13-letter words that end in s
- go the rounds — If a story, idea, or joke is going the rounds or doing the rounds, a lot of people have heard it and are telling it to other people.
- golan heights — a range of hills in the Middle East, possession of which is disputed between Israel and Syria: under Syrian control until 1967 when they were stormed by Israeli forces; Jewish settlements have since been established. Highest peak: 2224 m (7297 ft)
- gonadotropins — Plural form of gonadotropin.
- good gracious — Some people say good gracious or goodness gracious in order to express surprise or annoyance.
- good old days — past times viewed with nostalgia
- goodwin sands — a line of shoals at the N entrance to the Strait of Dover, off the SE coast of England. 10 miles (16 km) long.
- goose pimples — Goose pimples are the same as goose bumps.
- gossipmongers — Plural form of gossipmonger.
- gourmandizers — Plural form of gourmandizer.
- gracelessness — The state of being graceless.
- graminicolous — (esp of parasitic fungi) living on grass
- graminivorous — feeding or subsisting on grass: a graminivorous bird.
- grand duchess — the wife or widow of a grand duke.
- grandiloquous — grandiloquent
- grandioseness — affectedly grand or important; pompous: grandiose words.
- grandma moses — Anna Mary Robertson ("Grandma Moses") 1860–1961, U.S. painter.
- granuliferous — full of granules, or producing granules
- granulomatous — an inflammatory tumor or growth composed of granulation tissue.
- grave clothes — the wrappings in which a dead body is interred
- great goddess — The, a vaguely defined deity symbolizing maternity, the fertility of the earth, and femininity in general; the central figure in the religions of ancient Anatolia, the Near East, and the eastern Mediterranean, later sometimes taking the form of a specific goddess, as Cybele, Rhea, or Demeter.
- green fingers — skill at gardening
- green goddess — an army fire engine
- greensickness — chlorosis (def 2).
- greenskeepers — Plural form of greenskeeper.
- grimes graves — an area of Neolithic flint mines in Suffolk, England, comprising more than 300 mine shafts and galleries.
- gros de tours — a ribbed silk fabric made with a two- or three-ply warp interlaced with organzine and tram filling.
- grotesqueness — odd or unnatural in shape, appearance, or character; fantastically ugly or absurd; bizarre.
- grotesqueries — Plural form of grotesquery.
- ground troops — soldiers positioned on the ground
- groundkeepers — Plural form of groundkeeper.
- groundstrokes — Plural form of groundstroke.
- groundworkers — Plural form of groundworker.
- growing pains — If a person or organization suffers from growing pains, they experience temporary difficulties and problems at the beginning of a particular stage of development.
- growth shares — ordinary shares with good prospects of appreciation in yield and value
- guilelessness — free from guile; sincere; honest; straightforward; frank.
- guiltlessness — The state of being guiltless; innocence.
- guinea grains — Usually, grains of paradise. one of the pungent, peppery seeds of an African plant, Aframomum melegueta, of the ginger family, used to strengthen cordials and in veterinary medicine.
- gulf of gabès — an inlet of the Mediterranean on the E coast of Tunisia
- gulf of lions — a wide bay of the Mediterranean off the S coast of France, between the Spanish border and Toulon
- gulf of saros — an inlet of the Aegean in NW Turkey, north of the Gallipoli Peninsula. Length: 59 km (37 miles). Width: 35 km (22 miles)
- gulf of volos — an inlet of the Aegean in east central Greece
- gulf-of-saros — Gulf of, an inlet of the Aegean, N of the Gallipoli Peninsula. 37 miles (60 km) long; 22 miles (35 km) wide.
- gymnospermous — of or relating to a gymnosperm; having exposed or naked seeds.
- gynecocracies — Plural form of gynecocracy.
- gynecologists — Plural form of gynecologist.
- gynodioecious — having female flowers on one plant and hermaphrodite flowers on another plant of the same species.
- gyrocompasses — Plural form of gyrocompass.
- habeas corpus — a writ requiring a person to be brought before a judge or court, especially for investigation of a restraint of the person's liberty, used as a protection against illegal imprisonment.
- haber process — a process for synthesizing ammonia from gaseous nitrogen and hydrogen under high pressure and temperature in the presence of a catalyst.
- haberdasher's — a shop that sells small articles for sewing, such as buttons, zips, and ribbons