11-letter words containing g, r, a, v, i
- gravity dam — a dam resisting the pressure of impounded water through its own weight.
- gravity-fed — the supplying of fuel, materials, etc., by force of gravity.
- gravy train — a position in which a person or group receives excessive and unjustified money or advantages with little or no effort: The top executives were on the gravy train with their huge bonuses.
- groin-vault — a vault or ceiling created by the intersection of vaults.
- hairweaving — the attachment of matching hair to a base of nylon thread interwoven with a person's own hair, as to cover a bald area or to add length: Three of the makeovers involved hairweaving.
- hercegovina — Herzegovina.
- herzegovina — a historic region in SE Europe: a former Turkish province; a part of Austria-Hungary 1878–1914; now part of Bosnia and Herzegovina.
- hypogravity — The presence of an apparently decreased gravitational field (such as in an aircraft following a parabolic path).
- incurvating — Present participle of incurvate.
- innervating — Present participle of innervate.
- integrative — to bring together or incorporate (parts) into a whole.
- invigilator — to keep watch.
- invigorated — Give strength or energy to.
- invigorates — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of invigorate.
- invigorator — One who, or that which, invigorates.
- invigourate — Alternative spelling of invigorate.
- laborsaving — designed or intended to reduce or replace human labor: The dishwasher is a laborsaving device.
- landgravine — the wife of a landgrave.
- maneuvering — a planned and regulated movement or evolution of troops, warships, etc.
- manoeuvring — A manoeuvre.
- margraviate — Alternative spelling of margravate.
- margravines — Plural form of margravine.
- marivaudage — Writing style characterized by the refined affection, originating from the writing of the French novelist w Pierre de Marivaux.
- mcgillivray — Alexander, 1759?–93, Native American chief of the Creek nation.
- megadiverse — Exhibiting great diversity, especially great biodiversity.
- merovingian — of or relating to the Frankish dynasty established by Clovis, which reigned in Gaul and Germany from a.d. 476 to 751.
- microwaving — Present participle of microwave.
- moving part — a part in a machine that has power to move
- night raven — a bird that cries in the night.
- non-gravity — the force of attraction by which terrestrial bodies tend to fall toward the center of the earth.
- objurgative — That objurgates; sharply disapproving.
- onion gravy — a type of gravy made with onions and stock and usually served with meat
- orangeville — a town in SE Ontario, in S Canada.
- originative — having or characterized by the power of originating; creative.
- overarching — forming an arch above: great trees with overarching branches.
- overbearing — domineering; dictatorial; haughtily or rudely arrogant.
- overcasting — Meteorology. the condition of the sky when more than 95 percent covered by clouds.
- overcoating — a coat worn over the ordinary indoor clothing, as in cold weather.
- overdrawing — Present participle of overdraw.
- overfatigue — excessive tiredness from which recuperation is difficult.
- overgrainer — someone who overgrains
- overgrazing — to graze (land) to excess.
- overhanging — extending or dangling
- overheating — heating (something) excessively
- overlapping — to lap over (something else or each other); extend over and cover a part of; imbricate.
- overloading — (language) (Or "Operator overloading"). Use of a single symbol to represent operators with different argument types, e.g. "-", used either, as a monadic operator to negate an expression, or as a dyadic operator to return the difference between two expressions. Another example is "+" used to add either integers or floating-point numbers. Overloading is also known as ad-hoc polymorphism. User-defined operator overloading is provided by several modern programming languages, e.g. C++'s class system and the functional programming language Haskell's type classes. Ad-hoc polymorphism (better described as overloading) is the ability to use the same syntax for objects of different types, e.g. "+" for addition of reals and integers or "-" for unary negation or diadic subtraction. Parametric polymorphism allows the same object code for a function to handle arguments of many types but overloading only reuses syntax and requires different code to handle different types.
- overmanning — overstaffing
- palsgravine — the wife or widow of a palsgrave.
- party-giver — a person who gives a party
- prerogative — an exclusive right, privilege, etc., exercised by virtue of rank, office, or the like: the prerogatives of a senator.