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

  • glucuronidase — an enzyme that catalyzes glucuronide hydrolysis
  • glyceric acid — a colorless, syrupy liquid, C 3 H 6 O 4 , obtained by oxidizing glycerol.
  • 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.
  • grade cricket — competitive cricket, in which cricket club teams are arranged in grades
  • graded reader — A graded reader is a story which has been adapted for people learning to read or learning a foreign language. Graded readers avoid using difficult grammar and vocabulary.
  • 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
  • gradient wind — a wind with a velocity and direction that are mathematically defined by the balanced relationship of the pressure gradient force to the centrifugal force and the Coriolis force: conceived as blowing parallel to isobars.
  • 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.
  • grammaticized — Simple past tense and past participle of grammaticize.
  • granary bread — bread made from Granary flour
  • grand drapery — a valance across the proscenium arch, forming part of the decorative frame for the stage.
  • grand duchess — the wife or widow of a grand duke.
  • grand larceny — larceny in which the value of the goods taken is above a certain legally specified amount.
  • grand marnier — a French cognac-based liqueur with an orange flavour
  • grand opening — celebratory first-day event
  • grand prairie — a city in NE Texas.
  • grand quarter — a quartered coat of arms, itself one of the quarters of a coat of arms.
  • grand slammer — Bridge. the winning of all thirteen tricks of a deal. Compare little slam.
  • grandchildren — a child of one's son or daughter.
  • granddaughter — a daughter of one's son or daughter.
  • grandfathered — Simple past tense and past participle of grandfather.
  • grandfatherly — of or characteristic of a grandfather.
  • 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.
  • grandparental — Of or relating to a grandparent.
  • grass widower — a man who is separated, divorced, or lives apart from his wife.
  • gravel-voiced — speaking in a rough and rasping tone
  • great bustard — a large bustard, Otis tarda, of southern and central Europe and western and central Asia, having a wingspread of about 8 feet (2.4 meters).
  • great daedala — either of two festivals held in ancient Boeotia in honor of the reconciliation of Hera with Zeus, one (Little Daedala) being held every 6 years, the other (Great Daedala) every 59 years.
  • 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 ragweed — any of the composite plants of the genus Ambrosia, the airborne pollen of which is the most prevalent cause of autumnal hay fever, as the common North American species, A. trifida (great ragweed or giant ragweed) and A. artemisiifolia.
  • great-hearted — having or showing a generous heart; magnanimous.
  • greek tragedy — (in ancient Greek theatre) a play in which the protagonist, usually a man of importance and outstanding personal qualities, falls to disaster through the combination of a personal failing and circumstances with which he cannot deal
  • greenland sea — a part of the Arctic Ocean, NE of Greenland and N of Iceland.
  • greeting card — card1 (def 4).
  • 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.
  • hairdressings — Plural form of hairdressing.
  • hard feelings — Hard feelings are feelings of anger or bitterness towards someone who you have had an argument with or who has upset you. If you say 'no hard feelings', you are making an agreement with someone not to be angry or bitter about something.
  • head gardener — the senior gardener who is in charge of a park, the garden of a large house, etc
  • head register — the high register of the human voice.
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