11-letter words containing s, e, r, n, g
- gingersnaps — Plural form of gingersnap.
- girlfriends — Plural form of girlfriend.
- girlishness — The quality of being girlish.
- glabrescent — becoming glabrous.
- glaringness — The quality of being glaring.
- glimmerings — Plural form of glimmering.
- goaltenders — Plural form of goaltender.
- godforsaken — desolate; remote; deserted: They live in some godforsaken place 40 miles from the nearest town.
- goes around — to move or proceed, especially to or from something: They're going by bus.
- golden rose — a gold, bejeweled ornament in the form of a rose or spray of roses, blessed and presented by the pope in recognition of service to the Holy See.
- goniometers — Plural form of goniometer.
- gormandizes — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of gormandize.
- gourmandise — unrestrained enjoyment of fine foods, wines, and the like.
- governesses — Plural form of governess.
- governments — Plural form of government.
- gracileness — The state or quality of being gracile.
- gradualness — The condition of being gradual.
- gramophones — Plural form of gramophone.
- grand-scale — of large proportion, extent, magnitude, etc.: grand-scale efforts; a grand-scale approach.
- grandbabies — Plural form of grandbaby.
- grandiosely — affectedly grand or important; pompous: grandiose words.
- grandmaster — the head of a military order of knighthood, a lodge, fraternal order, or the like.
- grandnieces — Plural form of grandniece.
- granduncles — Plural form of granduncle.
- graniferous — bearing grain
- graphicness — The quality of being graphic: grotesqueness or vividness.
- 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-green — yellowish green.
- gravenstein — a variety of large, yellow apple with red streaks
- gravestones — Plural form of gravestone.
- 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 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 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.