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11-letter words starting with green

  • green alder — a variety of alder (Alnus viridis) common in temperate areas of the northern hemisphere
  • green algae — type of seaweed
  • green audit — the process of assessing the environmental impact of an organization, process, project, product, etc.: A green audit of your home can reveal ways in which you can reduce energy consumption.
  • green beans — the narrow green edible pods of a green bean plant
  • green beret — a member of the U.S. Army Special Forces.
  • green bytes — (jargon)   (Or "green words") Meta-information embedded in a file, such as the length of the file or its name; as opposed to keeping such information in a separate description file or record. By extension, the non-data bits in any self-describing format. "A GIF file contains, among other things, green bytes describing the packing method for the image". At a meeting of the SHARE Systems Division, November 22, 1964, in Washington, DC, George Mealy of IBM described the new block tape format for FORTRAN in which unformatted binary records had a Control Word. George used green chalk to describe it. No one liked the contents of the Green Word (not information, wrong location, etc.) so Conrad Weisert and Channing Jackson made badges saying "Stamp out Green Words". This was the first computer badge. Compare out-of-band, zigamorph, fence.
  • green earth — a pigment used in painting consisting mainly of iron silicate, characterized chiefly by its variable grayish-green hue, lack of tinting strength, and permanence.
  • green flash — a green coloration of the upper portion of the sun, caused by atmospheric refraction and occasionally seen as the sun rises above or sinks below the horizon.
  • green gland — one of the pair of excretory organs in each side of the head region of decapod crustaceans, emptying at the base of the antennae.
  • green glass — glass of low quality, colored green by impurities in the materials from which it is made.
  • green heron — green-backed heron.
  • green light — traffic signal: go
  • green onion — a young onion with a slender green stalk and a small bulb, used as a table vegetable, usually raw, especially in salads; scallion.
  • green osier — a dogwood tree, Cornus alternifolia, of the eastern U.S., having clusters of small white flowers and dark-blue fruit.
  • green paper — a report presenting the policy proposals of the government, to be discussed in Parliament.
  • green party — a liberal political party especially in Germany focusing on environmental issues.
  • green pound — a unit of account used in calculating Britain's contributions to and payments from the Community Agricultural Fund of the EU
  • green power — the power of money, viewed as a social force.
  • green riverHenrietta Howland Robinson ("Hetty") 1835–1916, U.S. financier.
  • green salad — salad consisting of lettuce, etc.
  • green snake — any slender, green snake of the genus Opheodrys, of North America, feeding chiefly on insects.
  • green stamp — Citizens Band Radio Slang. a speeding ticket. Usually, Green Stamps. money; currency.
  • green stuff — paper money.
  • green thumb — an exceptional aptitude for gardening or for growing plants successfully: Houseplants provide much pleasure for the city dweller with a green thumb.
  • green words — green bytes
  • green-light — to give permission to proceed; authorize: The renovation project was green-lighted by the board of directors.
  • greenbottle — any of several metallic-green blowflies, as Phaenicia sericata.
  • greenbriers — Plural form of greenbrier.
  • greeneville — a city in E Tennessee.
  • greengrocer — a retailer of fresh vegetables and fruit.
  • greenhearts — Plural form of greenheart.
  • greenhouses — Plural form of greenhouse.
  • greenkeeper — greenskeeper.
  • greenlander — a self-governing island belonging to Denmark, located NE of North America: the largest island in the world. About 844,000 sq. mi. (2,186,000 sq. km); about 700,000 sq. mi. (1,800,000 sq. km) icecapped. Capital: Godthåb.
  • greenlandic — a dialect of Inuit, spoken in Greenland.
  • greenmailer — One who greenmails.
  • greenmarket — farmers' market.
  • greenockite — a yellow mineral, cadmium sulfide, CdS, associated with zinc ores and used as a source of cadmium.
  • greenschist — schist colored green by an abundance of chlorite, epidote, or actinolite.
  • greenshanks — Plural form of greenshank.
  • greenswards — Plural form of greensward.

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