13-letter words containing a, g, r, i, e, n
- german africa — the former German colonies in Africa, comprising German East Africa, German Southwest Africa, Cameroons, and Togoland.
- german silver — any of various alloys of copper, zinc, and nickel, usually white and used for utensils, drawing instruments, etc.; nickel silver.
- germinability — the degree of ability of a seed to germinate or sprout.
- germinal disk — blastodisk.
- gerontocratic — government by a council of elders.
- gerontophilia — sexual attraction towards old people
- gerontophobia — a fear of old people.
- giant 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.
- giant redwood — big tree.
- ginger family — the plant family Zingiberaceae, characterized by tropical, often aromatic herbaceous plants having rhizomes, long sheathing leaves, and clusters of tubular flowers, and including cardamon, ginger, and turmeric.
- ginger-haired — having ginger hair
- gingerbreaded — flavoured with gingerbread
- glucuronidase — an enzyme that catalyzes glucuronide hydrolysis
- goal-oriented — (of a person) focused on reaching a specific objective or accomplishing a given task; driven by purpose: goal-oriented teams of teachers.
- goliath crane — a gantry crane for heavy work, as in steel mills.
- good riddance — the act or fact of clearing away or out, as anything undesirable.
- 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
- 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.
- graecia magna — Magna Graecia.
- grain refiner — any chemical added to a molten metal or alloy to check grain growth.
- gram-negative — (of bacteria) not retaining the violet dye when stained by Gram's method.
- grand marnier — a French cognac-based liqueur with an orange flavour
- grand opening — celebratory first-day event
- grand prairie — a city in NE Texas.
- grandchildren — a child of one's son or daughter.
- 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.
- granite paper — paper containing fibers of various colors that give it a granitelike appearance.
- granite state — New Hampshire (used as a nickname).
- granuliferous — full of granules, or producing granules
- graphic novel — a novel in the form of comic strips.
- grave-robbing — a person who steals valuables from graves and tombs: Graverobbers had emptied the Mayan tomb before archaeologists could examine its contents.
- graving piece — a piece of wood let into a wooden hull to replace decayed wood.
- gravity hinge — a hinge closing automatically by means of gravity.
- gray eminence — a person who wields unofficial power, especially through another person and often surreptitiously or privately.
- grease nipple — a metal nipple designed to engage with a grease gun for injecting grease into a bearing, etc
- grease pencil — a pencil of pigment and compressed grease encased in a spiral paper strip that can be partially unwound to expose a new point and used especially for writing on glossy surfaces.
- great basinet — a basinet having a beaver permanently attached.
- great britain — an island of NW Europe, separated from the mainland by the English Channel and the North Sea: since 1707 the name has applied politically to England, Scotland, and Wales. 88,139 sq. mi. (228,280 sq. km).
- 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 khingan — a mountain range in NE China: highest peak, 5000 feet (1525 meters).
- great russian — a member of the main stock of the Russian people, dwelling chiefly in the northern or central parts of the Russian Federation in Europe.
- 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).
- greater siren — a salamander, Siren lacertina, having external gills, tiny front legs, and no hind legs, inhabiting shallow waters in the southeastern U.S.
- green gentian — a plant, Frasera speciosa, of the gentian family, native to the northwestern U.S., having open clusters of purple-spotted, greenish-white flowers that blend in with its leaves.
- green machine — A computer or peripheral device that has been designed and built to military specifications for field equipment (that is, to withstand mechanical shock, extremes of temperature and humidity, and so forth). Comes from the olive-drab "uniform" paint used for military equipment.
- greeting card — card1 (def 4).
- gubernatorial — of or relating to a state governor or the office of state governor.