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13-letter words containing c, g, a

  • gravity clock — a clock driven by its own weight as it descends a rack, cord, incline, etc.
  • gravity scale — a scale giving the relative density of fluids
  • gray eminence — a person who wields unofficial power, especially through another person and often surreptitiously or privately.
  • 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 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).
  • greater scaup — any of several diving ducks of the genus Aythya, especially A. marila (greater scaup) of the Northern Hemisphere, having a bluish-gray bill.
  • green channel — the route followed in passing through customs in an airport, etc by passengers claiming to have no dutiable goods to declare
  • 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 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.
  • guanylic acid — GMP.
  • gunters-chain — a series of objects connected one after the other, usually in the form of a series of metal rings passing through one another, used either for various purposes requiring a flexible tie with high tensile strength, as for hauling, supporting, or confining, or in various ornamental and decorative forms.
  • guzman blanco — Antonio [ahn-taw-nyaw] /ɑnˈtɔ nyɔ/ (Show IPA), 1829–99, Venezuelan political leader: president 1870–88.
  • gymnastically — In a gymnastic manner.
  • gynaecologist — (UK, Canada, dated in US) A physician who specialises in diseases of the female reproductive system.
  • gynaecomastia — abnormal overdevelopment of the breasts in a man
  • gynaecophobia — (psychology) An irrational fear of women.
  • gynecocracies — Plural form of gynecocracy.
  • gynecological — the branch of medical science that deals with the health maintenance and diseases of women, especially of the reproductive organs. Abbreviation: GYN, gyn.
  • gypsy capstan — a small capstan moved only by a motor or engine.
  • gyrocompasses — Plural form of gyrocompass.
  • hack together — (jargon)   To throw something together so it will work. Unlike "kluge together" or "cruft together", this does not necessarily have negative connotations.
  • hacking cough — a harsh, dry and spasmodic cough
  • half coupling — a flange fixed at the end of each of the two shafts that are connected in a flange coupling
  • hallucinating — Present participle of hallucinate.
  • hallucinogens — Plural form of hallucinogen.
  • hate campaign — A hate campaign is a series of actions which are intended to harm or upset someone, or to make other people have a low opinion of them.
  • hematological — Hematologic.
  • heortological — of or relating to heortology
  • herb of grace — rue2 .
  • herb-of-grace — rue2 .
  • 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.
  • high-low-jack — all fours (def 2).
  • high-wire act — a circus trick in which the performer walks across a high wire
  • histaminergic — releasing histamine
  • hogarth chair — a Queen Anne chair having a solid splat and cabriole legs, all pieces having a cyma curve or outline.
  • homalographic — representing parts with like proportions.
  • homogenetical — of, involving or relating to homogeny
  • homolographic — representing parts with like proportions.
  • horologically — of or relating to horology.
  • housecleaning — the act of cleaning a house, room, etc., and its furnishings, especially the act of cleaning thoroughly and completely.
  • human cloning — the act of producing a human as a clone
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