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11-letter words containing w, e, i, g

  • get weaving — to hurry; start to do something
  • get wind of — hear rumours of
  • get wise to — having the power of discerning and judging properly as to what is true or right; possessing discernment, judgment, or discretion.
  • get with it — (in children's games) the player called upon to perform some task, as, in tag, the one who must catch the other players.
  • 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.
  • ghostwriter — A person whose job it is to write material for someone else who is the named author.
  • giftwrapped — wrapped attractively in pretty paper, perhaps with ribbons or other decorations
  • gilliflower — any of several plants of various families with clove-scented flowers, as the carnation
  • gillyflower — Archaic. any of several fragrant flowers of the genus Dianthus, as the carnation or clove pink.
  • ginger wine — an alcoholic drink made from fermented bruised ginger, sugar, and water
  • give way to — manner, mode, or fashion: a new way of looking at a matter; to reply in a polite way.
  • goosewinged — (of a square sail) having the lee clew furled while the weather clew is held taut.
  • graniteware — a kind of ironware with a gray, stonelike enamel.
  • grey willow — a species of willow, Salix cinerea, with greenish-grey catkins
  • grindelwald — a valley and resort in central Switzerland, in the Bernese Oberland: mountaineering centre, with the Wetterhorn and the Eiger nearby
  • gripe water — a solution given to infants to relieve colic
  • ground wire — a lead from an electric apparatus to the earth or to a ground connection.
  • growthiness — the quality of being growthy
  • guided wave — a wave the energy of which is concentrated near a boundary or between parallel boundaries separating different materials and that has a direction of propagation parallel to these boundaries.
  • 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.
  • heavyweight — heavy in weight.
  • high blower — a horse that produces a blowing sound when exhaling.
  • high yellow — a term used to refer to a light-skinned black person.
  • homeworking — Working from home, especially when in electronic contact with a central office.
  • ingrownness — the quality of having ingrown
  • intergrowth — growth or growing together, as of one thing with or into another.
  • jew-baiting — active anti-Semitism.
  • kerb weight — the weight of a motor car without occupants, luggage, etc
  • knowingness — affecting, implying, or deliberately revealing shrewd knowledge of secret or private information: a knowing glance.
  • knowledging — Present participle of knowledge.
  • large white — a large white butterfly, Pieris brassicae, with scanty black markings, the larvae of which feed on brassica leaves
  • lawbreaking — Unlawful; illegal.
  • lead weight — a weight made of lead
  • 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).
  • light water — ordinary water, as opposed to heavy water; water containing the normal proportion of deuterium oxide.
  • lightweight — light in weight.
  • 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.
  • makeweights — Plural form of makeweight.
  • mig welding — metal inert gas welding: a method of welding in which the filler metal wire supplies the electric current to maintain the arc, which is shielded from the access of air by an inert gas, usually argon
  • new biology — the branch of biology that deals with the nature of biological phenomena at the molecular level through the study of DNA and RNA, proteins, and other macromolecules involved in genetic information and cell function, characteristically making use of advanced tools and techniques of separation, manipulation, imaging, and analysis.
  • new english — Modern English.
  • new georgia — a group of islands in the Solomon Islands.
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