11-letter words containing g, o, d, s
- glycolipids — Plural form of glycolipid.
- glycosidase — (enzyme) Any enzyme that catalyses the hydrolysis of a glycoside.
- goaltenders — Plural form of goaltender.
- goat island — an island in the Niagara River in W New York, in the middle of Niagara Falls, dividing the American Falls from the Horseshoe (Canadian) Falls.
- goatsbeards — Plural form of goatsbeard.
- gob-smacked — utterly astounded; astonished.
- god help us — If you say God help us, you mean that you have negative feelings about the person or situation you are talking about.
- god's penny — earnest money.
- goddessship — a female god or deity.
- godforsaken — desolate; remote; deserted: They live in some godforsaken place 40 miles from the nearest town.
- godlessness — The state of being godless.
- godlikeness — The quality of being godlike.
- goes around — to move or proceed, especially to or from something: They're going by bus.
- golden rose — a gold, bejeweled ornament in the form of a rose or spray of roses, blessed and presented by the pope in recognition of service to the Holy See.
- goldfinches — Plural form of goldfinch.
- goldschmidt — Richard Benedikt. 1878–1958, US geneticist, born in Germany. He advanced the theory that heredity is determined by the chemical configuration of the chromosome molecule rather than by the qualities of the individual genes
- goldthreads — Plural form of goldthread.
- good graces — If you are in someone's good graces, they are pleased with you.
- goods train — freight train.
- goods wagon — a heavy railroad freight car.
- goosewinged — (of a square sail) having the lee clew furled while the weather clew is held taut.
- gormandizes — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of gormandize.
- gospel side — (in some Protestant churches) the left side of a church, facing the altar.
- gourmandise — unrestrained enjoyment of fine foods, wines, and the like.
- gourmandism — a person who is fond of good eating, often indiscriminatingly and to excess.
- graded post — a position in a school having special responsibility for which additional payment is given
- graduations — Plural form of graduation.
- grand forks — a town in E North Dakota.
- grandiosely — affectedly grand or important; pompous: grandiose words.
- grandiosity — affectedly grand or important; pompous: grandiose words.
- grass widow — a woman who is separated, divorced, or lives apart from her husband.
- greasewoods — Plural form of greasewood.
- green words — green bytes
- grind house — a burlesque house, especially one providing continuous entertainment at reduced prices.
- grind-house — a burlesque house, especially one providing continuous entertainment at reduced prices.
- grindstones — Plural form of grindstone.
- grossed out — without deductions; total, as the amount of sales, salary, profit, etc., before taking deductions for expenses, taxes, or the like (opposed to net2. ): gross earnings; gross sales.
- ground bass — a short fundamental bass part continually repeated throughout a movement.
- ground-fish — bottom-fish.
- groundburst — The explosion of a bomb dropped from the air when it hits the ground.
- groundlings — Plural form of groundling.
- groundshare — to share the facilities and running costs of a single stadium with another team
- groundsheet — a waterproof sheet of plastic, canvas, or other durable material spread on the ground, as under a sleeping bag or in a tent, for protection against moisture.
- groundsills — Plural form of groundsill.
- groundspeed — the speed of an aircraft with reference to the ground.
- groundstone — A simple neolithic stone tool made by grinding.
- groundswell — a broad, deep swell or rolling of the sea, due to a distant storm or gale.
- groundworks — Plural form of groundwork.
- 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
- guardhouses — Plural form of guardhouse.