11-letter words containing gr
- greaseproof — Resistant to grease.
- greasewoods — Plural form of greasewood.
- greasy pole — a pole covered with grease to make it slippery and difficult to climb, often used as entertainment
- greasy wool — untreated wool, still retaining the lanolin, which is used for waterproof clothing
- great abaco — two islands (Great Abaco and Little Abaco) in the N Bahamas. 776 sq. mi. (2010 sq. km).
- great basin — a region in the Western U.S. that has no drainage to the ocean: includes most of Nevada and parts of Utah, California, Oregon, and Idaho. 210,000 sq. mi. (544,000 sq. km).
- great egret — large heron
- great falls — a city in central Montana, on the Missouri River.
- great gross — a unit of quantity equivalent to 12 gross. Abbreviation: GGR.
- great lakes — group of lakes in North America
- great miami — Miami2 (def 2).
- great mogul — the emperor of the former Mogul Empire in India founded in 1526 by Baber.
- great power — a nation that has exceptional military and economic strength, and consequently plays a major, often decisive, role in international affairs.
- 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 satan — any force, person, organization, or country that is regarded as evil, used esp of the United States by radical Islamists
- great wheel — the wheel immediately driven by the power source.
- great world — fashionable society and its way of life
- great-niece — a daughter of one's nephew or niece; grandniece.
- great-uncle — a granduncle.
- greco-roman — of or having both Greek and Roman characteristics: the Greco-Roman influence.
- greedy guts — a glutton
- greek cross — a cross consisting of an upright crossed in the middle by a horizontal piece of the same length.
- greek salad — a salad of lettuce, tomatoes, cucumbers, olives, onions, and feta cheese, served with a vinaigrette.
- green alder — a variety of alder (Alnus viridis) common in temperate areas of the northern hemisphere
- green algae — type of seaweed
- 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.
- green beans — the narrow green edible pods of a green bean plant
- green beret — a member of the U.S. Army Special Forces.
- green bytes — (jargon) (Or "green words") Meta-information embedded in a file, such as the length of the file or its name; as opposed to keeping such information in a separate description file or record. By extension, the non-data bits in any self-describing format. "A GIF file contains, among other things, green bytes describing the packing method for the image". At a meeting of the SHARE Systems Division, November 22, 1964, in Washington, DC, George Mealy of IBM described the new block tape format for FORTRAN in which unformatted binary records had a Control Word. George used green chalk to describe it. No one liked the contents of the Green Word (not information, wrong location, etc.) so Conrad Weisert and Channing Jackson made badges saying "Stamp out Green Words". This was the first computer badge. Compare out-of-band, zigamorph, fence.
- green earth — a pigment used in painting consisting mainly of iron silicate, characterized chiefly by its variable grayish-green hue, lack of tinting strength, and permanence.
- green flash — a green coloration of the upper portion of the sun, caused by atmospheric refraction and occasionally seen as the sun rises above or sinks below the horizon.
- green gland — one of the pair of excretory organs in each side of the head region of decapod crustaceans, emptying at the base of the antennae.
- green glass — glass of low quality, colored green by impurities in the materials from which it is made.
- green heron — green-backed heron.
- green light — traffic signal: go
- green onion — a young onion with a slender green stalk and a small bulb, used as a table vegetable, usually raw, especially in salads; scallion.
- green osier — a dogwood tree, Cornus alternifolia, of the eastern U.S., having clusters of small white flowers and dark-blue fruit.
- green paper — a report presenting the policy proposals of the government, to be discussed in Parliament.
- green party — a liberal political party especially in Germany focusing on environmental issues.
- green pound — a unit of account used in calculating Britain's contributions to and payments from the Community Agricultural Fund of the EU
- green power — the power of money, viewed as a social force.
- green river — Henrietta Howland Robinson ("Hetty") 1835–1916, U.S. financier.
- green salad — salad consisting of lettuce, etc.
- green snake — any slender, green snake of the genus Opheodrys, of North America, feeding chiefly on insects.
- green stamp — Citizens Band Radio Slang. a speeding ticket. Usually, Green Stamps. money; currency.
- green stuff — paper money.
- green thumb — an exceptional aptitude for gardening or for growing plants successfully: Houseplants provide much pleasure for the city dweller with a green thumb.
- green words — green bytes
- green-light — to give permission to proceed; authorize: The renovation project was green-lighted by the board of directors.
- greenbottle — any of several metallic-green blowflies, as Phaenicia sericata.