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13-letter words containing a, d, e, g, r, o

  • foreordaining — Present participle of foreordain.
  • foreshadowing — to show or indicate beforehand; prefigure: Political upheavals foreshadowed war.
  • fourth-grader — a child in the fourth grade
  • frontage road — a local road that runs parallel to an expressway, providing access to roadside stores and businesses; a service road.
  • frosted glass — etched glass with a translucent surface
  • gagging order — an official order against certain information being made public or discussed (by the press, etc)
  • garden orache — a plant of the goosefoot family, Atriplex hortensis, which is cultivated as a vegetable and used like spinach
  • garret window — a skylight that lies along the slope of the roof
  • general order — any one of a set of permanent orders from a headquarters establishing policy for a command or announcing official acts.
  • general synod — the governing body, under Parliament, of the Church of England, made up of the bishops and elected clerical and lay representatives
  • get around to — When you get around to doing something that you have delayed doing or have been too busy to do, you finally do it.
  • giant redwood — big tree.
  • glamour model — a woman who models topless or nude for photographs
  • glucuronidase — an enzyme that catalyzes glucuronide hydrolysis
  • go over-board — over the side of a ship or boat, especially into or in the water: to fall overboard.
  • goal-oriented — (of a person) focused on reaching a specific objective or accomplishing a given task; driven by purpose: goal-oriented teams of teachers.
  • good behavior — satisfactory, proper, or polite conduct.
  • good riddance — the act or fact of clearing away or out, as anything undesirable.
  • goodheartedly — In a goodhearted manner.
  • goodnaturedly — In a good-natured manner.
  • gourmandizers — Plural form of gourmandizer.
  • gradient post — a small white post beside a railway line at a point where the gradient changes having arms set at angles representing the gradients
  • gram's method — a method of staining and distinguishing bacteria, in which a fixed bacterial smear is stained with crystal violet, treated with Gram's solution, decolorized with alcohol, counterstained with safranine, and washed with water.
  • grand opening — celebratory first-day event
  • grandiloquent — speaking or expressed in a lofty style, often to the point of being pompous or bombastic.
  • grandioseness — affectedly grand or important; pompous: grandiose words.
  • grandma moses — Anna Mary Robertson ("Grandma Moses") 1860–1961, U.S. painter.
  • grandmotherly — of or characteristic of a grandmother.
  • grass widower — a man who is separated, divorced, or lives apart from his wife.
  • gravel-voiced — speaking in a rough and rasping tone
  • great goddess — The, a vaguely defined deity symbolizing maternity, the fertility of the earth, and femininity in general; the central figure in the religions of ancient Anatolia, the Near East, and the eastern Mediterranean, later sometimes taking the form of a specific goddess, as Cybele, Rhea, or Demeter.
  • ground tackle — equipment, as anchors, chains, or windlasses, for mooring a vessel away from a pier or other fixed moorings.
  • groundbreaker — a person who is an originator, innovator, or pioneer in a particular activity.
  • gunpowder tea — an explosive mixture, as of potassium nitrate, sulfur, and charcoal, used in shells and cartridges, in fireworks, for blasting, etc.
  • heading sword — a sword used for beheading.
  • hedge sparrow — the dunnock.
  • heli-boarding — the sport of snowboarding on mountains or glaciers accessible only by helicopter or skiplane
  • herod agrippa — (Julius Agrippa) c10 b.c.–a.d. 44, king of Judea 41–44 (grandson of Herod the Great).
  • hold a grudge — be resentful
  • horse trading — the act or fact of conducting a shrewd exchange or engaging in a horse trade; bargaining.
  • horse-trading — to bargain or trade shrewdly.
  • hydrogenating — Present participle of hydrogenate.
  • hydrogenation — to combine or treat with hydrogen, especially to add hydrogen to the molecule of (an unsaturated organic compound).
  • ideogrammatic — Of or pertaining to ideograms.
  • ideographical — Alternative form of ideographic.
  • indo-germanic — Indo-European
  • jordan engine — a machine for beating and refining pulp, used in manufacturing certain grades of paper.
  • kangaroo code — spaghetti code
  • landing force — the ground forces of an amphibious task force that effect the assault landing in an amphibious operation.
  • leather goods — products made of animal skin
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