11-letter words containing g, i, e, t
- ghostliness — of, characteristic of, or resembling a ghost; phantasmal; spectral.
- ghostwriter — A person whose job it is to write material for someone else who is the named author.
- giant eland — a similar but larger animal, T. derbianus, living in wooded areas of central and W Africa
- giant otter — a large brown South American river otter, Pteronura brasiliensis, having a creamy chest patch and a long flat tail with a flanged border, hunted for its hide: now greatly reduced in number and endangered in some areas.
- giant steps — a children's game in which a leader calls upon individual players to advance toward him or her in a given number and variety of steps, the object being for one person to tag the leader and for all of them to run back to the starting line without being caught by the leader. Any player who is caught becomes the leader.
- giant-sized — An object that is giant-sized is much bigger than objects of its kind usually are.
- giftwrapped — wrapped attractively in pretty paper, perhaps with ribbons or other decorations
- gigantesque — of a huge or gigantic size; of or suited to a giant.
- giganticide — the slaughter of giants
- gill-netter — a person who uses a gill net in fishing.
- gilt bronze — ormolu (def 2).
- gimlet-eyed — having penetrating and piercing eyes, and seeming to notice everything
- girdlestead — the waist
- give a hoot — not care
- give a shit — excrement; feces.
- give a toss — If you say that you do not give a toss about someone or something, you are emphasizing that you do not care about them at all.
- give battle — to commence fighting
- give credit — allow delayed payment
- give it hot — to punish or thrash someone
- give notice — warn, inform
- give thanks — be thankful, express thankfulness
- give way to — manner, mode, or fashion: a new way of looking at a matter; to reply in a polite way.
- glitter ice — ice or a sheet of ice formed on a surface by a quickly freezing rain.
- glitterball — Synonym of mirrorball.
- glochidiate — (botany) Having barbs.
- glomerating — Present participle of glomerate.
- glomeration — a glomerate condition; conglomeration.
- glottalized — pronounced with glottal coarticulation.
- glutaminase — an enzyme used to treat cancer
- 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.
- 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.
- goatishness — The state or condition of being goatish.
- goitrogenic — tending to produce goiter.
- goldbeating — the art or process of beating out gold into gold leaf.
- goniometers — Plural form of goniometer.
- goniometric — Of, relating to, or determined by a goniometer.
- 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.
- gradiometer — any instrument used to measure a gradient, as the rate of change of the geomagnetic field. Compare gradient (def 3a).
- granitelike — Resembling granite.
- graniteware — a kind of ironware with a gray, stonelike enamel.
- grant-aided — given financial assistance by an organization
- grapefruits — Plural form of grapefruit.
- grapefruity — Resembling or characteristic of grapefruit.
- graphitized — (chemistry, of carbon) Converted to graphite.
- graptolites — Plural form of graptolite.
- gratifiable — to give pleasure to (a person or persons) by satisfying desires or humoring inclinations or feelings: Her praise will gratify all who worked so hard to earn it.