13-letter words containing a, n, g, l, e
- glass ceiling — an upper limit to professional advancement that is imposed upon women, minorities, and other nondominant groups and is not readily perceived or openly acknowledged: It’s more difficult for women of color to break through the glass ceiling.
- glazing agent — substance used to varnish
- glibenclamide — (medicine) An oral anti-diabetes medication.
- glucuronidase — an enzyme that catalyzes glucuronide hydrolysis
- glue language — (language) Any language, usually a scripting language, used to write glue to integrate tools and other programs to solve some problem.
- gnu assembler — (GAS) A Unix assembler for the GNU project. Many CPU types are handled and COFF and IEEE-695 formats are supported as well as standard a.out. Current version 2.2 ported to Sun-3, Sun-4, i386, 386BSD, BSD/386, Linux, PS/2-AIX, VAX, Ultrix, BSD, VMS. The assembler has been merged with GNU Binutils. E-mail: <[email protected]>.
- goal-oriented — (of a person) focused on reaching a specific objective or accomplishing a given task; driven by purpose: goal-oriented teams of teachers.
- goat antelope — any of several wild goats with antelopelike features, including the chamois, goral, serow, and Rocky Mountain goat.
- gobar numeral — any of a set of ancient numerals derived from Hindu numerals
- golan heights — a range of hills in the Middle East, possession of which is disputed between Israel and Syria: under Syrian control until 1967 when they were stormed by Israeli forces; Jewish settlements have since been established. Highest peak: 2224 m (7297 ft)
- golden valley — a town in SE Minnesota.
- golden wattle — a broad-leaved, Australian acacia, Acacia pycnantha, of the legume family, having short clusters of yellow flowers and yielding tanbark and a useful gum.
- goliath crane — a gantry crane for heavy work, as in steel mills.
- goodnaturedly — In a good-natured manner.
- governability — to rule over by right of authority: to govern a nation.
- gracelessness — The state of being graceless.
- grand larceny — larceny in which the value of the goods taken is above a certain legally specified amount.
- grand slammer — Bridge. the winning of all thirteen tricks of a deal. Compare little slam.
- grandchildren — a child of one's son or daughter.
- grandfatherly — of or characteristic of a grandfather.
- grandiloquent — speaking or expressed in a lofty style, often to the point of being pompous or bombastic.
- grandmotherly — of or characteristic of a grandmother.
- grandparental — Of or relating to a grandparent.
- granuliferous — full of granules, or producing granules
- graphic novel — a novel in the form of comic strips.
- grapple plant — a procumbent, thorny plant, Harpagophytum procumbens, of southern Africa.
- 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 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.
- green channel — the route followed in passing through customs in an airport, etc by passengers claiming to have no dutiable goods to declare
- greenland sea — a part of the Arctic Ocean, NE of Greenland and N of Iceland.
- ground tackle — equipment, as anchors, chains, or windlasses, for mooring a vessel away from a pier or other fixed moorings.
- gubernatorial — of or relating to a state governor or the office of state governor.
- gynaecologist — (UK, Canada, dated in US) A physician who specialises in diseases of the female reproductive system.
- gynecological — the branch of medical science that deals with the health maintenance and diseases of women, especially of the reproductive organs. Abbreviation: GYN, gyn.
- h and l hinge — a surface-mounted hinge that when applied resembles H and L combined.
- half-integral — noting or pertaining to a fractional number obtained by dividing an odd integer by two, as 1/2.
- hallucinogens — Plural form of hallucinogen.
- hand in glove — the terminal, prehensile part of the upper limb in humans and other primates, consisting of the wrist, metacarpal area, fingers, and thumb.
- hand-in-glove — the terminal, prehensile part of the upper limb in humans and other primates, consisting of the wrist, metacarpal area, fingers, and thumb.
- hanging stile — the stile of a door, shutter, etc., by which it is hung.
- hard feelings — Hard feelings are feelings of anger or bitterness towards someone who you have had an argument with or who has upset you. If you say 'no hard feelings', you are making an agreement with someone not to be angry or bitter about something.
- harlequin bug — a black stink bug, Murgantia histrionica, having red and yellow markings, that feeds on cabbages and other cruciferous plants.
- health-giving — conducive to health; salutary
- heating plant — a building or facility containing a boiler or furnace that provides heat to a building or a number of buildings
- heavy lifting — hard work: A team of researchers did the heavy lifting for the author.
- heilong jiang — Amur.
- heli-boarding — the sport of snowboarding on mountains or glaciers accessible only by helicopter or skiplane
- heliographing — Present participle of heliograph.
- hemagglutinin — A substance, such as a viral protein, that causes hemagglutination.