10-letter words containing g
- astringing — Present participle of astringe.
- astrogator — Astronavigator.
- astrograph — a navigational device for projecting altitude curves of the stars and planets onto charts or plotting sheets.
- astrologer — An astrologer is a person who uses astrology to try to tell you things about your character and your future.
- at a guess — You say at a guess to indicate that what you are saying is only an estimate or what you believe to be true, rather than being a definite fact.
- atmologist — a person who studies or is expert in atmology or the study of aqueous vapour
- atomic age — the period characterized by the use of atomic energy: regarded as beginning with the creation of the first self-sustaining nuclear chain reaction on December 2, 1942
- atomweight — (martial arts, combat sports) the weightclass below strawweight of less than 105lbs.
- atrophying — Also, atrophia [uh-troh-fee-uh] /əˈtroʊ fi ə/ (Show IPA). Pathology. a wasting away of the body or of an organ or part, as from defective nutrition or nerve damage.
- attack dog — a dog trained to attack on command
- attainting — Present participle of attaint.
- attempting — to make an effort at; try; undertake; seek: to attempt an impossible task; to attempt to walk six miles.
- attendings — physicians who attend to patients in a hospital
- attracting — Present participle of attract.
- aubergines — Plural form of aubergine.
- aubergiste — an innkeeper or hotelier
- auctioning — Present participle of auction.
- audiogenic — caused or produced by sound or an audio frequency
- audiograms — Plural form of audiogram.
- audiograph — a machine used to test a patient's hearing by transmitting sound waves directly to the inner ear
- audioguide — Alternative form of audio guide.
- audiologic — of or relating to audiology
- aufklarung — the Enlightenment, esp in Germany
- augmenting — to make larger; enlarge in size, number, strength, or extent; increase: His salary is augmented by a small inheritance.
- auguration — The practice of augury.
- augustness — inspiring reverence or admiration; of supreme dignity or grandeur; majestic: an august performance of a religious drama.
- aurangabad — city in central Maharashtra, W India: pop. 573,000
- ausforming — a treatment to strengthen hard steels, prior to quenching, in which the specimen is plastically deformed while it is in the austenite temperature range
- austringer — a person who keeps goshawks
- autecology — the ecological study of an individual organism or species
- authigenic — (of minerals) having crystallized in a sediment during or after deposition
- autodigest — To carry out autodigestion.
- autogamous — Botany. pollination of the ovules of a flower by its own pollen; self-fertilization (opposed to allogamy).
- autogenous — originating within the body
- autognosis — Self-knowledge; the understanding of one's character and peculiarities.
- autografts — Plural form of autograft.
- autographs — Plural form of autograph.
- autography — the writing of something in one's own handwriting; something handwritten
- autologous — (of a tissue graft, blood transfusion, etc) originating from the recipient rather than from a donor
- automaking — The manufacture of automobiles.
- automating — Present participle of automate.
- autophagia — sustenance by self-absorption of the tissues of the body
- autopsying — Present participle of autopsy.
- autosexing — the breeding of birds to reveal specific sexual characteristics
- avantgarde — the advance group in any field, especially in the visual, literary, or musical arts, whose works are characterized chiefly by unorthodox and experimental methods.
- avengeance — (obsolete) vengeance.
- avengement — (rare) The inflicting of retributive punishment; satisfaction taken.
- avengeress — a female avenger
- averagings — average values
- avgolemono — a Greek soup made with eggs, lemon juice, and rice