11-letter words containing g, a, s, c, o
- eagle scout — a boy scout who has achieved the highest rank in U.S. scouting.
- ecovillages — Plural form of ecovillage.
- egotistical — Excessively conceited or absorbed in oneself; self-centered.
- entogastric — (zoology) Relating to the interior of the stomach; applied to a mode of budding from the interior of the gastric cavity, in certain hydroids.
- eschatology — The part of theology concerned with death, judgment, and the final destiny of the soul and of humankind.
- excogitates — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of excogitate.
- fancy goods — small decorative gifts; knick-knacks
- forecasting — Present participle of forecast.
- galactoside — A glycoside yielding galactose on hydrolysis.
- gametocytes — Plural form of gametocyte.
- gamma stock — any of the third rank of active securities on the London Stock Exchange. Prices displayed by market makers are given as an indication rather than an offer to buy or sell
- gas vacuole — a gas-filled structure that provides buoyancy in some aquatic bacteria
- gasconading — extravagant boasting; boastful talk.
- gastrectomy — partial or total excision of the stomach.
- gastrocolic — of, relating to, or involving the stomach and colon.
- gastromancy — a form of divination by interpreting words and sounds seeming to come from the stomach
- gastronomic — the art or science of good eating.
- gastroscope — a lighted flexible tubular instrument passed through the mouth for examining the esophagus, stomach, and duodenum.
- gastroscopy — the examination with a gastroscope to detect disease.
- gastrotrich — any of the microscopic, multicellular animals of the class or phylum Gastrotricha, of fresh or salt waters, characterized by bands of cilia on the ventral surface of the bottle-shaped or ribbony body and by a protrusible feeding apparatus at the mouth.
- gazingstock — (archaic) An object, event or person that is stared at (or gazed at) by many people.
- geodynamics — (used with a singular verb) the science dealing with dynamic processes or forces within the earth.
- geophysical — the branch of geology that deals with the physics of the earth and its atmosphere, including oceanography, seismology, volcanology, and geomagnetism.
- 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.
- glaciations — Plural form of glaciation.
- glass block — a translucent, hollow or solid block of glass for glazing openings or constructing partitions, usually square on the face, with the outer surfaces treated in any of various ways.
- glucokinase — an enzyme, found in all living systems, that serves to catalyze the phosphorylation of gluconic acid.
- glucosamine — an aminosugar occurring in many polysaccharides of vertebrate tissue and also as the major component of chitin.
- glucosidase — (enzyme) Any enzyme that hydrolyses glucosides.
- glycosidase — (enzyme) Any enzyme that catalyses the hydrolysis of a glycoside.
- glycosylate — (organic chemistry) To react with a sugar to form a glycoside (especially a glycoprotein).
- goal crease — crease1 (def 4).
- goal scorer — somebody who scores goals
- goalscorers — Plural form of goalscorer.
- goat cheese — a cheese containing goat's milk, either alone or mixed with cow's milk, usually having a stronger flavor than one made of cow's milk alone.
- goatsuckers — Plural form of goatsucker.
- gob-smacked — utterly astounded; astonished.
- gobsmacking — Causing one to be gobsmacked; astounding, flabbergasting.
- gonycampsis — abnormal curvature of the knee.
- good graces — If you are in someone's good graces, they are pleased with you.
- gopherspace — (networking) The sum of all files that can be reached using gopher.
- grain coast — a historic region on the Gulf of Guinea, in W Africa, in present-day Liberia.
- grass cloth — a cloth made from plant fibres, such as jute or hemp
- grass court — an outdoor tennis court having a grass surface.
- gynaecomast — a man who suffers from gynaecomastia
- gyrocompass — a navigational compass containing a gyroscope rotor, that, when adjusted for the latitude and speed of the vessel or aircraft, indicates the direction of true north along the surface of the earth or communicates this information to one or more gyro repeaters.
- gyrostatics — the science that deals with the laws of rotating bodies.
- hagioscopes — Plural form of hagioscope.
- hash coding — (programming, algorithm) (Or "hashing") A scheme for providing rapid access to data items which are distinguished by some key. Each data item to be stored is associated with a key, e.g. the name of a person. A hash function is applied to the item's key and the resulting hash value is used as an index to select one of a number of "hash buckets" in a hash table. The table contains pointers to the original items. If, when adding a new item, the hash table already has an entry at the indicated location then that entry's key must be compared with the given key to see if it is the same. If two items' keys hash to the same value (a "hash collision") then some alternative location is used (e.g. the next free location cyclically following the indicated one). For best performance, the table size and hash function must be tailored to the number of entries and range of keys to be used. The hash function usually depends on the table size so if the table needs to be enlarged it must usually be completely rebuilt. When you look up a name in the phone book (for example), you typically hash it by extracting its first letter; the hash buckets are the alphabetically ordered letter sections. See also: btree, checksum, CRC, pseudorandom number, random, random number, soundex.
- hercogamous — (of flowers) incapable of self-fertilization