13-letter words containing d, e, g, l
- mud-wrestling — wrestling in an enclosure with a floor or base of wet mud, staged as a public display and competitive event.
- multidigitate — having many digits or finger-like projections
- muzzleloading — Of a gun, having ammunition loaded from the front of the barrel where it will exit.
- nearsightedly — In a nearsighted manner; as if nearsighted; myopically.
- neglectedness — the state or quality of being neglected
- new englander — an area in the NE United States, including the states of Connecticut, Maine, Massachusetts, New Hampshire, Rhode Island, and Vermont.
- niggardliness — The state of being niggardly.
- non-obligated — to bind or oblige morally or legally: to obligate oneself to purchase a building.
- nondegradable — not subject to or capable of degradation or decomposition: nondegradable waste.
- nondelegation — A failure or refusal to delegate.
- nondigestible — Not digestible.
- nonindulgence — Lack of indulgence.
- 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.
- oil hardening — to quench (steel) in a bath of oil.
- old norwegian — the language of Norway as spoken and written from the middle of the 12th to the end of the 14th centuries.
- old stone age — the Paleolithic period.
- olduvai gorge — a gorge in Tanzania in which is located a site containing Australopithecine and human skeletal and cultural remains.
- oligopeptides — Plural form of oligopeptide.
- onondaga lake — salt lake northwest of Syracuse, N.Y.: c. 5 sq mi (13 sq km)
- optical wedge — a wedge-shaped filter whose transmittance decreases from one end to the other: used as an exposure control device in sensitometry.
- organ-builder — a maker of organs
- outgeneralled — Simple past tense and past participle of outgeneral.
- overleveraged — (of a business organization) having an excessively high ratio of debt capital to equity capital
- overpedalling — the overuse of the piano's pedals
- paleopedology — the branch of pedology dealing with the soils of past geologic ages.
- pantie girdle — a girdle with a crotch.
- pearl molding — a molding having the form of a row of pearls.
- pebble garden — a small ornamental garden mainly composed of an arrangement of pebbles
- pedagogically — of or relating to a pedagogue or pedagogy.
- pelvic girdle — (in vertebrates) a bony or cartilaginous arch supporting the hind limbs or analogous parts.
- peptidoglycan — a polymer, consisting of polysaccharide and peptide chains, responsible for the structure of the cell wall of bacteria
- pile dwelling — a house raised on long columns of timber over the surface of the soil or a body of water
- plague-ridden — afflicted by the plague or a plague
- plain dealing — direct and honest conduct in one's relations and transactions with others.
- playing field — an expanse of level ground, as in a park or stadium, where athletic events are held.
- ponta delgada — a seaport on SW São Miguel island, in the E Azores.
- power loading — the act of a person or thing that loads.
- pressed glass — molded glass that has been shaped or given its pattern, while molten, by the action of a plunger thrust into the mold.
- 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).
- q-methodology — a statistical methodology used by psychologists to identify alternative world-views, opinions, interpretations, etc, in terms of statistically independent patterns of response recognized by clustering together individuals whose orderings of items, typically attitude statements, are similar
- quadragesimal — of, relating to, or suitable for Lent; Lenten.
- quadrigeminal — Having four parts, or two pairs.
- quadriplegics — Plural form of quadriplegic.
- quindecagonal — (geometry) Shaped like a quindecagon; fifteen-sided.
- r-methodology — any statistical methodology in psychology that is contrasted with Q-methodology
- radial engine — an internal-combustion engine having the cylinders arranged in radial opposition, found mainly on older aircraft.
- radiotelegram — a message transmitted by radiotelegraphy.
- ragged school — (in Britain, formerly) a free elementary school for poor children
- railway guide — a publication containing routes and timetables for train journeys
- rayleigh disc — a small light disc suspended in the path of a sound wave, used to measure the intensity of the sound by analysing the resulting deflection of the disc