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13-letter words containing g, r, a, t, o, i

  • gastrostomies — Plural form of gastrostomy.
  • generation xl — overweight children or young adults of the generation that spends a great deal of time on sedentary pursuits such as surfing the internet and playing computer games
  • generationism — the belief that some generations are superior to others
  • genitourinary — of or relating to the genital and urinary organs; urogenital.
  • geometrically — of or relating to geometry or to the principles of geometry.
  • geometricians — Plural form of geometrician.
  • geostationary — of or relating to a satellite traveling in an orbit 22,300 miles (35,900 km) above the earth's equator: at this altitude, the satellite's period of rotation, 24 hours, matches the earth's and the satellite always remains in the same spot over the earth: geostationary orbit.
  • geostrategies — Plural form of geostrategy.
  • geostrategist — A geopolitical strategist; one concerned with the strategies of political geography.
  • gerontocratic — government by a council of elders.
  • gerontophilia — sexual attraction towards old people
  • gerontophobia — a fear of old people.
  • gesticulatory — Making a lot of gesticulations.
  • giant redwood — big tree.
  • gladiatorship — the work of a gladiator
  • glamorisation — Alternative spelling of glamorization.
  • glamorization — to make glamorous.
  • glorification — a glorified or more splendid form of something.
  • goal-oriented — (of a person) focused on reaching a specific objective or accomplishing a given task; driven by purpose: goal-oriented teams of teachers.
  • goliath crane — a gantry crane for heavy work, as in steel mills.
  • gonadotrophic — Of, pertaining to, or stimulating the functions of the gonads.
  • gonadotrophin — a gonadotropic substance.
  • gonadotropins — Plural form of gonadotropin.
  • governability — to rule over by right of authority: to govern a nation.
  • 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
  • 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-positive — (of bacteria) retaining the violet dye when stained by Gram's method.
  • grandiloquent — speaking or expressed in a lofty style, often to the point of being pompous or bombastic.
  • granitization — a hypothetical process of forming granite.
  • granodioritic — relating to granodiorite
  • 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.
  • 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 lobelia — a North American plant, Lobelia siphilitica, having long, showy clusters of blue flowers.
  • 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).
  • ground-to-air — (of weapons) designed to be fired at aircraft from the ground
  • group annuity — a plan in which the members of a group, usually employees of the same company, receive annuities upon retirement.
  • group captain — an officer holding commissioned rank senior to a wing commander but junior to an air commodore in the RAF and certain other air forces
  • 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.
  • gubernatorial — of or relating to a state governor or the office of state governor.
  • gyromagnetism — the condition or state of being gyromagnetic
  • habit-forming — tending to cause or encourage addiction, especially through physiological dependence: habit-forming drugs.
  • hatemongering — The behaviour of a hatemonger; the spreading of hatred.
  • heartstopping — Very exciting or shocking, as though to cause one's heart to skip beats.
  • heating power — power that can be used to heat something
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