11-letter words containing u, t, g, a
- gratulation — a feeling of joy.
- gratulatory — (archaic) congratulatory.
- gray mullet — mullet1 (def 1).
- great mogul — the emperor of the former Mogul Empire in India founded in 1526 by Baber.
- great runes — Uppercase-only text or display messages. Some archaic operating systems still emit these. See also runes, smash case, fold case. Decades ago, back in the days when it was the sole supplier of long-distance hardcopy transmittal devices, the Teletype Corporation was faced with a major design choice. To shorten code lengths and cut complexity in the printing mechanism, it had been decided that teletypes would use a monocase font, either ALL UPPER or all lower. The Question Of The Day was therefore, which one to choose. A study was conducted on readability under various conditions of bad ribbon, worn print hammers, etc. Lowercase won; it is less dense and has more distinctive letterforms, and is thus much easier to read both under ideal conditions and when the letters are mangled or partly obscured. The results were filtered up through management. The chairman of Teletype killed the proposal because it failed one incredibly important criterion: "It would be impossible to spell the name of the Deity correctly." In this way (or so, at least, hacker folklore has it) superstition triumphed over utility. Teletypes were the major input devices on most early computers, and terminal manufacturers looking for corners to cut naturally followed suit until well into the 1970s. Thus, that one bad call stuck us with Great Runes for thirty years.
- great-uncle — a granduncle.
- green audit — the process of assessing the environmental impact of an organization, process, project, product, etc.: A green audit of your home can reveal ways in which you can reduce energy consumption.
- groin-vault — a vault or ceiling created by the intersection of vaults.
- ground bait — chum2 (def 1).
- groundwater — the water beneath the surface of the ground, consisting largely of surface water that has seeped down: the source of water in springs and wells.
- guaranteers — Plural form of guaranteer.
- guarantying — a warrant, pledge, or formal assurance given as security that another's debt or obligation will be fulfilled.
- gubernation — the act of governing or ruling
- guesstimate — to estimate without substantial basis in facts or statistics.
- guestimates — Plural form of guestimate.
- gulf states — the oil-producing states around the Persian Gulf: Iran, Iraq, Kuwait, Saudi Arabia, Bahrain, Qatar, the United Arab Emirates, and Oman
- gulf stream — a warm ocean current flowing N from the Gulf of Mexico, along the E coast of the U.S., to an area off the SE coast of Newfoundland, where it becomes the western terminus of the North Atlantic Current.
- gum elastic — rubber1 (def 1).
- gurgitation — a surging rise and fall; ebullient motion, as of water.
- guru granth — the sacred scripture of the Sikhs, believed by them to be the embodiment of the gurus
- gustatorily — in a gustatory manner
- gustavus ii — (Gustavus Adolphus"Lion of the North") 1594–1632, king of Sweden 1611–32: national military hero (grandson of Gustavus I).
- gustavus iv — (Gustavus Adolphus) 1778–1837, king of Sweden 1792–1809 (son of Gustavus III).
- gustavus vi — (Gustaf Adolf) 1882–1973, king of Sweden 1950–73 (son of Gustavus V).
- guttae band — regula.
- gutter ball — a bowling ball that is rolled into one of the gutters and does not hit any pins.
- gutturalism — The quality of being guttural.
- gutturalize — to speak or pronounce (something) in a guttural manner.
- gymnanthous — achlamydeous.
- habituating — Present participle of habituate.
- haircutting — an act or instance of cutting the hair.
- handwrought — formed or shaped by hand, as metal objects.
- hard-fought — firmly or passionately contested or struggled for
- hasta luego — so long; (I'll) see you soon
- hattiesburg — a city in SE Mississippi.
- haughtiness — disdainfully proud; snobbish; scornfully arrogant; supercilious: haughty aristocrats; a haughty salesclerk.
- headbutting — Present participle of headbutt.
- headhunting — a headhunting expedition: The men left the village to go on a headhunt.
- heater plug — one of usually four plugs fitted to the cylinder block of a diesel engine that warms the engine chamber to facilitate starting in cold weather
- hedge about — If you say that something such as an offer is hedged about or is hedged around with rules or conditions, you mean that there are a lot of rules or conditions.
- heptagynous — (of a flower) having seven pistils
- heptangular — having seven angles.
- highfalutin — pompous; bombastic; haughty; pretentious.
- house agent — a real-estate agent.
- hsuan t'ung — Pu-yi, Henry.
- hsuan tsung — a.d. 685–762, Chinese emperor of the Tang dynasty 712–756.
- hucksterage — the business of a huckster; peddling
- humiliating — lowering the pride, self-respect, or dignity of a person; mortifying: Such a humiliating defeat was good for his overblown ego.
- inaugurated — to make a formal beginning of; initiate; commence; begin: The end of World War II inaugurated the era of nuclear power.
- inaugurates — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of inaugurate.