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12-letter words containing gra

  • grass hockey — field hockey.
  • grass shears — large scissors for cutting grass
  • grass skiing — turfskiing.
  • grass sponge — a large, dark brown, commercial sponge, Spongia graminea, of Florida, the West Indies, and the Gulf of Mexico.
  • grass-cutter — a device used to cut grass, as a lawn mower.
  • grasshoppers — Plural form of grasshopper.
  • gratefulness — warmly or deeply appreciative of kindness or benefits received; thankful: I am grateful to you for your help.
  • gratifyingly — In a manner that gratifies.
  • gratuitously — given, done, bestowed, or obtained without charge or payment; free; voluntary.
  • gratulations — a feeling of joy.
  • graustarkian — of, like, or characteristic of colorful, implausible, highly melodramatic and romantic situations or circumstances
  • grave accent — a mark ( ˋ ) used to indicate:
  • gravediggers — Plural form of gravedigger.
  • gravel-blind — more blind or dim-sighted than sand-blind and less than stone-blind.
  • graven image — an idol.
  • gravenhages' — a Dutch name of The Hague.
  • gravicembalo — a harpsichord.
  • graving dock — an excavated shore dry dock for the repair and maintenance of ships.
  • gravitometer — an instrument that measures specific gravities
  • gravitropism — (biology, botany) a plant's ability to change its growth in response to gravity.
  • gravity cell — a cell containing two electrolytes that have different specific gravities.
  • gravity feed — the supplying of fuel, materials, etc., by force of gravity.
  • gravity wave — Astronomy, Physics. gravitational wave.
  • gravity wind — a light wind directed downslope, occurring at night because of the cooling and densification of the air near the ground.
  • gray catbird — any of several American or Australian birds having catlike cries, especially Dumetella carolinensis (gray catbird) of North America.
  • gray panther — a member of an organized group of elderly people seeking to secure or protect their rights by collective action.
  • gray snapper — a snapper, Lutjanus griseus, of shallow waters off the coast of Florida, having a grayish-green body with a brown spot on each scale.
  • grayanotoxin — a toxin found in the nectar of some species of rhododendron and other plants of the family Ericaceae and in food made from their nectar, as unpasteurized honey, poisonous to humans and animals.
  • graybar land — (jargon)   The place you go while you're staring at a computer that's processing something very slowly (while you watch the grey bar creep across the screen). "I was in graybar land for hours, waiting for that CAD rendering".
  • grayson kirk — Grayson (Louis) 1903–1997, U.S. educator: president of Columbia University 1953–68.
  • guinea grass — a grass, Panicum maximum, native to Africa, used for forage in warm regions of North and South America.
  • hagiographer — one of the writers of the Hagiographa.
  • hagiographic — Of or pertaining to hagiography.
  • hardinggrass — a perennial grass of the genus Phalaris, found in South Africa, Australia, and in North America where it is used as an animal foodstuff
  • harmonograph — an instrument using a system of pendulums to produce geometric images
  • helicographs — Plural form of helicograph.
  • heliographed — Simple past tense and past participle of heliograph.
  • heliographer — (obsolete) Photographer.
  • heliographic — a device for signaling by means of a movable mirror that reflects beams of light, especially sunlight, to a distance.
  • heliogravure — photoengraving.
  • hellgramites — Plural form of hellgramite.
  • hellgrammite — the aquatic larva of a dobsonfly, used as bait in fishing.
  • herd's-grass — timothy or redtop, used for hay or pasture.
  • heterografts — Plural form of heterograft.
  • heterography — spelling different from that in current use.
  • hierogrammat — a writer of hierograms.
  • hierographer — a writer of hierographs
  • hierographic — of or relating to hierographs
  • histographic — a treatise on or description of organic tissues.
  • hydrographer — the science of the measurement, description, and mapping of the surface waters of the earth, with special reference to their use for navigation.
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