11-letter words containing w, e, g, n
- gawkishness — awkward; ungainly; clumsy.
- geneva gown — a loose, large-sleeved, black preaching gown worn by members of the Protestant clergy: so named from its use by the Calvinist clergy of Geneva, Switzerland.
- gentlewoman — a woman of good family, breeding, or social position.
- gentlewomen — Plural form of gentlewoman.
- george town — Also, George Town. a seaport in and the capital of the state of Penang, in NW Malaysia.
- get down to — start
- get in with — start to associate with
- get nowhere — make no progress
- get weaving — to hurry; start to do something
- get wind of — hear rumours of
- ginger wine — an alcoholic drink made from fermented bruised ginger, sugar, and water
- gobble down — eat hungrily
- golden glow — a tall garden black-eyed Susan (Rudbeckia laciniata) with numerous globular, yellow ray flower heads
- goosewinged — (of a square sail) having the lee clew furled while the weather clew is held taut.
- grandnephew — a son of one's nephew or niece.
- graniteware — a kind of ironware with a gray, stonelike enamel.
- green power — the power of money, viewed as a social force.
- green words — green bytes
- greenswards — Plural form of greensward.
- grindelwald — a valley and resort in central Switzerland, in the Bernese Oberland: mountaineering centre, with the Wetterhorn and the Eiger nearby
- ground crew — ground personnel responsible for the maintenance and repair of aircraft.
- ground wave — a radio wave that propagates on or near the earth's surface and is affected by the ground and the troposphere.
- ground wire — a lead from an electric apparatus to the earth or to a ground connection.
- groundswell — a broad, deep swell or rolling of the sea, due to a distant storm or gale.
- 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.
- growth cone — a flattened area at the end of a growing axon or dendrite, having radiating filopodia and lemellopodia that function as guides for the outgrowth of embryonic nerve fibers.
- growthiness — the quality of being growthy
- guardswomen — Plural form of guardswoman.
- guinea fowl — any of several African, gallinaceous birds of the subfamily Numidinae, especially a common species, Numida meleagris, that has a bony casque on the head and dark gray plumage spotted with white and that is now domesticated and raised for its flesh and eggs.
- guinea worm — a long, slender roundworm, Dracunculus medinensis, parasitic under the skin of humans and animals, common in parts of India and Africa.
- hairweaving — the attachment of matching hair to a base of nylon thread interwoven with a person's own hair, as to cover a bald area or to add length: Three of the makeovers involved hairweaving.
- handweaving — the art or technique of weaving on a handloom.
- handwringer — a person who wrings the hands often as a display of worry or upset
- hardwearing — resistant to extensive wear; durable: a pair of hardwearing jeans.
- homeworking — Working from home, especially when in electronic contact with a central office.
- honey wagon — a wagon or truck for collecting and carrying excrement or manure.
- hornswoggle — to swindle, cheat, hoodwink, or hoax.
- ingrownness — the quality of having ingrown
- intergrowth — growth or growing together, as of one thing with or into another.
- jew-baiting — active anti-Semitism.
- jungle fowl — any of several East Indian, gallinaceous birds of the genus Gallus, as G. gallus (red jungle fowl) believed to be the ancestor of the domestic fowl.
- kew gardens — the Royal Botanic Gardens in the Greater London borough of Richmond-upon-Thames, on the River Thames; established in 1759 and given to the nation in 1841
- knowingness — affecting, implying, or deliberately revealing shrewd knowledge of secret or private information: a knowing glance.
- knowledging — Present participle of knowledge.
- lawbreaking — Unlawful; illegal.
- left-winger — A left-winger is a person whose political beliefs are close to socialism, or closer to them than most of the other people in the same group or party.
- lewis range — a mountain range in NW Montana, a front range of the N Rocky Mountains. Highest peak, Mount Cleveland, 10,466 feet (3192 meters).
- lignite wax — a dark-brown bituminous wax extracted from lignite and peat: used chiefly in polishes and waxes for furniture, shoes, etc.
- living wage — a wage on which it is possible for a wage earner or an individual and his or her family to live at least according to minimum customary standards.
- long-winded — talking or writing at tedious length: long-winded after-dinner speakers.