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

  • gourd family — the plant family Cucurbitaceae, characterized by tendril-bearing vines, either trailing or climbing and having alternate, palmately lobed leaves, often large yellow or greenish flowers, and many-seeded, fleshy fruit with a hard rind, and including the cucumber, gourd, melon, pumpkin, and squash.
  • governmental — the political direction and control exercised over the actions of the members, citizens, or inhabitants of communities, societies, and states; direction of the affairs of a state, community, etc.; political administration: Government is necessary to the existence of civilized society.
  • gracefullest — Superlative form of graceful.
  • gracefulness — The state of being graceful.
  • grade school — an elementary school that has its pupils grouped or classified into grades.
  • gradeability — a measure of a truck's pulling power expressed as the steepest grade the truck can climb with a full load.
  • gradeflation — grade inflation.
  • gradualistic — Of or pertaining to gradualism.
  • graham flour — unbolted wheat flour, containing all of the wheat grain; whole-wheat flour.
  • graham's law — the principle that the rates of diffusion and effusion of a gas are inversely proportional to the square root of its density, proposed by Thomas Graham (1805-69) in 1831
  • grallatorial — belonging or pertaining to the wading birds, as the snipes, cranes, storks, and herons, many species of which have very long legs.
  • gram calorie — calorie (def 1a). Abbreviation: g-cal.
  • grammatology — the scientific study of systems of writing.
  • grand coulee — a dry canyon in central Washington: cut by the Columbia River in the glacial period. 52 miles (84 km) long; over 400 feet (120 meters) deep.
  • grand finale — the concluding portion of a performance or entertainment, as a musical show, rodeo, etc., usually spectacular and involving most or all of the prior participants.
  • grand island — a city in S Nebraska.
  • grand siècle — the 17th century in French art and literature, esp the classical period of Louis XIV
  • granulations — Plural form of granulation.
  • granuloblast — an immature granulocyte.
  • granulocytes — Plural form of granulocyte.
  • granulocytic — Of, or pertaining to, granulocytes.
  • grape family — the plant family Vitaceae, characterized by woody climbing vines with tendrils, having alternate, simple or compound leaves, and bearing clusters of small flowers and berries, and including Boston ivy, grape, grape ivy, and Virginia creeper.
  • graphologist — the study of handwriting, especially when regarded as an expression of the writer's character, personality, abilities, etc.
  • grapple shot — a grapnellike projectile fired from a gun and used as a hold for the end of a line in rescue operations or in kedging.
  • grass family — the large plant family Gramineae (or Poaceae), characterized by mostly herbaceous but sometimes woody plants with hollow and jointed stems, narrow sheathing leaves, petalless flowers borne in spikelets, and fruit in the form of seedlike grain, and including bamboo, sugar cane, numerous grasses, and cereal grains such as barley, corn, oats, rice, rye, and wheat.
  • gratefulness — warmly or deeply appreciative of kindness or benefits received; thankful: I am grateful to you for your help.
  • gratifyingly — In a manner that gratifies.
  • gratuitously — given, done, bestowed, or obtained without charge or payment; free; voluntary.
  • gratulations — a feeling of joy.
  • gravel-blind — more blind or dim-sighted than sand-blind and less than stone-blind.
  • gravicembalo — a harpsichord.
  • gravity cell — a cell containing two electrolytes that have different specific gravities.
  • graybar land — (jargon)   The place you go while you're staring at a computer that's processing something very slowly (while you watch the grey bar creep across the screen). "I was in graybar land for hours, waiting for that CAD rendering".
  • great circle — a circle on a spherical surface such that the plane containing the circle passes through the center of the sphere. Compare small circle.
  • great laurel — a tall shrub, Rhododendron maximum, of eastern North America, having rose-pink flowers.
  • great plague — the bubonic plague that occurred in London in 1665 and killed about 15 percent of the city's population.
  • great plains — a semiarid region E of the Rocky Mountains, in the U.S. and Canada.
  • great vassal — (in feudal society) a man who entered into a personal relationship with a king to whom he paid homage and fealty in return for protection and often a fief.
  • green-collar — noting or pertaining to workers, jobs, or businesses that are involved in protecting the environment or solving environmental problems.
  • gregariously — fond of the company of others; sociable.
  • grey wagtail — a greyish species of wagtail, Motacilla cinerea, found in temperate regions
  • grey warbler — a small bush bird that hatches the eggs of the shining cuckoo
  • griddlebread — bread or cake made on a griddle
  • griddlecakes — Plural form of griddlecake.
  • grimaldi man — a type of Aurignacian man having a negroid appearance, thought to be a race of Cro-Magnon man
  • grimsel pass — an Alpine pass in S Switzerland. 7159 feet (2184 meters) high.
  • grindability — to wear, smooth, or sharpen by abrasion or friction; whet: to grind a lens.
  • grizzly bear — a large North American brown bear, Ursus (arctos) horribilis, with coarse, gray-tipped brown fur, once widespread in the western part of the continent as far south as northern Mexico but now restricted to some regions of Alaska, western Canada, and the U.S. Rocky Mountains: a threatened species except in Alaska.
  • grossularite — a mineral, calcium aluminum garnet, Ca 3 Al 2 Si 3 O 12 , occurring in gray-white to pinkish crystals.
  • ground alert — the state of waiting for orders in or near combat airplanes ready to take to the air at once.
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