13-letter words containing r, e, g, u
- gastrocnemius — the largest muscle in the calf of the leg, the action of which extends the foot, raises the heel, and assists in bending the knee.
- geissler tube — a sealed glass tube with platinum connections at the ends, containing rarefied gas made luminous by an electrical discharge.
- 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.
- geminiflorous — having flowers arranged in pairs.
- gemmuliferous — producing or reproducing by gemmules.
- general audit — an audit of all a company's accounts
- general court — the state legislature of Massachusetts or New Hampshire.
- generic thunk — (programming) A software mechanism that allows a 16-bit Windows application to load and call a Win32 DLL under Windows NT and Windows 95. See also flat thunk, universal thunk.
- genitourinary — of or relating to the genital and urinary organs; urogenital.
- genre-busting — not conforming to established patterns, styles, etc
- george custer — George Armstrong [ahrm-strawng,, -strong] /ˈɑrm strɔŋ,, -strɒŋ/ (Show IPA), 1839–76, U.S. general and Indian fighter.
- george w bush — Barbara (Barbara Pierce) born 1925, U.S. First Lady 1989–93 (wife of George H. W. Bush).
- gesticulatory — Making a lot of gesticulations.
- 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.
- gheorghiu-dej — Gheorghe [gyawr-ge] /ˈgyɔr gɛ/ (Show IPA), 1901–65, Romanian statesman: premier 1952–55; president of the state council 1961–65.
- girl's blouse — used to refer to a man who is not behaving in a very strong or masculine way
- glamour model — a woman who models topless or nude for photographs
- gliding lemur — flying lemur.
- globuliferous — containing or producing globules.
- glucochlorose — chloralose.
- glucuronidase — an enzyme that catalyzes glucuronide hydrolysis
- glutamatergic — (biochemistry, neurology) Of or pertaining to the neurotransmission of glutamate.
- gnu assembler — (GAS) A Unix assembler for the GNU project. Many CPU types are handled and COFF and IEEE-695 formats are supported as well as standard a.out. Current version 2.2 ported to Sun-3, Sun-4, i386, 386BSD, BSD/386, Linux, PS/2-AIX, VAX, Ultrix, BSD, VMS. The assembler has been merged with GNU Binutils. E-mail: <[email protected]>.
- go great guns — to act or function with great speed, intensity, etc
- go the rounds — If a story, idea, or joke is going the rounds or doing the rounds, a lot of people have heard it and are telling it to other people.
- gobar numeral — any of a set of ancient numerals derived from Hindu numerals
- 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
- good-humoured — having or showing a pleasant, amiable mood: a good-humored man; a good-humored remark.
- goodhumoredly — In a good-humored manner.
- goodnaturedly — In a good-natured manner.
- gourmandizers — Plural form of gourmandizer.
- gram molecule — that quantity of a substance whose weight in grams is numerically equal to the molecular weight of the substance.
- grand duchess — the wife or widow of a grand duke.
- grand quarter — a quartered coat of arms, itself one of the quarters of a coat of arms.
- granddaughter — a daughter of one's son or daughter.
- grandiloquent — speaking or expressed in a lofty style, often to the point of being pompous or bombastic.
- granuliferous — full of granules, or producing granules
- gray squirrel — a common, grayish squirrel, Sciurus carolinensis, of eastern North America.
- great bustard — a large bustard, Otis tarda, of southern and central Europe and western and central Asia, having a wingspread of about 8 feet (2.4 meters).
- 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 russian — a member of the main stock of the Russian people, dwelling chiefly in the northern or central parts of the Russian Federation in Europe.
- 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.
- grey squirrel — a grey-furred squirrel, Sciurus carolinensis, native to E North America but now widely established elsewhere
- gros de tours — a ribbed silk fabric made with a two- or three-ply warp interlaced with organzine and tram filling.
- gross premium — A gross premium is the total premium of an insurance contract before brokerage or discounts have been deducted.
- grotesqueness — odd or unnatural in shape, appearance, or character; fantastically ugly or absurd; bizarre.
- grotesqueries — Plural form of grotesquery.
- ground beetle — any of numerous nocturnal, terrestrial beetles of the family Carabidae that feed chiefly on other insects.
- ground cherry — Also called husk tomato. any of several plants belonging to the genus Physalis, of the nightshade family, the several species bearing an edible berry enclosed in an enlarged calyx.