle
- holographic — Also, holographic [hol-uh-graf-ik, hoh-luh-] /ˌhɒl əˈgræf ɪk, ˌhoʊ lə-/ (Show IPA), holographical. wholly written by the person in whose name it appears: a holograph letter.
- homographic — a word of the same written form as another but of different meaning and usually origin, whether pronounced the same way or not, as bear 1 “to carry; support” and bear 2 “animal” or lead 1 “to conduct” and lead 2 “metal.”.
- horseracing — Alternative form of horse racing.
- hyperphagic — bulimia.
- hypogastric — of, relating to, or situated in the hypogastrium.
- icebreaking — Serving the purpose of breaking ice.
- ichnography — the art of drawing a ground plan or layout of a building.
- icing sugar — Icing sugar is very fine white sugar that is used for making icing and sweets.
- iconography — symbolic representation, especially the conventional meanings attached to an image or images.
- ideogrammic — Being, or pertaining to, an ideogram.
- ideographic — an ideogram.
- idiographic — pertaining to or involving the study or explication of individual cases or events (opposed to nomothetic).
- imbricating — Present participle of imbricate.
- imprecating — Present participle of imprecate.
- incarnating — Present participle of incarnate.