13-letter words containing d, i, t, o, g, r
- dysregulation — A failure to regulate properly.
- fighting word — Usually, fighting words. language that arouses rage in an antagonist.
- floor trading — trading by personal contact on the floor of a market or exchange
- flying doctor — a doctor listed with local authorities as willing to be flown to remote areas to give emergency medical care.
- foot-dragging — reluctance or failure to proceed or act promptly.
- foresightedly — In a foresighted manner.
- freight depot — (on a rail network) a place where freight is stored while awaiting onward transport
- front-loading — Also, front-loaded. front-loading (def 1).
- fruiting body — an organ that produces spores; fructification.
- garret window — a skylight that lies along the slope of the roof
- 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.
- giant redwood — big tree.
- gibson desert — a desert in W central Australia: scrub; salt marshes. About 85,000 sq. mi. (220,000 sq. km).
- gladiatorship — the work of a gladiator
- goal-oriented — (of a person) focused on reaching a specific objective or accomplishing a given task; driven by purpose: goal-oriented teams of teachers.
- gonadotrophic — Of, pertaining to, or stimulating the functions of the gonads.
- gonadotrophin — a gonadotropic substance.
- gonadotropins — Plural form of gonadotropin.
- 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
- grandiloquent — speaking or expressed in a lofty style, often to the point of being pompous or bombastic.
- granodioritic — relating to granodiorite
- ground-to-air — (of weapons) designed to be fired at aircraft from the ground
- groundnut oil — a mild-tasting oil extracted from peanuts and used in cooking
- grylloblattid — a primitive insect of the order Grylloblattidea, having a soft, unpigmented wingless body with long antennae and no eyes, living under stones in moderately high mountains of the western U.S., Japan, and the U.S.S.R.
- 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.
- hydrogenating — Present participle of hydrogenate.
- hydrogenation — to combine or treat with hydrogen, especially to add hydrogen to the molecule of (an unsaturated organic compound).
- hydronitrogen — a chemical compound containing only hydrogen and nitrogen.
- ideogrammatic — Of or pertaining to ideograms.
- idiot strings — strings attached to children's mittens to prevent the wearer from losing them
- infrigidation — (obsolete) The act of chilling or making cold; congelation.
- lightning rod — a rodlike conductor installed to divert lightning away from a structure by providing a direct path to the ground.
- matchboarding — a construction of matchboards.
- mood-altering — (especially of drugs) capable of changing one's emotional state.
- national grid — a network of high-voltage power lines connecting major power stations
- non-divergent — diverging; differing; deviating.
- non-irrigated — to supply (land) with water by artificial means, as by diverting streams, flooding, or spraying.
- nonintegrated — not integrated, lacking integration
- north reading — a city in NE Massachusetts.
- orchidologist — someone who is knowledgeable in orchidology
- orthodiagonal — the axis in a crystal
- outside-right — a footballer who plays on the outside right wing of the field
- over-standing — overreach (def 13).
- parotid gland — Also called parotid gland. a salivary gland situated at the base of each ear.
- prediagnostic — of, relating to, or used in diagnosis.
- predominating — to be the stronger or leading element or force.