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13-letter words containing s, e, r, g, a, n

  • galvanometers — Plural form of galvanometer.
  • gangster chic — a cinematic or literary genre which seeks to glamorize the criminal underworld
  • gap insurance — GAP insurance pays the difference between what someone owes on their car loan and the actual cash value of the vehicle in the event that it is stolen or damaged.
  • garden balsam — a fleshy annual garden impatiens (Impatiens balsamina) with roselike white, lavender, yellow, pink, or red blossoms borne along the main stem in leaf axils
  • 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
  • garnetiferous — containing or yielding garnets.
  • garnisheement — the process of arresting a debtor's money or property from the hands of a third party
  • garrison life — the life of troops who maintain and guard a military base or fortified place
  • garrulousness — Garrulity.
  • gas reversion — Gas reversion is a process which combines thermal cracking or reforming of naphtha with thermal polymerization or alkylation of hydrocarbon gases, which is carried out in the same reaction place.
  • 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.
  • gastroenteric — Gastrointestinal.
  • gastrokinetic — (pharmacology, of a drug) Serving to increase motility of the gastrointestinal tract.
  • gastrophrenic — (anatomy) Pertaining to the stomach and diaphragm.
  • 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.
  • gene transfer — Biotechnology. the insertion of copies of a gene into living cells in order to induce synthesis of the gene's product: the desired gene may be microinjected directly into the cell or it may be inserted into the core of a virus by gene splicing and the virus allowed to infect the cell for replication of the gene in the cell's DNA.
  • general costs — the general expenses of running a business
  • general staff — a group of officers who are without command and whose duty is to assist high commanders in planning and carrying out orders in peace and war.
  • general store — a store, usually in a rural area, that sells a wide variety of merchandise, as clothing, food, or hardware, but is not divided into departments.
  • general synod — the governing body, under Parliament, of the Church of England, made up of the bishops and elected clerical and lay representatives
  • generalisable — Non-Oxford British standard spelling of generalizable.
  • generalissimo — the supreme commander of the armed forces.
  • generationism — the belief that some generations are superior to others
  • genital warts — a sexually transmitted disease caused by the human papilloma virus; the warts grow in the genital area
  • geometricians — Plural form of geometrician.
  • geostationary — of or relating to a satellite traveling in an orbit 22,300 miles (35,900 km) above the earth's equator: at this altitude, the satellite's period of rotation, 24 hours, matches the earth's and the satellite always remains in the same spot over the earth: geostationary orbit.
  • geriatricians — Plural form of geriatrician.
  • german silver — any of various alloys of copper, zinc, and nickel, usually white and used for utensils, drawing instruments, etc.; nickel silver.
  • germinal disk — blastodisk.
  • glucuronidase — an enzyme that catalyzes glucuronide hydrolysis
  • 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
  • gourmandizers — Plural form of gourmandizer.
  • gracelessness — The state of being graceless.
  • 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
  • grand duchess — the wife or widow of a grand duke.
  • grand slammer — Bridge. the winning of all thirteen tricks of a deal. Compare little slam.
  • grandioseness — affectedly grand or important; pompous: grandiose words.
  • grandma moses — Anna Mary Robertson ("Grandma Moses") 1860–1961, U.S. painter.
  • granite state — New Hampshire (used as a nickname).
  • granuliferous — full of granules, or producing granules
  • grease monkey — a mechanic, especially one who works on automobiles or airplanes.
  • grease nipple — a metal nipple designed to engage with a grease gun for injecting grease into a bearing, etc
  • grease pencil — a pencil of pigment and compressed grease encased in a spiral paper strip that can be partially unwound to expose a new point and used especially for writing on glossy surfaces.
  • great basinet — a basinet having a beaver permanently attached.
  • 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 siren — a salamander, Siren lacertina, having external gills, tiny front legs, and no hind legs, inhabiting shallow waters in the southeastern U.S.
  • greenland sea — a part of the Arctic Ocean, NE of Greenland and N of Iceland.
  • 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.
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