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13-letter words containing a, r, c, t, o, g

  • gravity clock — a clock driven by its own weight as it descends a rack, cord, incline, etc.
  • great calorie — calorie (sense 2)
  • 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 society — the goal of the Democratic Party under the leadership of President Lyndon B. Johnson, chiefly to enact domestic programs to improve education, provide medical care for the aged, and eliminate poverty.
  • 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).
  • ground attack — an attack using ground forces, as opposed to air or naval forces
  • ground tackle — equipment, as anchors, chains, or windlasses, for mooring a vessel away from a pier or other fixed moorings.
  • 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
  • growth factor — any of various proteins that promote the growth, organization, and maintenance of cells and tissues.
  • hack together — (jargon)   To throw something together so it will work. Unlike "kluge together" or "cruft together", this does not necessarily have negative connotations.
  • heortological — of or relating to heortology
  • heterogametic — (of a species or individual organism) having two unlike gametes.
  • heterographic — Misspelled; of or pertaining to an incorrect spelling or a spelling that differs from accepted standards.
  • heterological — (grammar) Of an adjective, not describing itself.
  • hogarth chair — a Queen Anne chair having a solid splat and cabriole legs, all pieces having a cyma curve or outline.
  • hygrometrical — Alternative form of hygrometric.
  • ideogrammatic — Of or pertaining to ideograms.
  • incorporating — to form into a legal corporation.
  • incouragement — Archaic form of encouragement.
  • it governance — information technology governance
  • laryngectomee — someone who has had a laryngectomy
  • lipogrammatic — of or relating to a lipogram
  • logarithmancy — Divination using logarithms.
  • logical truth — the property of being logically tautologous
  • logogrammatic — Of or pertaining to logograms; logographic.
  • macro-segment — a stretch of speech preceded and followed but not interrupted by a pause.
  • magnetic core — Computers. core1 (def 12a).
  • magnetometric — Pertaining to, or employed in, the measurement of magnetic forces; obtained by means of a magnetometer; as, 'magnetometric' instruments; 'magnetometric' measurements.
  • marginal cost — the cost of one additional unit of any item produced or bought in quantity.
  • mastigophoric — Carrying or wielding a whip.
  • matchboarding — a construction of matchboards.
  • megacaryocyte — Alternative form of megakaryocyte.
  • megakaryocyte — a large bone-marrow cell having a lobulate nucleus, regarded as the source of blood platelets.
  • megasporocyte — a diploid cell in plants that undergoes meiosis to create four haploid megaspores.
  • microgranitic — consisting of, or relating to, microgranite
  • micromagnetic — Of or pertaining to micromagnetism.
  • microteaching — a scaled-down teaching procedure with a few students under controlled conditions, often videotaped in order to analyze teaching techniques and develop new teaching skills.
  • miscategorize — to arrange in categories or classes; classify.
  • monogrammatic — a design consisting of two or more alphabetic letters combined or interlaced, commonly one's initials, often printed on stationery, embroidered on clothing, etc.
  • morning watch — the watch from 4 a.m. until 8 a.m.
  • multicategory — (mathematics) A generalization of the concept of category that allows morphisms of multiple arity.
  • multiorgasmic — Capable of multiple orgasms without a refractory period.
  • narrowcasting — Present participle of narrowcast.
  • nonliturgical — Not liturgical.
  • nonpracticing — not currently practicing one's profession, religion, etc.: a nonpracticing physician.
  • nonpractising — of or relating to a person who no longer observes or pursues his or her religious faith
  • north chicago — a city in NE Illinois, on Lake Michigan.
  • octane-rating — (of gasoline) a designation of antiknock quality, numerically equal to the percentage of isooctane by volume in a mixture of isooctane and normal heptane that matches the given gasoline in antiknock characteristics.
  • octogenarians — Plural form of octogenarian.
  • orchestrating — Present participle of orchestrate.
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