13-letter words containing a, n, g, i
- grain sorghum — any of several varieties of sorghum, as durra or milo, having starchy seeds, grown for grain and forage.
- gram-negative — (of bacteria) not retaining the violet dye when stained by Gram's method.
- graminicolous — (esp of parasitic fungi) living on grass
- graminivorous — feeding or subsisting on grass: a graminivorous bird.
- gran paradiso — the highest peak in the Graian Alps, in N Italy. 13,324 feet (4061 meters).
- grand guignol — a short drama stressing horror and sensationalism.
- grand marnier — a French cognac-based liqueur with an orange flavour
- grand opening — celebratory first-day event
- grand passion — an intense or overwhelming attraction or love.
- grand prairie — a city in NE Texas.
- grandad shirt — a long-sleeved collarless shirt
- 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.
- grandiloquous — grandiloquent
- grandioseness — affectedly grand or important; pompous: grandiose words.
- grandstanding — the main seating area of a stadium, racetrack, parade route, or the like, usually consisting of tiers with rows of individual seats.
- granite paper — paper containing fibers of various colors that give it a granitelike appearance.
- granite state — New Hampshire (used as a nickname).
- granitization — a hypothetical process of forming granite.
- granodioritic — relating to granodiorite
- grants-in-aid — a subsidy furnished by a central government to a local one to help finance a public project, as the construction of a highway or school.
- grantsmanship — skill in securing grants, as for research, from federal agencies, foundations, or the like.
- granuliferous — full of granules, or producing granules
- graphic novel — a novel in the form of comic strips.
- graticulation — the division of a design, plan, etc into squares in order to improve the accuracy of enlargement or reduction
- gratification — the state of being gratified; great satisfaction.
- 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.
- gravitational — Physics. the force of attraction between any two masses. Compare law of gravitation. an act or process caused by this force.
- 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).
- ground-to-air — (of weapons) designed to be fired at aircraft from the ground
- group annuity — a plan in which the members of a group, usually employees of the same company, receive annuities upon retirement.
- group captain — an officer holding commissioned rank senior to a wing commander but junior to an air commodore in the RAF and certain other air forces
- growing pains — If a person or organization suffers from growing pains, they experience temporary difficulties and problems at the beginning of a particular stage of development.
- guanylic acid — GMP.
- guard against — prevent
- gubernatorial — of or relating to a state governor or the office of state governor.