11-letter words containing o, p, e
- glyptotheca — a space devoted to sculpture
- gnetophytes — Plural form of gnetophyte.
- go ape over — to become crazy or extremely enthusiastic about
- go belly up — the front or under part of a vertebrate body from the breastbone to the pelvis, containing the abdominal viscera; the abdomen.
- go kerplunk — to make a noise when landing on or hitting the bottom of something
- go to press — When a newspaper or magazine goes to press, it starts being printed.
- goalkeepers — Plural form of goalkeeper.
- goalkeeping — The art of a goalkeeper.
- gob-stopper — a large piece of hard candy.
- gobstoppers — Plural form of gobstopper.
- god help us — If you say God help us, you mean that you have negative feelings about the person or situation you are talking about.
- god's penny — earnest money.
- goddessship — a female god or deity.
- gold-plated — secure, valuable
- gomme syrup — simple syrup.
- gomphothere — Any of the extinct proboscideans of the family Gomphotheriidae, that lived in North America and Eurasia during the Miocene and Pliocene (12\u20141.6 million years ago), and latterly also in South America (around 3 million to 9100 years ago).
- gonadotrope — a gonadotropic substance.
- good people — honest or kind people
- 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.
- gopher ball — a pitched ball hit for a home run: leading the league in gopher balls.
- gopher wood — an unidentified wood used in building Noah's ark. Gen. 6:14.
- gopherberry — bush huckleberry.
- 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
- grade point — Education. a numerical equivalent to a received letter grade, usually 0 for F, 1 for D, 2 for C, 3 for B, and 4 for A, that is multiplied by the number of credits for the course: used to compute a grade point average.
- graded post — a position in a school having special responsibility for which additional payment is given
- gramophones — Plural form of gramophone.
- grand opera — a serious, usually tragic, opera in which most of the text is set to music.
- graphophone — a phonograph for recording and reproducing sounds on wax records.
- graptolites — Plural form of graptolite.
- 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.
- greaseproof — Resistant to grease.
- greasy pole — a pole covered with grease to make it slippery and difficult to climb, often used as entertainment
- great power — a nation that has exceptional military and economic strength, and consequently plays a major, often decisive, role in international affairs.
- green pound — a unit of account used in calculating Britain's contributions to and payments from the Community Agricultural Fund of the EU
- green power — the power of money, viewed as a social force.
- grey import — an imported vehicle that does not have an exact model equivalent in the receiving country
- grey plover — the black-bellied plover.
- ground pine — any of several species of club moss, especially Lycopodium obscurum or L. complanatum.
- groundspeed — the speed of an aircraft with reference to the ground.
- group grope — sexual activity involving several people; orgy.
- 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
- group-grope — sexual activity involving several people; orgy.
- groupuscule — A political or religious splinter group.
- gudgeon pin — wrist pin.
- gymnosperms — Plural form of gymnosperm.
- gymnospermy — The property of being gymnospermous.