(military) Each of the commissions which rank a (para)military officer below the (highest) class of general officers, but above other commissioned officers and NCOs.

simple past tense and past participle of make the grade

plural of gram calorie

The amount of energy needed to raise the temperature of a gram of water by a degree centigrade: a unit of measure of energy.

A bean from the seed of Vigna radiata, which is native to Bangladesh and India.

(military) A tour of inspection by a general officer or commander, visiting all the guards in the officer's command.

A grandfather of one's spouse.

(grammar) A mode of inflection of a word dependent on its use, especially the syntactic function in a phrase.

plural of grain refiner

(engineering) An alloyant used to refine grains in a cast macrostructure