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

  • 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.
  • hanging judge — sb who sentences criminals to execution
  • india drugget — drugget (def 1).
  • jean de meung — real name Jean Clopinel. ?1250–?1305, French poet, who continued Guillaume de Lorris' Roman de la Rose. His portion of the poem consists of some 18 000 lines and contains satirical attacks on women and the Church
  • judgementally — Alternative form of judgmentally.
  • judgment call — Sports. an observational ruling by a referee or umpire that is necessarily subjective because of the disputable nature of the play in question, and one that may be appealed but not protested, as opposed to a matter of official rule interpretation: Balks and close plays at first are of course judgment calls, and umpires are human.
  • judgmentalism — Judgmental behaviour or attitude.
  • juglandaceous — belonging to the plant family Juglandaceae.
  • junggar pendi — an arid region of W China, in N Xinjiang between the Altai Mountains and the Tian Shan
  • language code — (human language, standard)   A set of standard names and abbreviations maintained by ISO for identifying human languages, natural and invented, past and present. Each language has a list of English and French names and an ISO 639-2 three-letter code. Some also have an ISO 639-1 two-letter code. The list even includes the Klingon language from the Star Trek science fiction series. There are also country codes.
  • last judgment — judgment (def 8).
  • lounge around — to pass time idly and indolently.
  • lounge lizard — a foppish man who frequents bars, cafés, hotel lounges, etc., with or in search of women.
  • machinegunned — Simple past tense and past participle of machinegun.
  • magnetic drum — a cylinder coated with magnetic material, on which data and programs can be stored.
  • managed funds — funds which are managed by a mutual fund manager on behalf of investors
  • measuring rod — ruler, gauge, stick for measuring
  • mordant rouge — a solution of aluminum acetate in acetic acid, used in dyeing and calico printing.
  • much-maligned — If you describe someone or something as much-maligned, you mean that they are often criticized by people, but you think the criticism is unfair or exaggerated because they have good qualities too.
  • muzzleloading — Of a gun, having ammunition loaded from the front of the barrel where it will exit.
  • non-budgetary — an estimate, often itemized, of expected income and expense for a given period in the future.
  • non-dangerous — full of danger or risk; causing danger; perilous; risky; hazardous; unsafe.
  • nonconjugated — not conjugated
  • nonguaranteed — Not guaranteed; unguaranteed.
  • nonjudgmental — not judged or judging on the basis of one's personal standards or opinions: They tried to adopt a nonjudgmental attitude that didn't reflect their own biases. My guidance counselor in high school was sympathetic and nonjudgmental.
  • organ-builder — a maker of organs
  • out of danger — no longer at risk
  • outgeneralled — Simple past tense and past participle of outgeneral.
  • parade ground — A parade ground is an area of ground where soldiers practise marching and have parades.
  • pease pudding — a pudding of strained split peas mixed with egg.
  • piper gurnard — a marine fish, Trigla lyra, of the family Triglidae
  • plague-ridden — afflicted by the plague or a plague
  • product range — variety of merchandise within a brand
  • pulse dialing — a system of calling telephone numbers wherein electrical pulses corresponding to the digits in the number called are generated by manipulating a rotary dial or push buttons (contrasted with tone dialing).
  • quadrigeminal — Having four parts, or two pairs.
  • quadringenary — a 400th anniversary
  • queen dowager — the widow of a king.
  • quindecagonal — (geometry) Shaped like a quindecagon; fifteen-sided.
  • reading group — a group of people who meet regularly to discuss a book that they have all read
  • rubberbanding — (in online video games) the backward popping of characters in motion to their recently occupied spaces that results from high latency in the network connection.
  • ruggedization — the act or process of making something rugged
  • run sb ragged — If someone runs you ragged, they make you do so much that you become exhausted.
  • saint-gaudensAugustus, 1848–1907, U.S. sculptor, born in Ireland.
  • sharp-tongued — characterized by or given to harshness, bitterness, or sarcasm in speech.
  • single-valued — (of a function) having the property that each element in the domain has corresponding to it exactly one element in the range.
  • solidungulate — having a single, undivided hoof on each foot, as a horse.
  • sounding lead — a line weighted with a lead or plummet (sounding lead) and bearing marks to show the length paid out, used for sounding, as at sea.
  • squanderingly — in a squandering manner
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