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13-letter words containing a, l, i, n, g

  • animal rights — People who are concerned with animal rights believe very strongly that animals should not be exploited or harmed by humans.
  • ankyloglossia — tongue-tie.
  • anthologizing — Present participle of anthologize.
  • anthropologic — the science that deals with the origins, physical and cultural development, biological characteristics, and social customs and beliefs of humankind.
  • anti-aliasing — a technique for smoothing out jagged lines in graphical computer output.
  • anti-allergic — intended to prevent or minimize an allergic reaction
  • anti-burglary — the felony of breaking into and entering the house of another at night with intent to steal, extended by statute to cover the breaking into and entering of any of various buildings, by night or day.
  • anticoagulant — acting to prevent or impair coagulation, esp of blood
  • antigenically — Immunology. any substance that can stimulate the production of antibodies and combine specifically with them.
  • antiguerrilla — acting against guerrilla activity
  • antilittering — (of a campaign) intended to discourage litter dropping
  • antilogarithm — a number whose logarithm to a given base is a given number
  • antique glass — pot metal (def 4).
  • antireligious — opposed to religious ideas, beliefs, and organizations
  • antismuggling — acting to prevent or reduce smuggling
  • appealingness — the quality of being appealing
  • archaeologian — (archaic) An archaeologist.
  • arm wrestling — a contest in which two people sit facing each other each with one elbow resting on a table, clasp hands, and each tries to force the other's arm flat onto the table while keeping his own elbow touching the table
  • armor-plating — The armor-plating on a vehicle or building is the hard metal covering that is intended to protect it from gunfire and other missiles.
  • arterializing — Present participle of arterialize.
  • assignability — The quality of being assignable.
  • astonishingly — causing astonishment or surprise; amazing: an astonishing victory; an astonishing remark.
  • audio-lingual — pertaining to listening comprehension and speaking, especially in learning a foreign language.
  • back clipping — a word formed by omitting the last part of the form from which it is derived.
  • back-slapping — Back-slapping is noisy, cheerful behaviour which people use in order to show affection or appreciation to each other.
  • backing light — Also called backing striplight, backing strip. Theater. a striplight providing diffused illumination for the background of a stage set.
  • backpedalling — to retard the forward motion by pressing backward on the pedal, especially of a bicycle with coaster brakes.
  • balancing act — If you perform a balancing act, you try to deal successfully with two or more people, groups, or situations that are in opposition to each other.
  • balch springs — a town in NE Texas.
  • ball and ring — a simplified bead-and-reel turning, used especially in English and American furniture of the 17th century.
  • ball handling — the control of the ball, as in basketball or soccer, by skillful dribbling and accurate passing.
  • bar-and-grill — a place where food and alcoholic drinks are served to customers; a combined barroom and grillroom.
  • barrel engine — an engine having cylinders arranged around and parallel to a shaft, which they rotate by means of the contact of their piston rods with a swash plate or cam on the shaft.
  • basal ganglia — the thalamus together with other closely related masses of grey matter, situated near the base of the brain
  • basic english — a simplified form of English, proposed by C. K. Ogden and I. A. Richards, containing a vocabulary of approximately 850 of the commonest English words, intended as an international language
  • bearing plate — a heavy metal plate for receiving and distributing concentrated weight, as from a column or one end of a truss.
  • bedding plane — the surface separating two successive layers of stratified rock
  • bedding plant — A bedding plant is a plant which lasts for one year. It is put in a flower bed before it flowers, and is then removed when it has finished flowering.
  • bedding-plant — bedmaker (def 1).
  • belgian congo — former Belgian colony (1908-60) in central Africa: now the country of Democratic Republic of the Congo
  • belly landing — the landing of an aircraft on its fuselage without use of its landing gear
  • bengal quince — bael.
  • benthopelagic — relating to species living at the bottom of the sea
  • beta globulin — a blood plasma protein that is separable from other globulins by electrophoresis.
  • beta-blocking — acting to inhibit the activity of the nerves that are stimulated by adrenaline
  • bible reading — a passage from the Bible, esp one read in a service
  • big enchilada — enchilada (def 2).
  • bildungsroman — a novel concerned with a person's formative years and development
  • birectangular — having two right angles.
  • birthing ball — a large soft rubber ball used by women during childbirth to give support and to aid pain relief
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