11-letter words containing r, i, g, s
- grandbabies — Plural form of grandbaby.
- grandiosely — affectedly grand or important; pompous: grandiose words.
- grandiosity — affectedly grand or important; pompous: grandiose words.
- grandnieces — Plural form of grandniece.
- graniferous — bearing grain
- granivorous — (of an animal, especially a bird) eating grain and seeds.
- grapefruits — Plural form of grapefruit.
- graphicness — The quality of being graphic: grotesqueness or vividness.
- graptolites — Plural form of graptolite.
- grass finch — any of several Australian weaverbirds, especially of the genus Poephila.
- grass skirt — a skirt made from long grass, typically worn by female dancers from some Pacific islands
- grass snipe — the pectoral sandpiper.
- grass widow — a woman who is separated, divorced, or lives apart from her husband.
- gratuitious — Misspelling of gratuitous.
- gravenstein — a variety of large, yellow apple with red streaks
- gravidities — Plural form of gravidity.
- gravimeters — Plural form of gravimeter.
- gravisphere — the area in which the gravitational force of a celestial body is predominant.
- 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).
- green osier — a dogwood tree, Cornus alternifolia, of the eastern U.S., having clusters of small white flowers and dark-blue fruit.
- greenbriers — Plural form of greenbrier.
- greenschist — schist colored green by an abundance of chlorite, epidote, or actinolite.
- grimm's law — the statement of the regular pattern of consonant correspondences presumed to represent changes from Proto-Indo-European to Germanic, according to which voiced aspirated stops became voiced obstruents, voiced unaspirated stops became unvoiced stops, and unvoiced stops became unvoiced fricatives: first formulated in 1820–22 by Jakob Grimm, though the facts had been noted earlier by Rasmus Rask.
- 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.
- grindstones — Plural form of grindstone.
- gristliness — The quality or state of being gristly.
- grossierete — grossness or coarseness
- grouchiness — The characteristic or quality of being grouchy.
- ground-fish — bottom-fish.
- groundlings — Plural form of groundling.
- groundsills — Plural form of groundsill.
- growthiness — the quality of being growthy
- guaniferous — yielding guano
- gulf crisis — the unstable period prior to the war of 1991 between US-led UN forces and Iraq
- gummiferous — producing gum
- gunslingers — Plural form of gunslinger.
- gustatorily — in a gustatory manner
- guttersnipe — a person belonging to or characteristic of the lowest social group in a city.
- guttiferous — relating to plants that produce gum or gum-like fluids
- gutturalism — The quality of being guttural.
- gymnasiarch — (in ancient Greece) a magistrate who superintended the gymnasia and public games in certain cities.
- gypsiferous — containing gypsum.
- gyrostatics — the science that deals with the laws of rotating bodies.
- hairsprings — Plural form of hairspring.
- hairstyling — a person who designs and arranges hair styles.
- halsingborg — a seaport in SW Sweden, opposite Helsingör.
- hamstringed — (in humans and other primates) any of the tendons that bound the ham of the knee.
- handsprings — Plural form of handspring.