9-letter words containing s, e, n, g
- graveness — serious or solemn; sober: a grave person; grave thoughts.
- gravesend — a seaport in NW Kent, in SE England, on the Thames River: incorporated into Gravesham 1974.
- graystone — (uncountable) A type of gray, volcanic rock, typically containing feldspar and iron.
- greatness — unusually or comparatively large in size or dimensions: A great fire destroyed nearly half the city.
- green sea — a solid mass of water breaking over the bow or bulwark of a ship.
- greenfish — opaleye.
- greenness — the quality or state of being green.
- greensand — a sandstone containing much glauconite, which gives it a greenish hue.
- greenshoe — (finance) An option that allows underwriters to short-sell shares in a registered securities offering at the offering price.
- greensome — a match for two pairs in which each of the four players tees off and after selecting the better drive the partners of each pair play that ball alternately
- greenspan — Alan, born 1926, U.S. economist: chairman of the Federal Reserve Board 1987–2006.
- greenwash — Disinformation disseminated by an organization so as to present an environmentally responsible public image.
- greenways — Plural form of greenway.
- greetings — A polite word or sign of welcome or recognition.
- greystone — a grey igneous rock of volcanic origin
- grievants — Plural form of grievant.
- griminess — The characteristic or quality of being grimy.
- gritstone — A form of sedimentary rock, similar to sandstone but coarser.
- groomsmen — Plural form of groomsman.
- grossness — without deductions; total, as the amount of sales, salary, profit, etc., before taking deductions for expenses, taxes, or the like (opposed to net2. ): gross earnings; gross sales.
- grosvenor — Gilbert Hovey, 1875–1966, U.S. geographer, writer, and editor.
- grounders — Plural form of grounder.
- groundsel — groundsill.
- gruffness — low and harsh; hoarse: a gruff voice.
- guanosine — a ribonucleoside component of ribonucleic acid, comprising ribose and guanine.
- guardsmen — Plural form of guardsman.
- guernseys — Plural form of guernsey.
- guidances — the act or function of guiding; leadership; direction.
- guildsmen — a member of a guild.
- gum resin — a plant exudation consisting of a mixture of gum and resin.
- gumminess — The state or condition of being gummy.
- gunmakers — Plural form of gunmaker.
- gunperson — (rare) A gunman or gunwoman.
- gushiness — The property of being gushy.
- gustiness — blowing or coming in gusts, as wind, rain, or storms.
- gutsiness — The state or condition of being gutsy.
- hangerson — a person who remains in a place or attaches himself or herself to a group, another person, etc., although not wanted, especially in the hope or expectation of personal gain.
- hangovers — Plural form of hangover.
- harangues — Plural form of harangue.
- hastening — to move or act with haste; proceed with haste; hurry: to hasten to a place.
- heightens — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of heighten.
- heisenbug — (jargon) /hi:'zen-buhg/ (From Heisenberg's Uncertainty Principle in quantum physics) A bug that disappears or alters its behaviour when one attempts to probe or isolate it. (This usage is not even particularly fanciful; the use of a debugger sometimes alters a program's operating environment enough that buggy code, such as that which relies on the values of uninitialised memory, behaves quite differently.) In C, nine out of ten heisenbugs result from uninitialised auto variables, fandango on core phenomena (especially corruption of the malloc arena) or errors that smash the stack. Opposite: Bohr bug. See also mandelbug, schroedinbug.
- helsingor — a seaport on NE Zealand, in NE Denmark: the scene of Shakespeare's Hamlet.
- helsingør — a port in NE Denmark, in NE Zealand: site of Kronborg Castle (16th century), famous as the scene of Shakespeare's Hamlet. Pop: 35 002 (2004 est)
- heptagons — Plural form of heptagon.
- highnesse — Archaic spelling of highness.
- hirelings — Plural form of hireling.
- home sign — any idiosyncratic system of gestural communication used by a deaf person.
- huguenots — a member of the Reformed or Calvinistic communion of France in the 16th and 17th centuries; a French Protestant.
- hungriest — Superlative form of hungry.