13-letter words containing g, r, a, c, e, n
- geriatricians — Plural form of geriatrician.
- german africa — the former German colonies in Africa, comprising German East Africa, German Southwest Africa, Cameroons, and Togoland.
- gerontocratic — government by a council of elders.
- glucuronidase — an enzyme that catalyzes glucuronide hydrolysis
- goliath crane — a gantry crane for heavy work, as in steel mills.
- good riddance — the act or fact of clearing away or out, as anything undesirable.
- gracelessness — The state of being graceless.
- graecia magna — Magna Graecia.
- grand duchess — the wife or widow of a grand duke.
- grand larceny — larceny in which the value of the goods taken is above a certain legally specified amount.
- grandchildren — a child of one's son or daughter.
- graphic novel — a novel in the form of comic strips.
- graving piece — a piece of wood let into a wooden hull to replace decayed wood.
- gray eminence — a person who wields unofficial power, especially through another person and often surreptitiously or privately.
- grease pencil — a pencil of pigment and compressed grease encased in a spiral paper strip that can be partially unwound to expose a new point and used especially for writing on glossy surfaces.
- 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.
- 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).
- green channel — the route followed in passing through customs in an airport, etc by passengers claiming to have no dutiable goods to declare
- green machine — A computer or peripheral device that has been designed and built to military specifications for field equipment (that is, to withstand mechanical shock, extremes of temperature and humidity, and so forth). Comes from the olive-drab "uniform" paint used for military equipment.
- greeting card — card1 (def 4).
- ground tackle — equipment, as anchors, chains, or windlasses, for mooring a vessel away from a pier or other fixed moorings.
- 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.
- gynecocracies — Plural form of gynecocracy.
- histaminergic — releasing histamine
- hypermagnetic — (physics) Extremely magnetic.
- iconographies — Plural form of iconography.
- incarcerating — Present participle of incarcerate.
- incouragement — Archaic form of encouragement.
- indo-germanic — Indo-European
- intercalating — Present participle of intercalate.
- interchanging — Present participle of interchange.
- intergalactic — of, existing, or occurring in the space between galaxies: The science-fiction movie was about an intergalactic war.
- interglacials — Plural form of interglacial.
- intransigence — the state or quality of being intransigent, or refusing to compromise or agree; inflexibility: No agreement was reached because of intransigence on both sides.
- intransigency — a person who refuses to agree or compromise, as in politics.
- it governance — information technology governance
- kangaroo care — a method of caring for a premature baby in which the baby is periodically held against a parent's bare chest.
- kangaroo code — spaghetti code
- kerb-crawling — Kerb-crawling is the activity of driving slowly along the side of a road in order to find and hire a prostitute.
- king mackerel — a game fish, Scomberomorus cavalla, found in the western Atlantic Ocean.
- kitchen range — cooker with oven and hob
- landing clerk — a representative of a shipping line who boards its incoming passenger ships to give passengers information and advice.
- landing force — the ground forces of an amphibious task force that effect the assault landing in an amphibious operation.
- laryngectomee — someone who has had a laryngectomy
- laryngoscopes — Plural form of laryngoscope.
- laser cooling — a technique using laser light to cool atoms to a very low temperature by removing momentum from the particles.
- letterspacing — the amount of space between each letter in a word, or the adjustment of this amount of space
- lingual brace — a specialized dental brace that fits behind the teeth so that it is not visible when the wearer speaks or smiles.
- macro-segment — a stretch of speech preceded and followed but not interrupted by a pause.
- magazine rack — shelf for storing periodicals