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15-letter words containing ge

  • gesta romanorum — a popular collection of tales in Latin with moral applications, compiled in the late 13th century as a manual for preachers
  • gestalt therapy — holistic psychotherapy
  • get a handle on — that which may be held, seized, grasped, or taken advantage of in effecting a purpose: The clue was a handle for solving the mystery.
  • get a wiggle on — to hurry up
  • get any good of — to handle to good effect
  • get hold of sth — If you get hold of an object or information, you obtain it, usually after some difficulty.
  • get it together — to achieve one's full potential, either generally as a person or in a particular field of activity
  • get one's cards — to be told to leave one's employment
  • get one's lumps — a piece or mass of solid matter without regular shape or of no particular shape: a lump of coal.
  • get out of jail — to get out of a difficult situation
  • get outta here! — go away!
  • get sb into bed — To get someone into bed means to persuade them to have sex with you.
  • get the best of — to surpass, defeat, or outwit; better
  • get the drop on — a small quantity of liquid that falls or is produced in a more or less spherical mass; a liquid globule.
  • get the feel of — If you get the feel of something, for example a place or a new activity, you become familiar with it.
  • get the hang of — to understand the technique of doing something
  • get the jump on — to spring clear of the ground or other support by a sudden muscular effort; leap: to jump into the air; to jump out a window.
  • get the message — a communication containing some information, news, advice, request, or the like, sent by messenger, telephone, email, or other means.
  • get the picture — understand
  • get the wind up — to become frightened
  • get wise to sth — If you get wise to something, you find out about it, especially when someone has been trying to keep it secret.
  • gingerbread man — biscuit in the shape of a man
  • give the finger — any of the terminal members of the hand, especially one other than the thumb.
  • glass menagerie — a play (1945) by Tennessee Williams.
  • gluconeogenesis — glucose formation in animals from a noncarbohydrate source, as from proteins or fats.
  • gluconeogenetic — Of or pertaining to gluconeogenesis.
  • glycogenic acid — gluconic acid.
  • glyconeogenesis — gluconeogenesis.
  • gossipmongering — The behaviour of a gossipmonger; the spreading of salacious rumours.
  • green vegetable — a vegetable having green edible parts, as lettuce or broccoli.
  • guardian angels — an angel believed to protect a particular person, as from danger or error.
  • haemoflagellate — a flagellate protozoan, such as a trypanosome, that is parasitic in the blood
  • hamersley range — a mountain range in N Western Australia: iron-ore deposits. Highest peak: 1236 m (4056 ft)
  • hardhead sponge — any of several commercial sponges, as Spongia officinalis dura, of the West Indies and Central America, having a harsh, fibrous, resilient skeleton.
  • haulage company — a firm that transports goods by lorry
  • have an edge on — a line or border at which a surface terminates: Grass grew along the edges of the road. The paper had deckle edges.
  • heave-off hinge — loose-joint hinge.
  • hedge your bets — play it safe, lessen a risk
  • hedgehog cactus — any of various rounded, usually spiny cacti of the genus Echinocereus, of the southwestern U.S. and Mexico, having bell-shaped flowers that close at night.
  • hedonic damages — compensation based on what the victim of a crime might have earned in the future
  • heritage centre — a museum that houses exhibits describing the culture and history of a particular place and its inhabitants
  • heterogeneities — the quality or state of being heterogeneous; composition from dissimilar parts; disparateness.
  • heterogeneously — different in kind; unlike; incongruous.
  • holiday cottage — a cottage used for accommodation for a family, couple, etc, on holiday
  • holiday village — a park with villas where holidaymakers stay and which has a central area with a shop, entertainment, etc
  • homogeneousness — (rare) homogeneity, the state of having a uniform composition.
  • honey tangerine — a citrus fruit with a deep-orange pulp, formed by crossing a tangerine and a sweet orange hybrid; Murcott
  • human geography — the study of the interaction between human beings and their environment in particular places and across spatial areas.
  • humpback bridge — arched bridge
  • hydrogen iodide — a colorless gas, HI, having a suffocating odor: the anhydride of hydriodic acid.
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