11-letter words containing g, i, r, a, d
- goldbergian — Rube Goldberg.
- good friday — the Friday before Easter, a holy day of the Christian church, observed as the anniversary of the Crucifixion of Jesus.
- goods train — freight train.
- gormandized — Simple past tense and past participle of gormandize.
- gormandizer — A person who gormandizes; a glutton or gourmand.
- gormandizes — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of gormandize.
- gourmandise — unrestrained enjoyment of fine foods, wines, and the like.
- gourmandism — a person who is fond of good eating, often indiscriminatingly and to excess.
- gourmandize — to enjoy fine food and drink, especially often and in lavish quantity.
- gradability — a measure of a truck's pulling power expressed as the steepest grade the truck can climb with a full load.
- 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.
- gradiometer — any instrument used to measure a gradient, as the rate of change of the geomagnetic field. Compare gradient (def 3a).
- graduations — Plural form of graduation.
- granadillas — Plural form of granadilla.
- grand chain — a figure in formation dances, such as the lancers and Scottish reels, in which couples split up and move around in a circle in opposite directions, passing all other dancers until reaching their original partners
- grand final — the final game of the season in any of various sports, esp football
- grand mufti — a Muslim religious leader.
- grand piano — a piano having the frame supported horizontally on three legs.
- grand river — former name of the Colorado River above its junction with the Green River in SE Utah.
- grandbabies — Plural form of grandbaby.
- grandiflora — any of several plant varieties or hybrids characterized by large showy flowers, as certain kinds of petunias, baby's breath, or roses.
- grandiosely — affectedly grand or important; pompous: grandiose words.
- grandiosity — affectedly grand or important; pompous: grandiose words.
- grandnieces — Plural form of grandniece.
- grangerized — Simple past tense and past participle of grangerize.
- grant-aided — given financial assistance by an organization
- graphitized — (chemistry, of carbon) Converted to graphite.
- grass widow — a woman who is separated, divorced, or lives apart from her husband.
- gravedigger — a person whose occupation is digging graves.
- graveldiver — any of several eellike fishes of the family Scytalinidae, found off the Pacific coast of North America, especially Scytalina cerdale, which burrows among rocks.
- gravidation — (obsolete) gravidity.
- gravidities — Plural form of gravidity.
- gravity dam — a dam resisting the pressure of impounded water through its own weight.
- gravity-fed — the supplying of fuel, materials, etc., by force of gravity.
- 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.
- greenlandic — a dialect of Inuit, spoken in Greenland.
- grenadelike — Resembling a grenade (weapon).
- grey-haired — having grey hair
- griddlecake — a thin cake of batter cooked on a griddle; pancake.
- grind crank — A mythical accessory to a terminal. A crank on the side of a monitor, which when operated makes a zizzing noise and causes the computer to run faster. Usually one does not refer to a grind crank out loud, but merely makes the appropriate gesture and noise. See grind. Historical note: At least one real machine actually had a grind crank - the R1, a research machine built toward the end of the days of the great vacuum tube computers, in 1959. R1 (also known as "The Rice Institute Computer" (TRIC) and later as "The Rice University Computer" (TRUC)) had a single-step/free-run switch for use when debugging programs. Since single-stepping through a large program was rather tedious, there was also a crank with a cam and gear arrangement that repeatedly pushed the single-step button. This allowed one to "crank" through a lot of code, then slow down to single-step for a bit when you got near the code of interest, poke at some registers using the console typewriter, and then keep on cranking.
- grindelwald — a valley and resort in central Switzerland, in the Bernese Oberland: mountaineering centre, with the Wetterhorn and the Eiger nearby
- ground bait — chum2 (def 1).
- h-r diagram — Hertzsprung-Russell diagram.
- hamstringed — (in humans and other primates) any of the tendons that bound the ham of the knee.
- handrailing — Handrail.
- handsprings — Plural form of handspring.
- handwringer — a person who wrings the hands often as a display of worry or upset
- handwriting — writing done with a pen or pencil in the hand; script.
- hang glider — a kitelike glider consisting of a V -shaped wing underneath which the pilot is strapped: kept aloft by updrafts and guided by the pilot's shifting body weight.