13-letter words containing e, d, g, r, t
- earth-goddess — a goddess of fertility and vegetation.
- easter-ledges — a pudding made from the young leaves of the bistort
- edmund gunter — Edmund, 1581–1626, English mathematician and astronomer: inventor of various measuring instruments and scales.
- eighth-grader — someone who is in the eighth grade at school
- estrangedness — the state of being estranged
- exaggeratedly — To an excessive degree; in an exaggerated manner.
- ferret badger — any of several small omnivores of the genus Melogale, of southern and eastern Asia, having a bushy tail and distinctive white or yellow markings on a black face.
- fingerbreadth — the breadth of a finger: approximately 3/4 inch (2 cm).
- fingerpainted — Simple past tense and past participle of fingerpaint.
- fingerprinted — Simple past tense and past participle of fingerprint.
- first reading — the reading of a bill when it is first introduced in a legislative body.
- flabbergasted — to overcome with surprise and bewilderment; astound.
- flight leader — a pilot who commands a flight of military airplanes.
- foresightedly — In a foresighted manner.
- forked tongue — lying or deceitful talk
- fourth-grader — a child in the fourth grade
- free-standing — A free-standing piece of furniture or other object is not fixed to anything, or stands on its own away from other things.
- freight depot — (on a rail network) a place where freight is stored while awaiting onward transport
- fridge magnet — a small flat decorative object with a magnet on its back which is used to attach it to the front door of a fridge or other domestic appliance
- 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
- garden center — a store that sells gardening supplies, as seeds, plants, fertilizer, and tools.
- garden centre — A garden centre is a large shop, usually with an outdoor area, where you can buy things for your garden such as plants and gardening tools.
- garret window — a skylight that lies along the slope of the roof
- general audit — an audit of all a company's accounts
- genetic drift — random changes in the frequency of alleles in a gene pool, usually of small populations.
- genital ridge — the area in the vertebrate embryo that develops into ovaries in the female and testes in the male.
- 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.
- get-well card — a greeting card sent to a person who is unwell, expressing a wish for a speedy recovery
- 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 ragweed — any of the composite plants of the genus Ambrosia, the airborne pollen of which is the most prevalent cause of autumnal hay fever, as the common North American species, A. trifida (great ragweed or giant ragweed) and A. artemisiifolia.
- giant redwood — big tree.
- gibson desert — a desert in W central Australia: scrub; salt marshes. About 85,000 sq. mi. (220,000 sq. km).
- glittertinden — the highest peak in Norway, in the S central part. 8110 feet (2473 meters).
- 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.
- good-tempered — good-natured; amiable.
- goodheartedly — In a goodhearted manner.
- goodnaturedly — In a good-natured manner.
- gordon setter — one of a Scottish breed of medium-sized setters having a black-and-tan coat.
- grade cricket — competitive cricket, in which cricket club teams are arranged in grades
- 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
- gradient wind — a wind with a velocity and direction that are mathematically defined by the balanced relationship of the pressure gradient force to the centrifugal force and the Coriolis force: conceived as blowing parallel to isobars.
- 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.
- grammaticized — Simple past tense and past participle of grammaticize.
- grand quarter — a quartered coat of arms, itself one of the quarters of a coat of arms.
- granddaughter — a daughter of one's son or daughter.
- grandfathered — Simple past tense and past participle of grandfather.