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13-letter words containing l, o, e, r

  • gesticulatory — Making a lot of gesticulations.
  • ghettoblaster — Alternative form of ghetto blaster.
  • gilmore, john — John Gilmore
  • girl's blouse — used to refer to a man who is not behaving in a very strong or masculine way
  • glamour model — a woman who models topless or nude for photographs
  • 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.
  • globe-trotter — a person who travels widely about the world, esp. for pleasure
  • globetrotters — Plural form of globetrotter.
  • globetrotting — to travel throughout the world, especially regularly or frequently.
  • globuliferous — containing or producing globules.
  • glossographer — a glossator.
  • glove factory — a factory where gloves are made
  • glove leather — a soft, smooth, pliable, stretchable leather.
  • glucochlorose — chloralose.
  • glucuronidase — an enzyme that catalyzes glucuronide hydrolysis
  • glycoproteins — Plural form of glycoprotein.
  • 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
  • gödel's proof — a proof that in a formal axiomatic system such as logic or mathematics it is impossible to prove consistency without using methods from outside the system, demonstrated by Kurt Gödel (1906–78)
  • gold chloride — a yellow to red, water-soluble compound, AuCl 3 , used chiefly in photography, gilding ceramic ware and glass, and in the manufacture of purple of Cassius.
  • golden number — a number between 1 and 19, used to indicate the position of any year in the Metonic cycle, calculated as the remainder when 1 is added to the given year and the sum is divided by 19. If the remainder is zero the number is 19
  • golden oriole — an Old World oriole, Oriolus oriolus, the male of which is bright yellow with black wings.
  • golden plover — either of two plovers of the genus Pluvialis, having the back marked with golden-yellow spots, P. apricaria, of Europe, or P. dominica, of America.
  • golden remedy — a very successful way of dealing with a problem
  • golden shiner — a small, silvery freshwater minnow, Notemigonus crysoleucas, native to eastern North America and introduced into western North America: often used as live bait in sport fishing.
  • golden shower — a tree, Cassia fistula, of the legume family, native to India, having long, drooping clusters of yellow flowers.
  • goldie's fern — a wood fern, Dryopteris goldiana, of northeastern North America, having large, golden-green, leathery fronds with blades that tilt backward.
  • goliath crane — a gantry crane for heavy work, as in steel mills.
  • gone to glory — dead
  • goodheartedly — In a goodhearted manner.
  • goodhumoredly — In a good-humored manner.
  • goodnaturedly — In a good-natured manner.
  • googlewhacker — One who searches for googlewhacks.
  • gopher client — (networking)   A program which runs on your local computer and provides a user interface to the Gopher protocol and to gopher servers. Web browsers can act as Gopher clients and simple Gopher-only clients are available for ordinary terminals, the X Window System, GNU Emacs, and other systems.
  • gospel singer — a singer performing gospel music
  • gottlob frege — (person, history, philosophy, mathematics, logic, theory)   (1848-1925) A mathematician who put mathematics on a new and more solid foundation. He purged mathematics of mistaken, sloppy reasoning and the influence of Pythagoras. Mathematics was shown to be a subdivision of formal logic.
  • governability — to rule over by right of authority: to govern a nation.
  • gram molecule — that quantity of a substance whose weight in grams is numerically equal to the molecular weight of the substance.
  • grandiloquent — speaking or expressed in a lofty style, often to the point of being pompous or bombastic.
  • grandmotherly — of or characteristic of a grandmother.
  • granuliferous — full of granules, or producing granules
  • graph plotter — plotter
  • graphic novel — a novel in the form of comic strips.
  • grave clothes — the wrappings in which a dead body is interred
  • gravel-voiced — speaking in a rough and rasping tone
  • 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.
  • green vitriol — a bluish-green, crystalline, saline-tasting, water-soluble heptahydrated solid, FeSO 4 ⋅7H 2 O, used chiefly in the manufacture of other iron salts, in water purification, fertilizer, inks, pigments, tanning, photography, and in medicine in the treatment of anemia.
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