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

  • garrison life — the life of troops who maintain and guard a military base or fortified place
  • garrulousness — Garrulity.
  • gas:oil ratio — The gas:oil ratio is the volume of gas produced at standard temperature and pressure, in relation to the volume of oil produced at standard temperature and pressure, used as a measurement for reservoir fluids.
  • gastric ulcer — a peptic ulcer located in the stomach's inner wall, caused in part by the corrosive action of the gastric juice on the mucous membrane.
  • gastronomical — the art or science of good eating.
  • gazillionaire — An extremely rich person.
  • gelandelaufer — a participant in cross-country skiing.
  • gelandesprung — a jump, usually over an obstacle, in which one plants both poles in the snow in advance of the skis, bends close to the ground, and propels oneself chiefly by the use of the poles.
  • general audit — an audit of all a company's accounts
  • general costs — the general expenses of running a business
  • general court — the state legislature of Massachusetts or New Hampshire.
  • general magic — A software company based in Mountain View, California. Products released in 1994 after four years in development include: Telescript - a communications-oriented programming language; Magic Cap - an OOPS designed for PDAs; and a new, third generation GUI. Motorola's Envoy, due for release in the third quarter of 1994, will use Magic Cap as its OS. What PostScript did for cross-platform, device-independent documents, Telescript aims to do for cross-platform, network-independent messaging. Telescript protects programmers from many of the complexities of network protocols. Competitors for Magic Cap include Microsoft's Windows for Pens/Winpad, PenPoint, Apple Computer's Newton Intelligence and GEOS by GeoWorks.
  • general order — any one of a set of permanent orders from a headquarters establishing policy for a command or announcing official acts.
  • general staff — a group of officers who are without command and whose duty is to assist high commanders in planning and carrying out orders in peace and war.
  • general store — a store, usually in a rural area, that sells a wide variety of merchandise, as clothing, food, or hardware, but is not divided into departments.
  • general synod — the governing body, under Parliament, of the Church of England, made up of the bishops and elected clerical and lay representatives
  • generalisable — Non-Oxford British standard spelling of generalizable.
  • generalissimo — the supreme commander of the armed forces.
  • generalizable — to infer (a general principle, trend, etc.) from particular facts, statistics, or the like.
  • generation xl — overweight children or young adults of the generation that spends a great deal of time on sedentary pursuits such as surfing the internet and playing computer games
  • genital ridge — the area in the vertebrate embryo that develops into ovaries in the female and testes in the male.
  • genital warts — a sexually transmitted disease caused by the human papilloma virus; the warts grow in the genital area
  • geometrically — of or relating to geometry or to the principles of geometry.
  • 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.
  • gerontophilia — sexual attraction towards old people
  • gesticulatory — Making a lot of gesticulations.
  • get-well card — a greeting card sent to a person who is unwell, expressing a wish for a speedy recovery
  • ghettoblaster — Alternative form of ghetto blaster.
  • 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.
  • girl-watching — the activity of looking at young women to enjoy their attractiveness, perhaps with a view to starting a relationship
  • giulio romano — (Giulio Pippi de' Giannuzzi) 1492?–1546, Italian painter and architect.
  • glacial drift — material, as gravel, sand, or clay, transported and deposited by a glacier or by glacial meltwater.
  • glacier cream — a barrier cream, esp against ultraviolet radiation, used when climbing above the snow line
  • glacier table — a stone slab supported over the surface of a mountain glacier by a column or columns of ice.
  • gladiatorship — the work of a gladiator
  • glamorisation — Alternative spelling of glamorization.
  • glamorization — to make glamorous.
  • glamour model — a woman who models topless or nude for photographs
  • glamour stock — a popular stock that rises quickly or continuously in price and attracts large numbers of investors.
  • glass curtain — a transparent or translucent curtain covering the interior of a window opening.
  • glass slipper — an imaginary ladies' shoe made of glass, as worn by Cinderella in the fairy tale of that name
  • global search — a word-processing operation in which a complete computer file or set of files is searched for every occurrence of a particular word or other sequence of characters
  • globe theatre — a theater on the south bank of the Thames in London, 1599–1613: many of Shakespeare's plays were first produced here.
  • glorification — a glorified or more splendid form of something.
  • glossographer — a glossator.
  • glove factory — a factory where gloves are made
  • glove leather — a soft, smooth, pliable, stretchable leather.
  • glucaric acid — saccharic acid.
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