10-letter words containing t, e, r, g, i
- frightener — to make afraid or fearful; throw into a fright; terrify; scare.
- frightless — (obsolete) Free from fright; fearless.
- frightsome — Frightening; frightful; fearful; causing fear.
- frittering — Present participle of fritter.
- fulgurites — Plural form of fulgurite.
- furthering — at or to a greater distance; farther: I'm too tired to go further.
- gainstrive — to resist; to oppose
- galleryite — a spectator, as in a theater gallery or at a golf match.
- garnierite — a mineral, hydrous nickel magnesium silicate, occurring in earthy, green masses: an important ore of nickel.
- garnitures — Plural form of garniture.
- gas fitter — a person who installs gas pipes and apparatus in buildings.
- gatherings — Plural form of gathering.
- gauleiters — Plural form of gauleiter.
- gaultheria — (botany) Any of the genus Gaultheria of evergreen ericaceous shrubs.
- gear ratio — the ratio of the rotational speeds of the first and final gears in a train of gears or of any two meshing gears.
- gear train — a set of automobile gears that transmit power; transmission.
- gearshifts — Plural form of gearshift.
- gee string — G-string.
- gee-string — a loincloth or breechcloth, usually secured by a cord at the waist.
- generalist — a person whose knowledge, aptitudes, and skills are applied to a field as a whole or to a variety of different fields (opposed to specialist).
- generality — an indefinite, unspecific, or undetailed statement: to speak in generalities about human rights.
- generating — Present participle of generate.
- generation — the entire body of individuals born and living at about the same time: the postwar generation.
- generative — capable of producing or creating.
- generatrix — generator (def 4b).
- genericity — Genericness, the state or quality of being generic.
- generosity — readiness or liberality in giving.
- gentrified — very or excessively refined or elegant.
- gentrifier — to alter (a deteriorated urban neighborhood) through the buying and renovation of houses and stores by upper- or middle-income families or individuals, raising property values but often displacing low-income families and small businesses.
- geocentric — having or representing the earth as a center: a geocentric theory of the universe.
- geometrics — a geometric pattern, design, etc.: an ornate and handsome geometric.
- geometrids — Plural form of geometrid.
- geometries — the branch of mathematics that deals with the deduction of the properties, measurement, and relationships of points, lines, angles, and figures in space from their defining conditions by means of certain assumed properties of space.
- geometrize — to work by geometric methods.
- geothermic — of or relating to the internal heat of the earth.
- geotropism — oriented growth with respect to the force of gravity.
- geriatrics — Slang. an old person.
- germinated — Simple past tense and past participle of germinate.
- germinates — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of germinate.
- gesticular — pertaining to or characterized by gesticulation.
- get a grip — regain self-control
- get rid of — to clear, disencumber, or free of something objectionable (usually followed by of): I want to rid the house of mice. In my opinion, you'd be wise to rid yourself of the smoking habit.
- ghostwrite — (intransitive) To write under the name of another (especially literary works).
- giant reed — a tall grass, Arundo donax, of southern Europe, having woody stems and a spirelike flower cluster often 2 feet (60 cm) long.
- gigalitres — Plural form of gigalitre.
- gilbertian — of, relating to, or characteristic of the style or humor of Sir William S. Gilbert.
- gilbertine — a member of a Christian order founded in approximately 1135 by St Gilbert of Sempringham, composed of nuns who followed the Cistercian rule and Augustinian canons who ministered to them. It was the only religious order of English origin and never spread to Europe
- gillnetter — One who fishes using a gillnet.
- ginger nut — a small, brittle cookie flavored with ginger and molasses.
- gingerroot — the rhizome of the ginger plant.