11-letter words starting with g
- good friday — the Friday before Easter, a holy day of the Christian church, observed as the anniversary of the Crucifixion of Jesus.
- good graces — If you are in someone's good graces, they are pleased with you.
- good nature — pleasant disposition; kindly nature; amiability.
- good on you — well done, well said, etc: a term of congratulation
- good people — honest or kind people
- good-looker — a person with a pleasingly attractive appearance.
- goodhearted — Kind, generous and altruistic.
- goodnatured — Alternative spelling of good-natured.
- goods train — freight train.
- goods wagon — a heavy railroad freight car.
- goody goody — a person who is self-righteously, affectedly, or cloyingly good.
- goody-goody — a person who is self-righteously, affectedly, or cloyingly good.
- goof around — to blunder; make an error, misjudgment, etc.
- google bomb — an effort to move a website to the top of search-engine results for a particular word or phrase, by creating a large number of links that contain this search text.
- googlewhack — A Google search result consisting of a single hit, in response to a search on two separate words.
- googlewhore — (Internet slang) To promote via Google; in particular, to do so by googlebombing.
- googly-eyed — goggle-eyed.
- gooney bird — any of several albatrosses, especially the black-footed albatross and the Laysan albatross, occurring on islands in the Pacific Ocean, often near naval bases.
- goose bumps — If you get goose bumps, the hairs on your skin stand up so that it is covered with tiny bumps. You get goose bumps when you are cold, frightened, or excited.
- goose creek — a town in SE South Carolina.
- goose flesh — goose bumps.
- goose grass — cleavers.
- goosefishes — Plural form of goosefish.
- goosepimple — Alt form goose pimple.
- goosetongue — The plant sneezewort.
- goosewinged — (of a square sail) having the lee clew furled while the weather clew is held taut.
- gopher ball — a pitched ball hit for a home run: leading the league in gopher balls.
- gopher wood — an unidentified wood used in building Noah's ark. Gen. 6:14.
- gopherberry — bush huckleberry.
- gopherspace — (networking) The sum of all files that can be reached using gopher.
- gorilla arm — The side-effect that destroyed touch-screens as a mainstream input technology despite a promising start in the early 1980s. It seems the designers of all those spiffy touch-menu systems failed to notice that humans aren't designed to hold their arms in front of their faces making small motions. After more than a very few selections, the arm begins to feel sore, cramped, and oversized - the operator looks like a gorilla while using the touch screen and feels like one afterward. This is now considered a classic cautionary tale to human-factors designers; "Remember the gorilla arm!" is shorthand for "How is this going to fly in *real* use?".
- gorillagram — a jocular greetings message delivered to someone celebrating a birthday, engagement, etc, by a person dressed as a gorilla
- gorillalike — (informal) Resembling or characteristic of a gorilla.
- gormandized — Simple past tense and past participle of gormandize.
- gormandizer — A person who gormandizes; a glutton or gourmand.
- gormandizes — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of gormandize.
- gospel oath — an oath sworn on the Gospels
- gospel side — (in some Protestant churches) the left side of a church, facing the altar.
- gospel song — a piece of gospel music
- gossypiboma — (surgery) A gauze or surgical sponge left inside a patient's body during surgery.
- gothic arch — a pointed arch, especially one having only two centers and equal radii.
- gourmandise — unrestrained enjoyment of fine foods, wines, and the like.
- gourmandism — a person who is fond of good eating, often indiscriminatingly and to excess.
- gourmandize — to enjoy fine food and drink, especially often and in lavish quantity.
- gourmet sex — lovemaking that is particularly passionate, enjoyable, and imaginative
- gouty stool — a footstool of the 18th century having a top adjustable to a variety of angles.
- gouvernante — (archaic) governess.
- gouvernment — Obsolete form of government.
- governesses — Plural form of governess.
- governments — Plural form of government.