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13-letter words containing a, n, g, s

  • antioncogenes — Plural form of antioncogene.
  • antique glass — pot metal (def 4).
  • antireligious — opposed to religious ideas, beliefs, and organizations
  • antismuggling — acting to prevent or reduce smuggling
  • anything goes — If people say 'anything goes', they mean that anything people say or do is considered acceptable, and usually they mean that they do not approve of this.
  • apotheosizing — Present participle of apotheosize.
  • appealingness — the quality of being appealing
  • apron strings — If you say that someone is tied to another person's apron strings, you mean that they are controlled or influenced too much by the other person.
  • argentiferous — containing or bearing silver
  • 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
  • as much again — twice as much
  • aschaffenburg — a city in Germany, on the River Main in Bavaria: seat of the Imperial Diet (1447); ceded to Bavaria in 1814. Pop: 68 607 (2003 est)
  • ashtanga yoga — a vigorous form of yoga involving a sequence of poses
  • assassinating — Present participle of assassinate.
  • assignability — The quality of being assignable.
  • assigned risk — a risk that, under state law, is assigned to an insurer from a pool of insurers who would not otherwise accept it.
  • astereognosis — inability to recognize objects by touch
  • astonishingly — causing astonishment or surprise; amazing: an astonishing victory; an astonishing remark.
  • athenagoras i — (Aristocles Spyrou) 1886–1972, Archbishop Ecumenical of Constantinople and Ecumenical Patriarch of the Greek Orthodox Church 1948–72.
  • atherogenesis — (medicine) The formation of atheromas, especially on the walls of the arteries.
  • augmentations — Plural form of augmentation.
  • austenitizing — to form austenite in (a ferrous alloy) by heating.
  • autodigestion — (biology) The digestion of tissue by enzymes produced by the organism itself.
  • avant-gardism — the attitudes, techniques, etc., of the cultural avant-garde.
  • awe-inspiring — If you describe someone or something as awe-inspiring, you are emphasizing that you think that they are remarkable and amazing, although sometimes rather frightening.
  • baba ghanoush — a thick purée of aubergines, tahini, olive oil, lemon juice, and garlic, originating in North Africa and the Mediterranean
  • back-slapping — Back-slapping is noisy, cheerful behaviour which people use in order to show affection or appreciation to each other.
  • back-stabbing — Back-stabbing consists of unkind and disloyal actions or remarks that are likely to harm someone such as a friend or colleague.
  • backgrounders — Plural form of backgrounder.
  • backing store — a computer storage device, usually a disk, that provides additional storage space for information so that it can be accessed and referred to when required and may be copied into the processor if needed
  • backstitching — Present participle of backstitch.
  • bag-snatching — theft that involves snatching women's handbags
  • balch springs — a town in NE Texas.
  • bandspreading — an additional tuning control in some radio receivers whereby a selected narrow band of frequencies can be spread over a wider frequency band, in order to give finer control of tuning
  • bang goes sth — If you say bang goes something, you mean that it is now obvious that it cannot succeed or be achieved.
  • banking hours — the hours during which a bank is open for business
  • banking house — a more formal term for a bank
  • bantamweights — Plural form of bantamweight.
  • barnsbreaking — noisy and exuberant activity; boisterous mischief-making
  • basal ganglia — the thalamus together with other closely related masses of grey matter, situated near the base of the brain
  • base exchange — a nonprofit general store at a military base, for the sale of merchandise for personal use, refreshments, etc.
  • 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
  • basking shark — a very large plankton-eating shark, Cetorhinus maximus, often floating at the sea surface: family Cetorhinidae
  • bastard eigne — the first-born illegitimate son of parents whose second son was legitimate.
  • battlegrounds — Plural form of battleground.
  • bay of gdańsk — a wide inlet of the Baltic Sea on the N coast of Poland
  • be upstanding — (in a court of law) a direction to all persons present to rise to their feet before the judge enters or leaves the court
  • bearing sword — a large sword carried for its owner by a squire or servant because of its size.
  • berchtesgaden — a town in Germany, in SE Bavaria: site of the fortified mountain retreat of Adolf Hitler. Pop: 7667 (2003 est)
  • bering strait — a strait between Alaska and Russia, connecting the Bering Sea and the Arctic Ocean
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