11-letter words containing n, a, s, o
- forinstance — a case or occurrence of anything: fresh instances of oppression.
- formalising — Present participle of formalise.
- fornicators — Plural form of fornicator.
- forstalling — Present participle of forstall.
- forswearing — Present participle of forswear.
- fort carson — a military reservation in E central Colorado, S of Colorado Springs.
- fortepianos — Plural form of fortepiano.
- forwardness — overreadiness to push oneself forward; lack of appropriate modesty; presumption; boldness.
- foundations — Plural form of foundation.
- franz josef — Francis Joseph I.
- fray bentos — a port in W Uruguay, on the River Uruguay: noted for meat-packing. Pop: 23 122 (2004 est)
- freemasonry — secret or tacit brotherhood; fellowship; fundamental bond or rapport: the freemasonry of those who hunger for knowledge.
- frowardness — The quality of being froward.
- frustration — act of frustrating; state of being frustrated: the frustration of the president's efforts.
- functionals — Plural form of functional.
- fusillation — the use of shooting as a method of capital punishment, esp during warfare
- fuss around — to engage in idle, aimless, or annoying activity
- fustigation — A beating with a club.
- gallowsness — the quality of being bold or reckless
- gamogenesis — sexual reproduction.
- ganglioside — any of a class of glycolipids, found chiefly in nerve ganglia, that upon hydrolysis yield sphingosine, neuraminic acid, a fatty acid, and a monosaccharide.
- gangsterdom — the world of gangsters; gangland
- garden hose — tube for spraying plants with water
- garrisoning — Present participle of garrison.
- gas station — service station (def 1).
- gasconading — extravagant boasting; boastful talk.
- gastrodynia — (pathology) gastralgia (stomach pain).
- gastromancy — a form of divination by interpreting words and sounds seeming to come from the stomach
- gastronomer — A lover of good food; a connoisseur or gourmet.
- gastronomes — Plural form of gastronome.
- gastronomic — the art or science of good eating.
- gauge boson — a boson that mediates the interaction between elementary particles. There are several types: photons for electromagnetic interactions, W and Z intermediate vector bosons for weak interactions, and gravitons for gravitational interactions
- gay gordons — an energetic old-time dance
- gazingstock — (archaic) An object, event or person that is stared at (or gazed at) by many people.
- genealogies — A line of descent traced continuously from an ancestor.
- genealogist — a record or account of the ancestry and descent of a person, family, group, etc.
- generations — Plural form of generation.
- genioplasty — Mentoplasty.
- geobotanist — a person who studies geobotany
- geodynamics — (used with a singular verb) the science dealing with dynamic processes or forces within the earth.
- gestational — the process, state, or period of gestating.
- 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 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
- glaciations — Plural form of glaciation.
- glastonbury — a borough of SW England, in whose vicinity the ruins of an important Iron Age lake village have been found and to which in folklore both King Arthur and Joseph of Arimathaea have been linked, the latter as the founder of the abbey there.
- globalising — Present participle of globalise.
- gloss paint — Gloss paint is paint that forms a shiny surface when it dries.
- glossodynia — a condition characterized by a burning or tingling mouth region
- glucokinase — an enzyme, found in all living systems, that serves to catalyze the phosphorylation of gluconic acid.
- glucosamine — an aminosugar occurring in many polysaccharides of vertebrate tissue and also as the major component of chitin.