16-letter words containing gra
- grand inquisitor — (often initial capital letters) the presiding officer of a court of inquisition.
- granger movement — a campaign for state control of railroads and grain elevators, especially in the north central states, carried on during the 1870s by members of the Patrons of Husbandry (the Grange) a farmers' organization that had been formed for social and cultural purposes.
- grant of probate — a certificate stating that a will is valid
- grant-maintained — funded by national government
- granted (that) … — even assuming that
- granulated paper — paper with a roughened surface
- granulated sugar — a coarsely ground white sugar, widely used as a sweetener.
- granulocytopenia — a diminished number of granulocytes in the blood, which occurs in certain forms of anaemia
- granville-barker — Harley, 1877–1946, English dramatist, actor, and critic.
- grape phylloxera — See under phylloxera.
- grapefruit juice — nectar of the grapefruit
- graphic designer — person: commercial artist
- graphic language — For specifying graphic operations.
- graphics adapter — graphics adaptor
- graphics adaptor — (hardware, graphics) (Or "graphics adapter", "graphics card", "video adaptor", etc.) A circuit board fitted to a computer, especially an IBM PC, containing the necessary video memory and other electronics to provide a bitmap display. Adaptors vary in the resolution (number of pixels) and number of colours they can display, and in the refresh rate they support. These parameters are also limited by the monitor to which the adaptor is connected. A number of such display standards, e.g. SVGA, have become common and different software requires or supports different sets.
- grasp the nettle — If you grasp the nettle, you deal with a problem, or do something that is unpleasant, quickly and in a determined way.
- gravity decanter — A gravity decanter is a vessel or stage in which two liquids of different densities are allowed to separate by gravity.
- gravity platform — (in the oil industry) a drilling platform that rests directly on the sea bed and is kept in position by its own weight; it is usually made of reinforced concrete
- gravity railroad — a railroad depending partly on the force of gravity for motive power.
- gray nurse shark — a sand shark, Odontaspis arenarius, abundant in S African and Australian coastal waters and estuaries.
- great-grandchild — a grandchild of one's son or daughter.
- great-grandniece — a granddaughter of one's nephew or niece.
- great-granduncle — an uncle of one's grandfather or grandmother.
- harvard graphics — (graphics, tool) A presentation graphics product by Software Publishing Corporation (SPC) for creating presentations, speeches, slides, etc..
- historiographies — Plural form of historiography.
- holographic will — a will that is entirely in the handwriting of the testator: in some states recognized as valid without the attestation of witnesses.
- hygrothermograph — an instrument for recording temperature and relative humidity.
- immigration laws — regulations on incoming foreigners
- inverse graffiti — a form of street art in which a dirty wall or pavement has a template placed against it and is scrubbed until the surface is clean. This reveals an image or message which gradually fades with time.
- investment grant — a direct subsidy made by a government to a business in order to enable it to make further investment
- isoplastic graft — syngraft.
- kilogram calorie — kilocalorie.
- lagrangian point — one of five points in the orbital plane of two bodies orbiting about their common center of gravity at which another body of small mass can be in equilibrium.
- landed immigrant — foreigner: permanent resident
- lithographically — In the manner of lithography.
- lymphangiography — x-ray visualization of lymph vessels and nodes following injection of a contrast medium.
- macrophotography — Photography that is done up close; close-up photography.
- mammographically — Using a mammograph, by means of mammograph.
- microphotographs — Plural form of microphotograph.
- microphotography — microfilm (def 1).
- microprogramming — microcode
- migratory locust — any of several locusts that migrate in great swarms, especially Locusta migratoria, of Africa and Asia.
- montague grammar — a model-theoretic semantic theory for natural language that seeks to encompass indexical expressions and opaque contexts within an extensional theory by constructing set-theoretic representations of the intension of an expression in terms of functions of possible worlds
- multiprogramming — multitasking
- non-geographical — of or relating to geography.
- nonbiodegradable — Not biodegradable.
- on the downgrade — waning in importance, popularity, health, etc
- orographic cloud — any cloud whose existence and form are largely controlled by the disturbed flow of air over and around mountains, as the banner cloud and crest cloud.
- orthographically — In an orthographical manner; using proper spelling, capitalization and grammar.
- phonocardiograph — an instrument for graphically recording the sound of the heartbeat.