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13-letter words containing l, a, r, g, c

  • flying saucer — any of various disk-shaped objects allegedly seen flying at high speeds and altitudes, often with extreme changes in speed and direction, and thought by some to be manned by intelligent beings from outer space.
  • folding chair — a chair that can be collapsed flat for easy storage or transport.
  • fulbright act — an act of Congress (1946) by which funds derived chiefly from the sale of U.S. surplus property abroad are made available to U.S. citizens for study, research, and teaching in foreign countries as well as to foreigners to engage in similar activities in the U.S.
  • futurological — Pertaining to futurology.
  • gabrilowitsch — Ossip [aw-syip] /ˈɔ syɪp/ (Show IPA), 1878–1936, Russian pianist and conductor, in America.
  • galactic year — the duration of a complete rotation of the Milky Way, approximately 200 million years.
  • galactorrhoea — (British spelling) alternative spelling of galactorrhea.
  • gallo-romance — the vernacular language, a development from Latin, spoken in France from about a.d. 600 to 900. Abbreviation: Gallo-Rom.
  • galvanometric — Of or pertaining to galvanometry.
  • garcia robles — Alfonso [al-fon-soh,, -zoh;; Spanish ahl-fawn-saw] /ælˈfɒn soʊ,, -zoʊ;; Spanish ɑlˈfɔn sɔ/ (Show IPA), 1911–91, Mexican diplomat: Nobel Prize 1982.
  • gastric ulcer — a peptic ulcer located in the stomach's inner wall, caused in part by the corrosive action of the gastric juice on the mucous membrane.
  • gastronomical — the art or science of good eating.
  • general costs — the general expenses of running a business
  • general court — the state legislature of Massachusetts or New Hampshire.
  • general magic — A software company based in Mountain View, California. Products released in 1994 after four years in development include: Telescript - a communications-oriented programming language; Magic Cap - an OOPS designed for PDAs; and a new, third generation GUI. Motorola's Envoy, due for release in the third quarter of 1994, will use Magic Cap as its OS. What PostScript did for cross-platform, device-independent documents, Telescript aims to do for cross-platform, network-independent messaging. Telescript protects programmers from many of the complexities of network protocols. Competitors for Magic Cap include Microsoft's Windows for Pens/Winpad, PenPoint, Apple Computer's Newton Intelligence and GEOS by GeoWorks.
  • geometrically — of or relating to geometry or to the principles of geometry.
  • 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
  • girl-watching — the activity of looking at young women to enjoy their attractiveness, perhaps with a view to starting a relationship
  • glacial drift — material, as gravel, sand, or clay, transported and deposited by a glacier or by glacial meltwater.
  • 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 stock — a popular stock that rises quickly or continuously in price and attracts large numbers of investors.
  • glass curtain — a transparent or translucent curtain covering the interior of a window opening.
  • 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
  • glorification — a glorified or more splendid form of something.
  • glove factory — a factory where gloves are made
  • glucaric acid — saccharic acid.
  • 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 c library — (library)   (glibc) The run-time library for the GNU C compiler, gcc, and others. glibc is the source code for libc.a. It is maintained separately from the compilers and is a superset of ANSI C and POSIX.1 and a large subset of POSIX.2. Mailing list: <[email protected]> (bugs).
  • goliath crane — a gantry crane for heavy work, as in steel mills.
  • googlewhacker — One who searches for googlewhacks.
  • gracelessness — The state of being graceless.
  • grain alcohol — alcohol (def 1).
  • gram molecule — that quantity of a substance whose weight in grams is numerically equal to the molecular weight of the substance.
  • graminicolous — (esp of parasitic fungi) living on grass
  • grammatically — of or relating to grammar: grammatical analysis.
  • 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.
  • graphemically — In terms of or by means of graphemes.
  • graphic algol — (language)   A extension of ALGOL 60 for real-time generation of shaded perspective pictures.
  • graphic novel — a novel in the form of comic strips.
  • graphological — Relating to graphology.
  • graticulation — the division of a design, plan, etc into squares in order to improve the accuracy of enlargement or reduction
  • grave clothes — the wrappings in which a dead body is interred
  • gravel-voiced — speaking in a rough and rasping tone
  • gravity clock — a clock driven by its own weight as it descends a rack, cord, incline, etc.
  • gravity scale — a scale giving the relative density of fluids
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