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14-letter words starting with g

  • grade crossing — an intersection of a railroad track and another track, a road, etc., at the same level.
  • grade-schooler — a pupil in a grade school.
  • graduate nurse — a person who has graduated from an accredited school of nursing.
  • graduation day — the day on which the ceremony is held at which university or college degrees and diplomas are conferred
  • graeffe method — a method, involving the squaring of roots, for approximating the solutions to algebraic equations.
  • graham cracker — a semisweet cracker, usually rectangular in shape, made chiefly of whole-wheat flour.
  • grain elevator — elevator (def 4).
  • grammar school — an elementary school.
  • grammarchecker — (computing) A software application, like a spellchecker, that attempts to verify proper grammar in a document.
  • grammaticality — the state or quality of being grammatical.
  • grammaticalize — to convert (a content word or part of one) into a functor, as in using OE līc, “body,” as a suffix in adjectives and adverbs, such as OE frēondlīc, “friendly.”.
  • grammaticaster — (derogatory) A pedantic, inferior grammarian.
  • grammaticizing — Present participle of grammaticize.
  • granary weevil — a reddish-brown weevil, Sitophilus granarius, that infests stored grain.
  • grand junction — a city in W Colorado.
  • grand ole opry — a successful radio show from Nashville, Tenn., first broadcast on Nov. 28, 1925, noted for its playing of and continuing importance to country music.
  • grand seigneur — a dignified or aristocratic man
  • granddaughters — Plural form of granddaughter.
  • grande prairie — a city in W Alberta, in W Canada.
  • grandfathering — Present participle of grandfather.
  • grandiloquence — speech that is lofty in tone, often to the point of being pompous or bombastic.
  • grangerisation — The act of illustrating a book with pictures taken from published sources, such as by clipping them out for one's own use.
  • grangerization — The act of illustrating a book with pictures taken from published sources, such as by clipping them out for one's own use.
  • granny dumping — the abandonment of an elderly person, especially a relative, at a hospital, bus station, etc.
  • granny glasses — round spectacles
  • granulomatosis — any disease characterized by the formation of numerous granulomas.
  • granulopoietin — a hormone that promotes the production of white blood cells.
  • grape hyacinth — any plant belonging to the genus Muscari, of the lily family, as M. botryoides, having globular, blue flowers resembling tiny grapes.
  • grapefruitlike — Resembling or characteristic of grapefruit.
  • graph coloring — graph colouring
  • graphic accent — any mark written above a letter, especially one indicating stress in pronunciation, as in Spanish rápido.
  • graphic artist — sb who draws, paints, prints, etc.
  • graphic design — the art or profession of visual communication that combines images, words, and ideas to convey information to an audience, especially to produce a specific effect.
  • graphite cloth — a nonwoven fabric made by embedding carbon fibers in a plastic bonding material, used in layers as a substitute for sheet metal, as in the construction of aircraft wings.
  • graphitization — (geology) The formation of graphite from other organic materials.
  • grapple ground — an anchorage, especially for small vessels.
  • grappling iron — a grapnel.
  • grass parakeet — any of several Australian parakeets, especially the budgerigar.
  • grassman's law — an observation, made by H. G. Grassman, that when aspirated consonants occurred in successive syllables in Sanskrit and classical Greek, one, usually the first, was unaspirated, becoming a voiced stop in Sanskrit and a voiceless stop in Greek.
  • gratifications — Plural form of gratification.
  • gratuitousness — The state or characteristic of being gratuitous.
  • graveyard slot — the hours from late night until early morning when the number of people watching television is at its lowest
  • graveyard stew — milk toast.
  • gravity assist — the technique of using the energy of a gravitational field and the orbital velocity of a planet to change the speed and trajectory of a spacecraft.
  • gray sea eagle — a grayish-brown sea eagle, Haliaetus albicilla, of the Old World and Greenland, having a white tail.
  • grease remover — a substance that removes grease
  • grease-stained — stained with grease marks
  • great doxology — Gloria in Excelsis Deo.
  • great entrance — the solemn procession in which the unconsecrated Eucharistic elements are carried from the prothesis through the nave of the church and into the bema.
  • great firewall — a system that prevents access to websites deemed undesirable by the government of the People's Republic of China
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