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13-letter words containing a, g, d, e

  • field glasses — Usually, field glasses. binoculars for use out of doors.
  • field-glasses — Field-glasses are the same as binoculars.
  • figured glass — plate or sheet glass having a pattern rolled onto one side of the surface.
  • fingerbreadth — the breadth of a finger: approximately 3/4 inch (2 cm).
  • fingerpainted — Simple past tense and past participle of fingerpaint.
  • first reading — the reading of a bill when it is first introduced in a legislative body.
  • flabbergasted — to overcome with surprise and bewilderment; astound.
  • flashed glass — clear glass flashed with a thin layer of colored glass or a coating of metallic oxide.
  • flight leader — a pilot who commands a flight of military airplanes.
  • floating debt — short-term government borrowing, esp by the issue of three-month Treasury bills
  • flog to death — to persuade a person so persistently of the value of (an idea or venture) that he or she loses interest in it
  • flower garden — plot for flowers
  • foreordaining — Present participle of foreordain.
  • foreshadowing — to show or indicate beforehand; prefigure: Political upheavals foreshadowed war.
  • fourth-grader — a child in the fourth grade
  • foxtail wedge — a wedge in the split end of a tenon, bolt, or the like, for spreading and securing it when driven into a blind mortise or hole.
  • free-standing — A free-standing piece of furniture or other object is not fixed to anything, or stands on its own away from other things.
  • fridge magnet — a small flat decorative object with a magnet on its back which is used to attach it to the front door of a fridge or other domestic appliance
  • frontage road — a local road that runs parallel to an expressway, providing access to roadside stores and businesses; a service road.
  • frosted glass — etched glass with a translucent surface
  • fun and games — frivolously diverting activity.
  • gagging order — an official order against certain information being made public or discussed (by the press, etc)
  • gaidhealtachd — the area of Scotland in which Scottish Gaelic is the vernacular speech
  • galactosidase — An enzyme, such as lactase, that is involved in the hydrolytic breakdown of a galactoside.
  • garden balsam — a fleshy annual garden impatiens (Impatiens balsamina) with roselike white, lavender, yellow, pink, or red blossoms borne along the main stem in leaf axils
  • garden center — a store that sells gardening supplies, as seeds, plants, fertilizer, and tools.
  • garden centre — A garden centre is a large shop, usually with an outdoor area, where you can buy things for your garden such as plants and gardening tools.
  • garden orache — a plant of the goosefoot family, Atriplex hortensis, which is cultivated as a vegetable and used like spinach
  • garden shears — shears used for gardening
  • garden suburb — a suburb of a large established town or city, planned along the lines of a garden city
  • 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
  • gelandelaufer — a participant in cross-country skiing.
  • gelandesprung — a jump, usually over an obstacle, in which one plants both poles in the snow in advance of the skis, bends close to the ground, and propels oneself chiefly by the use of the poles.
  • gender binary — a classification system consisting of two genders, male and female.
  • general audit — an audit of all a company's accounts
  • 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
  • genital ridge — the area in the vertebrate embryo that develops into ovaries in the female and testes in the male.
  • gentisic acid — a crystalline, water-soluble compound, C 7 H 6 O 4 , used chiefly in the form of its sodium salt as an analgesic and diaphoretic.
  • gentlemanhood — the nature or position of a gentleman
  • germinal disk — blastodisk.
  • gerrymandered — Simple past tense and past participle of gerrymander.
  • gerrymanderer — a person who gerrymanders
  • 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 a load of — anything put in or on something for conveyance or transportation; freight; cargo: The truck carried a load of watermelons.
  • 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.
  • get-well card — a greeting card sent to a person who is unwell, expressing a wish for a speedy recovery
  • 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.
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