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13-letter words containing g, i, t

  • 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.
  • graffiti-bomb — Military. a projectile, formerly usually spherical, filled with a bursting charge and exploded by means of a fuze, by impact, or otherwise, now generally designed to be dropped from an aircraft.
  • grain of salt — salt crystal
  • 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.
  • grammatically — of or relating to grammar: grammatical analysis.
  • grammaticized — Simple past tense and past participle of grammaticize.
  • grandad shirt — a long-sleeved collarless shirt
  • grandiloquent — speaking or expressed in a lofty style, often to the point of being pompous or bombastic.
  • grandstanding — the main seating area of a stadium, racetrack, parade route, or the like, usually consisting of tiers with rows of individual seats.
  • granite paper — paper containing fibers of various colors that give it a granitelike appearance.
  • granite state — New Hampshire (used as a nickname).
  • granitization — a hypothetical process of forming granite.
  • granodioritic — relating to granodiorite
  • grants-in-aid — a subsidy furnished by a central government to a local one to help finance a public project, as the construction of a highway or school.
  • grantsmanship — skill in securing grants, as for research, from federal agencies, foundations, or the like.
  • grape variety — type of grape
  • graphitizable — (chemistry, of carbon) Able to be converted to graphite.
  • graticulation — the division of a design, plan, etc into squares in order to improve the accuracy of enlargement or reduction
  • gratification — the state of being gratified; great satisfaction.
  • gravitational — Physics. the force of attraction between any two masses. Compare law of gravitation. an act or process caused by this force.
  • gravity clock — a clock driven by its own weight as it descends a rack, cord, incline, etc.
  • gravity fault — a fault along an inclined plane in which the upper side or hanging wall appears to have moved downward with respect to the lower side or footwall (opposed to reverse fault).
  • 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.
  • ground-to-air — (of weapons) designed to be fired at aircraft from the ground
  • groundnut oil — a mild-tasting oil extracted from peanuts and used in cooking
  • group annuity — a plan in which the members of a group, usually employees of the same company, receive annuities upon retirement.
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