11-letter words containing g, a, u
- granivorous — (of an animal, especially a bird) eating grain and seeds.
- granularity — of the nature of granules; grainy.
- granulating — Present participle of granulate.
- granulation — the act or process of granulating.
- granuliform — having a granular structure
- granulocyte — a circulating white blood cell having prominent granules in the cytoplasm and a nucleus of two or more lobes.
- granulomata — an inflammatory tumor or growth composed of granulation tissue.
- grape juice — nectar of the grape
- grape sugar — dextrose.
- grapefruits — Plural form of grapefruit.
- grapefruity — Resembling or characteristic of grapefruit.
- grass court — an outdoor tennis court having a grass surface.
- grasscutter — a device used to cut grass, as a lawn mower.
- gratuitious — Misspelling of gratuitous.
- gratulating — Present participle of gratulate.
- gratulation — a feeling of joy.
- gratulatory — (archaic) congratulatory.
- gray mullet — mullet1 (def 1).
- great mogul — the emperor of the former Mogul Empire in India founded in 1526 by Baber.
- great runes — Uppercase-only text or display messages. Some archaic operating systems still emit these. See also runes, smash case, fold case. Decades ago, back in the days when it was the sole supplier of long-distance hardcopy transmittal devices, the Teletype Corporation was faced with a major design choice. To shorten code lengths and cut complexity in the printing mechanism, it had been decided that teletypes would use a monocase font, either ALL UPPER or all lower. The Question Of The Day was therefore, which one to choose. A study was conducted on readability under various conditions of bad ribbon, worn print hammers, etc. Lowercase won; it is less dense and has more distinctive letterforms, and is thus much easier to read both under ideal conditions and when the letters are mangled or partly obscured. The results were filtered up through management. The chairman of Teletype killed the proposal because it failed one incredibly important criterion: "It would be impossible to spell the name of the Deity correctly." In this way (or so, at least, hacker folklore has it) superstition triumphed over utility. Teletypes were the major input devices on most early computers, and terminal manufacturers looking for corners to cut naturally followed suit until well into the 1970s. Thus, that one bad call stuck us with Great Runes for thirty years.
- great-uncle — a granduncle.
- 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).
- ground ball — a batted ball that rolls or bounces along the ground.
- ground bass — a short fundamental bass part continually repeated throughout a movement.
- 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 game — game animals, such as hares or deer, found on the earth's surface: distinguished from game birds
- ground plan — Also called groundplot. the plan of a floor of a building.
- ground wave — a radio wave that propagates on or near the earth's surface and is affected by the ground and the troposphere.
- groundshare — to share the facilities and running costs of a single stadium with another team
- groundwater — the water beneath the surface of the ground, consisting largely of surface water that has seeped down: the source of water in springs and wells.
- guadalajara — a state in W Mexico. 31,152 sq. mi. (80,685 sq. km). Capital: Guadalajara.
- guadalcanal — the largest of the Solomon Islands, in the W central Pacific: U.S. victory over the Japanese 1942–43. About 2500 sq. mi. (6475 sq. km).
- guaifenesin — An expectorant used in cough syrups and sometimes for pain relief from fibromyalgia.
- guaniferous — yielding guano
- guaranteers — Plural form of guaranteer.
- guarantying — a warrant, pledge, or formal assurance given as security that another's debt or obligation will be fulfilled.
- guard's van — The guard's van of a train is a small carriage or part of a carriage in which the guard travels.
- guardedness — The state or condition of being guarded.
- guardhouses — Plural form of guardhouse.
- guardswoman — A female guardsman.
- guardswomen — Plural form of guardswoman.
- gubernation — the act of governing or ruling
- guesstimate — to estimate without substantial basis in facts or statistics.
- guestimates — Plural form of guestimate.
- 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.
- guildswoman — a woman who is a member of a guild
- guinea corn — durra.