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11-letter words containing p, n, e

  • gamekeeping — a person employed, as on an estate or game preserve, to prevent poaching and provide a natural environment conducive to the propagation of game, as by thinning brush, scattering food after a snowstorm, and the like.
  • garden path — paved walkway
  • garden pink — the plant Dianthus plumarius
  • garden-path — noting or pertaining to a sentence that is easily parsed incorrectly because its beginning suggests it has an interpretation that it clearly does not have.
  • gatekeeping — The activity of controlling, and usually limiting, general access to something.
  • gene doping — a form of drug abuse in sport in which genetic material is injected into muscle to enhance performance or stimulate muscle growth
  • generalship — skill as commander of a large military force or unit.
  • genetic map — an arrangement of genes on a chromosome.
  • genioplasty — Mentoplasty.
  • genotypical — the genetic makeup of an organism or group of organisms with reference to a single trait, set of traits, or an entire complex of traits.
  • gerontophil — experiencing sexual attraction to old people
  • giant steps — a children's game in which a leader calls upon individual players to advance toward him or her in a given number and variety of steps, the object being for one person to tag the leader and for all of them to run back to the starting line without being caught by the leader. Any player who is caught becomes the leader.
  • gingersnaps — Plural form of gingersnap.
  • glans penis — the head of the penis (glans penis) or of the clitoris (glans clitoris)
  • glaucophane — a sodium-rich monoclinic mineral of the amphibole family, usually metamorphic.
  • glide plane — a symmetry element of a space group such that a reflection of the lattice with respect to the plane and a translation of the lattice parallel to the plane bring the lattice back to its original position.
  • gnetophytes — Plural form of gnetophyte.
  • go kerplunk — to make a noise when landing on or hitting the bottom of something
  • goalkeeping — The art of a goalkeeper.
  • god's penny — earnest money.
  • gonadotrope — a gonadotropic substance.
  • 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.
  • gramophones — Plural form of gramophone.
  • grand opera — a serious, usually tragic, opera in which most of the text is set to music.
  • grandnephew — a son of one's nephew or niece.
  • grandparent — a parent of a parent.
  • graphicness — The quality of being graphic: grotesqueness or vividness.
  • graphophone — a phonograph for recording and reproducing sounds on wax records.
  • grass snipe — the pectoral sandpiper.
  • greasepaint — an oily mixture of melted tallow or grease and a pigment, used by actors, clowns, etc., for making up their faces.
  • green paper — a report presenting the policy proposals of the government, to be discussed in Parliament.
  • green party — a liberal political party especially in Germany focusing on environmental issues.
  • 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.
  • green stamp — Citizens Band Radio Slang. a speeding ticket. Usually, Green Stamps. money; currency.
  • greenkeeper — greenskeeper.
  • 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.
  • gudgeon pin — wrist pin.
  • guttersnipe — a person belonging to or characteristic of the lowest social group in a city.
  • gymnosperms — Plural form of gymnosperm.
  • gymnospermy — The property of being gymnospermous.
  • gynecopathy — any disease occurring only in women.
  • hammer pond — an artificial pond for maintaining a head of water at a water mill.
  • hand puppet — a puppet made of a hollow head sewn or glued to material that fits over the hand, concealing the fingers and thumb, which manipulate it.
  • hand-picked — to pick by hand.
  • handicapped — Sometimes Offensive. physically or mentally disabled.
  • handicapper — Horse Racing. a racetrack official or employee who assigns the weight a horse must carry in a race. a person employed, as by a newspaper, to make predictions on the outcomes of horse races.
  • handyperson — a person who is practiced at doing maintenance work.
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