10-letter words containing o, r, g, n
- governessy — resembling or typical of a governess
- government — the political direction and control exercised over the actions of the members, citizens, or inhabitants of communities, societies, and states; direction of the affairs of a state, community, etc.; political administration: Government is necessary to the existence of civilized society.
- grace note — a note not essential to the harmony or melody, added as an embellishment, especially an appoggiatura.
- gradations — any process or change taking place through a series of stages, by degrees, or in a gradual manner.
- graduation — an act of graduating; the state of being graduated.
- gramineous — grasslike.
- gramophone — a phonograph.
- gramophony — the art, technique, or practice of recording sound on disc
- gran chaco — an extensive subtropical region in central South America, in Argentina, Bolivia, and Paraguay. 300,000 sq. mi. (777,000 sq. km).
- grand chop — (in China and India trade) a customs clearance.
- grand coup — the trumping of a trick that could have been taken by the winner's partner.
- grand tour — an extended tour of Europe, formerly regarded as a necessary part of the education of young British gentlemen.
- granophyre — a fine-grained or porphyritic granitic rock with a micrographic intergrowth of the minerals of the groundmass.
- granulator — A machine that forms material into granules.
- granulomas — Plural form of granuloma.
- granulosis — a disease that predominantly affects larval Lepidoptera and which causes loss of appetite and sluggishness
- grapestone — the seed of a grape.
- graveolent — That has a rank smell.
- gravestone — a stone marking a grave, usually giving the name, date of death, etc., of the person buried there.
- gravitonic — Relating to gravitons.
- green book — 1.
Informal name for one of the four standard references on PostScript. The other three official guides are known as the Blue Book, the Red Book, and the White Book. 2. (publication) Informal name for one of the three standard references on SmallTalk. Also associated with blue and red books. 3. The "X/Open Compatibility Guide", which defines an international standard Unix environment that is a proper superset of POSIX/SVID. It also includes descriptions of a standard utility toolkit, systems administrations features, and the like. This grimoire is taken with particular seriousness in Europe. See Purple Book. 4. The IEEE 1003.1 POSIX Operating Systems Interface standard has been dubbed "The Ugly Green Book". 5. Any of the 1992 standards issued by the ITU-T's tenth plenary assembly. These include, among other things, the dreadful X.400 electronic mail standard and the Group 1 through 4 fax standards. 6. Green Book CD-ROM. See also book titles. - green corn — sweet corn (def 2).
- green mold — blue mold (def 1).
- green roof — a roof covered with vegetation, designed for its aesthetic value and to optimize energy conservation
- green soap — a soap made chiefly from potassium hydroxide and linseed oil, used in treating some skin diseases.
- green zone — (since the invasion of Iraq by US-led forces, and the fall of Saddam Hussein in 2003) the area of central Baghdad used by the coalition and civilian authorities, subject to high security
- greenboard — a green chalkboard or blackboard.
- greencloth — the green covering of a billiard or gaming table
- greenhorns — Plural form of greenhorn.
- greenhouse — a building, room, or area, usually chiefly of glass, in which the temperature is maintained within a desired range, used for cultivating tender plants or growing plants out of season.
- greenrooms — Plural form of greenroom.
- greensboro — a city in N North Carolina.
- greenstone — any of various altered basaltic rocks having a dark-green color caused by the presence of chlorite, epidote, etc.
- greenwoods — Plural form of greenwood.
- greg olson — (person) President and CEO of Sendmail Inc.. Olson is an industry veteran who worked on distributed systems at Summit Systems Inc. then at Britton Lee Inc., Sybase Inc. and Integrated Systems Inc..
- grey heron — a large European heron, Ardea cinerea, with grey wings and back and a long black drooping crest
- grey nomad — any elderly retired person who spends time travelling around the country in a mobile home
- greyhounds — Plural form of greyhound.
- griffonage — (rare) Careless handwriting; A crude or illegible scrawl.
- grind down — make into powder
- grind rock — whetstone.
- grindhouse — a burlesque house, especially one providing continuous entertainment at reduced prices.
- grindstone — a rotating solid stone wheel used for sharpening, shaping, etc.
- groceryman — a grocer.
- grogginess — staggering, as from exhaustion or blows: a boxer groggy from his opponent's hard left jab.
- grooviness — the quality of being groovy
- gros point — a large stitch used in embroidery. Compare petit point (def 1), tent stitch.
- grottiness — the quality of being grotty
- ground bug — any member of a family (Lygaeidae) of hemipterous plant-eating insects, having generally dark bodies, sometimes marked with red, and lighter, yellowish wings
- ground fir — ground pine