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11-letter words containing t, g, s, y

  • genioplasty — Mentoplasty.
  • geostrategy — The strategic use of geopolitics.
  • 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.
  • 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.
  • glossectomy — (surgery) The surgical removal of all or part of the tongue.
  • glutinosity — The quality of being glutinous or viscous.
  • glutinously — In a glutinous manner.
  • glycosylate — (organic chemistry) To react with a sugar to form a glycoside (especially a glycoprotein).
  • gnetophytes — Plural form of gnetophyte.
  • gouty stool — a footstool of the 18th century having a top adjustable to a variety of angles.
  • grandiosity — affectedly grand or important; pompous: grandiose words.
  • grass style — a style of Japanese calligraphy and sumi-e painting, characterized chiefly by free or loose brush strokes.
  • 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.
  • grotesquely — odd or unnatural in shape, appearance, or character; fantastically ugly or absurd; bizarre.
  • grotesquery — grotesque character.
  • guiltlessly — free from guilt; innocent.
  • gustatorily — in a gustatory manner
  • gymnanthous — achlamydeous.
  • gymnastical — Alternative form of gymnastic.
  • gynaecomast — a man who suffers from gynaecomastia
  • gynostegium — a specialized caplike mass of tissue covering a gynoecium.
  • gynostemium — the united stamens and pistil of an orchid.
  • gyrostatics — the science that deals with the laws of rotating bodies.
  • hairstyling — a person who designs and arranges hair styles.
  • heptagynous — (of a flower) having seven pistils
  • histography — a treatise on or description of organic tissues.
  • holystoning — Present participle of holystone.
  • homozygotes — Plural form of homozygote.
  • hydrologist — the science dealing with the occurrence, circulation, distribution, and properties of the waters of the earth and its atmosphere.
  • hygrometers — Plural form of hygrometer.
  • hygrophytes — Plural form of hygrophyte.
  • hymnologist — A composer or compiler of hymns; one versed in hymnology.
  • hypergelast — Someone who laughs excessively.
  • hypnotising — Present participle of hypnotise.
  • hypogastric — of, relating to, or situated in the hypogastrium.
  • hypoglottis — Anatomy. the underside of the tongue.
  • hysterology — (obsolete) A scientific study, or treatise on the uterus.
  • ingeniosity — The quality of being ingenious; ingenuity; skill; cunning.
  • insectology — entomology.
  • insultingly — In an insulting manner.
  • insurgently — In an insurgent manner.
  • lightsomely — (archaic) In a lightsome manner.
  • litigiously — In a litigious manner.
  • magistrally — In a magistral manner; authoritatively; dogmatically.
  • misery guts — if you describe someone as a misery guts, you mean they are miserable when they could or should be happy
  • misogynists — Plural form of misogynist.
  • mistakingly — an error in action, calculation, opinion, or judgment caused by poor reasoning, carelessness, insufficient knowledge, etc.
  • mycologists — Plural form of mycologist.
  • mycophagist — a fungus-eating organism.
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