0%

13-letter words containing d, o, n, a, g, e

  • edward gibbon — Edward, 1737–94, English historian.
  • floating debt — short-term government borrowing, esp by the issue of three-month Treasury bills
  • flower garden — plot for flowers
  • foreordaining — Present participle of foreordain.
  • foreshadowing — to show or indicate beforehand; prefigure: Political upheavals foreshadowed war.
  • frontage road — a local road that runs parallel to an expressway, providing access to roadside stores and businesses; a service road.
  • gagging order — an official order against certain information being made public or discussed (by the press, etc)
  • garden orache — a plant of the goosefoot family, Atriplex hortensis, which is cultivated as a vegetable and used like spinach
  • garret window — a skylight that lies along the slope of the roof
  • gelada baboon — a NE African baboon, Theropithecus gelada, with dark brown hair forming a mane over the shoulders, a bare red chest, and a ridged muzzle: family Cercopithecidae
  • general order — any one of a set of permanent orders from a headquarters establishing policy for a command or announcing official acts.
  • general synod — the governing body, under Parliament, of the Church of England, made up of the bishops and elected clerical and lay representatives
  • gentlemanhood — the nature or position of a gentleman
  • get a bead on — 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.
  • get around to — When you get around to doing something that you have delayed doing or have been too busy to do, you finally do it.
  • get-up-and-go — energy, drive, and enthusiasm.
  • giant hogweed — a tall plant, Heracleum mantegazzianum, of the parsley family, native to Russia and now naturalized in the U.S., having very large leaves and broad, white flower heads somewhat resembling Queen Anne's lace: can cause an allergic rash when touched by susceptible persons.
  • giant redwood — big tree.
  • gladstone bag — a small rectangular suitcase hinged to open into two compartments of equal size.
  • glucuronidase — an enzyme that catalyzes glucuronide hydrolysis
  • goal-oriented — (of a person) focused on reaching a specific objective or accomplishing a given task; driven by purpose: goal-oriented teams of teachers.
  • godwin-austen — Also called Godwin Austen [god-win aw-stin] /ˈgɒd wɪn ˈɔ stɪn/ (Show IPA), Dapsang [duh p-suhng] /dəpˈsʌŋ/ (Show IPA). a mountain in N Kashmir, in the Karakoram range: second highest peak in the world. 28,250 feet (8611 meters).
  • golden valley — a town in SE Minnesota.
  • golden wattle — a broad-leaved, Australian acacia, Acacia pycnantha, of the legume family, having short clusters of yellow flowers and yielding tanbark and a useful gum.
  • good riddance — the act or fact of clearing away or out, as anything undesirable.
  • goodnaturedly — In a good-natured manner.
  • 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
  • grand opening — celebratory first-day event
  • grandiloquent — speaking or expressed in a lofty style, often to the point of being pompous or bombastic.
  • grandioseness — affectedly grand or important; pompous: grandiose words.
  • grandma moses — Anna Mary Robertson ("Grandma Moses") 1860–1961, U.S. painter.
  • grandmotherly — of or characteristic of a grandmother.
  • ground tackle — equipment, as anchors, chains, or windlasses, for mooring a vessel away from a pier or other fixed moorings.
  • groundbreaker — a person who is an originator, innovator, or pioneer in a particular activity.
  • gunpowder tea — an explosive mixture, as of potassium nitrate, sulfur, and charcoal, used in shells and cartridges, in fireworks, for blasting, etc.
  • hand in glove — the terminal, prehensile part of the upper limb in humans and other primates, consisting of the wrist, metacarpal area, fingers, and thumb.
  • hand-in-glove — the terminal, prehensile part of the upper limb in humans and other primates, consisting of the wrist, metacarpal area, fingers, and thumb.
  • heading sword — a sword used for beheading.
  • heli-boarding — the sport of snowboarding on mountains or glaciers accessible only by helicopter or skiplane
  • 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.
  • hydrogenating — Present participle of hydrogenate.
  • hydrogenation — to combine or treat with hydrogen, especially to add hydrogen to the molecule of (an unsaturated organic compound).
  • in god's name — If someone uses such expressions as what in God's name, why in God's name, or how in God's name, they are emphasizing how angry, annoyed, or surprised they are.
  • in good shape — person: fit, healthy
  • indo-germanic — Indo-European
  • jordan engine — a machine for beating and refining pulp, used in manufacturing certain grades of paper.
  • juglandaceous — belonging to the plant family Juglandaceae.
  • kangaroo code — spaghetti code
Was this page helpful?
Yes No
Thank you for your feedback! Tell your friends about this page
Tell us why?