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11-letter words containing t, g, r

  • george town — Also, George Town. a seaport in and the capital of the state of Penang, in NW Malaysia.
  • geosteering — Geosteering is the process of directing the drill bit to high-quality parts of the reservoir using petrophysical (=relating to the physical qualities of rock) data.
  • geostrategy — The strategic use of geopolitics.
  • geostrophic — of or relating to the balance between the Coriolis force and the horizontal pressure force in the atmosphere.
  • germ theory — Pathology. the theory that infectious diseases are due to the agency of germs or microorganisms.
  • germinating — Present participle of germinate.
  • germination — to begin to grow or develop.
  • germinative — capable of germinating, developing, or creating; of or pertaining to germination.
  • gerodontics — the branch of dentistry dealing with aging and aged persons.
  • gerontocrat — A member of a gerontocracy; an aged leader, especially one clinging on to power or ruling only by virtue of age.
  • gerontology — the branch of science that deals with aging and the problems of aged persons.
  • gerontophil — experiencing sexual attraction to old people
  • gestatorial — related to carrying
  • get nowhere — make no progress
  • get rooted! — an exclamation of contemptuous anger or annoyance, esp against another person
  • get the air — a mixture of nitrogen, oxygen, and minute amounts of other gases that surrounds the earth and forms its atmosphere.
  • get through — to receive or come to have possession, use, or enjoyment of: to get a birthday present; to get a pension.
  • getaway car — an automobile used by criminals in order to leave the scene of a crime quickly
  • ghost story — a tale in which such elements as ghostly visitations and supernatural intervention are used to further the plot and a chilling, suspenseful atmosphere.
  • ghost train — a small train at an amusement park that travels through a dark tunnel in which sounds, lights, and mechanized objects are used to scare the people in the train
  • ghost-write — If a book or other piece of writing is ghost-written, it is written by a writer for another person, for example a politician or sportsman, who then publishes it as his or her own work.
  • ghostbuster — A person who claims to be able to banish ghosts and poltergeists.
  • ghostscript — (graphics, tool)   The GNU interpreter for PostScript and PDF, with previewers for serval systems and many fonts. Ghostscript was originally written by L. Peter Deutsch <[email protected]> of Aladdin Enterprises. The first public release was v1.0 on 1988-08-11.
  • ghostwriter — A person whose job it is to write material for someone else who is the named author.
  • giant otter — a large brown South American river otter, Pteronura brasiliensis, having a creamy chest patch and a long flat tail with a flanged border, hunted for its hide: now greatly reduced in number and endangered in some areas.
  • giftwrapped — wrapped attractively in pretty paper, perhaps with ribbons or other decorations
  • gill-netter — a person who uses a gill net in fishing.
  • gilt bronze — ormolu (def 2).
  • girdlestead — the waist
  • give credit — allow delayed payment
  • 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
  • glastonbury — a borough of SW England, in whose vicinity the ruins of an important Iron Age lake village have been found and to which in folklore both King Arthur and Joseph of Arimathaea have been linked, the latter as the founder of the abbey there.
  • glitter ice — ice or a sheet of ice formed on a surface by a quickly freezing rain.
  • glitterball — Synonym of mirrorball.
  • glomerating — Present participle of glomerate.
  • glomeration — a glomerate condition; conglomeration.
  • glomerulate — grouped in small, dense clusters
  • gluten-free — (of food, a diet, etc) not containing gluten
  • glycerinate — to impregnate with glycerin.
  • glyptograph — an engraved or carved design, as on a gem.
  • gnatcatcher — any tiny insect-eating, New World warbler of the genus Polioptila, having a long, mobile tail and a slender bill.
  • go critical — (of a nuclear power station or reactor) to reach a state in which a nuclear-fission chain reaction becomes self-sustaining
  • go crook at — to rebuke or upbraid
  • go straight — without a bend, angle, or curve; not curved; direct: a straight path.
  • go to court — to take legal action
  • go to earth — to go into hiding
  • go to grass — to graze
  • go to press — When a newspaper or magazine goes to press, it starts being printed.
  • go together — to move or proceed, especially to or from something: They're going by bus.
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