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11-letter words containing g, o, r

  • freight ton — ton1 (def 2).
  • freight-out — Freight-out is the cost of delivering finished goods to a customer.
  • freight-ton — a unit of weight, equivalent to 2000 pounds (0.907 metric ton) avoirdupois (short ton) in the U.S. and 2240 pounds (1.016 metric tons) avoirdupois (long ton) in Great Britain.
  • frigid zone — either of two regions, one between the Arctic Circle and the North Pole, or one between the Antarctic Circle and the South Pole.
  • frigorifico — (in Spanish speaking countries) a meat storage plant attached to a slaughterhouse, esp one where meat is chilled or frozen before being exported
  • frog orchid — any of several orchids having greenish flowers thought to resemble small frogs, esp Coeloglossum viride of calcareous turf
  • froghoppers — Plural form of froghopper.
  • frogmarched — Simple past tense and past participle of frogmarch.
  • frogs' legs — (esp in France) the legs of a frog prepared to be eaten, often by frying in butter and garlic
  • from hunger — a compelling need or desire for food.
  • front range — a mountain range extending from central Colorado to S Wyoming: part of the Rocky Mountains. Highest peak, Grays Peak, 14,274 feet (4350 meters).
  • frost grape — riverbank grape.
  • frostbiting — Present participle of frostbite.
  • frugiferous — Bearing fruit.
  • frugivorous — fruit-eating, as certain bats.
  • fugitometer — an instrument used for measuring the fastness to light of dyed materials
  • fulguration — to flash or dart like lightning.
  • fungivorous — feeding on fungi, as certain insects.
  • furbelowing — Present participle of furbelow.
  • furloughing — Present participle of furlough.
  • furthcoming — an action raised to recover property which has been arrested in the hands of a third party
  • gain ground — profit or advantage.
  • gallerygoer — a person who visits art galleries, especially often or regularly.
  • game theory — a mathematical theory that deals with strategies for maximizing gains and minimizing losses within prescribed constraints, as the rules of a card game: widely applied in the solution of various decision-making problems, as those of military strategy and business policy.
  • gametophore — a part or structure bearing gametangia.
  • gamotropism — the tendency of gametes to attract each other
  • gangsterdom — the world of gangsters; gangland
  • garbologist — the study of the material discarded by a society to learn what it reveals about social or cultural patterns.
  • garçonnière — a bachelor's apartment or quarters
  • garden hose — tube for spraying plants with water
  • garrisoning — Present participle of garrison.
  • garrulously — In a garrulous manner.
  • gastrectomy — partial or total excision of the stomach.
  • gastrocolic — of, relating to, or involving the stomach and colon.
  • gastrodynia — (pathology) gastralgia (stomach pain).
  • gastroliths — Plural form of gastrolith.
  • gastromancy — a form of divination by interpreting words and sounds seeming to come from the stomach
  • gastronomer — A lover of good food; a connoisseur or gourmet.
  • gastronomes — Plural form of gastronome.
  • gastronomic — the art or science of good eating.
  • gastropathy — (pathology) Any disease of the stomach.
  • gastroscope — a lighted flexible tubular instrument passed through the mouth for examining the esophagus, stomach, and duodenum.
  • gastroscopy — the examination with a gastroscope to detect disease.
  • gastrosophy — the science or art of good eating
  • gastrostomy — the construction of an artificial opening from the stomach through the abdominal wall, permitting intake of food or drainage of gastric contents.
  • gastrotrich — any of the microscopic, multicellular animals of the class or phylum Gastrotricha, of fresh or salt waters, characterized by bands of cilia on the ventral surface of the bottle-shaped or ribbony body and by a protrusible feeding apparatus at the mouth.
  • gate theory — a theory proposing that neural stimulation beyond a certain threshold level, as by application of an electric current, can overwhelm the ability of the nerve center to sense pain.
  • gay gordons — an energetic old-time dance
  • gemfibrozil — An oral drug, one of the fibrates, used to lower lipid levels.
  • gemmiferous — bearing buds or gemmae; gemmiparous.
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