10-letter words containing g, r, e, t
- ginger nut — a small, brittle cookie flavored with ginger and molasses.
- gingerroot — the rhizome of the ginger plant.
- give birth — have a baby
- give forth — to send forth; emit; issue
- glauberite — a mineral, sodium calcium sulfate, Na 2 Ca(SO 4) 2 , often found as a deposit on the beds of salt lakes.
- glenrothes — a new town in E central Scotland, the administrative centre of Fife: founded in 1948. Pop: 38 679 (2001)
- glistering — to glisten; glitter.
- glitterand — glittering
- glitterati — The fashionable set of people engaged in show business or some other glamorous activity.
- glittering — Shining with a shimmering or sparkling light.
- globe-trot — If someone spends their time globe-trotting, they spend a lot of time travelling to different parts of the world.
- glomerated — Simple past tense and past participle of glomerate.
- glossmeter — an instrument for measuring the reflectivity of a surface.
- gloucester — Duke of, Humphrey.
- go over to — switch to
- go private — to restore private ownership of a corporation by buying back publicly held stock
- goaltender — a goalkeeper.
- goat's-rue — Also called catgut. a hairy American plant, Tephrosia virginiana, of the legume family, having yellow and pink flowers.
- goatsbeard — any of several composite plants of the genus Tragopogon, especially T. pratensis, having yellow flower heads.
- goatsucker — nightjar (def 2).
- gobstopper — a large piece of hard candy.
- godbrother — The son of one's godparent.
- godfathers — Plural form of godfather.
- godmothers — Plural form of godmother.
- godparents — Plural form of godparent.
- goldbeater — a person who pounds gold into thin leaves for use in gilding
- goldthread — a white-flowered plant, Coptis trifolia, of the buttercup family, having a slender, yellow root that is sometimes used as a tonic.
- goniometer — an instrument for measuring solid angles, as of crystals.
- goniometry — an instrument for measuring solid angles, as of crystals.
- gothenburg — Göteborg.
- gouernment — Obsolete spelling of government.
- governante — a housekeeper
- government — the political direction and control exercised over the actions of the members, citizens, or inhabitants of communities, societies, and states; direction of the affairs of a state, community, etc.; political administration: Government is necessary to the existence of civilized society.
- grace note — a note not essential to the harmony or melody, added as an embellishment, especially an appoggiatura.
- gradienter — an instrument on a transit for measuring angles of inclination in terms of their tangents.
- graffitied — Simple past tense and past participle of graffiti.
- grand jete — a jump or jeté, preceded by a grand battement or high kick, in which a dancer leaps from one leg and lands on the other.
- grand tier — the first tier of boxes after the parquet circle in a large theater or opera house.
- granulated — Simple past tense and past participle of granulate.
- grapefruit — a large, roundish, yellow-skinned, edible citrus fruit having a juicy, acid pulp.
- grapestone — the seed of a grape.
- graphitize — to convert into graphite.
- grapholect — an established and standardized written language
- graplement — a close fight or a close fighting grasp
- graptolite — any colonial animal of the extinct class Graptolithina, most common in the Ordovician and Silurian Periods, thought to be related to the pterobranchs.
- grass tree — any Australian plant of the genus Xanthorrhoea, of the lily family, having a stout, woody stem bearing a tuft of long grasslike leaves and a dense flower spike.
- gratefully — warmly or deeply appreciative of kindness or benefits received; thankful: I am grateful to you for your help.
- graticules — Plural form of graticule.
- gratinated — to gratiné.
- gratitudes — Plural form of gratitude.