11-letter words containing s, c, a, g
- gatecrasher — a person who attends or enters a social function without an invitation, a theater without a ticket, etc.
- gazingstock — (archaic) An object, event or person that is stared at (or gazed at) by many people.
- geodynamics — (used with a singular verb) the science dealing with dynamic processes or forces within the earth.
- geophysical — the branch of geology that deals with the physics of the earth and its atmosphere, including oceanography, seismology, volcanology, and geomagnetism.
- gesticulant — making or tending to make gestures or gesticulations: a gesticulant speaker.
- gesticulate — to make or use gestures, especially in an animated or excited manner with or instead of speech.
- ghost dance — a ritual dance intended to establish communion with the dead, especially such a dance as performed by various messianic western American Indian cults in the late 19th century.
- glabrescent — becoming glabrous.
- glaciations — Plural form of glaciation.
- glass block — a translucent, hollow or solid block of glass for glazing openings or constructing partitions, usually square on the face, with the outer surfaces treated in any of various ways.
- glass-faced — having the front or outer surfaces covered with glass.
- 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.
- glucokinase — an enzyme, found in all living systems, that serves to catalyze the phosphorylation of gluconic acid.
- glucosamine — an aminosugar occurring in many polysaccharides of vertebrate tissue and also as the major component of chitin.
- glucosidase — (enzyme) Any enzyme that hydrolyses glucosides.
- glycosidase — (enzyme) Any enzyme that catalyses the hydrolysis of a glycoside.
- glycosylate — (organic chemistry) To react with a sugar to form a glycoside (especially a glycoprotein).
- goal crease — crease1 (def 4).
- goal scorer — somebody who scores goals
- goalscorers — Plural form of goalscorer.
- 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.
- goatsuckers — Plural form of goatsucker.
- gob-smacked — utterly astounded; astonished.
- gobsmacking — Causing one to be gobsmacked; astounding, flabbergasting.
- gonycampsis — abnormal curvature of the knee.
- good graces — If you are in someone's good graces, they are pleased with you.
- gopherspace — (networking) The sum of all files that can be reached using gopher.
- gracelessly — In a graceless manner.
- gracileness — The state or quality of being gracile.
- grain coast — a historic region on the Gulf of Guinea, in W Africa, in present-day Liberia.
- grand-scale — of large proportion, extent, magnitude, etc.: grand-scale efforts; a grand-scale approach.
- grandnieces — Plural form of grandniece.
- granduncles — Plural form of granduncle.
- graphicness — The quality of being graphic: grotesqueness or vividness.
- grass cloth — a cloth made from plant fibres, such as jute or hemp
- grass court — an outdoor tennis court having a grass surface.
- grass finch — any of several Australian weaverbirds, especially of the genus Poephila.
- grasscutter — a device used to cut grass, as a lawn mower.
- gum elastic — rubber1 (def 1).
- gymnasiarch — (in ancient Greece) a magistrate who superintended the gymnasia and public games in certain cities.
- gymnastical — Alternative form of gymnastic.
- gynaecomast — a man who suffers from gynaecomastia
- gypsy scale — either of two scales that often form the basis of Hungarian Gypsy music.
- gyrocompass — a navigational compass containing a gyroscope rotor, that, when adjusted for the latitude and speed of the vessel or aircraft, indicates the direction of true north along the surface of the earth or communicates this information to one or more gyro repeaters.
- gyrostatics — the science that deals with the laws of rotating bodies.
- hagioscopes — Plural form of hagioscope.
- hardscaping — Hardscape.
- hash coding — (programming, algorithm) (Or "hashing") A scheme for providing rapid access to data items which are distinguished by some key. Each data item to be stored is associated with a key, e.g. the name of a person. A hash function is applied to the item's key and the resulting hash value is used as an index to select one of a number of "hash buckets" in a hash table. The table contains pointers to the original items. If, when adding a new item, the hash table already has an entry at the indicated location then that entry's key must be compared with the given key to see if it is the same. If two items' keys hash to the same value (a "hash collision") then some alternative location is used (e.g. the next free location cyclically following the indicated one). For best performance, the table size and hash function must be tailored to the number of entries and range of keys to be used. The hash function usually depends on the table size so if the table needs to be enlarged it must usually be completely rebuilt. When you look up a name in the phone book (for example), you typically hash it by extracting its first letter; the hash buckets are the alphabetically ordered letter sections. See also: btree, checksum, CRC, pseudorandom number, random, random number, soundex.
- hercogamous — (of flowers) incapable of self-fertilization