13-letter words containing a, s, g, r
- gene transfer — Biotechnology. the insertion of copies of a gene into living cells in order to induce synthesis of the gene's product: the desired gene may be microinjected directly into the cell or it may be inserted into the core of a virus by gene splicing and the virus allowed to infect the cell for replication of the gene in the cell's DNA.
- general costs — the general expenses of running a business
- 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.
- generationism — the belief that some generations are superior to others
- genital warts — a sexually transmitted disease caused by the human papilloma virus; the warts grow in the genital area
- geometricians — Plural form of geometrician.
- geostationary — of or relating to a satellite traveling in an orbit 22,300 miles (35,900 km) above the earth's equator: at this altitude, the satellite's period of rotation, 24 hours, matches the earth's and the satellite always remains in the same spot over the earth: geostationary orbit.
- geostrategies — Plural form of geostrategy.
- geostrategist — A geopolitical strategist; one concerned with the strategies of political geography.
- geriatricians — Plural form of geriatrician.
- german silver — any of various alloys of copper, zinc, and nickel, usually white and used for utensils, drawing instruments, etc.; nickel silver.
- germinal disk — blastodisk.
- gesticulatory — Making a lot of gesticulations.
- ghettoblaster — Alternative form of ghetto blaster.
- give sb heart — If something gives you heart, it makes you feel more confident or happy about something.
- gladiatorship — the work of a gladiator
- glamorisation — Alternative spelling of glamorization.
- 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
- glossographer — a glossator.
- glucuronidase — an enzyme that catalyzes glucuronide hydrolysis
- 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]>.
- go great guns — to act or function with great speed, intensity, etc
- gold standard — a monetary system with gold of specified weight and fineness as the unit of value.
- gonadotropins — Plural form of gonadotropin.
- good gracious — Some people say good gracious or goodness gracious in order to express surprise or annoyance.
- gourmandizers — Plural form of gourmandizer.
- gracelessness — The state of being graceless.
- gradient post — a small white post beside a railway line at a point where the gradient changes having arms set at angles representing the gradients
- graham island — an island in the Pacific Ocean, in W British Columbia, Canada: largest and northernmost of the Queen Charlotte Islands. 2485 sq. mi. (6436 sq. km).
- grain of salt — salt crystal
- grain sorghum — any of several varieties of sorghum, as durra or milo, having starchy seeds, grown for grain and forage.
- gram's method — a method of staining and distinguishing bacteria, in which a fixed bacterial smear is stained with crystal violet, treated with Gram's solution, decolorized with alcohol, counterstained with safranine, and washed with water.
- gram-positive — (of bacteria) 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 duchess — the wife or widow of a grand duke.
- grand marshal — marshal (def 8).
- grand passion — an intense or overwhelming attraction or love.
- grand slammer — Bridge. the winning of all thirteen tricks of a deal. Compare little slam.
- grandad shirt — a long-sleeved collarless shirt
- grandiloquous — grandiloquent
- grandioseness — affectedly grand or important; pompous: grandiose words.