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13-letter words containing e, r, g

  • grand prairie — a city in NE Texas.
  • grand quarter — a quartered coat of arms, itself one of the quarters of a coat of arms.
  • grand slammer — Bridge. the winning of all thirteen tricks of a deal. Compare little slam.
  • grandchildren — a child of one's son or daughter.
  • granddaughter — a daughter of one's son or daughter.
  • grandfathered — Simple past tense and past participle of grandfather.
  • grandfatherly — of or characteristic of a grandfather.
  • grandiloquent — speaking or expressed in a lofty style, often to the point of being pompous or bombastic.
  • grandioseness — affectedly grand or important; pompous: grandiose words.
  • grandma mosesAnna Mary Robertson ("Grandma Moses") 1860–1961, U.S. painter.
  • grandmotherly — of or characteristic of a grandmother.
  • grandparental — Of or relating to a grandparent.
  • granite paper — paper containing fibers of various colors that give it a granitelike appearance.
  • granite state — New Hampshire (used as a nickname).
  • granuliferous — full of granules, or producing granules
  • grape harvest — gathering of ripe grapes from the vine
  • grape variety — type of grape
  • graph plotter — plotter
  • graphemically — In terms of or by means of graphemes.
  • graphic novel — a novel in the form of comic strips.
  • graphitizable — (chemistry, of carbon) Able to be converted to graphite.
  • grapple plant — a procumbent, thorny plant, Harpagophytum procumbens, of southern Africa.
  • grass widower — a man who is separated, divorced, or lives apart from his wife.
  • grave clothes — the wrappings in which a dead body is interred
  • grave-robbing — a person who steals valuables from graves and tombs: Graverobbers had emptied the Mayan tomb before archaeologists could examine its contents.
  • gravel-voiced — speaking in a rough and rasping tone
  • graving piece — a piece of wood let into a wooden hull to replace decayed wood.
  • gravity hinge — a hinge closing automatically by means of gravity.
  • gravity meter — gravimeter (def 2).
  • gravity scale — a scale giving the relative density of fluids
  • gray eminence — a person who wields unofficial power, especially through another person and often surreptitiously or privately.
  • gray squirrel — a common, grayish squirrel, Sciurus carolinensis, of eastern North America.
  • grease monkey — a mechanic, especially one who works on automobiles or airplanes.
  • grease nipple — a metal nipple designed to engage with a grease gun for injecting grease into a bearing, etc
  • grease pencil — a pencil of pigment and compressed grease encased in a spiral paper strip that can be partially unwound to expose a new point and used especially for writing on glossy surfaces.
  • great basinet — a basinet having a beaver permanently attached.
  • great britain — an island of NW Europe, separated from the mainland by the English Channel and the North Sea: since 1707 the name has applied politically to England, Scotland, and Wales. 88,139 sq. mi. (228,280 sq. km).
  • great bustard — a large bustard, Otis tarda, of southern and central Europe and western and central Asia, having a wingspread of about 8 feet (2.4 meters).
  • great calorie — calorie (sense 2)
  • great council — (in Norman England) an assembly composed of the king's tenants in chief that served as the principal council of the realm and replaced the witenagemot.
  • great daedala — either of two festivals held in ancient Boeotia in honor of the reconciliation of Hera with Zeus, one (Little Daedala) being held every 6 years, the other (Great Daedala) every 59 years.
  • great goddessThe, a vaguely defined deity symbolizing maternity, the fertility of the earth, and femininity in general; the central figure in the religions of ancient Anatolia, the Near East, and the eastern Mediterranean, later sometimes taking the form of a specific goddess, as Cybele, Rhea, or Demeter.
  • great grimsby — seaport in Humberside, NE England, at the mouth of the Humber estuary: county district pop. 91,000
  • great khingan — a mountain range in NE China: highest peak, 5000 feet (1525 meters).
  • great lobelia — a North American plant, Lobelia siphilitica, having long, showy clusters of blue flowers.
  • great 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.
  • great russian — a member of the main stock of the Russian people, dwelling chiefly in the northern or central parts of the Russian Federation in Europe.
  • great society — the goal of the Democratic Party under the leadership of President Lyndon B. Johnson, chiefly to enact domestic programs to improve education, provide medical care for the aged, and eliminate poverty.
  • great-hearted — having or showing a generous heart; magnanimous.
  • greater ionic — Architecture. noting or pertaining to one of the five classical orders that in ancient Greece consisted of a fluted column with a molded base and a capital composed of four volutes, usually parallel to the architrave with a pulvinus connecting a pair on each side of the column, and an entablature typically consisting of an architrave of three fascias, a richly ornamented frieze, and a cornice corbeled out on egg-and-dart and dentil moldings, with the frieze sometimes omitted. Roman and Renaissance examples are often more elaborate, and usually set the volutes of the capitals at 45° to the architrave. Compare composite (def 3), Corinthian (def 2), Doric (def 3), Tuscan (def 2).
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