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11-letter words containing t, o, g, r

  • get nowhere — make no progress
  • get rooted! — an exclamation of contemptuous anger or annoyance, esp against another person
  • get through — to receive or come to have possession, use, or enjoyment of: to get a birthday present; to get a pension.
  • 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.
  • gilt bronze — ormolu (def 2).
  • 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.
  • glomerating — Present participle of glomerate.
  • glomeration — a glomerate condition; conglomeration.
  • glomerulate — grouped in small, dense clusters
  • glyptograph — an engraved or carved design, as on a gem.
  • 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.
  • 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.
  • goddaughter — a female godchild.
  • going train — the gear train for moving the hands of a timepiece or giving some other visual indication of the time.
  • goitrogenic — tending to produce goiter.
  • goldthreads — Plural form of goldthread.
  • gomphothere — Any of the extinct proboscideans of the family Gomphotheriidae, that lived in North America and Eurasia during the Miocene and Pliocene (12\u20141.6 million years ago), and latterly also in South America (around 3 million to 9100 years ago).
  • gonadotrope — a gonadotropic substance.
  • goniometers — Plural form of goniometer.
  • goniometric — Of, relating to, or determined by a goniometer.
  • good nature — pleasant disposition; kindly nature; amiability.
  • goodhearted — Kind, generous and altruistic.
  • goodnatured — Alternative spelling of good-natured.
  • goods train — freight train.
  • gothic arch — a pointed arch, especially one having only two centers and equal radii.
  • gourmet sex — lovemaking that is particularly passionate, enjoyable, and imaginative
  • gouvernante — (archaic) governess.
  • gouvernment — Obsolete form of government.
  • governments — Plural form of government.
  • governmenty — pompous.
  • governorate — an administrative division of a country, especially Egypt.
  • gradational — any process or change taking place through a series of stages, by degrees, or in a gradual manner.
  • grade point — Education. a numerical equivalent to a received letter grade, usually 0 for F, 1 for D, 2 for C, 3 for B, and 4 for A, that is multiplied by the number of credits for the course: used to compute a grade point average.
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