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11-letter words containing h, g

  • get hold of — to have or keep in the hand; keep fast; grasp: She held the purse in her right hand. He held the child's hand in his.
  • get in with — start to associate with
  • get nowhere — make no progress
  • get shot of — to get rid of
  • get shut of — to get rid of
  • get the air — a mixture of nitrogen, oxygen, and minute amounts of other gases that surrounds the earth and forms its atmosphere.
  • get the nod — sb: have permission
  • get the pip — to sulk
  • get through — to receive or come to have possession, use, or enjoyment of: to get a birthday present; to get a pension.
  • get with it — (in children's games) the player called upon to perform some task, as, in tag, the one who must catch the other players.
  • ghastliness — The state of being ghastly.
  • ghetto code — (humour, programming)   A particularly inelegant and obviously suboptimal section of code that still meets the original requirements.
  • ghettoizing — Present participle of ghettoize.
  • ghirlandaio — (Domenico di Tommaso Curradi di Doffo Bigordi) 1449–94, Italian painter.
  • ghost dance — a ritual dance intended to establish communion with the dead, especially such a dance as performed by various messianic western American Indian cults in the late 19th century.
  • ghost image — ghost (def 8).
  • ghost story — a tale in which such elements as ghostly visitations and supernatural intervention are used to further the plot and a chilling, suspenseful atmosphere.
  • ghost train — a small train at an amusement park that travels through a dark tunnel in which sounds, lights, and mechanized objects are used to scare the people in the train
  • ghost-write — If a book or other piece of writing is ghost-written, it is written by a writer for another person, for example a politician or sportsman, who then publishes it as his or her own work.
  • ghostbuster — A person who claims to be able to banish ghosts and poltergeists.
  • ghostliness — of, characteristic of, or resembling a ghost; phantasmal; spectral.
  • ghostscript — (graphics, tool)   The GNU interpreter for PostScript and PDF, with previewers for serval systems and many fonts. Ghostscript was originally written by L. Peter Deutsch <[email protected]> of Aladdin Enterprises. The first public release was v1.0 on 1988-08-11.
  • ghostwriter — A person whose job it is to write material for someone else who is the named author.
  • girlishness — The quality of being girlish.
  • give a hand — the terminal, prehensile part of the upper limb in humans and other primates, consisting of the wrist, metacarpal area, fingers, and thumb.
  • give a hoot — not care
  • give a shit — excrement; feces.
  • give it hot — to punish or thrash someone
  • give thanks — be thankful, express thankfulness
  • gjallarhorn — Heimdall's horn, used to warn the gods of Ragnarok.
  • glad-hander — to greet warmly.
  • glasshouses — Plural form of glasshouse.
  • glaucophane — a sodium-rich monoclinic mineral of the amphibole family, usually metamorphic.
  • globefishes — Plural form of globefish.
  • glochidiate — (botany) Having barbs.
  • glutathione — a crystalline, water-soluble peptide of glutamic acid, cysteine, and glycine, C 10 H 17 N 3 O 6 S, found in blood and in animal and plant tissues, and important in tissue oxidations and in the activation of some enzymes.
  • glycyrrhiza — Any legume (such as liquorice) of the genus [Glycyrrhiza]].
  • glyptograph — an engraved or carved design, as on a gem.
  • glyptotheca — a space devoted to sculpture
  • gnamma hole — a hollow in bare rock, narrow at the opening and wider at the bottom, in which water collects.
  • gnatcatcher — any tiny insect-eating, New World warbler of the genus Polioptila, having a long, mobile tail and a slender bill.
  • gnathostome — (zoology) Any vertebrate with jaws, including amphibians, reptiles, mammals, and most modern fish.
  • gnetophytes — Plural form of gnetophyte.
  • go downhill — travel down a slope
  • go ill with — to be unfortunate for or unfavorable to
  • go off with — sb
  • go out with — date
  • go straight — without a bend, angle, or curve; not curved; direct: a straight path.
  • go to earth — to go into hiding
  • go to smash — to become smashed, broken, or ruined
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