11-letter words starting with g
- guest house — small hotel
- guest night — an evening when members of an institution are allowed to bring guests
- guesthouses — Plural form of guesthouse.
- guestimates — Plural form of guestimate.
- guide price — a speculative price for something not yet offered for sale
- guide right — a command to a marching formation to align itself with a guide marching at the right side of the formation.
- guide vanes — fixed aerofoils that direct air, gas, or water into the moving blades of a turbine or into or around bends in ducts with minimum loss of energy
- guided tour — visit with commentary
- guided wave — a wave the energy of which is concentrated near a boundary or between parallel boundaries separating different materials and that has a direction of propagation parallel to these boundaries.
- guildswoman — a woman who is a member of a guild
- guilelessly — free from guile; sincere; honest; straightforward; frank.
- guillotined — Simple past tense and past participle of guillotine.
- guillotines — Plural form of guillotine.
- guiltlessly — free from guilt; innocent.
- guiltridden — Alternative spelling of guilt-ridden.
- guinea corn — durra.
- guinea fowl — any of several African, gallinaceous birds of the subfamily Numidinae, especially a common species, Numida meleagris, that has a bony casque on the head and dark gray plumage spotted with white and that is now domesticated and raised for its flesh and eggs.
- guinea worm — a long, slender roundworm, Dracunculus medinensis, parasitic under the skin of humans and animals, common in parts of India and Africa.
- gulf crisis — the unstable period prior to the war of 1991 between US-led UN forces and Iraq
- gulf states — the oil-producing states around the Persian Gulf: Iran, Iraq, Kuwait, Saudi Arabia, Bahrain, Qatar, the United Arab Emirates, and Oman
- gulf stream — a warm ocean current flowing N from the Gulf of Mexico, along the E coast of the U.S., to an area off the SE coast of Newfoundland, where it becomes the western terminus of the North Atlantic Current.
- gullibility — easily deceived or cheated.
- gullywasher — a usually short, heavy rainstorm.
- gum benzoin — Also called gum benjamin, gum benzoin. a reddish-brown, aromatic balsamic resin occurring in almondlike fragments and having a vanillalike odor, obtained from trees of the genus Styrax, especially S. benzoin, of Java, Sumatra, etc.: used in the manufacture of perfume and cosmetics and in medicine internally as an expectorant and externally as an antiseptic.
- gum disease — dental infection
- gum elastic — rubber1 (def 1).
- gumbo-limbo — a tropical American tree, Bursera simaruba, having reddish bark and yielding a sweet, aromatic resin used in varnishes.
- gummiferous — producing gum
- gun control — government regulation of the sale and ownership of firearms.
- gun culture — the attitudes, feelings, values, and behaviour of a society, or any social group, in which guns are used
- gun licence — an official document granting a person permission to own and use a gun, usually subject to various restrictions
- gun-running — Gun-running is the activity of taking or sending guns into a country secretly and illegally.
- gunfighting — Combat with guns.
- gunn effect — the onset of microwave oscillations in a thin slice of a semiconductor when a voltage exceeding a given value is applied across the slice.
- gunslingers — Plural form of gunslinger.
- gunslinging — Informal. gunfighter.
- gunsmithing — The craft of a gunsmith.
- gurgitation — a surging rise and fall; ebullient motion, as of water.
- guru granth — the sacred scripture of the Sikhs, believed by them to be the embodiment of the gurus
- gustatorily — in a gustatory manner
- gustavus ii — (Gustavus Adolphus"Lion of the North") 1594–1632, king of Sweden 1611–32: national military hero (grandson of Gustavus I).
- gustavus iv — (Gustavus Adolphus) 1778–1837, king of Sweden 1792–1809 (son of Gustavus III).
- gustavus vi — (Gustaf Adolf) 1882–1973, king of Sweden 1950–73 (son of Gustavus V).
- gut feeling — an instinctive feeling, as opposed to an opinion based on facts
- gutlessness — The state or condition of being gutless; cowardice.
- guttae band — regula.
- gutter ball — a bowling ball that is rolled into one of the gutters and does not hit any pins.
- gutterblood — a low person of inferior breeding
- guttersnipe — a person belonging to or characteristic of the lowest social group in a city.
- guttiferous — relating to plants that produce gum or gum-like fluids