11-letter words starting with ga
- gas furnace — a furnace using gas as a fuel.
- gas guzzler — an automobile that has low fuel efficiency, getting relatively few miles per gallon.
- gas lighter — device: produces flame
- gas mileage — the ratio of the number of miles travelled to the number of gallons of gasoline burned; fuel efficiency
- gas station — service station (def 1).
- gas turbine — a turbine utilizing the gaseous products of combustion.
- gas vacuole — a gas-filled structure that provides buoyancy in some aquatic bacteria
- gas welding — a method of welding in which a combination of gases, usually oxyacetylene, is used to provide a hot flame
- gas-bladder — a vesicle or sac containing air.
- gas-guzzler — an automobile that has low fuel efficiency, getting relatively few miles per gallon.
- gasconading — extravagant boasting; boastful talk.
- gaslighting — Present participle of gaslight.
- gastrectomy — partial or total excision of the stomach.
- gastrocolic — of, relating to, or involving the stomach and colon.
- gastrodynia — (pathology) gastralgia (stomach pain).
- gastroliths — Plural form of gastrolith.
- gastromancy — a form of divination by interpreting words and sounds seeming to come from the stomach
- gastronomer — A lover of good food; a connoisseur or gourmet.
- gastronomes — Plural form of gastronome.
- gastronomic — the art or science of good eating.
- gastropathy — (pathology) Any disease of the stomach.
- gastroscope — a lighted flexible tubular instrument passed through the mouth for examining the esophagus, stomach, and duodenum.
- gastroscopy — the examination with a gastroscope to detect disease.
- gastrosophy — the science or art of good eating
- gastrostomy — the construction of an artificial opening from the stomach through the abdominal wall, permitting intake of food or drainage of gastric contents.
- gastrotrich — any of the microscopic, multicellular animals of the class or phylum Gastrotricha, of fresh or salt waters, characterized by bands of cilia on the ventral surface of the bottle-shaped or ribbony body and by a protrusible feeding apparatus at the mouth.
- gat-toothed — gap-toothed.
- gate theory — a theory proposing that neural stimulation beyond a certain threshold level, as by application of an electric current, can overwhelm the ability of the nerve center to sense pain.
- gatecrashed — Simple past tense and past participle of gatecrash.
- gatecrasher — a person who attends or enters a social function without an invitation, a theater without a ticket, etc.
- gatekeepers — Plural form of gatekeeper.
- gatekeeping — The activity of controlling, and usually limiting, general access to something.
- gatling gun — an early type of machine gun consisting of a revolving cluster of barrels around a central axis, each barrel being automatically loaded and fired every revolution of the cluster.
- gauge boson — a boson that mediates the interaction between elementary particles. There are several types: photons for electromagnetic interactions, W and Z intermediate vector bosons for weak interactions, and gravitons for gravitational interactions
- gauze weave — leno (def 1).
- gawkishness — awkward; ungainly; clumsy.
- gay gordons — an energetic old-time dance
- gay-feather — any of several composite plants of the genus Liatris, especially L. spicata or L. scariosa, having hairy leaves and long clusters of purplish flowers.
- gazettement — Publication in an official gazette.
- gazillionth — (informal) The ordinal form of the number 'gazillion'.
- gazingstock — (archaic) An object, event or person that is stared at (or gazed at) by many people.
- gazundering — Present participle of gazunder.