13-letter words containing d, i, r, g, e, s
- germinal disk — blastodisk.
- get rid of sb — If you get rid of someone who is causing problems for you or who you do not like, you do something to prevent them affecting you any more, for example by making them leave.
- ghiordes knot — a hand-tied knot, used in rug weaving, in which the parallel ends of looped yarn alternate with two threads of warp, producing an uneven pile effect.
- gibson desert — a desert in W central Australia: scrub; salt marshes. About 85,000 sq. mi. (220,000 sq. km).
- glucuronidase — an enzyme that catalyzes glucuronide hydrolysis
- golden shiner — a small, silvery freshwater minnow, Notemigonus crysoleucas, native to eastern North America and introduced into western North America: often used as live bait in sport fishing.
- goldie's fern — a wood fern, Dryopteris goldiana, of northeastern North America, having large, golden-green, leathery fronds with blades that tilt backward.
- goods service — a transport service in which goods are sent by train from one location to another
- gourmandizers — Plural form of gourmandizer.
- gradient post — a small white post beside a railway line at a point where the gradient changes having arms set at angles representing the gradients
- grandioseness — affectedly grand or important; pompous: grandiose words.
- grass widower — a man who is separated, divorced, or lives apart from his wife.
- grimes golden — a yellow variety of apple that ripens in late autumn.
- ground sluice — a trench, cut through a placer or through bedrock, through which a stream is diverted in order to dislodge and wash the gravel.
- hairdressings — Plural form of hairdressing.
- hard feelings — Hard feelings are feelings of anger or bitterness towards someone who you have had an argument with or who has upset you. If you say 'no hard feelings', you are making an agreement with someone not to be angry or bitter about something.
- head register — the high register of the human voice.
- heading sword — a sword used for beheading.
- high-spirited — characterized by energetic enthusiasm, elation, vivacity, etc.
- horse trading — the act or fact of conducting a shrewd exchange or engaging in a horse trade; bargaining.
- horse-trading — to bargain or trade shrewdly.
- housed string — a string of a stair (housed stair) receiving the ends of the risers or treads in a series of housings.
- kindergartens — Plural form of kindergarten.
- land registry — In Britain, a land registry is a government office where records are kept about each area of land in a country or region, including information about who owns it.
- landgraviates — Plural form of landgraviate.
- leading reins — straps or a harness and strap used to assist and control a child who is learning to walk
- legal adviser — a lawyer who gives advice
- lysergic acid — a crystalline solid, C 16 H 16 N 2 O 2 , obtained from ergot or synthesized: used in the synthesis of LSD.
- masterminding — to plan and direct (a usually complex project or activity), especially skillfully: Two colonels had masterminded the revolt.
- measuring rod — ruler, gauge, stick for measuring
- merchandising — the manufactured goods bought and sold in any business.
- middlesbrough — a seaport in NE England, on the Tees estuary.
- mills grenade — a type of high-explosive grenade weighing about 1.5 pounds (0.7 kg).
- misconfigured — Simple past tense and past participle of misconfigure.
- misrecognized — Simple past tense and past participle of misrecognize.
- morning dress — formal daytime apparel for men, including striped pants, a cutaway, and a silk hat.
- mud wrestling — sport: physical combat in mud
- mud-wrestling — wrestling in an enclosure with a floor or base of wet mud, staged as a public display and competitive event.
- nearsightedly — In a nearsighted manner; as if nearsighted; myopically.
- neighborhoods — Plural form of neighborhood.
- niggardliness — The state of being niggardly.
- nondecreasing — not decreasing.
- outside-right — a footballer who plays on the outside right wing of the field
- over-designed — having too many design features; fussy
- over-standing — overreach (def 13).
- overdiagnosed — Simple past tense and past participle of overdiagnose.
- overdiagnosis — excessive diagnosis of a disease
- parasite drag — the component of drag caused by skin friction and the shape of the surfaces not contributing to lift.
- phase diagram — a graph, usually using temperature, pressure, and composition as coordinates, indicating the regions of stability of the various phases of a system.
- predesignated — to designate beforehand.