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13-letter words containing e, g, d

  • 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
  • foxtail wedge — a wedge in the split end of a tenon, bolt, or the like, for spreading and securing it when driven into a blind mortise or hole.
  • frederiksberg — a city in E Denmark: a part of Copenhagen.
  • frederiksburg — borough on Zealand island, Denmark: suburb of Copenhagen: pop. 88,000
  • free-spending — spending or tending to spend freely: If you don't mend your free-spending ways, you'll go bankrupt.
  • 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.
  • freeze-drying — a process for drying heat-sensitive substances, as foods, blood plasma, antibiotics, and the like, by freezing the substance and then subliming the ice or other frozen solvent in a high vacuum.
  • 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
  • friendsgiving — a gathering of friends to celebrate Thanksgiving with a feast, falling near or on Thanksgiving Day, in contrast to the traditional celebrations that typically involve family.
  • 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
  • fully fledged — Fully fledged means complete or fully developed.
  • fun and games — frivolously diverting activity.
  • gagging order — an official order against certain information being made public or discussed (by the press, etc)
  • gaidhealtachd — the area of Scotland in which Scottish Gaelic is the vernacular speech
  • galactosidase — An enzyme, such as lactase, that is involved in the hydrolytic breakdown of a galactoside.
  • garden balsam — a fleshy annual garden impatiens (Impatiens balsamina) with roselike white, lavender, yellow, pink, or red blossoms borne along the main stem in leaf axils
  • 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.
  • garden orache — a plant of the goosefoot family, Atriplex hortensis, which is cultivated as a vegetable and used like spinach
  • garden shears — shears used for gardening
  • garden suburb — a suburb of a large established town or city, planned along the lines of a garden city
  • garret window — a skylight that lies along the slope of the roof
  • gelada baboon — a NE African baboon, Theropithecus gelada, with dark brown hair forming a mane over the shoulders, a bare red chest, and a ridged muzzle: family Cercopithecidae
  • gelandelaufer — a participant in cross-country skiing.
  • gelandesprung — a jump, usually over an obstacle, in which one plants both poles in the snow in advance of the skis, bends close to the ground, and propels oneself chiefly by the use of the poles.
  • gender bender — Informal. one, as a cross-dresser, that blurs differences between the sexes.
  • gender binary — a classification system consisting of two genders, male and female.
  • gender mender — (hardware)   (Or "gender bender", "gender blender", "sex changer", and even "homosexual adaptor") A cable connector shell with either two male or two female connectors on it, used to correct the mismatches that result when some loser didn't understand the EIA-232C specification and the distinction between DTE and DCE. Used especially for EIA-232C parts in either the original D-25 or the IBM PC's D-9 connector. There appears to be some confusion as to whether a "male homosexual adaptor" has pins on both sides (is doubly male) or sockets on both sides (connects two males).
  • gender-bender — Informal. one, as a cross-dresser, that blurs differences between the sexes.
  • general audit — an audit of all a company's accounts
  • 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
  • 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.
  • gentisic acid — a crystalline, water-soluble compound, C 7 H 6 O 4 , used chiefly in the form of its sodium salt as an analgesic and diaphoretic.
  • gentlemanhood — the nature or position of a gentleman
  • geodesic dome — a light, domelike structure developed by R. Buckminster Fuller to combine the properties of the tetrahedron and the sphere and consisting essentially of a grid of compression or tension members lying upon or parallel to great circles running in three directions in any given area, the typical form being the projection upon a sphere of an icosahedron, the triangular faces of which are filled with a symmetrical triangular, hexagonal, or quadrangular grid.
  • geodesic line — the shortest line lying on a given surface and connecting two given points.
  • geohydrologic — relating to geohydrology
  • germinal disk — blastodisk.
  • gerodontology — the branch of dentistry dealing with aging and aged persons.
  • gerrymandered — Simple past tense and past participle of gerrymander.
  • gerrymanderer — a person who gerrymanders
  • get a bead on — a small, usually round object of glass, wood, stone, or the like with a hole through it, often strung with others of its kind in necklaces, rosaries, etc.
  • get a load of — anything put in or on something for conveyance or transportation; freight; cargo: The truck carried a load of watermelons.
  • 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.
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