16-letter words containing d, e, t, r, g
- from the word go — to move or proceed, especially to or from something: They're going by bus.
- garden apartment — an apartment on the ground floor of an apartment building having direct access to a backyard or garden.
- garfield heights — a city in NE Ohio, near Cleveland.
- garment district — an area in the borough of Manhattan, in New York City, including portions of Seventh Avenue and Broadway between 34th and 40th Streets and the streets intersecting them, that contains many factories, showrooms, etc., related to the design, manufacture, and wholesale distribution of clothing.
- gaudeamus igitur — let us therefore rejoice
- gaudí (i cornet) — An‧to‧nio (ɑnˈtɔnjɔ ) ; änt^ōˈny^ō) 1852-1926; Sp. architect
- gazetted officer — (in India) a senior official whose appointment is published in the government gazette
- gender selection — choosing the sex of a baby
- gender-normative — cisgender.
- genetic disorder — disease caused by abnormal DNA
- gentleman friend — a man with whom a woman is romantically involved; suitor.
- geostrophic wind — a wind whose velocity and direction are mathematically defined by the balanced relationship of the pressure gradient force and the Coriolis force: conceived as blowing parallel to isobars.
- gingerbread tree — a W African tree, Parinari macrophyllum, with large mealy edible fruits (gingerbread plums): family Chrysobalanaceae
- give a hard time — a period of difficulties or hardship.
- gold certificate — a former U.S. paper currency issued by the federal government for circulation from 1865 to 1933, equal to and redeemable for gold to a stated value.
- gold star mother — an American woman whose son or daughter has died while serving in the United States Armed Forces
- golden parachute — an employment contract or agreement guaranteeing a key executive of a company substantial severance pay and other financial benefits in the event of job loss caused by the company's being sold or merged.
- golden rain tree — an ornamental tree, Koelreuteria paniculata, of the soapberry family, native to China and adjacent areas, having pinnate leaves, large clusters of fragrant yellow flowers, and inflated pods containing black seeds used as beads.
- golden retriever — one of an English breed of retrievers having a thick, flat or wavy, golden coat.
- good-heartedness — the quality of being good-hearted
- governmentalized — Simple past tense and past participle of governmentalize.
- grade separation — separation of the levels at which roads, railroads, paths, etc., cross one another in order to prevent conflicting rows of traffic or the possibility of accidents.
- graduate student — postgraduate-level student
- grant-maintained — funded by national government
- granted (that) … — even assuming that
- granulated paper — paper with a roughened surface
- granulated sugar — a coarsely ground white sugar, widely used as a sweetener.
- graphics adapter — graphics adaptor
- gravity decanter — A gravity decanter is a vessel or stage in which two liquids of different densities are allowed to separate by gravity.
- great depression — the economic crisis and period of low business activity in the U.S. and other countries, roughly beginning with the stock-market crash in October, 1929, and continuing through most of the 1930s.
- great horned owl — a large, brown-speckled owl, Bubo virginianus, common in the Western Hemisphere, having prominent ear tufts.
- great-grandchild — a grandchild of one's son or daughter.
- great-grandniece — a granddaughter of one's nephew or niece.
- great-granduncle — an uncle of one's grandfather or grandmother.
- greater sand eel — a large species of sand eel, Hyperoplus lanceolatus
- greater-doxology — Gloria in Excelsis Deo.
- grid declination — the angular difference between true north and grid north on a map
- grignard reagent — any of the group of reagents produced by the interaction of magnesium and an organic halide, usually in the presence of an ether, and having the general formula RMgX, where R is an organic group and X is a halogen: used in the Grignard reaction.
- grin and bear it — to suffer trouble or hardship without complaint
- grind your teeth — If you grind your teeth, you rub your upper and lower teeth together as though you are chewing something.
- ground substance — Also called matrix. the homogeneous substance in which the fibers and cells of connective tissue are embedded.
- grounded neutral — Grounded neutral is the situation in which the neutral wire of an electrical supply system is connected to ground.
- group identifier — (operating system) (gid) A unique number, between 0 an 32767, identifying a set of users under Unix. Gids are found in the /etc/passwd and /etc/group databases (or their NIS equivalents) and one is also associated with each file, indicating the group to which its group permissions apply.
- guaranteed stock — stock for which dividends are guaranteed by a company other than the one issuing the stock.
- hammer and tongs — with great vigor, determination, or vehemence: When he starts a job he goes at it hammer and tongs.
- head arrangement — a roughly outlined musical arrangement that is played from memory and is often learned by ear.
- headhunting firm — a recruiting agency
- high court judge — a judge who sits in the High Court
- higher education — education beyond high school, specifically that provided by colleges and graduate schools, and professional schools.
- hydrometeorology — the study of atmospheric water, especially precipitation, as it affects agriculture, water supply, flood control, power generation, etc.