11-letter words starting with ge
- germaneness — The property of being germane.
- germaphobia — Pathological fear of germs.
- germaphobic — Alternative form of germophobic.
- germinating — Present participle of germinate.
- germination — to begin to grow or develop.
- germinative — capable of germinating, developing, or creating; of or pertaining to germination.
- germophobic — Morbidly afraid of germs.
- germylidene — (chemistry) the germanium analogues of carbenes, R2Ge':'.
- gerodontics — the branch of dentistry dealing with aging and aged persons.
- gerontocrat — A member of a gerontocracy; an aged leader, especially one clinging on to power or ruling only by virtue of age.
- gerontology — the branch of science that deals with aging and the problems of aged persons.
- gerontophil — experiencing sexual attraction to old people
- gerrymander — U.S. Politics. the dividing of a state, county, etc., into election districts so as to give one political party a majority in many districts while concentrating the voting strength of the other party into as few districts as possible.
- gestational — the process, state, or period of gestating.
- gestatorial — related to carrying
- gesticulant — making or tending to make gestures or gesticulations: a gesticulant speaker.
- gesticulate — to make or use gestures, especially in an animated or excited manner with or instead of speech.
- get a laugh — If a person or their comment gets a laugh or raises a laugh, they make the people listening to them laugh.
- get a life! — (abuse) Standard way of suggesting that someone has succumbed to terminal geekdom. Often heard on Usenet, especially as a way of suggesting that the target is taking some obscure issue of theology too seriously. This exhortation was popularised by William Shatner on a "Saturday Night Live" episode in a speech that ended "Get a *life*!", but some respondents believe it to have been in use before then. It was certainly in wide use among hackers for at least five years before achieving mainstream currency in early 1992.
- get back at — take revenge on
- get back to — resume
- get down to — start
- get hitched — get married
- get hold of — to have or keep in the hand; keep fast; grasp: She held the purse in her right hand. He held the child's hand in his.
- get in with — start to associate with
- get it made — to be assured of success
- get next to — to ingratiate oneself with; become friendly or intimate with
- get nowhere — make no progress
- get rooted! — an exclamation of contemptuous anger or annoyance, esp against another person
- get shot of — to get rid of
- get shut of — to get rid of
- get the air — a mixture of nitrogen, oxygen, and minute amounts of other gases that surrounds the earth and forms its atmosphere.
- get the nod — sb: have permission
- get the pip — to sulk
- get through — to receive or come to have possession, use, or enjoyment of: to get a birthday present; to get a pension.
- get used to — develop habit
- get weaving — to hurry; start to do something
- get wind of — hear rumours of
- get wise to — having the power of discerning and judging properly as to what is true or right; possessing discernment, judgment, or discretion.
- get with it — (in children's games) the player called upon to perform some task, as, in tag, the one who must catch the other players.
- get-at-able — accessible
- getaway car — an automobile used by criminals in order to leave the scene of a crime quickly