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12-letter words containing i, r, g

  • gossipmonger — a person especially fond of or addicted to gossiping.
  • gothic armor — white armor of the 15th century, marked especially by much fluting and ornamentation.
  • gourd family — the plant family Cucurbitaceae, characterized by tendril-bearing vines, either trailing or climbing and having alternate, palmately lobed leaves, often large yellow or greenish flowers, and many-seeded, fleshy fruit with a hard rind, and including the cucumber, gourd, melon, pumpkin, and squash.
  • gourmandizer — One who gourmandizes.
  • governorship — the duties, term in office, etc., of a governor.
  • grace period — a period of time after a payment becomes due, as of a loan or life-insurance premium, before one is subject to penalties or late charges or before the loan or policy is canceled.
  • graciousness — pleasantly kind, benevolent, and courteous.
  • gradeability — a measure of a truck's pulling power expressed as the steepest grade the truck can climb with a full load.
  • gradeflation — grade inflation.
  • gradualistic — Of or pertaining to gradualism.
  • graduateship — the time or condition of being a graduate
  • graft hybrid — a hybrid plant that is produced by grafting and that exhibits characters of both the stock and the scion.
  • grain growth — a tendency of certain grains to grow and absorb others when heated under certain conditions.
  • grallatorial — belonging or pertaining to the wading birds, as the snipes, cranes, storks, and herons, many species of which have very long legs.
  • gram calorie — calorie (def 1a). Abbreviation: g-cal.
  • graminaceous — Of, pertaining to, or resembling a grass.
  • graminivores — Plural form of graminivore.
  • grammaticise — to make grammatical
  • grammaticism — a point or principle of grammar.
  • grammaticize — (transitive) To render grammatical.
  • gramophonist — a person who uses a gramophone
  • gran canaria — one of the Canary Islands, in the central part. 650 sq. mi. (1685 sq. km). Capital: Las Palmas.
  • gran turismo — (of an automobile) certified as conforming to the specifications, as fuel capacity and engine displacement, for a class of standard automobiles (Gran Turismo) qualified to engage in various types of competitions. Abbreviation: GTO.
  • grand finale — the concluding portion of a performance or entertainment, as a musical show, rodeo, etc., usually spectacular and involving most or all of the prior participants.
  • grand island — a city in S Nebraska.
  • grand kabuki — kabuki (def 2).
  • grand rapids — a city in SW Michigan: furniture factories.
  • grand siècle — the 17th century in French art and literature, esp the classical period of Louis XIV
  • grand vizier — the chief officer of state of various Muslim countries, as in the former Ottoman Empire.
  • granddaddies — Plural form of granddaddy.
  • grangerizing — Present participle of grangerize.
  • granite city — a city in SW Illinois, near St. Louis, Missouri.
  • granite peak — the highest elevation in Montana, in the S part. 12,799 feet (3901 meters).
  • granny smith — a variety of crisp, green-skinned apple, for eating raw or for cooking.
  • granodiorite — a coarse-grained acid igneous rock containing almost twice as much plagioclase as orthoclase: intermediate in composition between granite and diorite
  • grant-in-aid — a subsidy furnished by a central government to a local one to help finance a public project, as the construction of a highway or school.
  • granulations — Plural form of granulation.
  • granulocytic — Of, or pertaining to, granulocytes.
  • grape family — the plant family Vitaceae, characterized by woody climbing vines with tendrils, having alternate, simple or compound leaves, and bearing clusters of small flowers and berries, and including Boston ivy, grape, grape ivy, and Virginia creeper.
  • grape picker — someone who picks grapes
  • graphic arts — any of the fine or applied visual arts based on drawing or the use of line, as opposed to colour or relief, on a plane surface, esp illustration and printmaking of all kinds
  • graphologist — the study of handwriting, especially when regarded as an expression of the writer's character, personality, abilities, etc.
  • graphophobia — Fear or dislike of writing.
  • graphophonic — a phonograph for recording and reproducing sounds on wax records.
  • graspingness — The quality of being grasping.
  • grass family — the large plant family Gramineae (or Poaceae), characterized by mostly herbaceous but sometimes woody plants with hollow and jointed stems, narrow sheathing leaves, petalless flowers borne in spikelets, and fruit in the form of seedlike grain, and including bamboo, sugar cane, numerous grasses, and cereal grains such as barley, corn, oats, rice, rye, and wheat.
  • grass skiing — turfskiing.
  • gratifyingly — In a manner that gratifies.
  • gratuitously — given, done, bestowed, or obtained without charge or payment; free; voluntary.
  • gratulations — a feeling of joy.
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