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11-letter words containing s, e, r, g

  • 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
  • greedy guts — a glutton
  • greek cross — a cross consisting of an upright crossed in the middle by a horizontal piece of the same length.
  • 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 bytes — (jargon)   (Or "green words") Meta-information embedded in a file, such as the length of the file or its name; as opposed to keeping such information in a separate description file or record. By extension, the non-data bits in any self-describing format. "A GIF file contains, among other things, green bytes describing the packing method for the image". At a meeting of the SHARE Systems Division, November 22, 1964, in Washington, DC, George Mealy of IBM described the new block tape format for FORTRAN in which unformatted binary records had a Control Word. George used green chalk to describe it. No one liked the contents of the Green Word (not information, wrong location, etc.) so Conrad Weisert and Channing Jackson made badges saying "Stamp out Green Words". This was the first computer badge. Compare out-of-band, zigamorph, fence.
  • 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 osier — a dogwood tree, Cornus alternifolia, of the eastern U.S., having clusters of small white flowers and dark-blue fruit.
  • 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.
  • green stuff — paper money.
  • green words — green bytes
  • greenbriers — Plural form of greenbrier.
  • greenhearts — Plural form of greenheart.
  • greenhouses — Plural form of greenhouse.
  • greenschist — schist colored green by an abundance of chlorite, epidote, or actinolite.
  • greenshanks — Plural form of greenshank.
  • greenswards — Plural form of greensward.
  • 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.
  • gros ventre — a river in W central Wyoming, flowing W to the Snake River. 100 miles (161 km) long.
  • grossed out — 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.
  • grosseteste — Robert. ?1175–1253, English prelate and scholar; bishop of Lincoln (1235–53). He attacked ecclesiastical abuses and wrote commentaries on Aristotle and treatises on theology, philosophy, and science
  • grossierete — grossness or coarseness
  • grotesquely — odd or unnatural in shape, appearance, or character; fantastically ugly or absurd; bizarre.
  • grotesquery — grotesque character.
  • grouchiness — The characteristic or quality of being grouchy.
  • groundshare — to share the facilities and running costs of a single stadium with another team
  • groundsheet — a waterproof sheet of plastic, canvas, or other durable material spread on the ground, as under a sleeping bag or in a tent, for protection against moisture.
  • groundspeed — the speed of an aircraft with reference to the ground.
  • groundstone — A simple neolithic stone tool made by grinding.
  • groundswell — a broad, deep swell or rolling of the sea, due to a distant storm or gale.
  • group speed — the speed at which energy is propagated in a wave. This is the quantity determined when one measures the distance which the radiation travels in a given time. In a medium in which the speed increases with wavelength the group speed is less than the phase speed, and vice versa
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