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14-letter words starting with g

  • gibbs function — the thermodynamic function of a system that is equal to its enthalpy minus the product of its absolute temperture and entropy: a decrease in the function is equal to the maximum amount of work available exclusive of that due to pressure times volume change during a reversible, isothermal, isobaric process.
  • giganotosaurus — Any of several very large, carnivorous dinosaurs of the subfamily Giganotosaurinae, from the Cretaceous period.
  • gilbert patten — Gilbert ("Burt L. Standish") 1866–1945, U.S. writer of adventure stories.
  • gingivectomies — Plural form of gingivectomy.
  • ginseng family — the plant family Araliaceae, characterized by often prickly herbaceous plants, trees, and shrubs having alternate leaves and dense clusters of small, whitish or greenish flowers, and including the devil's-club, ginseng, ivy, schefflera, and wild sarsaparilla.
  • giovanni leone — Giovanni [jaw-vahn-nee] /dʒɔˈvɑn ni/ (Show IPA), 1908–2001, Italian political leader: prime minister 1963, 1968; president 1971–78.
  • girls' brigade — (in Britain) an organization for girls, founded in 1893, with the aim of promoting self-discipline and self-respect
  • git-up-and-git — get-up-and-go.
  • giuseppe peano — (person, mathematics, logic)   (1858-08-27 - 1932-04-20) An Italian mathematician who wrote over 200 books and papers, was a founder of mathematical logic and set theory and taught at the University of Turin. He contributed to mathematical analysis, logic, the teaching of calculus, differential equations, vector analysis and the axiomatization of mathematics. The standard axiomatization of the natural numbers is named Peano arithmetic or the Peano axioms after him. He also invented the Peano curve, an early example of a fractal.
  • give credit to — to have confidence or trust in; believe
  • give effect to — to put into practice; make operative
  • give free rein — to allow considerable freedom; remove restraints
  • give it up for — If an audience is asked to give it up for a performer, they are being asked to applaud.
  • give sb a bell — If you give someone a bell, you telephone them.
  • give sb a ring — If you give someone a ring, you phone them.
  • give sb notice — If an employer gives an employee notice, the employer tells the employee that he or she must leave his or her job within a short fixed period of time.
  • given that sth — If you say given that something is the case, you mean taking that fact into account.
  • glacial period — Also called glacial period, ice age. the geologically recent Pleistocene Epoch, during which much of the Northern Hemisphere was covered by great ice sheets.
  • glamourisation — Alternative spelling of glamorization.
  • glamourization — Alternative form of glamorization.
  • glancing angle — the angle between a ray incident on a plane surface and the surface, as of a beam of electrons incident on a crystal; the complement of the angle of incidence.
  • glanduliferous — having glands or glandules
  • glans-clitoris — the head of the penis (glans penis) or of the clitoris (glans clitoris)
  • glauber's salt — the decahydrate form of sodium sulfate, a colorless, crystalline, water-soluble solid, Na 2 SO 4 ·10H 2 O, used chiefly in textile dyeing and as a cathartic.
  • global dimming — a decrease in the amount of sunlight reaching the surface of the earth, believed to be caused by pollution in the atmosphere
  • global product — a commercial product that is marketed throughout the world under the same brand name
  • global village — the world, especially considered as the home of all nations and peoples living interdependently.
  • global warming — an increase in the earth's average atmospheric temperature that causes corresponding changes in climate and that may result from the greenhouse effect.
  • globalizations — Plural form of globalization.
  • globe amaranth — a plant, Gomphrena globosa, native to the Old World tropics, having dense heads of variously colored flowers that retain their color when cut.
  • gloom and doom — an account or prediction of adversity, especially in economic or business affairs; bad news: a trade journal full of gloom and doom about next year's trends.
  • glottalisation — Alternative spelling of glottalization.
  • glottalization — (linguistics) The act or process of constricting or closing the glottis during the production of a speech sound that normally does not involve such constriction.
  • glow discharge — the conduction of electricity in a low-pressure gas, producing a diffuse glow.
  • glucocorticoid — any of a class of steroid hormones that are synthesized by the adrenal cortex of vertebrates and have anti-inflammatory activity.
  • glutaraldehyde — a nonflammable liquid, C 5 H 8 O 2 , soluble in water and alcohol, toxic and an irritant, used for tanning leather and as a fixative for samples to be examined under the electron microscope.
  • gluteus medius — the muscle of the buttocks lying between the gluteus maximus and the gluteus minimus, involved in the abduction of the thigh.
  • gluttonousness — The quality of being gluttonous.
  • glycaemic load — an index indicating the amount of carbohydrate contained in a specified serving of a particular food. It is calculated by multiplying the food's glycaemic index by its carbohydrate content in grams and then dividing by 100
  • glycemic index — a system that ranks foods by the speeds at which their carbohydrates are converted into glucose in the body; a measure of the effects of foods on blood-sugar levels.
  • glyceraldehyde — a white, crystalline, water-soluble solid, C 3 H 6 O 3 , that is an intermediate in carbohydrate metabolism and yields glycerol on reduction.
  • glyceryl group — the trivalent group (C 3 H 5)− 3 , derived from glycerol.
  • glycogenolysis — (biochemistry) The production of glucose-1-phosphate by splitting a glucose monomer from glycogen using inorganic phosphate.
  • glycogenolytic — Of, pertaining to, or capable of glycogenolysis, the catabolism of glycogen.
  • glycosidically — In a glycosidic manner; by means of a glycoside.
  • glyoxylic acid — a water-soluble crystalline compound, C 2 H 2 O 3 , that is an intermediate in photorespiration in plants.
  • go a bundle on — to be extremely fond of
  • go all the way — manner, mode, or fashion: a new way of looking at a matter; to reply in a polite way.
  • go around with — If you go around with a person or group of people, you regularly meet them and go to different places with them.
  • go easy on sth — If you tell someone to go easy on something, you are telling them to use only a small amount of it.
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