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13-letter words containing u, t, r, a

  • fruit machine — gambling: slot machine
  • frumentaceous — of the nature of or resembling wheat or other grain.
  • frumentarious — of or relating to wheat or a similar grain
  • frustratingly — to make (plans, efforts, etc.) worthless or of no avail; defeat; nullify: The student's indifference frustrated the teacher's efforts to help him.
  • fuerteventura — a Spanish island off the NW coast of Africa, one of the Canary Islands. 641 sq. mi. (1660 sq. km).
  • fulbright act — an act of Congress (1946) by which funds derived chiefly from the sale of U.S. surplus property abroad are made available to U.S. citizens for study, research, and teaching in foreign countries as well as to foreigners to engage in similar activities in the U.S.
  • full-throated — A full-throated sound coming from someone's mouth, such as a shout or a laugh, is very loud.
  • funambulatory — relating to tightrope-walking
  • functionaries — Plural form of functionary.
  • furniture van — a van designed to move the furniture of a house, office, etc, to another place
  • fusarium wilt — a disease of plants, characterized by damping-off, wilting, and a brown dry rot, caused by fungi of the genus Fusarium.
  • futilitarians — Plural form of futilitarian.
  • future farmer — a member of the Future Farmers of America.
  • futurity race — a race for two-year-old horses in which the entries are selected before birth
  • futurological — Pertaining to futurology.
  • garbage chute — sloped channel for rubbish disposal
  • garbage truck — lorry that collects refuse
  • garnetiferous — containing or yielding garnets.
  • gartner group — (company)   One of the biggest IT industry research firms. Address: Connecticut, USA.
  • gastric juice — the digestive fluid, containing pepsin and other enzymes, secreted by the glands of the stomach.
  • 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.
  • 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.
  • general audit — an audit of all a company's accounts
  • general court — the state legislature of Massachusetts or New Hampshire.
  • genitourinary — of or relating to the genital and urinary organs; urogenital.
  • 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.
  • glamour stock — a popular stock that rises quickly or continuously in price and attracts large numbers of investors.
  • glass curtain — a transparent or translucent curtain covering the interior of a window opening.
  • glutamatergic — (biochemistry, neurology) Of or pertaining to the neurotransmission of glutamate.
  • go great guns — to act or function with great speed, intensity, etc
  • goodnaturedly — In a good-natured manner.
  • 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.
  • granulomatous — an inflammatory tumor or growth composed of granulation tissue.
  • graticulation — the division of a design, plan, etc into squares in order to improve the accuracy of enlargement or reduction
  • gravity fault — a fault along an inclined plane in which the upper side or hanging wall appears to have moved downward with respect to the lower side or footwall (opposed to reverse fault).
  • 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.
  • ground attack — an attack using ground forces, as opposed to air or naval forces
  • ground tackle — equipment, as anchors, chains, or windlasses, for mooring a vessel away from a pier or other fixed moorings.
  • ground-to-air — (of weapons) designed to be fired at aircraft from the ground
  • group annuity — a plan in which the members of a group, usually employees of the same company, receive annuities upon retirement.
  • group captain — an officer holding commissioned rank senior to a wing commander but junior to an air commodore in the RAF and certain other air forces
  • group therapy — psychotherapy in which a number of patients discuss their problems together, usually under the leadership of a therapist, using shared knowledge and experiences to provide constructive feedback about maladaptive behavior.
  • guard against — prevent
  • gubernatorial — of or relating to a state governor or the office of state governor.
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