14-letter words containing g, r, p

geomorphogenic — relating to geomorphogeny
george pullman — plural Pullmans. a railroad sleeping car or parlor car.
german speaker — a person who speaks German
gerontomorphic — relating to mature masculine characteristics
ghost prisoner — a prisoner, esp one held in US military captivity, whose detention is not publicly acknowledged
gilbert patten — Gilbert ("Burt L. Standish") 1866–1945, U.S. writer of adventure stories.
give it up for — If an audience is asked to give it up for a performer, they are being asked to applaud.
glacial period — Also called glacial period, ice age. the geologically recent Pleistocene Epoch, during which much of the Northern Hemisphere was covered by great ice sheets.
global product — a commercial product that is marketed throughout the world under the same brand name
glyceryl group — the trivalent group (C 3 H 5)− 3 , derived from glycerol.
go pear-shaped — If a situation goes pear-shaped, bad things start happening.
grand ole opry — a successful radio show from Nashville, Tenn., first broadcast on Nov. 28, 1925, noted for its playing of and continuing importance to country music.
grande prairie — a city in W Alberta, in W Canada.
granny dumping — the abandonment of an elderly person, especially a relative, at a hospital, bus station, etc.
granulopoietin — a hormone that promotes the production of white blood cells.
grape hyacinth — any plant belonging to the genus Muscari, of the lily family, as M. botryoides, having globular, blue flowers resembling tiny grapes.
grapefruitlike — Resembling or characteristic of grapefruit.
graph coloring — graph colouring
graphic accent — any mark written above a letter, especially one indicating stress in pronunciation, as in Spanish rápido.
graphic artist — sb who draws, paints, prints, etc.
graphic design — the art or profession of visual communication that combines images, words, and ideas to convey information to an audience, especially to produce a specific effect.
graphite cloth — a nonwoven fabric made by embedding carbon fibers in a plastic bonding material, used in layers as a substitute for sheet metal, as in the construction of aircraft wings.
graphitization — (geology) The formation of graphite from other organic materials.
grapple ground — an anchorage, especially for small vessels.
grappling iron — a grapnel.
grass parakeet — any of several Australian parakeets, especially the budgerigar.
great plantain — a N temperate plant, Plantago major, which has a rosette of broad leaves and a slender spike of small greenish flowers: family Plantaginaceae
great pyrenees — one of a breed of large dogs having a heavy, white coat, raised originally in the Pyrenees for herding sheep and as a watchdog.
great red spot — a large, usually reddish gaseous vortex on the surface of Jupiter, about 14,000 by 30,000 km, that drifts about slowly as the planet rotates and has been observed for several hundred years.
greek alphabet — the alphabetical script derived from a Semitic alphabet by way of the Phoenicians, used from about the 8th century b.c. for the writing of Greek, and forming the basis of many other scripts, including Latin and Cyrillic. The letters of the Greek alphabet are: alpha, beta, gamma, delta, epsilon, zeta, eta, theta, iota, kappa, lambda, mu, nu1 , xi, omicron, pi1 , rho, sigma, tau, upsilon, phi, chi1 , psi1 , omega.
grid capacitor — a capacitor connected in series with the grid.
gridwall panel — A gridwall panel is a metal grid that can be hung on a wall and used for displaying goods.
groundskeepers — Plural form of groundskeeper.
groundskeeping — The activity of tending an area of land for aesthetic or functional purposes; typically as an employee of a person or institution.
group dynamics — (used with a plural verb) the interactions that influence the attitudes and behavior of people when they are grouped with others through either choice or accidental circumstances.
group genitive — (in English) a construction in which the genitive ending 's is added to an entire phrase, especially when added to a word other than the head of the noun phrase, as the woman who lives across the street's in That is the woman who lives across the street's cat or the people next-door's in The people next-door's house is for rent.
group marriage — (among primitive peoples) a form of marriage in which a group of males is united with a group of females to form a single conjugal unit.
group medicine — the practice of medicine by a number of specialists working together in association
group of eight — the Group of Seven nations and Russia, whose heads of government meet to discuss economic matters and international relations
group of seven — G7.
group of three — Japan, US, and Germany (formerly West Germany), regarded as the largest industrialized nations
group practice — Also called group medicine. the practice of medicine by an association of physicians and other health professionals who work together, usually in one suite of offices.
group velocity — the velocity of finite numbers of waves undergoing simple harmonic motion, equal to the phase velocity when it does not vary with the wavelengths of the waves. The group velocity of the set of waves produced in water when a stone is dropped is less than the velocity of the individual waves.
gum turpentine — turpentine (sense 2)
gunpowder plot — an unsuccessful plot to kill King James I and the assembled Lords and Commons by blowing up Parliament, November 5, 1605, in revenge for the laws against Roman Catholics.
gymslip mother — a girl of school age who has become a mother
gynandromorphs — Plural form of gynandromorph.
gynecomorphous — having the form, appearance, or attributes of a female.
gypsum plaster — plaster made primarily of gypsum.
gyroscopically — Using a gyroscope.

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