13-letter words containing e, v, r, g
- energy saving — the fact of saving energy, or amount of energy saved
- energy-giving — containing ingredients designed to boost the eater's or drinker's energy, esp before, during, or after exercise
- engine driver — sb who drives a train
- evangelistary — a book containing passages from the gospels to be used as part of the liturgy
- evening dress — formal clothing
- evening paper — a newspaper that comes out in the evening
- everlastingly — In an everlasting manner; so as to be everlasting.
- extravagances — Plural form of extravagance.
- extravagantes — decretals circulating outside some recognized collection of canon law. Those of John XXII and the so-called Extravagantes communes form part of the Corpus Juris Canonici
- extravagantly — With lavish expenditure or behaviour.
- extravaganzas — Plural form of extravaganza.
- extravasating — Present participle of extravasate.
- favrile glass — a type of iridescent glass developed by L.C. Tiffany
- festivalgoers — Plural form of festivalgoer.
- floorcovering — A covering for a floor.
- forgivingness — disposed to forgive; indicating forgiveness: a forgiving soul; a forgiving smile.
- 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.
- galvanometers — Plural form of galvanometer.
- galvanometric — Of or pertaining to galvanometry.
- gas reversion — Gas reversion is a process which combines thermal cracking or reforming of naphtha with thermal polymerization or alkylation of hydrocarbon gases, which is carried out in the same reaction place.
- german silver — any of various alloys of copper, zinc, and nickel, usually white and used for utensils, drawing instruments, etc.; nickel silver.
- get over with — If you want to get something unpleasant over with, you want to do it or finish experiencing it quickly, since you cannot avoid it.
- give birth to — an act or instance of being born: the day of his birth.
- give priority — If you give priority to something or someone, you treat them as more important than anything or anyone else.
- give sb heart — If something gives you heart, it makes you feel more confident or happy about something.
- glove factory — a factory where gloves are made
- glove leather — a soft, smooth, pliable, stretchable leather.
- go over-board — over the side of a ship or boat, especially into or in the water: to fall overboard.
- golden plover — either of two plovers of the genus Pluvialis, having the back marked with golden-yellow spots, P. apricaria, of Europe, or P. dominica, of America.
- good behavior — satisfactory, proper, or polite conduct.
- goods service — a transport service in which goods are sent by train from one location to another
- governability — to rule over by right of authority: to govern a nation.
- governmentese — complicated or obscurantist language thought to be characteristic of government bureaucratic statements; officialese.
- gram-negative — (of bacteria) not retaining the violet dye when stained by Gram's method.
- gram-positive — (of bacteria) retaining the violet dye when stained by Gram's method.
- gram-variable — of or relating to bacteria that stain irregularly with Gram's stain, being neither Gram-positive nor Gram-negative.
- grape harvest — gathering of ripe grapes from the vine
- grape variety — type of grape
- graphic novel — a novel in the form of comic strips.
- 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
- greek revival — a style of architecture, furnishings, and decoration prevalent in the U.S. and in parts of Europe in the first half of the 19th century, characterized by a more or less close imitation of ancient Greek designs and ornamented motifs.
- green vitriol — a bluish-green, crystalline, saline-tasting, water-soluble heptahydrated solid, FeSO 4 ⋅7H 2 O, used chiefly in the manufacture of other iron salts, in water purification, fertilizer, inks, pigments, tanning, photography, and in medicine in the treatment of anemia.
- grimes graves — an area of Neolithic flint mines in Suffolk, England, comprising more than 300 mine shafts and galleries.
- group of five — France, Japan, UK, US, and Germany acting as a group to stabilize their currency exchange rates