11-letter words starting with ga
- gamma knife — a machine that uses radiation with extreme accuracy to destroy abnormal tissue, esp in the brain
- gamma stock — any of the third rank of active securities on the London Stock Exchange. Prices displayed by market makers are given as an indication rather than an offer to buy or sell
- gammerstang — an awkwardly tall person, esp a woman
- gamogenesis — sexual reproduction.
- gamotropism — the tendency of gametes to attract each other
- gandhinagar — a region in W India, N of the Narmada River.
- gang plough — a plough having two or more shares, coulters, and mouldboards designed to work simultaneously
- gang switch — a collection of switches connected to separate circuits and operating simultaneously.
- gang-banger — a member of a violent street gang.
- gangbangers — Plural form of gangbanger.
- gangbusters — a law-enforcement officer who specializes in breaking up organized crime, often by forceful or sensational means.
- gangbusting — the activity of a gangbuster
- gangliocyte — (biology) A ganglion cell.
- ganglioside — any of a class of glycolipids, found chiefly in nerve ganglia, that upon hydrolysis yield sphingosine, neuraminic acid, a fatty acid, and a monosaccharide.
- gangsta rap — a type of rap music whose lyrics feature violence, sexual exploits, and the like.
- gangsterdom — the world of gangsters; gangland
- gangsterish — (informal) Gangsterlike.
- gangsterism — the methods or behavior of gangsters.
- gantt chart — a chart depicting progress in relation to time of projects, tasks, schedules, etc.
- gap-toothed — having a noticeable space between two teeth.
- garage band — a rough-and-ready amateurish rock group
- garage sale — a sale of used or unwanted household goods, personal items, bric-a-brac, etc., typically held in one's garage or yard.
- garage-sale — a sale of used or unwanted household goods, personal items, bric-a-brac, etc., typically held in one's garage or yard.
- garbage can — a container, usually of metal or plastic, for the disposal of waste matter, especially kitchen refuse.
- garbage man — refuse collector
- garbologist — the study of the material discarded by a society to learn what it reveals about social or cultural patterns.
- garçonnière — a bachelor's apartment or quarters
- garden city — a city in SE Michigan, near Detroit.
- garden flat — a flat with direct access to a garden: typically, a garden flat consists of basement accommodation in prewar property, but some are in purpose-built blocks in urban areas
- garden hose — tube for spraying plants with water
- garden path — paved walkway
- garden pink — the plant Dianthus plumarius
- garden seat — a seat, usually kept permanently outdoors in a garden
- garden wall — a wall surrounding a garden or separating two gardens
- garden-path — noting or pertaining to a sentence that is easily parsed incorrectly because its beginning suggests it has an interpretation that it clearly does not have.
- garlandless — without a garland or garlands
- garlic salt — salt flavoured with ground garlic
- garment bag — a travel bag made of pliable, durable material with a handle and a zipper closure, designed to hang straight or fold double and used to carry suits, dresses, coats, or the like without crushing or wrinkling.
- garmentless — Without garments.
- garnet jade — a green grossularite, used as a gem: not a true jade.
- garnishment — Law. a warning, served on a third party to hold, subject to the court's direction, money or property belonging to a debtor who is being sued by a creditor. a summons to a third party to appear in litigation pending between a creditor and debtor.
- garrisoning — Present participle of garrison.
- garrulously — In a garrulous manner.
- garter belt — an undergarment of cloth or elastic, with attached garters, worn by women to hold up stockings.
- gas bladder — air bladder (def 2).
- gas bracket — a metal pipe projecting from the wall of an apartment, used to support gas lamps and to supply them with gas
- gas carrier — a ship used for the transportation of compressed or liquefied natural gas
- gas chamber — an enclosure used for the execution of prisoners by means of a poisonous gas.
- gas fitting — the work or business of a gas fitter.
- gas fixture — a heating or lighting fixture that uses gas