13-letter words containing r, d, a
- garden shears — shears used for gardening
- garden suburb — a suburb of a large established town or city, planned along the lines of a garden city
- garret window — a skylight that lies along the slope of the roof
- gelandelaufer — a participant in cross-country skiing.
- gelandesprung — a jump, usually over an obstacle, in which one plants both poles in the snow in advance of the skis, bends close to the ground, and propels oneself chiefly by the use of the poles.
- gender binary — a classification system consisting of two genders, male and female.
- general audit — an audit of all a company's accounts
- general order — any one of a set of permanent orders from a headquarters establishing policy for a command or announcing official acts.
- general synod — the governing body, under Parliament, of the Church of England, made up of the bishops and elected clerical and lay representatives
- genital ridge — the area in the vertebrate embryo that develops into ovaries in the female and testes in the male.
- germinal disk — blastodisk.
- gerrymandered — Simple past tense and past participle of gerrymander.
- gerrymanderer — a person who gerrymanders
- get around to — When you get around to doing something that you have delayed doing or have been too busy to do, you finally do it.
- get-well card — a greeting card sent to a person who is unwell, expressing a wish for a speedy recovery
- giant ragweed — any of the composite plants of the genus Ambrosia, the airborne pollen of which is the most prevalent cause of autumnal hay fever, as the common North American species, A. trifida (great ragweed or giant ragweed) and A. artemisiifolia.
- giant redwood — big tree.
- ginger-haired — having ginger hair
- gingerbreaded — flavoured with gingerbread
- glacial drift — material, as gravel, sand, or clay, transported and deposited by a glacier or by glacial meltwater.
- gladiatorship — the work of a gladiator
- glamour model — a woman who models topless or nude for photographs
- glucaric acid — saccharic acid.
- glucuronidase — an enzyme that catalyzes glucuronide hydrolysis
- glyceric acid — a colorless, syrupy liquid, C 3 H 6 O 4 , obtained by oxidizing glycerol.
- go over-board — over the side of a ship or boat, especially into or in the water: to fall overboard.
- 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.
- gonadotrophic — Of, pertaining to, or stimulating the functions of the gonads.
- gonadotrophin — a gonadotropic substance.
- gonadotropins — Plural form of gonadotropin.
- good behavior — satisfactory, proper, or polite conduct.
- good gracious — Some people say good gracious or goodness gracious in order to express surprise or annoyance.
- good riddance — the act or fact of clearing away or out, as anything undesirable.
- goodheartedly — In a goodhearted manner.
- goodnaturedly — In a good-natured manner.
- gourmandizers — Plural form of gourmandizer.
- gourmandizing — Present participle of gourmandize.
- grade cricket — competitive cricket, in which cricket club teams are arranged in grades
- graded reader — A graded reader is a story which has been adapted for people learning to read or learning a foreign language. Graded readers avoid using difficult grammar and vocabulary.
- 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
- gradient wind — a wind with a velocity and direction that are mathematically defined by the balanced relationship of the pressure gradient force to the centrifugal force and the Coriolis force: conceived as blowing parallel to isobars.
- 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).
- 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.
- grammaticized — Simple past tense and past participle of grammaticize.
- gran paradiso — the highest peak in the Graian Alps, in N Italy. 13,324 feet (4061 meters).
- granary bread — bread made from Granary flour
- grand drapery — a valance across the proscenium arch, forming part of the decorative frame for the stage.
- grand duchess — the wife or widow of a grand duke.
- grand guignol — a short drama stressing horror and sensationalism.