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

  • solidungulate — having a single, undivided hoof on each foot, as a horse.
  • speed skating — ice skating as a form of racing, usually on an oval course and against other competitors or the clock.
  • stained glass — glass that has been colored, enameled, painted, or stained, especially by having pigments baked onto its surface or by having various metallic oxides fused into it, as used in church windows, decorative lampshades, etc.
  • standing joke — If something is a standing joke among a group of people, they often make jokes about it.
  • standing wave — a wave in a medium in which each point on the axis of the wave has an associated constant amplitude ranging from zero at the nodes to a maximum at the antinodes.
  • star-spangled — spangled with stars.
  • steganopodous — belonging to the Stegandopodes or having all four toes webbed together
  • straight-edge — advocating abstinence from alcohol, cigarettes, drugs, and sex and sometimes advocating vegetarianism.
  • stringer bead — 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.
  • student grant — a grant of money awarded to somebody to fund their studying at a university or college
  • subdelegation — a group or body of delegates: Our club sent a delegation to the rally.
  • superdelegate — a party leader or elected public official chosen as an uncommitted delegate to a national political convention.
  • sweated goods — goods that are made by exploited labour
  • table dancing — Table dancing is a type of entertainment in a bar or club in which a woman who is wearing very few clothes dances in a sexy way close to a customer or group of customers.
  • telediagnosis — the detection of a disease by evaluating data transmitted to a receiving station from instruments monitoring a distant patient, as someone in a spacecraft.
  • the gas board — any company supplying gas as a source of domestic and industrial heat
  • the high road — the principal road from one place to another
  • the highlands — mountainous region occupying nearly all of the N half of Scotland
  • the third age — old age, esp when viewed as an opportunity for travel, further education, etc
  • the-godfather — a novel (1969) by Mario Puzo.
  • third reading — the final step in the consideration of a legislative bill before it is put to a vote.
  • thoroughpaced — trained to go through all the possible paces, as a horse.
  • thread blight — a fungal disease of woody plants, characterized by thick, threadlike strands of mycelium on the undersides of the leaves and branches.
  • tidal barrage — a barrier that traps water at high tide, creating a tidal basin
  • tintagel head — a cape in SW England, on the W coast of Cornwall.
  • trade embargo — a government order imposing a trade barrier
  • trade figures — a record of how much a country has paid for goods which it has bought from other countries, compared with how much it has been paid for goods which it has sold to other countries
  • trailing edge — the rear edge of a propeller blade or airfoil.
  • transgendered — transgender (defs 1, 2).
  • tread lightly — to proceed with delicacy or tact
  • trigger guard — safety feature on a gun
  • turbo-charged — A turbo-charged engine or vehicle is fitted with a turbo.
  • twelfth grade — (in the US) the final year of secondary school after which students usually graduate at age 17 or 18
  • tzom gedaliah — a Jewish fast day observed on the third day of the month of Tishri in memory of the treacherous murder of Gedaliah, Jewish governor of Judah appointed by King Nebuchadnezzar of Babylonia.
  • un-negotiated — to deal or bargain with another or others, as in the preparation of a treaty or contract or in preliminaries to a business deal.
  • uncategorized — to arrange in categories or classes; classify.
  • undergraduate — a student in a university or college who has not received a first, especially a bachelor's, degree.
  • underpainting — the first coat of paint, especially the initial painting on a canvas in which the major areas, tones, colors, and forms are indicated in mass.
  • understaffing — the condition of being understaffed or of lacking a number of employees
  • understanding — mental process of a person who comprehends; comprehension; personal interpretation: My understanding of the word does not agree with yours.
  • undeviatingly — to turn aside, as from a route, way, course, etc.
  • unexaggerated — not exaggerated or overblown
  • unimpregnated — not saturated, soaked or infused (with something)
  • uninaugurated — not having been placed in office formally and ceremonially
  • unstigmatized — to set some mark of disgrace or infamy upon: The crime of the father stigmatized the whole family.
  • village idiot — someone who is well known in their community for their stupidity and ignorant behaviour
  • waterboarding — a harsh interrogation technique in which water is poured onto the face and head of the immobilized victim so as to induce a fear of drowning.
  • waterflooding — (in oil, gas, or petroleum production) the practice of injecting water to maintain pressure in a reservoir and to drive the oil, etc towards the production wells
  • wedding feast — a meal served to celebrate a wedding
  • weighted mean — a mean that is computed with extra weight given to one or more elements of the sample.
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