13-letter words containing g, i, e, t
- glutinousness — The quality of being glutinous.
- glycopeptides — Plural form of glycopeptide.
- glycoproteins — Plural form of glycoprotein.
- gnathic index — Craniometry. the ratio of the distance from basion to prosthion to the distance from basion to nasion, expressed in percent of the latter.
- go fly a kite — to move through the air using wings.
- 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.
- 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)
- goliath crane — a gantry crane for heavy work, as in steel mills.
- good question — pertinent or insightful enquiry
- 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.
- governability — to rule over by right of authority: to govern a nation.
- grade cricket — competitive cricket, in which cricket club teams are arranged in grades
- 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
- gradient wind — a wind with a velocity and direction that are mathematically defined by the balanced relationship of the pressure gradient force to the centrifugal force and the Coriolis force: conceived as blowing parallel to isobars.
- 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.
- grammaticized — Simple past tense and past participle of grammaticize.
- grandiloquent — speaking or expressed in a lofty style, often to the point of being pompous or bombastic.
- granite paper — paper containing fibers of various colors that give it a granitelike appearance.
- granite state — New Hampshire (used as a nickname).
- grape variety — type of grape
- graphitizable — (chemistry, of carbon) Able to be converted to graphite.
- 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
- 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 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 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 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.
- 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).
- greater siren — a salamander, Siren lacertina, having external gills, tiny front legs, and no hind legs, inhabiting shallow waters in the southeastern U.S.
- greek cypriot — a Cypriot of Greek descent
- green gentian — a plant, Frasera speciosa, of the gentian family, native to the northwestern U.S., having open clusters of purple-spotted, greenish-white flowers that blend in with its leaves.
- 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.
- greeting card — card1 (def 4).
- grotesqueries — Plural form of grotesquery.
- gubernatorial — of or relating to a state governor or the office of state governor.
- guesstimating — Present participle of guesstimate.
- guesstimation — (pejorative) An estimation made without good justification and often biased.
- guilt complex — If you say that someone has a guilt complex about something, you mean that they feel very guilty about it, in a way that you consider is exaggerated, unreasonable, or unnecessary.
- guiltlessness — The state of being guiltless; innocence.
- gunters-chain — a series of objects connected one after the other, usually in the form of a series of metal rings passing through one another, used either for various purposes requiring a flexible tie with high tensile strength, as for hauling, supporting, or confining, or in various ornamental and decorative forms.