13-letter words containing r, e, c, a, t, g
- gastrokinetic — (pharmacology, of a drug) Serving to increase motility of the gastrointestinal tract.
- gastrophrenic — (anatomy) Pertaining to the stomach and diaphragm.
- general costs — the general expenses of running a business
- general court — the state legislature of Massachusetts or New Hampshire.
- geometrically — of or relating to geometry or to the principles of geometry.
- geometricians — Plural form of geometrician.
- geriatricians — Plural form of geriatrician.
- gerontocratic — government by a council of elders.
- gesticulatory — Making a lot of gesticulations.
- get-well card — a greeting card sent to a person who is unwell, expressing a wish for a speedy recovery
- glacier table — a stone slab supported over the surface of a mountain glacier by a column or columns of ice.
- glove factory — a factory where gloves are made
- glutamatergic — (biochemistry, neurology) Of or pertaining to the neurotransmission of glutamate.
- goliath crane — a gantry crane for heavy work, as in steel mills.
- grade cricket — competitive cricket, in which cricket club teams are arranged in grades
- grammaticized — Simple past tense and past participle of grammaticize.
- grave clothes — the wrappings in which a dead body is interred
- gravity scale — a scale giving the relative density of fluids
- 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 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).
- greater scaup — any of several diving ducks of the genus Aythya, especially A. marila (greater scaup) of the Northern Hemisphere, having a bluish-gray bill.
- greeting card — card1 (def 4).
- ground tackle — equipment, as anchors, chains, or windlasses, for mooring a vessel away from a pier or other fixed moorings.
- gunters-chain — a series of objects connected one after the other, usually in the form of a series of metal rings passing through one another, used either for various purposes requiring a flexible tie with high tensile strength, as for hauling, supporting, or confining, or in various ornamental and decorative forms.
- hack together — (jargon) To throw something together so it will work. Unlike "kluge together" or "cruft together", this does not necessarily have negative connotations.
- heortological — of or relating to heortology
- heterogametic — (of a species or individual organism) having two unlike gametes.
- heterographic — Misspelled; of or pertaining to an incorrect spelling or a spelling that differs from accepted standards.
- heterological — (grammar) Of an adjective, not describing itself.
- high-wire act — a circus trick in which the performer walks across a high wire
- histaminergic — releasing histamine
- hygrometrical — Alternative form of hygrometric.
- hypergalactia — an abnormally large secretion of milk.
- hypermagnetic — (physics) Extremely magnetic.
- ideogrammatic — Of or pertaining to ideograms.
- incarcerating — Present participle of incarcerate.
- incouragement — Archaic form of encouragement.
- intercalating — Present participle of intercalate.
- interchanging — Present participle of interchange.
- intergalactic — of, existing, or occurring in the space between galaxies: The science-fiction movie was about an intergalactic war.
- interglacials — Plural form of interglacial.
- intransigence — the state or quality of being intransigent, or refusing to compromise or agree; inflexibility: No agreement was reached because of intransigence on both sides.
- intransigency — a person who refuses to agree or compromise, as in politics.
- it governance — information technology governance
- jack-the-rags — a rag-and-bone man
- kitchen range — cooker with oven and hob
- laryngectomee — someone who has had a laryngectomy
- laughter club — a group of people who meet regularly to take part in communal laughing for therapeutic effect