13-letter words containing d, i, s, g, r
- gran paradiso — the highest peak in the Graian Alps, in N Italy. 13,324 feet (4061 meters).
- grand passion — an intense or overwhelming attraction or love.
- grandad shirt — a long-sleeved collarless shirt
- grandiloquous — grandiloquent
- grandioseness — affectedly grand or important; pompous: grandiose words.
- grandstanding — the main seating area of a stadium, racetrack, parade route, or the like, usually consisting of tiers with rows of individual seats.
- grants-in-aid — a subsidy furnished by a central government to a local one to help finance a public project, as the construction of a highway or school.
- graphics card — graphics adaptor
- 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.
- guard against — prevent
- gulf of sidra — a wide inlet of the Mediterranean on the N coast of Libya
- 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.
- hard standing — a hard-surfaced area on which heavy vehicles or airplanes can be parked.
- hazard lights — Usually, hazard lights. an indicator light on a vehicle that flashes to warn that it is unexpectedly slowing down, reversing, or not moving.
- 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.
- hunting sword — a short, light saber of the 18th century, having a straight or slightly curved blade.
- idiot strings — strings attached to children's mittens to prevent the wearer from losing them
- 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.
- landing strip — airstrip.
- 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
- losing hazard — an unavoidable danger or risk, even though often foreseeable: The job was full of hazards.
- 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.
- multigravidas — Plural form of multigravida.
- nearsightedly — In a nearsighted manner; as if nearsighted; myopically.
- neighborhoods — Plural form of neighborhood.
- niggardliness — The state of being niggardly.
- nondecreasing — not decreasing.
- nordic skiing — types of skiing in which the heel of the boot is not fixed to the ski, especially cross-country skiing and ski-jumping
- orchidologist — someone who is knowledgeable in orchidology