11-letter words containing g, o, s, a
- figurations — Plural form of figuration.
- flagpersons — Plural form of flagperson.
- flavourings — Plural form of flavouring.
- float glass — extremely smooth, nearly distortion-free plate glass manufactured by pouring molten glass onto a surface of molten tin.
- flote grass — an aquatic perennial grass, Glyceria fluitans, whose metre-long stems and pale green leaves are often seen floating in still or sluggish water. The related sweet grass (G. plicata) has broader, darker leaves and owes its name to the fact that cattle like to eat it
- food grains — the small hard seedlike fruits of a grass, esp a cereal plant, used as a foodstuff
- foot guards — (in Britain) an infantry unit forming part of the ceremonial guard of the monarch.
- forecasting — Present participle of forecast.
- foregathers — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of foregather.
- formalising — Present participle of formalise.
- forstalling — Present participle of forstall.
- forswearing — Present participle of forswear.
- frost grape — riverbank grape.
- fustigation — A beating with a club.
- galactoside — A glycoside yielding galactose on hydrolysis.
- gallowglass — a follower and supporter of or a soldier owing allegiance to an Irish chief.
- gallowsness — the quality of being bold or reckless
- gametocytes — Plural form of gametocyte.
- gamma stock — any of the third rank of active securities on the London Stock Exchange. Prices displayed by market makers are given as an indication rather than an offer to buy or sell
- gamogenesis — sexual reproduction.
- gamotropism — the tendency of gametes to attract each other
- ganglioside — any of a class of glycolipids, found chiefly in nerve ganglia, that upon hydrolysis yield sphingosine, neuraminic acid, a fatty acid, and a monosaccharide.
- 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.
- garden hose — tube for spraying plants with water
- garrisoning — Present participle of garrison.
- garrulously — In a garrulous manner.
- gas station — service station (def 1).
- gas vacuole — a gas-filled structure that provides buoyancy in some aquatic bacteria
- gasconading — extravagant boasting; boastful talk.
- 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.
- gauge boson — a boson that mediates the interaction between elementary particles. There are several types: photons for electromagnetic interactions, W and Z intermediate vector bosons for weak interactions, and gravitons for gravitational interactions
- gay gordons — an energetic old-time dance
- gazingstock — (archaic) An object, event or person that is stared at (or gazed at) by many people.
- gemmiparous — producing or reproducing by buds or gemmae.
- genealogies — A line of descent traced continuously from an ancestor.
- genealogist — a record or account of the ancestry and descent of a person, family, group, etc.