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13-letter words starting with g

  • garden orache — a plant of the goosefoot family, Atriplex hortensis, which is cultivated as a vegetable and used like spinach
  • garden shears — shears used for gardening
  • garden suburb — a suburb of a large established town or city, planned along the lines of a garden city
  • garnetiferous — containing or yielding garnets.
  • garnisheement — the process of arresting a debtor's money or property from the hands of a third party
  • garret window — a skylight that lies along the slope of the roof
  • garrison life — the life of troops who maintain and guard a military base or fortified place
  • garrison town — a town containing a military base
  • garrulousness — Garrulity.
  • garter stitch — a basic knitting pattern that produces an evenly pebbled texture on both sides of the work, created by consistently knitting or purling every stitch of every row.
  • gartner group — (company)   One of the biggest IT industry research firms. Address: Connecticut, USA.
  • gas explosion — an explosion caused by a gas leak in the presence of an ignition source
  • gas reversion — Gas reversion is a process which combines thermal cracking or reforming of naphtha with thermal polymerization or alkylation of hydrocarbon gases, which is carried out in the same reaction place.
  • gas separator — A gas separator is a device used to remove liquids from a natural gas stream.
  • gas:oil ratio — The gas:oil ratio is the volume of gas produced at standard temperature and pressure, in relation to the volume of oil produced at standard temperature and pressure, used as a measurement for reservoir fluids.
  • gastrectomies — Plural form of gastrectomy.
  • gastric juice — the digestive fluid, containing pepsin and other enzymes, secreted by the glands of the stomach.
  • gastric ulcer — a peptic ulcer located in the stomach's inner wall, caused in part by the corrosive action of the gastric juice on the mucous membrane.
  • gastrocnemius — the largest muscle in the calf of the leg, the action of which extends the foot, raises the heel, and assists in bending the knee.
  • gastroenteric — Gastrointestinal.
  • gastrohepatic — of, relating to, or involving the stomach and the liver.
  • gastrokinetic — (pharmacology, of a drug) Serving to increase motility of the gastrointestinal tract.
  • gastronomical — the art or science of good eating.
  • gastroparesis — (pathology) A condition, often a complication of diabetes, characterised by a delayed emptying of the stomach.
  • gastrophrenic — (anatomy) Pertaining to the stomach and diaphragm.
  • gastrorrhagia — (medical) A hemorrhage from the stomach, also known as a gastric hemorrhage.
  • gastrorrhaphy — The suture of a perforation of the stomach.
  • gastroscopist — One who carries out gastroscopy.
  • gastrostomies — Plural form of gastrostomy.
  • gateleg table — a table with one or two drop leaves that are supported when in use by a hinged leg swung out from the frame
  • gazillionaire — An extremely rich person.
  • ge-pano-carib — a linguistic phylum comprising a large number of aboriginal languages with scattered distribution in South America east of the Andes.
  • gefullte fish — dish of fish stuffed with various ingredients
  • geissler tube — a sealed glass tube with platinum connections at the ends, containing rarefied gas made luminous by an electrical discharge.
  • geitonogamous — of or relating to geitonogamy
  • gelada baboon — a NE African baboon, Theropithecus gelada, with dark brown hair forming a mane over the shoulders, a bare red chest, and a ridged muzzle: family Cercopithecidae
  • gelandelaufer — a participant in cross-country skiing.
  • gelandesprung — a jump, usually over an obstacle, in which one plants both poles in the snow in advance of the skis, bends close to the ground, and propels oneself chiefly by the use of the poles.
  • gelsenkirchen — a city in W Germany, in the Ruhr valley.
  • geminiflorous — having flowers arranged in pairs.
  • gemmuliferous — producing or reproducing by gemmules.
  • gemutlichkeit — warm cordiality; comfortable friendliness; congeniality.
  • gender bender — Informal. one, as a cross-dresser, that blurs differences between the sexes.
  • gender binary — a classification system consisting of two genders, male and female.
  • gender mender — (hardware)   (Or "gender bender", "gender blender", "sex changer", and even "homosexual adaptor") A cable connector shell with either two male or two female connectors on it, used to correct the mismatches that result when some loser didn't understand the EIA-232C specification and the distinction between DTE and DCE. Used especially for EIA-232C parts in either the original D-25 or the IBM PC's D-9 connector. There appears to be some confusion as to whether a "male homosexual adaptor" has pins on both sides (is doubly male) or sockets on both sides (connects two males).
  • gender-bender — Informal. one, as a cross-dresser, that blurs differences between the sexes.
  • gene sequence — the arrangement of the nucleotides of a particular gene
  • gene splicing — recombinant DNA technology.
  • gene transfer — Biotechnology. the insertion of copies of a gene into living cells in order to induce synthesis of the gene's product: the desired gene may be microinjected directly into the cell or it may be inserted into the core of a virus by gene splicing and the virus allowed to infect the cell for replication of the gene in the cell's DNA.
  • gene-splicing — recombinant DNA technology.
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