11-letter words containing g, s, p
- goddessship — a female god or deity.
- gomme syrup — simple syrup.
- gonycampsis — abnormal curvature of the knee.
- goose bumps — If you get goose bumps, the hairs on your skin stand up so that it is covered with tiny bumps. You get goose bumps when you are cold, frightened, or excited.
- goosepimple — Alt form goose pimple.
- gopherspace — (networking) The sum of all files that can be reached using gopher.
- gospel oath — an oath sworn on the Gospels
- gospel side — (in some Protestant churches) the left side of a church, facing the altar.
- gospel song — a piece of gospel music
- gossypiboma — (surgery) A gauze or surgical sponge left inside a patient's body during surgery.
- graded post — a position in a school having special responsibility for which additional payment is given
- graian alps — a mountain range in France and Italy, in the W Alps. Highest peak, Gran Paradiso, 13,324 feet (4061 meters).
- gramophones — Plural form of gramophone.
- grants pass — a city in SW Oregon.
- grape stake — a post used in vineyards to support wires along which grapevines are trained.
- grape sugar — dextrose.
- grapefruits — Plural form of grapefruit.
- graphicness — The quality of being graphic: grotesqueness or vividness.
- graptolites — Plural form of graptolite.
- grass snipe — the pectoral sandpiper.
- grasshopper — any of numerous herbivorous, orthopterous insects, especially of the families Acrididae and Tettigoniidae, having the hind legs adapted for leaping and having chewing mouth parts, some species being highly destructive to vegetation. Compare locust (def 1), long-horned grasshopper.
- gravisphere — the area in which the gravitational force of a celestial body is predominant.
- greasepaint — an oily mixture of melted tallow or grease and a pigment, used by actors, clowns, etc., for making up their faces.
- greaseproof — Resistant to grease.
- greasy pole — a pole covered with grease to make it slippery and difficult to climb, often used as entertainment
- green stamp — Citizens Band Radio Slang. a speeding ticket. Usually, Green Stamps. money; currency.
- groundspeed — the speed of an aircraft with reference to the ground.
- group speed — the speed at which energy is propagated in a wave. This is the quantity determined when one measures the distance which the radiation travels in a given time. In a medium in which the speed increases with wavelength the group speed is less than the phase speed, and vice versa
- groupuscule — A political or religious splinter group.
- guttersnipe — a person belonging to or characteristic of the lowest social group in a city.
- gymnosperms — Plural form of gymnosperm.
- gymnospermy — The property of being gymnospermous.
- gypsiferous — containing gypsum.
- gypsy scale — either of two scales that often form the basis of Hungarian Gypsy music.
- gypsy winch — a small winch or crab.
- gyrocompass — a navigational compass containing a gyroscope rotor, that, when adjusted for the latitude and speed of the vessel or aircraft, indicates the direction of true north along the surface of the earth or communicates this information to one or more gyro repeaters.
- hagioscopes — Plural form of hagioscope.
- hairsprings — Plural form of hairspring.
- handsprings — Plural form of handspring.
- haplogroups — Plural form of haplogroup.
- hardscaping — Hardscape.
- hedgeapples — Plural form of hedgeapple.
- heliographs — Plural form of heliograph.
- heptagynous — (of a flower) having seven pistils
- hertzsprung — Ejnar (ˈəɪnar). 1873–1967, Danish astronomer: he discovered the existence of giant and dwarf stars, originating one form of the Hertzsprung-Russell diagram
- hieroglyphs — Plural form of hieroglyph.
- high places — (in ancient Semitic religions) a place of worship, usually a temple or altar on a hilltop.
- high priest — a chief priest.
- hip huggers — trousers that begin at the hips instead of the waist
- hip-huggers — (of a garment) having a close-fitting waistline placed at the hip rather than at the natural waist: hiphugger jeans.