11-letter words containing ga
- game theory — a mathematical theory that deals with strategies for maximizing gains and minimizing losses within prescribed constraints, as the rules of a card game: widely applied in the solution of various decision-making problems, as those of military strategy and business policy.
- game warden — a public official who enforces game laws.
- game-change — a dramatic change in course, strategy, basic character, etc.: Her feelings for him have undergone a game-change.
- gamebreaker — a person who makes a significant contribution to a team's sporting success
- gamechanger — A visionary, innovative person who changes the way people think of a situation.
- gamekeepers — Plural form of gamekeeper.
- gamekeeping — a person employed, as on an estate or game preserve, to prevent poaching and provide a natural environment conducive to the propagation of game, as by thinning brush, scattering food after a snowstorm, and the like.
- gametangium — an organ or body bearing gametes, as in mosses and liverworts.
- gametically — in a gametic manner
- gametocytes — Plural form of gametocyte.
- gametogenic — Of or pertaining to gametogenesis.
- gametophore — a part or structure bearing gametangia.
- gametophyte — the sexual form of a plant in the alternation of generations.
- gaming laws — laws relating to gambling and playing games for money
- gamma decay — type of radioactivity in which an unstable atomic nucleus dissipates energy by gamma emission, producing gamma rays.
- gamma knife — a machine that uses radiation with extreme accuracy to destroy abnormal tissue, esp in the brain
- gamma stock — any of the third rank of active securities on the London Stock Exchange. Prices displayed by market makers are given as an indication rather than an offer to buy or sell
- gammerstang — an awkwardly tall person, esp a woman
- gamogenesis — sexual reproduction.
- gamotropism — the tendency of gametes to attract each other
- gandhinagar — a region in W India, N of the Narmada River.
- gang plough — a plough having two or more shares, coulters, and mouldboards designed to work simultaneously
- gang switch — a collection of switches connected to separate circuits and operating simultaneously.
- gang-banger — a member of a violent street gang.
- gangbangers — Plural form of gangbanger.
- gangbusters — a law-enforcement officer who specializes in breaking up organized crime, often by forceful or sensational means.
- gangbusting — the activity of a gangbuster
- gangliocyte — (biology) A ganglion cell.
- ganglioside — any of a class of glycolipids, found chiefly in nerve ganglia, that upon hydrolysis yield sphingosine, neuraminic acid, a fatty acid, and a monosaccharide.
- gangsta rap — a type of rap music whose lyrics feature violence, sexual exploits, and the like.
- gangsterdom — the world of gangsters; gangland
- gangsterish — (informal) Gangsterlike.
- gangsterism — the methods or behavior of gangsters.
- gantt chart — a chart depicting progress in relation to time of projects, tasks, schedules, etc.
- gap-toothed — having a noticeable space between two teeth.
- garage band — a rough-and-ready amateurish rock group
- garage sale — a sale of used or unwanted household goods, personal items, bric-a-brac, etc., typically held in one's garage or yard.
- garage-sale — a sale of used or unwanted household goods, personal items, bric-a-brac, etc., typically held in one's garage or yard.
- garbage can — a container, usually of metal or plastic, for the disposal of waste matter, especially kitchen refuse.
- garbage man — refuse collector
- garbologist — the study of the material discarded by a society to learn what it reveals about social or cultural patterns.
- garçonnière — a bachelor's apartment or quarters
- garden city — a city in SE Michigan, near Detroit.
- garden flat — a flat with direct access to a garden: typically, a garden flat consists of basement accommodation in prewar property, but some are in purpose-built blocks in urban areas
- garden hose — tube for spraying plants with water
- garden path — paved walkway
- garden pink — the plant Dianthus plumarius
- garden seat — a seat, usually kept permanently outdoors in a garden
- garden wall — a wall surrounding a garden or separating two gardens
- garden-path — noting or pertaining to a sentence that is easily parsed incorrectly because its beginning suggests it has an interpretation that it clearly does not have.