13-letter words containing r, a, i, l
- gas:oil ratio — The gas:oil ratio is the volume of gas produced at standard temperature and pressure, in relation to the volume of oil produced at standard temperature and pressure, used as a measurement for reservoir fluids.
- 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.
- gazillionaire — An extremely rich person.
- general audit — an audit of all a company's accounts
- 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.
- generalisable — Non-Oxford British standard spelling of generalizable.
- generalissimo — the supreme commander of the armed forces.
- generalizable — to infer (a general principle, trend, etc.) from particular facts, statistics, or the like.
- generation xl — overweight children or young adults of the generation that spends a great deal of time on sedentary pursuits such as surfing the internet and playing computer games
- genital ridge — the area in the vertebrate embryo that develops into ovaries in the female and testes in the male.
- genital warts — a sexually transmitted disease caused by the human papilloma virus; the warts grow in the genital area
- geometrically — of or relating to geometry or to the principles of geometry.
- german silver — any of various alloys of copper, zinc, and nickel, usually white and used for utensils, drawing instruments, etc.; nickel silver.
- germinability — the degree of ability of a seed to germinate or sprout.
- germinal disk — blastodisk.
- gerontophilia — sexual attraction towards old people
- gesticulatory — Making a lot of gesticulations.
- ginger family — the plant family Zingiberaceae, characterized by tropical, often aromatic herbaceous plants having rhizomes, long sheathing leaves, and clusters of tubular flowers, and including cardamon, ginger, and turmeric.
- girl-watching — the activity of looking at young women to enjoy their attractiveness, perhaps with a view to starting a relationship
- giulio romano — (Giulio Pippi de' Giannuzzi) 1492?–1546, Italian painter and architect.
- 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.
- gladiatorship — the work of a gladiator
- glamorisation — Alternative spelling of glamorization.
- glamorization — to make glamorous.
- glass curtain — a transparent or translucent curtain covering the interior of a window opening.
- glass slipper — an imaginary ladies' shoe made of glass, as worn by Cinderella in the fairy tale of that name
- glorification — a glorified or more splendid form of something.
- 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).
- goal-oriented — (of a person) focused on reaching a specific objective or accomplishing a given task; driven by purpose: goal-oriented teams of teachers.
- goliath crane — a gantry crane for heavy work, as in steel mills.
- governability — to rule over by right of authority: to govern a nation.
- graham island — an island in the Pacific Ocean, in W British Columbia, Canada: largest and northernmost of the Queen Charlotte Islands. 2485 sq. mi. (6436 sq. km).
- grain alcohol — alcohol (def 1).
- grain of salt — salt crystal
- gram-variable — of or relating to bacteria that stain irregularly with Gram's stain, being neither Gram-positive nor Gram-negative.
- graminicolous — (esp of parasitic fungi) living on grass
- grammatically — of or relating to grammar: grammatical analysis.
- grand guignol — a short drama stressing horror and sensationalism.
- grandchildren — a child of one's son or daughter.
- grandiloquent — speaking or expressed in a lofty style, often to the point of being pompous or bombastic.
- grandiloquous — grandiloquent
- granuliferous — full of granules, or producing granules
- graphemically — In terms of or by means of graphemes.