11-letter words containing s, e, r, g, a
- grandnieces — Plural form of grandniece.
- granduncles — Plural form of granduncle.
- graniferous — bearing grain
- grape stake — a post used in vineyards to support wires along which grapevines are trained.
- grape sugar — dextrose.
- grapefruits — Plural form of grapefruit.
- graphicness — The quality of being graphic: grotesqueness or vividness.
- graptolites — Plural form of graptolite.
- grass green — a green colour like grass
- grass snake — Also called ring snake. a common European snake, Natrix natrix, having a collar of bright orange or yellow.
- grass snipe — the pectoral sandpiper.
- grass style — a style of Japanese calligraphy and sumi-e painting, characterized chiefly by free or loose brush strokes.
- grass-green — yellowish green.
- grasscutter — a device used to cut grass, as a lawn mower.
- grasshopper — any of numerous herbivorous, orthopterous insects, especially of the families Acrididae and Tettigoniidae, having the hind legs adapted for leaping and having chewing mouth parts, some species being highly destructive to vegetation. Compare locust (def 1), long-horned grasshopper.
- 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.
- gravisphere — the area in which the gravitational force of a celestial body is predominant.
- grease wool — shorn fleece before it has been cleaned
- greasepaint — an oily mixture of melted tallow or grease and a pigment, used by actors, clowns, etc., for making up their faces.
- greaseproof — Resistant to grease.
- greasewoods — Plural form of greasewood.
- greasy pole — a pole covered with grease to make it slippery and difficult to climb, often used as entertainment
- greasy wool — untreated wool, still retaining the lanolin, which is used for waterproof clothing
- 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
- greek salad — a salad of lettuce, tomatoes, cucumbers, olives, onions, and feta cheese, served with a vinaigrette.
- green beans — the narrow green edible pods of a green bean plant
- green flash — a green coloration of the upper portion of the sun, caused by atmospheric refraction and occasionally seen as the sun rises above or sinks below the horizon.
- green glass — glass of low quality, colored green by impurities in the materials from which it is made.
- green salad — salad consisting of lettuce, etc.
- green snake — any slender, green snake of the genus Opheodrys, of North America, feeding chiefly on insects.
- green stamp — Citizens Band Radio Slang. a speeding ticket. Usually, Green Stamps. money; currency.
- greenhearts — Plural form of greenheart.
- greenshanks — Plural form of greenshank.
- greenswards — Plural form of greensward.
- groundshare — to share the facilities and running costs of a single stadium with another team
- guaniferous — yielding guano
- guaranteers — Plural form of guaranteer.
- guardedness — The state or condition of being guarded.
- guardhouses — Plural form of guardhouse.
- guardswomen — Plural form of guardswoman.
- 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.
- gullywasher — a usually short, heavy rainstorm.