11-letter words containing g, o, r
- gemmiparous — producing or reproducing by buds or gemmae.
- gender role — the public image of being a particular gender that a person presents to others: conventional notions of female gender roles.
- generations — Plural form of generation.
- genocidaire — a person who is guilty of genocide
- genouillere — jointed armour for protecting the knees
- geocentrism — A belief that Earth is the center of the universe and does not move.
- geoengineer — an engineer who works on such projects.
- geographers — Plural form of geographer.
- geographies — the science dealing with the areal differentiation of the earth's surface, as shown in the character, arrangement, and interrelations over the world of such elements as climate, elevation, soil, vegetation, population, land use, industries, or states, and of the unit areas formed by the complex of these individual elements.
- geoisotherm — isogeotherm.
- geometrical — of or relating to geometry or to the principles of geometry.
- geometrized — Simple past tense and past participle of geometrize.
- george bush — Barbara (Barbara Pierce) born 1925, U.S. First Lady 1989–93 (wife of George H. W. Bush).
- george dick — George Frederick, 1881–1967, U.S. internist.
- george town — Also, George Town. a seaport in and the capital of the state of Penang, in NW Malaysia.
- geosteering — Geosteering is the process of directing the drill bit to high-quality parts of the reservoir using petrophysical (=relating to the physical qualities of rock) data.
- geostrategy — The strategic use of geopolitics.
- geostrophic — of or relating to the balance between the Coriolis force and the horizontal pressure force in the atmosphere.
- gerlachovka — a mountain in N Slovakia: highest peak of the Carpathian Mountains. 8737 feet (2663 meters).
- germ theory — Pathology. the theory that infectious diseases are due to the agency of germs or microorganisms.
- germaphobia — Pathological fear of germs.
- germaphobic — Alternative form of germophobic.
- germination — to begin to grow or develop.
- germophobic — Morbidly afraid of germs.
- gerodontics — the branch of dentistry dealing with aging and aged persons.
- gerontocrat — A member of a gerontocracy; an aged leader, especially one clinging on to power or ruling only by virtue of age.
- gerontology — the branch of science that deals with aging and the problems of aged persons.
- gerontophil — experiencing sexual attraction to old people
- gestatorial — related to carrying
- get nowhere — make no progress
- get rooted! — an exclamation of contemptuous anger or annoyance, esp against another person
- get through — to receive or come to have possession, use, or enjoyment of: to get a birthday present; to get a pension.
- ghirlandaio — (Domenico di Tommaso Curradi di Doffo Bigordi) 1449–94, Italian painter.
- ghost story — a tale in which such elements as ghostly visitations and supernatural intervention are used to further the plot and a chilling, suspenseful atmosphere.
- ghost train — a small train at an amusement park that travels through a dark tunnel in which sounds, lights, and mechanized objects are used to scare the people in the train
- ghost-write — If a book or other piece of writing is ghost-written, it is written by a writer for another person, for example a politician or sportsman, who then publishes it as his or her own work.
- ghostbuster — A person who claims to be able to banish ghosts and poltergeists.
- ghostscript — (graphics, tool) The GNU interpreter for PostScript and PDF, with previewers for serval systems and many fonts. Ghostscript was originally written by L. Peter Deutsch <[email protected]> of Aladdin Enterprises. The first public release was v1.0 on 1988-08-11.
- ghostwriter — A person whose job it is to write material for someone else who is the named author.
- 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.
- gibson girl — the idealized American girl of the 1890s as represented in the illustrations of Charles Dana Gibson.
- gilliflower — any of several plants of various families with clove-scented flowers, as the carnation
- gillyflower — Archaic. any of several fragrant flowers of the genus Dianthus, as the carnation or clove pink.
- gilt bronze — ormolu (def 2).
- give ground — the quality or state of being resilient; springiness.
- gjallarhorn — Heimdall's horn, used to warn the gods of Ragnarok.
- glamorizing — Present participle of glamorize.
- glamorously — In a glamorous manner.
- glamour boy — a man whose appearance or lifestyle is considered glamorous by popular standards.
- glamourized — Simple past tense and past participle of glamourize.