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13-letter words containing n, o, c, g, i

  • gin and tonic — a drink made with gin and quinine water, served in a tall glass and usually garnished with a slice of lime or lemon.
  • glocalisation — (British spelling) Alternative form of glocalization.
  • glocalization — The practice of conducting business according to both local and global considerations.
  • glockenspiels — Plural form of glockenspiel.
  • glorification — a glorified or more splendid form of something.
  • gluconeogenic — glucose formation in animals from a noncarbohydrate source, as from proteins or fats.
  • gluconic acid — a colorless, water-soluble acid, C 6 H 12 O 7 , obtained by the oxidation of glucose, used commercially in a 50-percent solution for cleaning metals.
  • glucuronidase — an enzyme that catalyzes glucuronide hydrolysis
  • glyconic acid — gluconic acid.
  • glycoproteins — Plural form of glycoprotein.
  • glycosylation — (chemistry, biochemistry) The reaction of a saccharide with a hydroxy or amino functional group to form a glycoside; especially the reaction with a protein or lipid to form a glycoprotein or glycolipid.
  • going concern — viable business
  • goliath crane — a gantry crane for heavy work, as in steel mills.
  • gonadotrophic — Of, pertaining to, or stimulating the functions of the gonads.
  • gonochoristic — Of or pertaining to gonochorism.
  • good riddance — the act or fact of clearing away or out, as anything undesirable.
  • 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.
  • gossip column — newspaper: celebrity news article
  • grain alcohol — alcohol (def 1).
  • graminicolous — (esp of parasitic fungi) living on grass
  • granodioritic — relating to granodiorite
  • graphic novel — a novel in the form of comic strips.
  • graticulation — the division of a design, plan, etc into squares in order to improve the accuracy of enlargement or reduction
  • gratification — the state of being gratified; great satisfaction.
  • 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.
  • greater ionic — Architecture. noting or pertaining to one of the five classical orders that in ancient Greece consisted of a fluted column with a molded base and a capital composed of four volutes, usually parallel to the architrave with a pulvinus connecting a pair on each side of the column, and an entablature typically consisting of an architrave of three fascias, a richly ornamented frieze, and a cornice corbeled out on egg-and-dart and dentil moldings, with the frieze sometimes omitted. Roman and Renaissance examples are often more elaborate, and usually set the volutes of the capitals at 45° to the architrave. Compare composite (def 3), Corinthian (def 2), Doric (def 3), Tuscan (def 2).
  • ground sluice — a trench, cut through a placer or through bedrock, through which a stream is diverted in order to dislodge and wash the gravel.
  • group captain — an officer holding commissioned rank senior to a wing commander but junior to an air commodore in the RAF and certain other air forces
  • gynaecologist — (UK, Canada, dated in US) A physician who specialises in diseases of the female reproductive system.
  • gynaecomastia — abnormal overdevelopment of the breasts in a man
  • gynaecophobia — (psychology) An irrational fear of women.
  • gynecocracies — Plural form of gynecocracy.
  • gynecological — the branch of medical science that deals with the health maintenance and diseases of women, especially of the reproductive organs. Abbreviation: GYN, gyn.
  • gynecologists — Plural form of gynecologist.
  • gynodioecious — having female flowers on one plant and hermaphrodite flowers on another plant of the same species.
  • gynomonoecism — the condition of having female flowers and also flowers that have a pistil and stamen on the same plant
  • hacking cough — a harsh, dry and spasmodic cough
  • half coupling — a flange fixed at the end of each of the two shafts that are connected in a flange coupling
  • hallucinogens — Plural form of hallucinogen.
  • herringchoker — a native or resident of any of the Maritime Provinces but especially of New Brunswick.
  • heterogenetic — of, relating to, or characterized by heterogenesis.
  • historicizing — Present participle of historicize.
  • hitching post — a post to which horses, mules, etc., are tied.
  • homeschooling — a school set up in the home.
  • homing device — a mechanism incorporated into a guided missile, airplane, etc., that aims it toward its objective.
  • homogenetical — of, involving or relating to homogeny
  • housecleaning — the act of cleaning a house, room, etc., and its furnishings, especially the act of cleaning thoroughly and completely.
  • housing stock — the total number of houses, flats, etc, in an area
  • human cloning — the act of producing a human as a clone
  • hydrocracking — the cracking of petroleum or the like in the presence of hydrogen.
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