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16-letter words starting with ge

  • gelatin dynamite — a high explosive consisting of a gelatinized mass of nitroglycerin with cellulose nitrate added.
  • gemini telescope — either of two identical 8-metre telescopes for optical and near-infrared observations built by an international consortium. Gemini North is in Hawaii at an altitude of 4200 m on Mauna Kea and Gemini South is in Chile at 2715 m on Cerro Pachón
  • gender dysphoria — a psychological condition marked by significant emotional distress and impairment in life functioning, caused by a lack of congruence between gender identity and biological sex assigned at birth.
  • gender selection — choosing the sex of a baby
  • gender-normative — cisgender.
  • gender-profiling — the use of personal characteristics or behavior patterns to make generalizations about a person, as in gender profiling.
  • general american — any form of American English speech considered to show few regional peculiarities, usually including all dialects except for eastern New England, New York City, Southern, and South Midland (no longer in technical use). Abbreviation: GA.
  • general assembly — the legislature in some states of the U.S.
  • general aviation — aviation including business flying, sports flying, and crop dusting.
  • general delivery — a postal service that delivers mail to a specific post office where it is held for pickup by the addressee.
  • general election — U.S. Politics. a regularly scheduled local, state, or national election in which voters elect officeholders. Compare primary (def 15). a state or national election, as opposed to a local election.
  • general electric — (company)   (GE) A US company that manufactured computers from 1956 until 1970, when it sold its computer division to Honeywell and left the computer business. Notable GE computers were the GE-265, which supported the Dartmouth Time-sharing System (DTSS), and the GE-645 used for Multics development. See also GCOS. Not to be confused with the General Electric Company (GEC) in the UK (where FOLDOC's first seeds were sown).
  • general expenses — miscellaneous expenses
  • general factotum — a person who does all sorts of jobs; general assistant
  • general hospital — A general hospital is a hospital that does not specialize in the treatment of particular illnesses or patients.
  • general medicine — non-surgical branch of medicine
  • general practice — family practice.
  • general quarters — a condition of readiness for combat on a warship, during which crew members remain at their battle stations and have guns and ammunition ready for immediate loading.
  • general sessions — a court of general jurisdiction in criminal cases in some U.S. states.
  • general solution — a solution to a differential equation that contains arbitrary, unevaluated constants.
  • generalisability — Non-Oxford British standard spelling of generalizability.
  • generalizability — The quality of being generalizable.
  • generation jones — members of the generation of people born in the Western world between the mid-1950s and the mid-1960s
  • genetic disorder — disease caused by abnormal DNA
  • genetic material — material that stores genetic information; DNA
  • genetic-engineer — the development and application of scientific methods, procedures, and technologies that permit direct manipulation of genetic material in order to alter the hereditary traits of a cell, organism, or population.
  • gentleman friend — a man with whom a woman is romantically involved; suitor.
  • gentleman-farmer — a man whose wealth or income from other sources permits him to farm for pleasure rather than for basic income.
  • gentlemen's club — a private social club whose members were traditionally aristocratic males
  • geochronological — Of or pertaining to geochronology.
  • geochronologists — Plural form of geochronologist.
  • geoffrey chaucerGeoffrey, 1340?–1400, English poet.
  • geographic range — the distance at which a certain light, as that of a lighthouse, is visible to the eye at a given elevation, assuming that the weather is clear and that the light is sufficiently powerful to be visible from any point at which it appears above the horizon.
  • geological cycle — Geology. a continuous process by which rocks are created, changed from one form to another, destroyed, and then formed again.
  • geometric isomer — each of two or more chemical compounds having the same molecular formula but a different geometric arrangement; an unsaturated compound or ring compound in which rotation around a carbon bond is restricted, as in cis- and trans- configurations.
  • geometric series — an infinite series of the form, c + cx + cx 2 + cx 3 + …, where c and x are real numbers.
  • geometrical pace — a pace of 5 feet (1.5 meters), representing the distance between the places at which the same foot rests on the ground in walking.
  • geomorphological — Of or pertaining to geomorphology.
  • george m pullman — plural Pullmans. a railroad sleeping car or parlor car.
  • george mcclellan — George Brinton [brin-tn] /ˈbrɪn tn/ (Show IPA), 1826–85, Union general in the American Civil War.
  • geostrophic wind — a wind whose velocity and direction are mathematically defined by the balanced relationship of the pressure gradient force and the Coriolis force: conceived as blowing parallel to isobars.
  • geothermal power — power generated using steam produced by heat emanating from the molten core of the earth
  • gerard de nerval — Gérard de [zhey-rar duh] /ʒeɪˈrar də/ (Show IPA), (Gérard Labrunie) 1808–55, French writer.
  • german cockroach — a common yellowish-brown cockroach, Blatta germanica, brought into the U.S. from Europe.
  • germinal vesicle — the large, vesicular nucleus of an ovum before the polar bodies are formed.
  • gerontomorphosis — Biology. evolutionary specialization of a species to a degree that decreases its capability for further adaptation and eventually leads to its extinction.
  • get into trouble — be punished for wrongdoing
  • get on your wick — If you say that someone or something gets on your wick, you mean that they annoy and irritate you.
  • get one's eye in — to become accustomed to the conditions, light, etc, with a consequent improvement in one's performance
  • get sth straight — If you get something straight, you make sure that you understand it properly or that someone else does.

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