11-letter words containing i, n, g, e
- granitelike — Resembling granite.
- graniteware — a kind of ironware with a gray, stonelike enamel.
- grant-aided — given financial assistance by an organization
- graphicness — The quality of being graphic: grotesqueness or vividness.
- grass snipe — the pectoral sandpiper.
- gravenstein — a variety of large, yellow apple with red streaks
- greasepaint — an oily mixture of melted tallow or grease and a pigment, used by actors, clowns, etc., for making up their faces.
- great basin — a region in the Western U.S. that has no drainage to the ocean: includes most of Nevada and parts of Utah, California, Oregon, and Idaho. 210,000 sq. mi. (544,000 sq. km).
- great-niece — a daughter of one's nephew or niece; grandniece.
- green audit — the process of assessing the environmental impact of an organization, process, project, product, etc.: A green audit of your home can reveal ways in which you can reduce energy consumption.
- green light — traffic signal: go
- green onion — a young onion with a slender green stalk and a small bulb, used as a table vegetable, usually raw, especially in salads; scallion.
- green osier — a dogwood tree, Cornus alternifolia, of the eastern U.S., having clusters of small white flowers and dark-blue fruit.
- green river — Henrietta Howland Robinson ("Hetty") 1835–1916, U.S. financier.
- green-light — to give permission to proceed; authorize: The renovation project was green-lighted by the board of directors.
- greenbriers — Plural form of greenbrier.
- greeneville — a city in E Tennessee.
- greenlandic — a dialect of Inuit, spoken in Greenland.
- greenmailer — One who greenmails.
- greenockite — a yellow mineral, cadmium sulfide, CdS, associated with zinc ores and used as a source of cadmium.
- greenschist — schist colored green by an abundance of chlorite, epidote, or actinolite.
- grenadelike — Resembling a grenade (weapon).
- grey knight — an ambiguous intervener in a takeover battle, who makes a counterbid for the shares of the target company without having made his intentions clear
- grind house — a burlesque house, especially one providing continuous entertainment at reduced prices.
- grind-house — a burlesque house, especially one providing continuous entertainment at reduced prices.
- grindelwald — a valley and resort in central Switzerland, in the Bernese Oberland: mountaineering centre, with the Wetterhorn and the Eiger nearby
- grindstones — Plural form of grindstone.
- gristliness — The quality or state of being gristly.
- grouchiness — The characteristic or quality of being grouchy.
- ground pine — any of several species of club moss, especially Lycopodium obscurum or L. complanatum.
- ground wire — a lead from an electric apparatus to the earth or to a ground connection.
- grovelingly — Alternative form of grovellingly.
- growthiness — the quality of being growthy
- gruellingly — In a gruelling manner.
- guaifenesin — An expectorant used in cough syrups and sometimes for pain relief from fibromyalgia.
- guaniferous — yielding guano
- gubernation — the act of governing or ruling
- gudgeon pin — wrist pin.
- guest night — an evening when members of an institution are allowed to bring guests
- guide vanes — fixed aerofoils that direct air, gas, or water into the moving blades of a turbine or into or around bends in ducts with minimum loss of energy
- guillotined — Simple past tense and past participle of guillotine.
- guillotines — Plural form of guillotine.
- guiltridden — Alternative spelling of guilt-ridden.
- guinea corn — durra.
- guinea fowl — any of several African, gallinaceous birds of the subfamily Numidinae, especially a common species, Numida meleagris, that has a bony casque on the head and dark gray plumage spotted with white and that is now domesticated and raised for its flesh and eggs.
- guinea worm — a long, slender roundworm, Dracunculus medinensis, parasitic under the skin of humans and animals, common in parts of India and Africa.
- gum benzoin — Also called gum benjamin, gum benzoin. a reddish-brown, aromatic balsamic resin occurring in almondlike fragments and having a vanillalike odor, obtained from trees of the genus Styrax, especially S. benzoin, of Java, Sumatra, etc.: used in the manufacture of perfume and cosmetics and in medicine internally as an expectorant and externally as an antiseptic.
- gun licence — an official document granting a person permission to own and use a gun, usually subject to various restrictions
- gunslingers — Plural form of gunslinger.
- gut feeling — an instinctive feeling, as opposed to an opinion based on facts