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

  • glucuronidase — an enzyme that catalyzes glucuronide hydrolysis
  • go great guns — to act or function with great speed, intensity, etc
  • 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.
  • gobar numeral — any of a set of ancient numerals derived from Hindu numerals
  • goliath crane — a gantry crane for heavy work, as in steel mills.
  • 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.
  • googlewhacker — One who searches for googlewhacks.
  • gourmandizers — Plural form of gourmandizer.
  • governability — to rule over by right of authority: to govern a nation.
  • 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 molecule — that quantity of a substance whose weight in grams is numerically equal to the molecular weight of the substance.
  • 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.
  • gram-positive — (of bacteria) retaining the violet dye when stained by Gram's method.
  • 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.
  • granuliferous — full of granules, or producing granules
  • graph plotter — plotter
  • graphic novel — a novel in the form of comic strips.
  • grass widower — a man who is separated, divorced, or lives apart from his wife.
  • grave clothes — the wrappings in which a dead body is interred
  • grave-robbing — a person who steals valuables from graves and tombs: Graverobbers had emptied the Mayan tomb before archaeologists could examine its contents.
  • gravel-voiced — speaking in a rough and rasping tone
  • grease monkey — a mechanic, especially one who works on automobiles or airplanes.
  • great calorie — calorie (sense 2)
  • great council — (in Norman England) an assembly composed of the king's tenants in chief that served as the principal council of the realm and replaced the witenagemot.
  • 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.
  • great lobelia — a North American plant, Lobelia siphilitica, having long, showy clusters of blue flowers.
  • great society — the goal of the Democratic Party under the leadership of President Lyndon B. Johnson, chiefly to enact domestic programs to improve education, provide medical care for the aged, and eliminate poverty.
  • greater ionic — Architecture. noting or pertaining to one of the five classical orders that in ancient Greece consisted of a fluted column with a molded base and a capital composed of four volutes, usually parallel to the architrave with a pulvinus connecting a pair on each side of the column, and an entablature typically consisting of an architrave of three fascias, a richly ornamented frieze, and a cornice corbeled out on egg-and-dart and dentil moldings, with the frieze sometimes omitted. Roman and Renaissance examples are often more elaborate, and usually set the volutes of the capitals at 45° to the architrave. Compare composite (def 3), Corinthian (def 2), Doric (def 3), Tuscan (def 2).
  • gross tonnage — the total volume of a vessel, expressed in units of 100 cubic feet (gross ton) with certain open structures, deckhouses, tanks, etc., exempted.
  • 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.
  • group therapy — psychotherapy in which a number of patients discuss their problems together, usually under the leadership of a therapist, using shared knowledge and experiences to provide constructive feedback about maladaptive behavior.
  • growth market — a rapidly expanding market
  • growth shares — ordinary shares with good prospects of appreciation in yield and value
  • gubernatorial — of or relating to a state governor or the office of state governor.
  • gunpowder tea — an explosive mixture, as of potassium nitrate, sulfur, and charcoal, used in shells and cartridges, in fireworks, for blasting, etc.
  • gynecocracies — Plural form of gynecocracy.
  • gyro repeater — a navigational compass, under the control of a gyroscope, that automatically indicates true north.
  • gyrocompasses — Plural form of gyrocompass.
  • gyromagnetism — the condition or state of being gyromagnetic
  • hack together — (jargon)   To throw something together so it will work. Unlike "kluge together" or "cruft together", this does not necessarily have negative connotations.
  • haemorrhaging — Present participle of haemorrhage.
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