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12-letter words containing gra

  • eighth grade — the eighth year of school, when students are 12 to 14 years old
  • electrograph — A machine used in gravure printing.
  • ellipsograph — an instrument that draws ellipses
  • emigrational — Relating to emigration.
  • epigrammatic — Of the nature or in the style of an epigram; concise, clever, and amusing.
  • epigraphical — Epigraphic.
  • equigranular — (petrology) Composed chiefly of grains of similar size.
  • ethnographer — One who practices ethnography.
  • ethnographic — Relating to ethnography.
  • evaporograph — an instrument which measures and records the rate of evaporation of water into the atmosphere
  • fifth-grader — a student in the fifth grade of the American education system
  • fine-grained — being of fine grain or texture, as certain types of wood, leather, etc.
  • finger grass — any of various grasses of the genus Chloris, having several narrow spikes in a terminal cluster.
  • first-grader — a child in the first grade
  • flat-grained — (of sawed lumber) having the annual rings at an angle of less than 45° with the broader surfaces.
  • fluorography — photofluorography.
  • fourth grade — school year: age 9-10
  • fractography — the study of fractures or cracks in a material, esp metal, in order to predict or identify the cause of a failure in a structure
  • fragrantness — the quality of being fragrant
  • geographical — of or relating to geography.
  • glossography — a glossator.
  • glyphography — a plate-making process in which an electrotype is made from an engraved copper plate
  • glyptography — the description or study of engraved gems or other stones.
  • godzillagram — (networking)   /god-zil'*-gram/ (From Japan's national hero and datagram) 1. A network packet that in theory is a broadcast to every machine in the universe. The typical case is an IP datagram whose destination IP address is [255.255.255.255]. Fortunately, few gateways are foolish enough to attempt to implement this case! 2. A network packet of maximum size. An IP Godzillagram has 65,536 octets. Compare super source quench.
  • goosegrasses — Plural form of goosegrass.
  • grace hopper — (person)   US Navy Rear Admiral Grace Brewster Hopper (1906-12-09 to 1992-01-01), née Grace Brewster Murray. Hopper is believed to have concieved the concept of the compiler with the A-0 in 1952. She also developed the first commercial high-level language, which eventually evolved into COBOL. She worked on the Mark I computer with Howard Aiken and with BINAC in 1949. She is credited with having coined the term "debug", and the adage "it is always easier to ask forgiveness than it is to get permission" (with various wordings), which has been the guiding principle in sysadmin decisions ever since. See also the entries debug and bug. Hopper is buried at Arlington National Cemetery. In 1994, the US Navy named a new ship, the guided-missile destroyer USS Hopper, after her.
  • grace period — a period of time after a payment becomes due, as of a loan or life-insurance premium, before one is subject to penalties or late charges or before the loan or policy is canceled.
  • gracefullest — Superlative form of graceful.
  • gracefulness — The state of being graceful.
  • graciousness — pleasantly kind, benevolent, and courteous.
  • grade school — an elementary school that has its pupils grouped or classified into grades.
  • gradeability — a measure of a truck's pulling power expressed as the steepest grade the truck can climb with a full load.
  • gradeflation — grade inflation.
  • gradualistic — Of or pertaining to gradualism.
  • graduateship — the time or condition of being a graduate
  • graeco-roman — of or having both Greek and Roman characteristics: the Greco-Roman influence.
  • graft hybrid — a hybrid plant that is produced by grafting and that exhibits characters of both the stock and the scion.
  • graham flour — unbolted wheat flour, containing all of the wheat grain; whole-wheat flour.
  • graham wafer — a cracker intended to aid digestion.
  • graham's law — the principle that the rates of diffusion and effusion of a gas are inversely proportional to the square root of its density, proposed by Thomas Graham (1805-69) in 1831
  • grain growth — a tendency of certain grains to grow and absorb others when heated under certain conditions.
  • grallatorial — belonging or pertaining to the wading birds, as the snipes, cranes, storks, and herons, many species of which have very long legs.
  • gram calorie — calorie (def 1a). Abbreviation: g-cal.
  • graminaceous — Of, pertaining to, or resembling a grass.
  • graminivores — Plural form of graminivore.
  • grammaticise — to make grammatical
  • grammaticism — a point or principle of grammar.
  • grammaticize — (transitive) To render grammatical.
  • grammatology — the scientific study of systems of writing.
  • gramophonist — a person who uses a gramophone
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