14-letter words containing gr
- elephant grass — any of various stout tropical grasses or grasslike plants, esp Pennisetum purpureum, and Typha elephantina, a type of reed mace
- eleventh grade — the eleventh year of school, when students are 16 or 17 years old
- éminence grise — a person who wields power and influence unofficially or behind the scenes
- encephalograms — Plural form of encephalogram.
- encephalograph — any other apparatus used to produce an encephalogram
- engler degrees — a scale of measurement of viscosity based on the ratio of the time taken by a particular liquid to flow through a standard orifice to the time taken by water to flow through the same orifice
- enigmatography — the composing or collection of enigmas
- epigrammatical — Pertaining to, or in the form of, an epigram.
- epigrammatized — Simple past tense and past participle of epigrammatize.
- epigrammatizer — someone who epigrammatizes
- epistolography — the art, or practice, of letter-writing
- ethnographical — Ethnographic.
- ethylene group — the divalent group, -CH2CH2-, derived from ethylene
- evergreen fund — a fund that provides capital for new companies and makes regular injections of capital to support their development
- exempli gratia — for the sake of example
- feeding ground — The feeding ground of a group of animals or birds, is the place where they find food and eat.
- fishing ground — a part of a body of water where the fishing is usually good.
- flinders grass — a drought-resistant pasture grass, Iseilema membranacea, native to inland regions of Australia and used as fodder.
- formal grammar — a set of syntactically valid formation rules of a formal language
- fountain grass — a perennial grass, Pennisetum setaceum, of Ethiopia, having bristly spikes, often rose-purple, grown as an ornamental.
- fragrance-free — (of a product) without added scent or perfume
- fragrant sumac — a sprawling shrub, Rhus aromatica, of the cashew family, native to eastern North America, having aromatic foliage and greenish-yellow flowers in small spikes.
- general degree — a degree awarded at some universities, studied at a lower academic standard than an honours degree
- geodemographic — Of or pertaining to geography and demography.
- geographically — of or relating to geography.
- glyceryl group — the trivalent group (C 3 H 5)− 3 , derived from glycerol.
- 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.