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13-letter words containing a, d, e, n, o

  • foreshadowing — to show or indicate beforehand; prefigure: Political upheavals foreshadowed war.
  • fort dearborn — a former U.S. fort on the site of Chicago, 1803–37.
  • fort sheridan — a military reservation in NE Illinois, on W shore of Lake Michigan S of Lake Forest.
  • fountainheads — Plural form of fountainhead.
  • frame of mind — mental state
  • france modern — an escutcheon blazoned as follows: Azure, three fleurs-de-lis or.
  • free on board — law: delivered by ship free of charge to buyer
  • friction head — (in a hydraulic system) the part of a head of water or of another liquid that represents the energy that the system dissipates through friction with the sides of conduits or channels and through heating from turbulent flow.
  • frontage road — a local road that runs parallel to an expressway, providing access to roadside stores and businesses; a service road.
  • gagging order — an official order against certain information being made public or discussed (by the press, etc)
  • garden orache — a plant of the goosefoot family, Atriplex hortensis, which is cultivated as a vegetable and used like spinach
  • garret window — a skylight that lies along the slope of the roof
  • gelada baboon — a NE African baboon, Theropithecus gelada, with dark brown hair forming a mane over the shoulders, a bare red chest, and a ridged muzzle: family Cercopithecidae
  • general order — any one of a set of permanent orders from a headquarters establishing policy for a command or announcing official acts.
  • general synod — the governing body, under Parliament, of the Church of England, made up of the bishops and elected clerical and lay representatives
  • gentlemanhood — the nature or position of a gentleman
  • get a bead on — a small, usually round object of glass, wood, stone, or the like with a hole through it, often strung with others of its kind in necklaces, rosaries, etc.
  • get around to — When you get around to doing something that you have delayed doing or have been too busy to do, you finally do it.
  • get-up-and-go — energy, drive, and enthusiasm.
  • giant hogweed — a tall plant, Heracleum mantegazzianum, of the parsley family, native to Russia and now naturalized in the U.S., having very large leaves and broad, white flower heads somewhat resembling Queen Anne's lace: can cause an allergic rash when touched by susceptible persons.
  • giant redwood — big tree.
  • gladstone bag — a small rectangular suitcase hinged to open into two compartments of equal size.
  • glucuronidase — an enzyme that catalyzes glucuronide hydrolysis
  • goal-oriented — (of a person) focused on reaching a specific objective or accomplishing a given task; driven by purpose: goal-oriented teams of teachers.
  • godwin-austen — Also called Godwin Austen [god-win aw-stin] /ˈgɒd wɪn ˈɔ stɪn/ (Show IPA), Dapsang [duh p-suhng] /dəpˈsʌŋ/ (Show IPA). a mountain in N Kashmir, in the Karakoram range: second highest peak in the world. 28,250 feet (8611 meters).
  • golden valley — a town in SE Minnesota.
  • golden wattle — a broad-leaved, Australian acacia, Acacia pycnantha, of the legume family, having short clusters of yellow flowers and yielding tanbark and a useful gum.
  • good riddance — the act or fact of clearing away or out, as anything undesirable.
  • goodnaturedly — In a good-natured manner.
  • gourmandizers — Plural form of gourmandizer.
  • gradient post — a small white post beside a railway line at a point where the gradient changes having arms set at angles representing the gradients
  • grand opening — celebratory first-day event
  • grandiloquent — speaking or expressed in a lofty style, often to the point of being pompous or bombastic.
  • grandioseness — affectedly grand or important; pompous: grandiose words.
  • grandma moses — Anna Mary Robertson ("Grandma Moses") 1860–1961, U.S. painter.
  • grandmotherly — of or characteristic of a grandmother.
  • ground tackle — equipment, as anchors, chains, or windlasses, for mooring a vessel away from a pier or other fixed moorings.
  • groundbreaker — a person who is an originator, innovator, or pioneer in a particular activity.
  • gunpowder tea — an explosive mixture, as of potassium nitrate, sulfur, and charcoal, used in shells and cartridges, in fireworks, for blasting, etc.
  • haemodilution — an increase in the fluid content of blood leading to a lower concentration of red blood cells
  • haemodynamics — a branch of physiology that deals with the circulation of the blood
  • hand in glove — the terminal, prehensile part of the upper limb in humans and other primates, consisting of the wrist, metacarpal area, fingers, and thumb.
  • hand-in-glove — the terminal, prehensile part of the upper limb in humans and other primates, consisting of the wrist, metacarpal area, fingers, and thumb.
  • handsome lake — 1735-1815; Seneca prophet, social reformer, & founder of a North American Indian religion named after him
  • hartford fern — a climbing or sprawling fern, Lygodium palmatum, of the eastern U.S., having deeply lobed ivylike leaves.
  • have a mad on — to be angry
  • hazardousness — The condition of being hazardous.
  • heading sword — a sword used for beheading.
  • heaven forbid — You say 'Heaven forbid!' to emphasize that you very much hope that something will not happen.
  • heavenly body — celestial object: star, planet, etc.
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