13-letter words containing o, r, g, e, l
- 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.
- gregor mendel — Gregor Johann [greg-er yoh-hahn;; German grey-gawr yoh-hahn] /ˈgrɛg ər ˈyoʊ hɑn;; German ˈgreɪ gɔr ˈyoʊ hɑn/ (Show IPA), 1822–84, Austrian monk and botanist.
- grimes golden — a yellow variety of apple that ripens in late autumn.
- grossglockner — a mountain in S Austria: highest peak in the Hohe Tauern range. 12,457 feet (3799 meters).
- ground beetle — any of numerous nocturnal, terrestrial beetles of the family Carabidae that feed chiefly on other insects.
- 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.
- ground tackle — equipment, as anchors, chains, or windlasses, for mooring a vessel away from a pier or other fixed moorings.
- gubernatorial — of or relating to a state governor or the office of state governor.
- heli-boarding — the sport of snowboarding on mountains or glaciers accessible only by helicopter or skiplane
- heliographing — Present participle of heliograph.
- heortological — of or relating to heortology
- hepatojugular — (medicine) Relating to the liver and the jugular vein.
- heresiologist — a person who studies or writes about heresies.
- herpetologist — the branch of zoology dealing with reptiles and amphibians.
- heteroglossia — (linguistics) the coexistence of distinct varieties within a single linguistic code.