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13-letter words containing d, e, r, o, g

  • foresightedly — In a foresighted manner.
  • forge welding — the welding of pieces of hot metal with pressure or blows.
  • forked tongue — lying or deceitful talk
  • fourth-grader — a child in the fourth grade
  • freight depot — (on a rail network) a place where freight is stored while awaiting onward transport
  • frontage road — a local road that runs parallel to an expressway, providing access to roadside stores and businesses; a service road.
  • frosted glass — etched glass with a translucent surface
  • gagging order — an official order against certain information being made public or discussed (by the press, etc)
  • garden orache — a plant of the goosefoot family, Atriplex hortensis, which is cultivated as a vegetable and used like spinach
  • garret window — a skylight that lies along the slope of the roof
  • general order — any one of a set of permanent orders from a headquarters establishing policy for a command or announcing official acts.
  • general synod — the governing body, under Parliament, of the Church of England, made up of the bishops and elected clerical and lay representatives
  • geohydrologic — relating to geohydrology
  • gerodontology — the branch of dentistry dealing with aging and aged persons.
  • get around to — When you get around to doing something that you have delayed doing or have been too busy to do, you finally do it.
  • get rid of sb — If you get rid of someone who is causing problems for you or who you do not like, you do something to prevent them affecting you any more, for example by making them leave.
  • gheorghiu-dej — Gheorghe [gyawr-ge] /ˈgyɔr gɛ/ (Show IPA), 1901–65, Romanian statesman: premier 1952–55; president of the state council 1961–65.
  • ghiordes knot — a hand-tied knot, used in rug weaving, in which the parallel ends of looped yarn alternate with two threads of warp, producing an uneven pile effect.
  • giant redwood — big tree.
  • gibson desert — a desert in W central Australia: scrub; salt marshes. About 85,000 sq. mi. (220,000 sq. km).
  • glamour model — a woman who models topless or nude for photographs
  • glucuronidase — an enzyme that catalyzes glucuronide hydrolysis
  • go over-board — over the side of a ship or boat, especially into or in the water: to fall overboard.
  • go the rounds — If a story, idea, or joke is going the rounds or doing the rounds, a lot of people have heard it and are telling it to other people.
  • goal-oriented — (of a person) focused on reaching a specific objective or accomplishing a given task; driven by purpose: goal-oriented teams of teachers.
  • gödel's proof — a proof that in a formal axiomatic system such as logic or mathematics it is impossible to prove consistency without using methods from outside the system, demonstrated by Kurt Gödel (1906–78)
  • gold chloride — a yellow to red, water-soluble compound, AuCl 3 , used chiefly in photography, gilding ceramic ware and glass, and in the manufacture of purple of Cassius.
  • golden number — a number between 1 and 19, used to indicate the position of any year in the Metonic cycle, calculated as the remainder when 1 is added to the given year and the sum is divided by 19. If the remainder is zero the number is 19
  • golden oriole — an Old World oriole, Oriolus oriolus, the male of which is bright yellow with black wings.
  • golden plover — either of two plovers of the genus Pluvialis, having the back marked with golden-yellow spots, P. apricaria, of Europe, or P. dominica, of America.
  • golden remedy — a very successful way of dealing with a problem
  • golden shiner — a small, silvery freshwater minnow, Notemigonus crysoleucas, native to eastern North America and introduced into western North America: often used as live bait in sport fishing.
  • golden shower — a tree, Cassia fistula, of the legume family, native to India, having long, drooping clusters of yellow flowers.
  • goldie's fern — a wood fern, Dryopteris goldiana, of northeastern North America, having large, golden-green, leathery fronds with blades that tilt backward.
  • good behavior — satisfactory, proper, or polite conduct.
  • good riddance — the act or fact of clearing away or out, as anything undesirable.
  • good shepherd — Jesus Christ. John 10:11–14.
  • good-humoured — having or showing a pleasant, amiable mood: a good-humored man; a good-humored remark.
  • good-neighbor — characterized by friendly political relations and mutual aid between countries.
  • good-tempered — good-natured; amiable.
  • goodheartedly — In a goodhearted manner.
  • goodhumoredly — In a good-humored manner.
  • goodnaturedly — In a good-natured manner.
  • goods service — a transport service in which goods are sent by train from one location to another
  • gordon setter — one of a Scottish breed of medium-sized setters having a black-and-tan coat.
  • gourmandizers — Plural form of gourmandizer.
  • 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
  • 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.
  • grand opening — celebratory first-day event
  • grandiloquent — speaking or expressed in a lofty style, often to the point of being pompous or bombastic.
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