13-letter words containing l, a, e, g, r
- general order — any one of a set of permanent orders from a headquarters establishing policy for a command or announcing official acts.
- general staff — a group of officers who are without command and whose duty is to assist high commanders in planning and carrying out orders in peace and war.
- general store — a store, usually in a rural area, that sells a wide variety of merchandise, as clothing, food, or hardware, but is not divided into departments.
- general synod — the governing body, under Parliament, of the Church of England, made up of the bishops and elected clerical and lay representatives
- generalisable — Non-Oxford British standard spelling of generalizable.
- generalissimo — the supreme commander of the armed forces.
- generalizable — to infer (a general principle, trend, etc.) from particular facts, statistics, or the like.
- 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
- genital ridge — the area in the vertebrate embryo that develops into ovaries in the female and testes in the male.
- genital warts — a sexually transmitted disease caused by the human papilloma virus; the warts grow in the genital area
- geometrically — of or relating to geometry or to the principles of geometry.
- german silver — any of various alloys of copper, zinc, and nickel, usually white and used for utensils, drawing instruments, etc.; nickel silver.
- germinability — the degree of ability of a seed to germinate or sprout.
- germinal disk — blastodisk.
- gerontophilia — sexual attraction towards old people
- gesticulatory — Making a lot of gesticulations.
- get-well card — a greeting card sent to a person who is unwell, expressing a wish for a speedy recovery
- ghettoblaster — Alternative form of ghetto blaster.
- ginger family — the plant family Zingiberaceae, characterized by tropical, often aromatic herbaceous plants having rhizomes, long sheathing leaves, and clusters of tubular flowers, and including cardamon, ginger, and turmeric.
- glacier cream — a barrier cream, esp against ultraviolet radiation, used when climbing above the snow line
- glacier table — a stone slab supported over the surface of a mountain glacier by a column or columns of ice.
- glamour model — a woman who models topless or nude for photographs
- glass slipper — an imaginary ladies' shoe made of glass, as worn by Cinderella in the fairy tale of that name
- global search — a word-processing operation in which a complete computer file or set of files is searched for every occurrence of a particular word or other sequence of characters
- globe theatre — a theater on the south bank of the Thames in London, 1599–1613: many of Shakespeare's plays were first produced here.
- glossographer — a glossator.
- glove factory — a factory where gloves are made
- glove leather — a soft, smooth, pliable, stretchable leather.
- glucuronidase — an enzyme that catalyzes glucuronide hydrolysis
- glutamatergic — (biochemistry, neurology) Of or pertaining to the neurotransmission of glutamate.
- glyceric acid — a colorless, syrupy liquid, C 3 H 6 O 4 , obtained by oxidizing glycerol.
- gnu assembler — (GAS) A Unix assembler for the GNU project. Many CPU types are handled and COFF and IEEE-695 formats are supported as well as standard a.out. Current version 2.2 ported to Sun-3, Sun-4, i386, 386BSD, BSD/386, Linux, PS/2-AIX, VAX, Ultrix, BSD, VMS. The assembler has been merged with GNU Binutils. E-mail: <[email protected]>.
- goal-oriented — (of a person) focused on reaching a specific objective or accomplishing a given task; driven by purpose: goal-oriented teams of teachers.
- gobar numeral — any of a set of ancient numerals derived from Hindu numerals
- goliath crane — a gantry crane for heavy work, as in steel mills.
- goodheartedly — In a goodhearted manner.
- goodnaturedly — In a good-natured manner.
- googlewhacker — One who searches for googlewhacks.
- governability — to rule over by right of authority: to govern a nation.
- gracelessness — The state of being graceless.
- gram molecule — that quantity of a substance whose weight in grams is numerically equal to the molecular weight of the substance.
- gram-variable — of or relating to bacteria that stain irregularly with Gram's stain, being neither Gram-positive nor Gram-negative.
- grand larceny — larceny in which the value of the goods taken is above a certain legally specified amount.
- grand slammer — Bridge. the winning of all thirteen tricks of a deal. Compare little slam.
- grandchildren — a child of one's son or daughter.
- grandfatherly — of or characteristic of a grandfather.
- grandiloquent — speaking or expressed in a lofty style, often to the point of being pompous or bombastic.
- grandmotherly — of or characteristic of a grandmother.
- grandparental — Of or relating to a grandparent.
- granuliferous — full of granules, or producing granules