11-letter words containing g, a, i, t, n
- 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.
- glycerinate — to impregnate with glycerin.
- gnat's piss — a very weak-tasting and unappetizing drink
- 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.
- 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.
- goniatitoid — relating to goniatite
- gonimoblast — a spore-bearing filament in the carpogonium of red algae
- goods train — freight train.
- 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 mufti — a Muslim religious leader.
- grandiosity — affectedly grand or important; pompous: grandiose words.
- granitelike — Resembling granite.
- graniteware — a kind of ironware with a gray, stonelike enamel.
- granitiform — resembling granite
- granolithic — (of concrete) containing fine granite chippings or crushed granite, used to render floors and surfaces.
- grant-aided — given financial assistance by an organization
- granularity — of the nature of granules; grainy.
- granulating — Present participle of granulate.
- granulation — the act or process of granulating.
- gratinating — to gratiné.
- gratulating — Present participle of gratulate.
- gratulation — a feeling of joy.
- gravenstein — a variety of large, yellow apple with red streaks
- gravidation — (obsolete) gravidity.
- gravitating — to move or tend to move under the influence of gravitational force.
- gravitation — Physics. the force of attraction between any two masses. Compare law of gravitation. an act or process caused by this force.
- 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.
- 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-niece — a daughter of one's nephew or niece; grandniece.
- green audit — the process of assessing the environmental impact of an organization, process, project, product, etc.: A green audit of your home can reveal ways in which you can reduce energy consumption.
- groin-vault — a vault or ceiling created by the intersection of vaults.
- ground bait — chum2 (def 1).
- guarantying — a warrant, pledge, or formal assurance given as security that another's debt or obligation will be fulfilled.
- gubernation — the act of governing or ruling
- gurgitation — a surging rise and fall; ebullient motion, as of water.
- gymnastical — Alternative form of gymnastic.
- habituating — Present participle of habituate.
- haircutting — an act or instance of cutting the hair.
- 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.