11-letter words containing g, e, o, p
- grasshopper — any of numerous herbivorous, orthopterous insects, especially of the families Acrididae and Tettigoniidae, having the hind legs adapted for leaping and having chewing mouth parts, some species being highly destructive to vegetation. Compare locust (def 1), long-horned grasshopper.
- greaseproof — Resistant to grease.
- greasy pole — a pole covered with grease to make it slippery and difficult to climb, often used as entertainment
- great power — a nation that has exceptional military and economic strength, and consequently plays a major, often decisive, role in international affairs.
- green pound — a unit of account used in calculating Britain's contributions to and payments from the Community Agricultural Fund of the EU
- green power — the power of money, viewed as a social force.
- grey import — an imported vehicle that does not have an exact model equivalent in the receiving country
- grey plover — the black-bellied plover.
- ground pine — any of several species of club moss, especially Lycopodium obscurum or L. complanatum.
- groundspeed — the speed of an aircraft with reference to the ground.
- group grope — sexual activity involving several people; orgy.
- group speed — the speed at which energy is propagated in a wave. This is the quantity determined when one measures the distance which the radiation travels in a given time. In a medium in which the speed increases with wavelength the group speed is less than the phase speed, and vice versa
- group-grope — sexual activity involving several people; orgy.
- groupuscule — A political or religious splinter group.
- gudgeon pin — wrist pin.
- gymnosperms — Plural form of gymnosperm.
- gymnospermy — The property of being gymnospermous.
- gynecopathy — any disease occurring only in women.
- gypsiferous — containing gypsum.
- hagioscopes — Plural form of hagioscope.
- hedgehopped — Simple past tense and past participle of hedgehop.
- helicograph — an instrument for drawing helices.
- heliographs — Plural form of heliograph.
- heliography — The scientific study of the sun.
- hematophagy — The practice, of some animals, of feeding on blood.
- heptagynous — (of a flower) having seven pistils
- herpetology — the branch of zoology dealing with reptiles and amphibians.
- hexyl group — any of five univalent, isomeric groups having the formula C 6 H 13 −.
- hieroglyphs — Plural form of hieroglyph.
- hierography — a treatise on religion or sacred things
- highprofile — (rare) alternative spelling of high-profile.
- hodgepodges — Plural form of hodgepodge.
- holding-pen — a tank for the temporary storage of a substance.
- holographed — to make by the use of holography.
- holographer — One who creates holograms.
- homeporting — Present participle of homeport.
- hoppergrass — grasshopper (def 1).
- horographer — a person who reckons time
- house group — a group of Christians who regularly meet to worship, study the Bible, etc, in someone's house
- hyetography — the study of the annual and geographical distribution of rainfall.
- hygrophytes — Plural form of hygrophyte.
- hygroscopes — Plural form of hygroscope.
- hypnogenous — characterized by the induction of hypnotic sleep
- hypogenesis — underdevelopment of an organ or function, especially in the embryo.
- hypoid gear — a gear resembling a bevel gear in form but designed to mesh with a similar gear in such a way that their axes would not intersect, one axis crossing over the other at approximately a right angle.
- ideographic — an ideogram.
- impignorate — (obsolete, transitive) To pledge or pawn.
- impregnator — to make pregnant; get with child or young.
- in progress — a movement toward a goal or to a further or higher stage: the progress of a student toward a degree.
- interloping — to intrude into some region or field of trade without a proper license.