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9-letter words containing t, g

  • ghostlily — In a ghostly way.
  • ghostview — An X Window System interface to the ghostscript PostScript interpreter.
  • gianthood — the condition of being a giant
  • giantlike — Like a giant; enormous.
  • giantship — the character, condition, or personality of a giant
  • gibbeting — a gallows with a projecting arm at the top, from which the bodies of criminals were formerly hung in chains and left suspended after execution.
  • gibbetted — (British) Simple past tense and past participle of gibbet.
  • gibbosity — the state of being gibbous.
  • gibeonite — one of the inhabitants of Gibeon, who were condemned by Joshua to be hewers of wood and drawers of water for the Israelites. Josh. 9.
  • gibraltar — a British crown colony comprising a fortress and seaport located on a narrow promontory near the S tip of Spain. 1.875 sq. mi. (5 sq. km).
  • gift card — gift voucher in plastic card form
  • gift-wrap — to wrap (something), as a package, with decorative paper, ribbon, etc., for presentation as a gift.
  • gigabytes — Plural form of gigabyte.
  • gigahertz — one billion hertz. Abbreviation: GHz.
  • gigaliter — Alternative spelling of gigalitre.
  • gigalitre — A unit of volume equivalent to 109 litres (one billion [British billion] liters). Symbol: Gl.
  • gigameter — Alternative spelling of gigametre.
  • gigametre — (chiefly, International, British, Canada) A distance of 1,000,000 kilometres.
  • gigantean — gigantic.
  • gigantick — Obsolete form of gigantic.
  • gigantism — abnormally great development in size or stature of the whole body or of parts of the body, most often due to dysfunction of the pituitary gland.
  • gigatonne — Alternative spelling of gigaton.
  • gigawatts — Plural form of gigawatt.
  • gigmanity — the state or quality of being a gigman
  • gilchrist — Adam (Craig). born 1971, Australian cricketer; a wicketkeeper-batsman, he took an Australian-record 416 dismissals in tests (1999–2008) and a world-record 472 dismissals in ODIs (1996–2008); his 33 international centuries is a record for a wicketkeeper
  • gileadite — a member of a branch of the Israelite tribe descended from Manasseh.
  • gill slit — branchial cleft.
  • gillflirt — a flirtatious woman
  • gilsonite — an extremely pure asphalt particularly valuable for the manufacture of paints and varnishes.
  • giltheads — Plural form of gilthead.
  • gimleting — Present participle of gimlet.
  • ginastera — Alberto [ahl-ber-taw] /ɑlˈbɛr tɔ/ (Show IPA), 1916–83, Argentine composer.
  • gintleman — (Irish) eye dialect of gentleman.
  • gipsywort — a hairy Eurasian plant, Lycopus europaeus, having two-lipped white flowers with purple dots on the lower lip: family Lamiaceae (labiates)
  • girondist — French History. a member of a political party (1791–93) of moderate republicans whose leaders were deputies from the department of Gironde.
  • gittarone — an acoustic bass guitar
  • give onto — to cause or occasion: She gives me a pain in the neck.
  • glaciated — Covered or having been covered by glaciers or ice sheets.
  • glaciates — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of glaciate.
  • gladiator — (in ancient Rome) a person, often a slave or captive, who was armed with a sword or other weapon and compelled to fight to the death in a public arena against another person or a wild animal, for the entertainment of the spectators.
  • gladstone — William Ewart [yoo-ert] /ˈyu ərt/ (Show IPA), 1809–98, British statesman: prime minister four times between 1868 and 1894.
  • glaserite — (mineral) A saline evaporite, consisting of potassium sulphate.
  • glasphalt — a road-surfacing material composed of asphalt and crushed glass.
  • glass tty — /glas T-T-Y/ or /glas ti'tee/ A terminal that has a display screen but which, because of hardware or software limitations, behaves like a teletype or some other printing terminal, thereby combining the disadvantages of both: like a printing terminal, it can't do fancy display hacks, and like a display terminal, it doesn't produce hard copy. An example is the early "dumb" version of Lear-Siegler ADM 3 (without cursor control). See tube, tty; compare dumb terminal, smart terminal. See "TV Typewriters" for an interesting true story about a glass tty.
  • glassiest — Superlative form of glassy.
  • glasswort — any of several plants of the genus Salicornia, of the amaranth family, having succulent stems with rudimentary leaves, formerly used, when burned to ashes, as a source of soda for glassmaking.
  • glaucodot — a mineral, iron and cobalt sulfarsenide, (Co,Fe)AsS, occurring in grayish-white crystals.
  • glazement — a waterproof glaze for a masonry wall.
  • glidepath — the course followed by an aircraft or spacecraft when descending for a landing.
  • glistened — Simple past tense and past participle of glisten.
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