13-letter words containing o, t, a, r
- gladiatorship — the work of a gladiator
- glamorisation — Alternative spelling of glamorization.
- glamorization — to make glamorous.
- glamour stock — a popular stock that rises quickly or continuously in price and attracts large numbers of investors.
- globe theatre — a theater on the south bank of the Thames in London, 1599–1613: many of Shakespeare's plays were first produced here.
- glorification — a glorified or more splendid form of something.
- glove factory — a factory where gloves are made
- glove leather — a soft, smooth, pliable, stretchable leather.
- go great guns — to act or function with great speed, intensity, etc
- go to bat for — Sports. the wooden club used in certain games, as baseball and cricket, to strike the ball. a racket, especially one used in badminton or table tennis. a whip used by a jockey. the act of using a club or racket in a game. the right or turn to use a club or racket.
- go-kart track — a racetrack for go-karts
- goal-oriented — (of a person) focused on reaching a specific objective or accomplishing a given task; driven by purpose: goal-oriented teams of teachers.
- gold standard — a monetary system with gold of specified weight and fineness as the unit of value.
- goliath crane — a gantry crane for heavy work, as in steel mills.
- gonadotrophic — Of, pertaining to, or stimulating the functions of the gonads.
- gonadotrophin — a gonadotropic substance.
- gonadotropins — Plural form of gonadotropin.
- goodheartedly — In a goodhearted manner.
- goodnaturedly — In a good-natured manner.
- governability — to rule over by right of authority: to govern a nation.
- gradient post — a small white post beside a railway line at a point where the gradient changes having arms set at angles representing the gradients
- graffiti-bomb — Military. a projectile, formerly usually spherical, filled with a bursting charge and exploded by means of a fuze, by impact, or otherwise, now generally designed to be dropped from an aircraft.
- grain of salt — salt crystal
- gram's method — a method of staining and distinguishing bacteria, in which a fixed bacterial smear is stained with crystal violet, treated with Gram's solution, decolorized with alcohol, counterstained with safranine, and washed with water.
- gram-positive — (of bacteria) retaining the violet dye when stained by Gram's method.
- grandiloquent — speaking or expressed in a lofty style, often to the point of being pompous or bombastic.
- grandmotherly — of or characteristic of a grandmother.
- granitization — a hypothetical process of forming granite.
- granodioritic — relating to granodiorite
- granulomatous — an inflammatory tumor or growth composed of granulation tissue.
- graph plotter — plotter
- 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.
- grave clothes — the wrappings in which a dead body is interred
- gravitational — Physics. the force of attraction between any two masses. Compare law of gravitation. an act or process caused by this force.
- gravity clock — a clock driven by its own weight as it descends a rack, cord, incline, etc.
- 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 goddess — The, a vaguely defined deity symbolizing maternity, the fertility of the earth, and femininity in general; the central figure in the religions of ancient Anatolia, the Near East, and the eastern Mediterranean, later sometimes taking the form of a specific goddess, as Cybele, Rhea, or Demeter.
- great lobelia — a North American plant, Lobelia siphilitica, having long, showy clusters of blue flowers.
- great society — the goal of the Democratic Party under the leadership of President Lyndon B. Johnson, chiefly to enact domestic programs to improve education, provide medical care for the aged, and eliminate poverty.
- 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).
- gross anatomy — the branch of anatomy that deals with structures that can be seen with the naked eye.
- gross tonnage — the total volume of a vessel, expressed in units of 100 cubic feet (gross ton) with certain open structures, deckhouses, tanks, etc., exempted.
- ground attack — an attack using ground forces, as opposed to air or naval forces
- ground tackle — equipment, as anchors, chains, or windlasses, for mooring a vessel away from a pier or other fixed moorings.
- ground-to-air — (of weapons) designed to be fired at aircraft from the ground
- group annuity — a plan in which the members of a group, usually employees of the same company, receive annuities upon retirement.
- 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
- group therapy — psychotherapy in which a number of patients discuss their problems together, usually under the leadership of a therapist, using shared knowledge and experiences to provide constructive feedback about maladaptive behavior.