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13-letter words containing e, r, g

  • 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.
  • gene transfer — Biotechnology. the insertion of copies of a gene into living cells in order to induce synthesis of the gene's product: the desired gene may be microinjected directly into the cell or it may be inserted into the core of a virus by gene splicing and the virus allowed to infect the cell for replication of the gene in the cell's DNA.
  • 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
  • generationism — the belief that some generations are superior to others
  • generic thunk — (programming)   A software mechanism that allows a 16-bit Windows application to load and call a Win32 DLL under Windows NT and Windows 95. See also flat thunk, universal thunk.
  • genetic drift — random changes in the frequency of alleles in a gene pool, usually of small populations.
  • genetotrophic — pertaining to nutrition and genetics
  • 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
  • genitourinary — of or relating to the genital and urinary organs; urogenital.
  • genre-busting — not conforming to established patterns, styles, etc
  • 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.
  • geocentricism — the belief that the earth lies at the centre of the universe
  • 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.
  • geometricians — Plural form of geometrician.
  • geomorphology — the study of the characteristics, origin, and development of landforms.
  • george custer — George Armstrong [ahrm-strawng,, -strong] /ˈɑrm strɔŋ,, -strɒŋ/ (Show IPA), 1839–76, U.S. general and Indian fighter.
  • george inness — George, 1825–94, and his son George, 1854–1926, U.S. painters.
  • george patton — Charley (Charlie Patton) 1881–1934, U.S. blues guitarist and singer.
  • george w bush — Barbara (Barbara Pierce) born 1925, U.S. First Lady 1989–93 (wife of George H. W. Bush).
  • george wither — George, 1588–1667, English poet and pamphleteer.
  • geostationary — of or relating to a satellite traveling in an orbit 22,300 miles (35,900 km) above the earth's equator: at this altitude, the satellite's period of rotation, 24 hours, matches the earth's and the satellite always remains in the same spot over the earth: geostationary orbit.
  • geostrategies — Plural form of geostrategy.
  • geostrategist — A geopolitical strategist; one concerned with the strategies of political geography.
  • geriatricians — Plural form of geriatrician.
  • german africa — the former German colonies in Africa, comprising German East Africa, German Southwest Africa, Cameroons, and Togoland.
  • german silver — any of various alloys of copper, zinc, and nickel, usually white and used for utensils, drawing instruments, etc.; nickel silver.
  • germinability — the degree of ability of a seed to germinate or sprout.
  • germinal disk — blastodisk.
  • gerodontology — the branch of dentistry dealing with aging and aged persons.
  • gerontocratic — government by a council of elders.
  • gerontologist — the branch of science that deals with aging and the problems of aged persons.
  • gerontophilia — sexual attraction towards old people
  • gerontophobia — a fear of old people.
  • gerrymandered — Simple past tense and past participle of gerrymander.
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