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13-letter words containing e, g, l, r

  • frelinghuysen — Frederick Theodore, 1817–85, U.S. statesman.
  • frighteningly — to make afraid or fearful; throw into a fright; terrify; scare.
  • frightfulness — The quality of being frightful.
  • frosted glass — etched glass with a translucent surface
  • full-strength — If a team or army is at full strength, all the members that it needs or usually has are present.
  • furshlugginer — crazy; foolish
  • gabriel fauré — Gabriel Urbain [ga-bree-el oor-ban] /ga briˈɛl urˈbɛ̃/ (Show IPA), 1845–1924, French composer.
  • galactic year — the duration of a complete rotation of the Milky Way, approximately 200 million years.
  • galactorrhoea — (British spelling) alternative spelling of galactorrhea.
  • galerie house — (in French Louisiana) a house with its main story above the ground floor and with verandas (galeries) for both stories in tiers on at least one side.
  • gallimaufries — Plural form of gallimaufry.
  • gallo-romance — the vernacular language, a development from Latin, spoken in France from about a.d. 600 to 900. Abbreviation: Gallo-Rom.
  • gallows frame — headframe.
  • galois theory — the branch of mathematics that deals with the application of the theory of finite groups to the solution of algebraic equations.
  • galvanometers — Plural form of galvanometer.
  • galvanometric — Of or pertaining to galvanometry.
  • games library — a type of library for video games where games (usually downloaded via the internet) can be paid for per use rather than be bought at full price
  • garcia robles — Alfonso [al-fon-soh,, -zoh;; Spanish ahl-fawn-saw] /ælˈfɒn soʊ,, -zoʊ;; Spanish ɑlˈfɔn sɔ/ (Show IPA), 1911–91, Mexican diplomat: Nobel Prize 1982.
  • 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
  • garrison life — the life of troops who maintain and guard a military base or fortified place
  • garrulousness — Garrulity.
  • gastric ulcer — a peptic ulcer located in the stomach's inner wall, caused in part by the corrosive action of the gastric juice on the mucous membrane.
  • gazillionaire — An extremely rich person.
  • geissler tube — a sealed glass tube with platinum connections at the ends, containing rarefied gas made luminous by an electrical discharge.
  • 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.
  • gelsenkirchen — a city in W Germany, in the Ruhr valley.
  • geminiflorous — having flowers arranged in pairs.
  • gemmuliferous — producing or reproducing by gemmules.
  • general audit — an audit of all a company's accounts
  • general costs — the general expenses of running a business
  • general court — the state legislature of Massachusetts or New Hampshire.
  • general magic — A software company based in Mountain View, California. Products released in 1994 after four years in development include: Telescript - a communications-oriented programming language; Magic Cap - an OOPS designed for PDAs; and a new, third generation GUI. Motorola's Envoy, due for release in the third quarter of 1994, will use Magic Cap as its OS. What PostScript did for cross-platform, device-independent documents, Telescript aims to do for cross-platform, network-independent messaging. Telescript protects programmers from many of the complexities of network protocols. Competitors for Magic Cap include Microsoft's Windows for Pens/Winpad, PenPoint, Apple Computer's Newton Intelligence and GEOS by GeoWorks.
  • general order — any one of a set of permanent orders from a headquarters establishing policy for a command or announcing official acts.
  • general staff — a group of officers who are without command and whose duty is to assist high commanders in planning and carrying out orders in peace and war.
  • general store — a store, usually in a rural area, that sells a wide variety of merchandise, as clothing, food, or hardware, but is not divided into departments.
  • general synod — the governing body, under Parliament, of the Church of England, made up of the bishops and elected clerical and lay representatives
  • generalisable — Non-Oxford British standard spelling of generalizable.
  • generalissimo — the supreme commander of the armed forces.
  • generalizable — to infer (a general principle, trend, etc.) from particular facts, statistics, or the like.
  • generation xl — overweight children or young adults of the generation that spends a great deal of time on sedentary pursuits such as surfing the internet and playing computer games
  • genital ridge — the area in the vertebrate embryo that develops into ovaries in the female and testes in the male.
  • genital warts — a sexually transmitted disease caused by the human papilloma virus; the warts grow in the genital area
  • gentle breeze — a wind of 8–12 miles per hour (4–5 m/sec).
  • gentle-person — a person of good family and position; gentleman or lady.
  • geochronology — the chronology of the earth, as based on both absolute and relative methods of age determination.
  • geohydrologic — relating to geohydrology
  • geometrically — of or relating to geometry or to the principles of geometry.
  • geomorphology — the study of the characteristics, origin, and development of landforms.
  • german silver — any of various alloys of copper, zinc, and nickel, usually white and used for utensils, drawing instruments, etc.; nickel silver.
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