11-letter words containing s, p, e
- gatekeepers — Plural form of gatekeeper.
- gemmiparous — producing or reproducing by buds or gemmae.
- generalship — skill as commander of a large military force or unit.
- genioplasty — Mentoplasty.
- geographers — Plural form of geographer.
- geographies — the science dealing with the areal differentiation of the earth's surface, as shown in the character, arrangement, and interrelations over the world of such elements as climate, elevation, soil, vegetation, population, land use, industries, or states, and of the unit areas formed by the complex of these individual elements.
- geophysical — the branch of geology that deals with the physics of the earth and its atmosphere, including oceanography, seismology, volcanology, and geomagnetism.
- geopolitics — the study or the application of the influence of political and economic geography on the politics, national power, foreign policy, etc., of a state.
- geostrophic — of or relating to the balance between the Coriolis force and the horizontal pressure force in the atmosphere.
- giant steps — a children's game in which a leader calls upon individual players to advance toward him or her in a given number and variety of steps, the object being for one person to tag the leader and for all of them to run back to the starting line without being caught by the leader. Any player who is caught becomes the leader.
- gingersnaps — Plural form of gingersnap.
- glans penis — the head of the penis (glans penis) or of the clitoris (glans clitoris)
- glide slope — the angle that the glidepath of an aircraft or spacecraft makes with the horizontal.
- gnetophytes — Plural form of gnetophyte.
- go to press — When a newspaper or magazine goes to press, it starts being printed.
- goalkeepers — Plural form of goalkeeper.
- gob-stopper — a large piece of hard candy.
- gobstoppers — Plural form of gobstopper.
- god help us — If you say God help us, you mean that you have negative feelings about the person or situation you are talking about.
- god's penny — earnest money.
- goddessship — a female god or deity.
- gomme syrup — simple syrup.
- goose bumps — If you get goose bumps, the hairs on your skin stand up so that it is covered with tiny bumps. You get goose bumps when you are cold, frightened, or excited.
- goosepimple — Alt form goose pimple.
- gopherspace — (networking) The sum of all files that can be reached using gopher.
- gospel oath — an oath sworn on the Gospels
- gospel side — (in some Protestant churches) the left side of a church, facing the altar.
- gospel song — a piece of gospel music
- graded post — a position in a school having special responsibility for which additional payment is given
- gramophones — Plural form of gramophone.
- 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 snipe — the pectoral sandpiper.
- 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.
- gravisphere — the area in which the gravitational force of a celestial body is predominant.
- 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.
- greasy pole — a pole covered with grease to make it slippery and difficult to climb, often used as entertainment
- green stamp — Citizens Band Radio Slang. a speeding ticket. Usually, Green Stamps. money; currency.
- groundspeed — the speed of an aircraft with reference to the ground.
- 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
- groupuscule — A political or religious splinter group.
- guttersnipe — a person belonging to or characteristic of the lowest social group in a city.
- gymnosperms — Plural form of gymnosperm.
- gymnospermy — The property of being gymnospermous.
- gypsiferous — containing gypsum.
- gypsy scale — either of two scales that often form the basis of Hungarian Gypsy music.