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10-letter words containing a, l, r, g

  • grand lama — the chief monk and ruler of Tibet: called the Dalai Lama since the middle of the 17th century.
  • grand slam — Bridge. the winning of all thirteen tricks of a deal. Compare little slam.
  • grandchild — a child of one's son or daughter.
  • grandrelle — a two-ply yarn made by twisting together two singles of contrasting color.
  • granduncle — an uncle of one's father or mother; a great-uncle.
  • grandville — a town in SW Michigan.
  • granularly — of the nature of granules; grainy.
  • granulated — Simple past tense and past participle of granulate.
  • granulator — A machine that forms material into granules.
  • granulomas — Plural form of granuloma.
  • granulosis — a disease that predominantly affects larval Lepidoptera and which causes loss of appetite and sluggishness
  • grapelouse — an insect that attacks grape vines
  • graphalloy — a compound of graphite impregnated with Babbitt metal, bronze, copper, gold, etc., used as a low-friction material.
  • grapholect — an established and standardized written language
  • graphology — the study of handwriting, especially when regarded as an expression of the writer's character, personality, abilities, etc.
  • graplement — a close fight or a close fighting grasp
  • grapplings — Plural form of grappling.
  • graptolite — any colonial animal of the extinct class Graptolithina, most common in the Ordovician and Silurian Periods, thought to be related to the pterobranchs.
  • graspingly — In a grasping manner.
  • grasslands — Plural form of grassland.
  • gratefully — warmly or deeply appreciative of kindness or benefits received; thankful: I am grateful to you for your help.
  • graticules — Plural form of graticule.
  • gratillity — gratuity
  • gravel pit — an open cast working for the extraction of gravel
  • gravelling — Present participle of gravel.
  • graveolent — That has a rank smell.
  • gray scale — a scale of achromatic colors having several, usually ten, equal gradations ranging from white to black, used in television and photography.
  • gray whale — a grayish-black whalebone whale, Eschrichtius robustus, of the North Pacific, growing to a length of 50 feet (15.2 meters): now rare.
  • gray-scale — (spelling)   US spelling of "grey-scale".
  • greaseball — Extremely Disparaging and Offensive. a contemptuous term used to refer to a person of Mediterranean or Latin American descent.
  • greaseless — Without fats or oils.
  • great belt — a strait in Denmark, between Zealand and Funen islands, linking the Kattegat with the Baltic
  • great deal — to occupy oneself or itself (usually followed by with or in): Botany deals with the study of plants. He deals in generalities.
  • great helm — helm2 (def 1).
  • great seal — the principal seal of a government or state.
  • great wall — ancient wall in China
  • green flag — (in automobile racing) a green-colored flag that is used to signal the start of a race.
  • grenadilla — granadilla.
  • gressorial — adapted for walking, as the feet of some birds.
  • grey alder — a variety of alder (Alnus incana) with grey bark, common in temperate areas of the northern hemisphere
  • grey whale — a large N Pacific whalebone whale, Eschrichtius glaucus, that is grey or black with white spots and patches: family Eschrichtidae
  • grey-scale — (graphics)   (US "gray-scale") 1. Composed of (discrete) shades of grey. If the pixels of a grey-scale image have N bits, they may take values from zero, representing black up to 2^N-1, representing white with intermediate values representing increasingly light shades of grey. If N=1 the image is not called grey-scale but could be called monochrome. 2. A range of acurately known shades of grey printed out for use in calibrating those shades on a display or printer.
  • grillsteak — a flat fried cake of minced beef or lamb that is usually grilled from frozen
  • grimaldian — of, relating to, or characteristic of an Upper Paleolithic cultural epoch in northwestern Italy.
  • grimalkins — Plural form of grimalkin.
  • grisailles — Plural form of grisaille.
  • groundball — Alternative form of ground ball.
  • grund mail — payment for the right to be buried
  • guard cell — either of two specialized epidermal cells that flank the pore of a stoma and usually cause it to open and close.
  • guardrails — Plural form of guardrail.
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