11-letter words starting with g
- gregory xiv — (Niccolò Sfandrati) 1535–91, Italian ecclesiastic: pope 1590–91.
- gregory xvi — (Bartolommeo Alberto Cappellari) 1765–1846, Italian ecclesiastic: pope 1831–46.
- grenadelike — Resembling a grenade (weapon).
- grey import — an imported vehicle that does not have an exact model equivalent in the receiving country
- grey knight — an ambiguous intervener in a takeover battle, who makes a counterbid for the shares of the target company without having made his intentions clear
- grey market — Grey market goods are bought unofficially and then sold to customers at lower prices than usual.
- grey matter — You can refer to your intelligence or your brains as grey matter.
- grey mullet — any teleost food fish of the family Mugilidae, mostly occurring in coastal regions, having a spindle-shaped body and a broad fleshy mouth
- grey plover — the black-bellied plover.
- grey willow — a species of willow, Salix cinerea, with greenish-grey catkins
- grey-haired — having grey hair
- grey-headed — having gray hair.
- griddlecake — a thin cake of batter cooked on a griddle; pancake.
- grillparzer — Franz [frahnts] /frɑnts/ (Show IPA), 1791–1872, Austrian poet and dramatist.
- grim reaper — the personification of death as a man or cloaked skeleton holding a scythe.
- grimacingly — With a grimace.
- grimm's law — the statement of the regular pattern of consonant correspondences presumed to represent changes from Proto-Indo-European to Germanic, according to which voiced aspirated stops became voiced obstruents, voiced unaspirated stops became unvoiced stops, and unvoiced stops became unvoiced fricatives: first formulated in 1820–22 by Jakob Grimm, though the facts had been noted earlier by Rasmus Rask.
- grind crank — A mythical accessory to a terminal. A crank on the side of a monitor, which when operated makes a zizzing noise and causes the computer to run faster. Usually one does not refer to a grind crank out loud, but merely makes the appropriate gesture and noise. See grind. Historical note: At least one real machine actually had a grind crank - the R1, a research machine built toward the end of the days of the great vacuum tube computers, in 1959. R1 (also known as "The Rice Institute Computer" (TRIC) and later as "The Rice University Computer" (TRUC)) had a single-step/free-run switch for use when debugging programs. Since single-stepping through a large program was rather tedious, there was also a crank with a cam and gear arrangement that repeatedly pushed the single-step button. This allowed one to "crank" through a lot of code, then slow down to single-step for a bit when you got near the code of interest, poke at some registers using the console typewriter, and then keep on cranking.
- grind house — a burlesque house, especially one providing continuous entertainment at reduced prices.
- grind-house — a burlesque house, especially one providing continuous entertainment at reduced prices.
- grindelwald — a valley and resort in central Switzerland, in the Bernese Oberland: mountaineering centre, with the Wetterhorn and the Eiger nearby
- grindstones — Plural form of grindstone.
- gripe water — a solution given to infants to relieve colic
- gristliness — The quality or state of being gristly.
- groatsworth — the amount that is, or may be, bought or sold for a groat
- groenendael — former name of Belgian sheepdog.
- groin-vault — a vault or ceiling created by the intersection of vaults.
- gros ventre — a river in W central Wyoming, flowing W to the Snake River. 100 miles (161 km) long.
- grossed out — without deductions; total, as the amount of sales, salary, profit, etc., before taking deductions for expenses, taxes, or the like (opposed to net2. ): gross earnings; gross sales.
- grosseteste — Robert. ?1175–1253, English prelate and scholar; bishop of Lincoln (1235–53). He attacked ecclesiastical abuses and wrote commentaries on Aristotle and treatises on theology, philosophy, and science
- grossierete — grossness or coarseness
- grotesquely — odd or unnatural in shape, appearance, or character; fantastically ugly or absurd; bizarre.
- grotesquery — grotesque character.
- grouchiness — The characteristic or quality of being grouchy.
- ground bait — chum2 (def 1).
- ground ball — a batted ball that rolls or bounces along the ground.
- ground bass — a short fundamental bass part continually repeated throughout a movement.
- ground beam — a reinforced concrete beam for supporting walls, joists, etc., at or near ground level, itself either resting directly upon the ground or supported at both ends by piers.
- ground beef — meat: minced beef
- ground crew — ground personnel responsible for the maintenance and repair of aircraft.
- ground dove — any of several small terrestrial doves of the warmer parts of the Americas, especially Columbina passerina.
- ground game — game animals, such as hares or deer, found on the earth's surface: distinguished from game birds
- ground itch — a disease of the skin of the feet, caused by penetration of hookworm larvae, characterized by a blisterlike eruption and itching.
- ground loop — a sharp horizontal loop performed, usually involuntarily, while touching the ground.
- ground pine — any of several species of club moss, especially Lycopodium obscurum or L. complanatum.
- ground pink — a plant, Linanthus dianthiflorus, of southern California, having pink or white flowers.
- ground plan — Also called groundplot. the plan of a floor of a building.
- ground plum — a prostrate milk vetch, Astragalus crassicarpus, of the legume family, growing in the prairie regions of North America.
- ground rent — the rent at which land is let to a tenant either for a long term or perpetually.
- ground rule — Usually, ground rules. basic or governing principles of conduct in any situation or field of endeavor: the ground rules of press conferences.