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11-letter words containing g, r, a

  • autographed — Simple past tense and past participle of autograph.
  • autographic — of, for, or like an autograph or autographs
  • autogravure — a particular process of photographic engraving in which images are projected directly onto a plate
  • autozeroing — (electronics) A sampling technique that measures an offset from zero and later compensates by subtracting the difference.
  • avant-garde — Avant-garde art, music, theatre, and literature is very modern and experimental.
  • average joe — An average Joe is an average or ordinary man.
  • average out — If a set of numbers average out to a particular figure or if you average them out to that figure, their average is calculated to be that figure.
  • averageness — a quantity, rating, or the like that represents or approximates an arithmetic mean: Her golf average is in the 90s. My average in science has gone from B to C this semester.
  • awkward age — early adolescence.
  • axle grease — lubricant for axles
  • azido group — the univalent group N 3 −, derived from hydrazoic acid.
  • azores high — a subtropical high centered near the Azores.
  • back garden — a garden at the rear of a house
  • backdraught — a reverse movement of air, gas, or liquid
  • backgrounds — Plural form of background.
  • baconburger — a hamburger topped with strips of cooked bacon.
  • bad homburg — a city in W central Germany on the S slope of the Taunus Mountains, near Frankfurt.
  • badger game — the blackmailing of a man by maneuvering him into a compromising situation with a woman
  • baggage car — A baggage car is a railway carriage, often without windows, which is used to carry luggage, goods, or mail.
  • baggy green — the Australian Test cricket cap
  • bahia grass — a grass, Paspalum notatum, of tropical America, grown in the southern United States for lawns and pasturage.
  • baking tray — A baking tray is the same as a baking sheet.
  • balbriggans — underwear made from balbriggan fabric, for example long men's underpants
  • ballbearing — Alternative form of ball bearing.
  • banistering — Present participle of banister.
  • bankrolling — Present participle of bankroll.
  • bankrupting — Present participle of bankrupt.
  • banteringly — in a bantering fashion
  • bar-hopping — Informal. to go to a succession of bars or nightclubs, with a brief stay at each.
  • barbary fig — prickly pear.
  • barebacking — sexual intercourse performed without the use of a condom
  • bargain bin — a container in a shop from which customers can buy goods that may be old or imperfect at greatly reduced prices
  • bargain for — If you have not bargained for or bargained on something that happens, you did not expect it to happen and so feel surprised or worried by it.
  • bargainable — an advantageous purchase, especially one acquired at less than the usual cost: The sale offered bargains galore.
  • barge spike — a square spike with a chisel point.
  • bargeboards — Plural form of bargeboard.
  • bargemaster — the owner of a barge
  • barking mad — If you say that someone is barking mad, you mean that they are insane or are acting very strangely.
  • barographic — Measured using a barograph.
  • barricading — Present participle of barricade.
  • basal ridge — a U -shaped ridge at the base of the posterior surface of the crown of a tooth.
  • baserunning — the act of running around bases
  • basin range — a mountain range of the type found in the Great Basin region of the western U.S., typically long and narrow and characterized by faulted, tilted blocks of strata.
  • bass guitar — a guitar that has the same pitch and tuning as a double bass, usually electrically amplified
  • bathygraphy — The scientific description of the depth of the ocean.
  • baton rouge — the capital of Louisiana, in the SE part on the Mississippi River. Pop: 225 090 (2003 est)
  • battery egg — an egg from a battery hen
  • be great on — to be informed about
  • beach grass — any of a genus (Ammophila) of deeply rooted, tough, perennial grasses that grow on sandy beaches and are often planted to combat beach erosion
  • beach ridge — a ridge just inland from a beach, consisting of sand and gravel built up by storm waves
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