11-letter words containing s, t, g, e, r
- glabrescent — becoming glabrous.
- glasscutter — a small hand tool that is specially designed for cutting sheets of glass, having a cutting wheel of steel or tungsten carbide and notches for snapping the glass
- go to press — When a newspaper or magazine goes to press, it starts being printed.
- goaltenders — Plural form of goaltender.
- goatsbeards — Plural form of goatsbeard.
- goatsuckers — Plural form of goatsucker.
- gob-stopper — a large piece of hard candy.
- gobstoppers — Plural form of gobstopper.
- goldthreads — Plural form of goldthread.
- goniometers — Plural form of goniometer.
- gourmet sex — lovemaking that is particularly passionate, enjoyable, and imaginative
- governments — Plural form of government.
- grade sheet — a piece of paper on which a student's grades are recorded
- graded post — a position in a school having special responsibility for which additional payment is given
- grandmaster — the head of a military order of knighthood, a lodge, fraternal order, or the like.
- grape stake — a post used in vineyards to support wires along which grapevines are trained.
- grapefruits — Plural form of grapefruit.
- graptolites — Plural form of graptolite.
- grass style — a style of Japanese calligraphy and sumi-e painting, characterized chiefly by free or loose brush strokes.
- grasscutter — a device used to cut grass, as a lawn mower.
- 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.
- 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 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
- 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 stamp — Citizens Band Radio Slang. a speeding ticket. Usually, Green Stamps. money; currency.
- green stuff — paper money.
- greenhearts — Plural form of greenheart.
- greenschist — schist colored green by an abundance of chlorite, epidote, or actinolite.
- 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.
- 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.
- groundstone — A simple neolithic stone tool made by grinding.
- growthiness — the quality of being growthy
- grub street — a street in London, England: formerly inhabited by many impoverished minor writers and literary hacks; now called Milton Street.
- guaranteers — Plural form of guaranteer.