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13-letter words containing g, o, d, n

  • floodlighting — Present participle of floodlight.
  • floor trading — trading by personal contact on the floor of a market or exchange
  • flooring brad — a brad having a very small head, made in lengths from 2 to 4 inches (5 to 10 cm).
  • flower garden — plot for flowers
  • flying doctor — a doctor listed with local authorities as willing to be flown to remote areas to give emergency medical care.
  • flying dragon — any of several arboreal lizards of the genus Draco, having an extensible membrane between the limbs along each side by means of which it makes long, gliding leaps.
  • folding chair — a chair that can be collapsed flat for easy storage or transport.
  • folding money — paper money.
  • folding press — a fall in wrestling won by folding one's opponent's legs up to his head and pressing his shoulders to the floor
  • fondant icing — icing made from fondant
  • food shopping — shopping to buy food
  • foot-dragging — reluctance or failure to proceed or act promptly.
  • foregrounding — Present participle of foreground.
  • foreign-owned — owned by an individual who is resident in a different country or by a company whose headquarters are in a different country
  • foreknowledge — knowledge of something before it exists or happens; prescience: Did you have any foreknowledge of the scheme?
  • foreordaining — Present participle of foreordain.
  • foreshadowing — to show or indicate beforehand; prefigure: Political upheavals foreshadowed war.
  • forge welding — the welding of pieces of hot metal with pressure or blows.
  • forked tongue — lying or deceitful talk
  • front-loading — Also, front-loaded. front-loading (def 1).
  • frontage road — a local road that runs parallel to an expressway, providing access to roadside stores and businesses; a service road.
  • fruiting body — an organ that produces spores; fructification.
  • gagging order — an official order against certain information being made public or discussed (by the press, etc)
  • garden orache — a plant of the goosefoot family, Atriplex hortensis, which is cultivated as a vegetable and used like spinach
  • garret window — a skylight that lies along the slope of the roof
  • gelada baboon — a NE African baboon, Theropithecus gelada, with dark brown hair forming a mane over the shoulders, a bare red chest, and a ridged muzzle: family Cercopithecidae
  • general order — any one of a set of permanent orders from a headquarters establishing policy for a command or announcing official acts.
  • general synod — the governing body, under Parliament, of the Church of England, made up of the bishops and elected clerical and lay representatives
  • gentlemanhood — the nature or position of a gentleman
  • geodesic line — the shortest line lying on a given surface and connecting two given points.
  • gerodontology — the branch of dentistry dealing with aging and aged persons.
  • get a bead on — a small, usually round object of glass, wood, stone, or the like with a hole through it, often strung with others of its kind in necklaces, rosaries, etc.
  • get around to — When you get around to doing something that you have delayed doing or have been too busy to do, you finally do it.
  • get-up-and-go — energy, drive, and enthusiasm.
  • ghiordes knot — a hand-tied knot, used in rug weaving, in which the parallel ends of looped yarn alternate with two threads of warp, producing an uneven pile effect.
  • giant hogweed — a tall plant, Heracleum mantegazzianum, of the parsley family, native to Russia and now naturalized in the U.S., having very large leaves and broad, white flower heads somewhat resembling Queen Anne's lace: can cause an allergic rash when touched by susceptible persons.
  • giant redwood — big tree.
  • gibson desert — a desert in W central Australia: scrub; salt marshes. About 85,000 sq. mi. (220,000 sq. km).
  • gin and tonic — a drink made with gin and quinine water, served in a tall glass and usually garnished with a slice of lime or lemon.
  • gladstone bag — a small rectangular suitcase hinged to open into two compartments of equal size.
  • gliding joint — arthrodia.
  • gluconic acid — a colorless, water-soluble acid, C 6 H 12 O 7 , obtained by the oxidation of glucose, used commercially in a 50-percent solution for cleaning metals.
  • glucuronidase — an enzyme that catalyzes glucuronide hydrolysis
  • glyconic acid — gluconic acid.
  • 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.
  • goal-oriented — (of a person) focused on reaching a specific objective or accomplishing a given task; driven by purpose: goal-oriented teams of teachers.
  • god's country — an area or region supposed to be favored by God, especially a naturally beautiful rural area.
  • 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).
  • gog and magog — two nations led by Satan in a climactic battle at Armageddon against the kingdom of God. Rev. 20:8.
  • gold standard — a monetary system with gold of specified weight and fineness as the unit of value.
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