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11-letter words containing s, a, g, e, t

  • glasscutter — a small hand tool that is specially designed for cutting sheets of glass, having a cutting wheel of steel or tungsten carbide and notches for snapping the glass
  • glaucescent — becoming glaucous; somewhat glaucous.
  • glutaminase — an enzyme used to treat cancer
  • glycosylate — (organic chemistry) To react with a sugar to form a glycoside (especially a glycoprotein).
  • gnathostome — (zoology) Any vertebrate with jaws, including amphibians, reptiles, mammals, and most modern fish.
  • go to waste — to consume, spend, or employ uselessly or without adequate return; use to no avail or profit; squander: to waste money; to waste words.
  • goaltenders — Plural form of goaltender.
  • goat cheese — a cheese containing goat's milk, either alone or mixed with cow's milk, usually having a stronger flavor than one made of cow's milk alone.
  • goatishness — The state or condition of being goatish.
  • goatsbeards — Plural form of goatsbeard.
  • goatsuckers — Plural form of goatsucker.
  • goldthreads — Plural form of goldthread.
  • gospel oath — an oath sworn on the Gospels
  • grade sheet — a piece of paper on which a student's grades are recorded
  • graded post — a position in a school having special responsibility for which additional payment is given
  • grandmaster — the head of a military order of knighthood, a lodge, fraternal order, or the like.
  • grape stake — a post used in vineyards to support wires along which grapevines are trained.
  • grapefruits — Plural form of grapefruit.
  • graptolites — Plural form of graptolite.
  • grass style — a style of Japanese calligraphy and sumi-e painting, characterized chiefly by free or loose brush strokes.
  • grasscutter — a device used to cut grass, as a lawn mower.
  • gravenstein — a variety of large, yellow apple with red streaks
  • gravestones — Plural form of gravestone.
  • gravidities — Plural form of gravidity.
  • gravimeters — Plural form of gravimeter.
  • 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).
  • great falls — a city in central Montana, on the Missouri River.
  • great gross — a unit of quantity equivalent to 12 gross. Abbreviation: GGR.
  • great lakes — group of lakes in North America
  • great runes — Uppercase-only text or display messages. Some archaic operating systems still emit these. See also runes, smash case, fold case. Decades ago, back in the days when it was the sole supplier of long-distance hardcopy transmittal devices, the Teletype Corporation was faced with a major design choice. To shorten code lengths and cut complexity in the printing mechanism, it had been decided that teletypes would use a monocase font, either ALL UPPER or all lower. The Question Of The Day was therefore, which one to choose. A study was conducted on readability under various conditions of bad ribbon, worn print hammers, etc. Lowercase won; it is less dense and has more distinctive letterforms, and is thus much easier to read both under ideal conditions and when the letters are mangled or partly obscured. The results were filtered up through management. The chairman of Teletype killed the proposal because it failed one incredibly important criterion: "It would be impossible to spell the name of the Deity correctly." In this way (or so, at least, hacker folklore has it) superstition triumphed over utility. Teletypes were the major input devices on most early computers, and terminal manufacturers looking for corners to cut naturally followed suit until well into the 1970s. Thus, that one bad call stuck us with Great Runes for thirty years.
  • great satan — any force, person, organization, or country that is regarded as evil, used esp of the United States by radical Islamists
  • green stamp — Citizens Band Radio Slang. a speeding ticket. Usually, Green Stamps. money; currency.
  • greenhearts — Plural form of greenheart.
  • guaranteers — Plural form of guaranteer.
  • guesstimate — to estimate without substantial basis in facts or statistics.
  • guestimates — Plural form of guestimate.
  • gulf states — the oil-producing states around the Persian Gulf: Iran, Iraq, Kuwait, Saudi Arabia, Bahrain, Qatar, the United Arab Emirates, and Oman
  • gulf stream — a warm ocean current flowing N from the Gulf of Mexico, along the E coast of the U.S., to an area off the SE coast of Newfoundland, where it becomes the western terminus of the North Atlantic Current.
  • gum elastic — rubber1 (def 1).
  • gynaecomast — a man who suffers from gynaecomastia
  • hamstringed — (in humans and other primates) any of the tendons that bound the ham of the knee.
  • hasta luego — so long; (I'll) see you soon
  • hatemongers — Plural form of hatemonger.
  • hattiesburg — a city in SE Mississippi.
  • haughtiness — disdainfully proud; snobbish; scornfully arrogant; supercilious: haughty aristocrats; a haughty salesclerk.
  • hear things — a material object without life or consciousness; an inanimate object.
  • heartstring — Singular of heartstrings.
  • heath grass — a European grass, Sieglingia decumbens, growing in spongy, wet, cold soils.
  • heptagynous — (of a flower) having seven pistils
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