11-letter words containing s, i, e, g, n
- godlikeness — The quality of being godlike.
- goldfinches — Plural form of goldfinch.
- goniometers — Plural form of goniometer.
- goosewinged — (of a square sail) having the lee clew furled while the weather clew is held taut.
- gormandizes — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of gormandize.
- gourmandise — unrestrained enjoyment of fine foods, wines, and the like.
- gracileness — The state or quality of being gracile.
- grandbabies — Plural form of grandbaby.
- grandiosely — affectedly grand or important; pompous: grandiose words.
- grandnieces — Plural form of grandniece.
- graniferous — bearing grain
- graphicness — The quality of being graphic: grotesqueness or vividness.
- grass snipe — the pectoral sandpiper.
- gravenstein — a variety of large, yellow apple with red streaks
- 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).
- green osier — a dogwood tree, Cornus alternifolia, of the eastern U.S., having clusters of small white flowers and dark-blue fruit.
- greenbriers — Plural form of greenbrier.
- greenschist — schist colored green by an abundance of chlorite, epidote, or actinolite.
- 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.
- grouchiness — The characteristic or quality of being grouchy.
- growthiness — the quality of being growthy
- guaifenesin — An expectorant used in cough syrups and sometimes for pain relief from fibromyalgia.
- guaniferous — yielding guano
- guest night — an evening when members of an institution are allowed to bring guests
- guide vanes — fixed aerofoils that direct air, gas, or water into the moving blades of a turbine or into or around bends in ducts with minimum loss of energy
- guillotines — Plural form of guillotine.
- gunslingers — Plural form of gunslinger.
- guttersnipe — a person belonging to or characteristic of the lowest social group in a city.
- gynogenesis — a type of reproduction by parthenogenesis that requires stimulation by a sperm to activate the egg into development but occurs without fusion of sperm and egg nuclei.
- gynostegium — a specialized caplike mass of tissue covering a gynoecium.
- gynostemium — the united stamens and pistil of an orchid.
- hamstringed — (in humans and other primates) any of the tendons that bound the ham of the knee.
- handselling — The practice of promoting books by personal recommendation rather than by publisher-sponsored marketing.
- haughtiness — disdainfully proud; snobbish; scornfully arrogant; supercilious: haughty aristocrats; a haughty salesclerk.
- headshaking — The act of shaking one's head, in disagreement or disapproval.
- hear things — a material object without life or consciousness; an inanimate object.
- heartstring — Singular of heartstrings.
- hegelianism — the philosophy of Hegel and his followers, characterized by the use of the Hegelian dialectic.
- heli-skiing — skiing in which skiers are transported by helicopter to remote slopes
- helsingborg — a port in SW Sweden, on the Sound opposite Helsingør, Denmark: changed hands several times between Denmark and Sweden, finally becoming Swedish in 1710; shipbuilding. Pop: 121 097 (2004 est)
- hemisecting — Present participle of hemisect.
- high season — period of greatest activity
- highbinders — Plural form of highbinder.
- highlanders — Plural form of highlander.
- hinderlings — the buttocks or bottom
- hoggishness — The quality of being hoggish.