13-letter words containing g, o, l, d, r
- grand guignol — a short drama stressing horror and sensationalism.
- grand old man — a highly respected, usually elderly man who has been a major or the most important figure in a specific field for many years.
- grandiloquent — speaking or expressed in a lofty style, often to the point of being pompous or bombastic.
- grandiloquous — grandiloquent
- grandmotherly — of or characteristic of a grandmother.
- gravel-voiced — speaking in a rough and rasping tone
- gregor mendel — Gregor Johann [greg-er yoh-hahn;; German grey-gawr yoh-hahn] /ˈgrɛg ər ˈyoʊ hɑn;; German ˈgreɪ gɔr ˈyoʊ hɑn/ (Show IPA), 1822–84, Austrian monk and botanist.
- grimes golden — a yellow variety of apple that ripens in late autumn.
- ground beetle — any of numerous nocturnal, terrestrial beetles of the family Carabidae that feed chiefly on other insects.
- ground colour — a colour on which other colours are superimposed to create a pattern
- ground sluice — a trench, cut through a placer or through bedrock, through which a stream is diverted in order to dislodge and wash the gravel.
- ground tackle — equipment, as anchors, chains, or windlasses, for mooring a vessel away from a pier or other fixed moorings.
- groundnut oil — a mild-tasting oil extracted from peanuts and used in cooking
- grylloblattid — a primitive insect of the order Grylloblattidea, having a soft, unpigmented wingless body with long antennae and no eyes, living under stones in moderately high mountains of the western U.S., Japan, and the U.S.S.R.
- gulf of sidra — a wide inlet of the Mediterranean on the N coast of Libya
- heli-boarding — the sport of snowboarding on mountains or glaciers accessible only by helicopter or skiplane
- high-coloured — (of the complexion) deep red or purplish; florid
- hold a grudge — be resentful
- hold together — not fall apart
- hollow-ground — ground so as to produce a concave surface or surfaces behind a cutting edge: the hollow-ground blade of an ice skate.
- ideographical — Alternative form of ideographic.
- kolding fjord — an inlet of the Little Belt at the head of which is Kolding
- lambda prolog — (language) An extension of standard Prolog defined by Dale A. Miller and Gopalan Nadathur in 1986, in which terms are strongly typed lambda terms. Clauses are higher order hereditary Harrop formulas. The main novelties are universal quantification on goals and implication. The Prolog/Mali compiler compiles Lambda Prolog for the MALI abstract memory system. Mailing list: [email protected]
- landing force — the ground forces of an amphibious task force that effect the assault landing in an amphibious operation.
- leather goods — products made of animal skin
- levelling rod — a graduated rod that is used to determine differences in elevation
- lightning rod — a rodlike conductor installed to divert lightning away from a structure by providing a direct path to the ground.
- london bridge — a bridge over the Thames between the City of London on the north side, and Southwark on the south side.
- losing hazard — an unavoidable danger or risk, even though often foreseeable: The job was full of hazards.
- lounge around — to pass time idly and indolently.
- lounge lizard — a foppish man who frequents bars, cafés, hotel lounges, etc., with or in search of women.
- macrodiagonal — the longer of two diagonals
- mid glamorgan — a county in S Wales. 393 sq. mi. (1019 sq. km).
- middle ground — an intermediate position, area, or recourse between two opposites or extremes; a halfway or neutral standpoint.
- middleborough — a town in SE Massachusetts.
- middlesbrough — a seaport in NE England, on the Tees estuary.
- moderate gale — a wind of 32–38 miles per hour (14–17 m/sec).
- modula-prolog — Adds a Prolog layer to Modula-2. "Modula-Prolog: A Software Development Tool", C. Muller IEEE Software pp.39-45 (Nov 1986).
- molding board — a board upon which bread is kneaded, cookies prepared, etc.
- monoglyceride — an ester obtained from glycerol by the esterification of one hydroxyl group with a fatty acid.
- mood-altering — (especially of drugs) capable of changing one's emotional state.
- national grid — a network of high-voltage power lines connecting major power stations
- nondegradable — not subject to or capable of degradation or decomposition: nondegradable waste.
- oil hardening — to quench (steel) in a bath of oil.
- old bulgarian — the Bulgarian language of the Middle Ages.
- old norwegian — the language of Norway as spoken and written from the middle of the 12th to the end of the 14th centuries.
- olduvai gorge — a gorge in Tanzania in which is located a site containing Australopithecine and human skeletal and cultural remains.
- orchidologist — someone who is knowledgeable in orchidology
- organ-builder — a maker of organs
- orthodiagonal — the axis in a crystal