11-letter words containing g, o, r, i
- glomerating — Present participle of glomerate.
- glomeration — a glomerate condition; conglomeration.
- glucuronide — a glycoside that yields glucuronic acid upon hydrolysis.
- glumiferous — having glumes
- go bail for — to furnish bail for
- go critical — (of a nuclear power station or reactor) to reach a state in which a nuclear-fission chain reaction becomes self-sustaining
- go straight — without a bend, angle, or curve; not curved; direct: a straight path.
- god-fearing — deeply respectful or fearful of God.
- godchildren — Plural form of godchild.
- going train — the gear train for moving the hands of a timepiece or giving some other visual indication of the time.
- goitrogenic — tending to produce goiter.
- gold digger — a person who seeks or digs for gold in a gold field.
- gold-digger — a person who seeks or digs for gold in a gold field.
- gold-rimmed — Gold-rimmed glasses have gold-coloured frames.
- goldbergian — Rube Goldberg.
- goldbricked — Simple past tense and past participle of goldbrick.
- goldbricker — Informal. a brick made to look like gold, sold by a swindler.
- golden girl — successful or celebrated woman
- gonfalonier — the bearer of a gonfalon.
- goniometers — Plural form of goniometer.
- goniometric — Of, relating to, or determined by a goniometer.
- gonochorism — (biology) The situation in which the individuals of a species are of one of two distinct sexes, and retain that sexuality throughout their lives.
- 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.
- gooney bird — any of several albatrosses, especially the black-footed albatross and the Laysan albatross, occurring on islands in the Pacific Ocean, often near naval bases.
- gorilla arm — The side-effect that destroyed touch-screens as a mainstream input technology despite a promising start in the early 1980s. It seems the designers of all those spiffy touch-menu systems failed to notice that humans aren't designed to hold their arms in front of their faces making small motions. After more than a very few selections, the arm begins to feel sore, cramped, and oversized - the operator looks like a gorilla while using the touch screen and feels like one afterward. This is now considered a classic cautionary tale to human-factors designers; "Remember the gorilla arm!" is shorthand for "How is this going to fly in *real* use?".
- gorillagram — a jocular greetings message delivered to someone celebrating a birthday, engagement, etc, by a person dressed as a gorilla
- gorillalike — (informal) Resembling or characteristic of a gorilla.
- 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.
- gothic arch — a pointed arch, especially one having only two centers and equal radii.
- 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.
- 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.
- grain coast — a historic region on the Gulf of Guinea, in W Africa, in present-day Liberia.
- graminivore — An herbivorous animal, a grazer, that feeds primarily on grasses.
- graminology — the branch of botany concerned with the study of grasses
- grand piano — a piano having the frame supported horizontally on three legs.
- 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.
- graniferous — bearing grain
- granitiform — resembling granite
- granivorous — (of an animal, especially a bird) eating grain and seeds.
- granolithic — (of concrete) containing fine granite chippings or crushed granite, used to render floors and surfaces.