11-letter words containing g, o, s, i
- foresignify — to signify in advance
- forgiveness — act of forgiving; state of being forgiven.
- formalising — Present participle of formalise.
- formulising — formulate.
- forstalling — Present participle of forstall.
- forswearing — Present participle of forswear.
- fossilizing — Present participle of fossilize.
- fossilology — The study of fossils.
- fosteringly — In a way that fosters or encourages.
- fosterlings — Plural form of fosterling.
- frostbiting — Present participle of frostbite.
- frugiferous — Bearing fruit.
- frugivorous — fruit-eating, as certain bats.
- fungivorous — feeding on fungi, as certain insects.
- fustigation — A beating with a club.
- galactoside — A glycoside yielding galactose on hydrolysis.
- 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.
- garbologist — the study of the material discarded by a society to learn what it reveals about social or cultural patterns.
- garrisoning — Present participle of garrison.
- gas station — service station (def 1).
- gasconading — extravagant boasting; boastful talk.
- gastrocolic — of, relating to, or involving the stomach and colon.
- gastrodynia — (pathology) gastralgia (stomach pain).
- gastroliths — Plural form of gastrolith.
- gastronomic — the art or science of good eating.
- 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.
- gazingstock — (archaic) An object, event or person that is stared at (or gazed at) by many people.
- gemmiferous — bearing buds or gemmae; gemmiparous.
- gemmiparous — producing or reproducing by buds or gemmae.
- gemmologist — the science dealing with natural and artificial gemstones.
- gemologists — Plural form of gemologist.
- 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.
- generations — Plural form of generation.
- genesiology — (obsolete) The study of generation (reproduction).
- genioplasty — Mentoplasty.
- genius loci — the guardian spirit of a place.
- geobotanist — a person who studies geobotany
- geocentrism — A belief that Earth is the center of the universe and does not move.
- geodynamics — (used with a singular verb) the science dealing with dynamic processes or forces within the earth.
- 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.
- geophysical — the branch of geology that deals with the physics of the earth and its atmosphere, including oceanography, seismology, volcanology, and geomagnetism.
- geopolitics — the study or the application of the influence of political and economic geography on the politics, national power, foreign policy, etc., of a state.
- geosciences — Plural form of geoscience.
- 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.
- geostrophic — of or relating to the balance between the Coriolis force and the horizontal pressure force in the atmosphere.
- geosyncline — a portion of the earth's crust subjected to downward warping during a large span of geologic time; a geosynclinal fold.