13-letter words containing g, e, t, o

globetrotters — Plural form of globetrotter.
globetrotting — to travel throughout the world, especially regularly or frequently.
glossectomies — Plural form of glossectomy.
glove factory — a factory where gloves are made
glove leather — a soft, smooth, pliable, stretchable leather.
glutinousness — The quality of being glutinous.
glycopeptides — Plural form of glycopeptide.
glycoproteins — Plural form of glycoprotein.
go fly a kite — to move through the air using wings.
go great guns — to act or function with great speed, intensity, etc
go one better — of superior quality or excellence: a better coat; a better speech.
go the rounds — If a story, idea, or joke is going the rounds or doing the rounds, a lot of people have heard it and are telling it to other people.
go to blazes! — go to hell!
go to the bad — to become wicked, shiftless, etc.; degenerate
go to the mat — a piece of fabric made of plaited or woven rushes, straw, hemp, or similar fiber, or of some other pliant material, as rubber, used as a protective covering on a floor or other surface, to wipe the shoes on, etc.
go-to-meeting — Sunday-go-to-meeting.
goal-oriented — (of a person) focused on reaching a specific objective or accomplishing a given task; driven by purpose: goal-oriented teams of teachers.
goat antelope — any of several wild goats with antelopelike features, including the chamois, goral, serow, and Rocky Mountain goat.
goat's cheese — cheese made from goat's milk
godwin-austen — Also called Godwin Austen [god-win aw-stin] /ˈgɒd wɪn ˈɔ stɪn/ (Show IPA), Dapsang [duh p-suhng] /dəpˈsʌŋ/ (Show IPA). a mountain in N Kashmir, in the Karakoram range: second highest peak in the world. 28,250 feet (8611 meters).
golan heights — a range of hills in the Middle East, possession of which is disputed between Israel and Syria: under Syrian control until 1967 when they were stormed by Israeli forces; Jewish settlements have since been established. Highest peak: 2224 m (7297 ft)
golden wattle — a broad-leaved, Australian acacia, Acacia pycnantha, of the legume family, having short clusters of yellow flowers and yielding tanbark and a useful gum.
goliath crane — a gantry crane for heavy work, as in steel mills.
gone to glory — dead
good question — pertinent or insightful enquiry
good-tempered — good-natured; amiable.
goodheartedly — In a goodhearted manner.
goodnaturedly — In a good-natured manner.
gopher client — (networking) A program which runs on your local computer and provides a user interface to the Gopher protocol and to gopher servers. Web browsers can act as Gopher clients and simple Gopher-only clients are available for ordinary terminals, the X Window System, GNU Emacs, and other systems.
gordon setter — one of a Scottish breed of medium-sized setters having a black-and-tan coat.
gottlob frege — (person, history, philosophy, mathematics, logic, theory) (1848-1925) A mathematician who put mathematics on a new and more solid foundation. He purged mathematics of mistaken, sloppy reasoning and the influence of Pythagoras. Mathematics was shown to be a subdivision of formal logic.
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.
gradient post — a small white post beside a railway line at a point where the gradient changes having arms set at angles representing the gradients
gram's method — a method of staining and distinguishing bacteria, in which a fixed bacterial smear is stained with crystal violet, treated with Gram's solution, decolorized with alcohol, counterstained with safranine, and washed with water.
gram-positive — (of bacteria) retaining the violet dye when stained by Gram's method.
grandiloquent — speaking or expressed in a lofty style, often to the point of being pompous or bombastic.
grandmotherly — of or characteristic of a grandmother.
graph plotter — plotter
grave clothes — the wrappings in which a dead body is interred
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 goddess — The, 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 lobelia — a North American plant, Lobelia siphilitica, having long, showy clusters of blue flowers.
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.
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).
greek cypriot — a Cypriot of Greek descent
green monitor — Advanced Power Management
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.
grey-thompson — Tanni (Carys Davina) Baroness. born 1969, Welsh wheelchair athlete; won eleven gold medals for Britain in wheelchair racing in the Paralympic Games (1988–2004); a crossbench peer in the House of Lords since 2010

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