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13-letter words containing d, r, i, e, g

  • eavesdropping — to listen secretly to a private conversation.
  • edging shears — shears that are used to trim the edges of a lawn
  • edinburgh sml — (EdML) Implementation of the Core language of SML. Byte-code interpreter in C. Ported to Amiga, Atari, Archimedes and IBM PC. Version: 0.44. E-mail: <[email protected]>.
  • edward gibbon — Edward, 1737–94, English historian.
  • eighth-grader — someone who is in the eighth grade at school
  • endearingness — The quality of being endearing.
  • endocrinology — The branch of physiology and medicine concerned with endocrine glands and hormones.
  • engine driver — sb who drives a train
  • evening dress — formal clothing
  • figure-ground — a property of perception in which there is a tendency to see parts of a visual field as solid, well-defined objects standing out against a less distinct background.
  • figured glass — plate or sheet glass having a pattern rolled onto one side of the surface.
  • fingerbreadth — the breadth of a finger: approximately 3/4 inch (2 cm).
  • fingerpainted — Simple past tense and past participle of fingerpaint.
  • fingerprinted — Simple past tense and past participle of fingerprint.
  • first reading — the reading of a bill when it is first introduced in a legislative body.
  • flight leader — a pilot who commands a flight of military airplanes.
  • flying bridge — Also called flybridge, fly bridge, monkey bridge. Nautical. a small, often open deck or platform above the pilothouse or main cabin, having duplicate controls and navigational equipment.
  • folding press — a fall in wrestling won by folding one's opponent's legs up to his head and pressing his shoulders to the floor
  • foregrounding — Present participle of foreground.
  • foreign-owned — owned by an individual who is resident in a different country or by a company whose headquarters are in a different country
  • foreordaining — Present participle of foreordain.
  • foreshadowing — to show or indicate beforehand; prefigure: Political upheavals foreshadowed war.
  • foresightedly — In a foresighted manner.
  • forge welding — the welding of pieces of hot metal with pressure or blows.
  • frederiksberg — a city in E Denmark: a part of Copenhagen.
  • frederiksburg — borough on Zealand island, Denmark: suburb of Copenhagen: pop. 88,000
  • free-spending — spending or tending to spend freely: If you don't mend your free-spending ways, you'll go bankrupt.
  • free-standing — A free-standing piece of furniture or other object is not fixed to anything, or stands on its own away from other things.
  • freeze-drying — a process for drying heat-sensitive substances, as foods, blood plasma, antibiotics, and the like, by freezing the substance and then subliming the ice or other frozen solvent in a high vacuum.
  • freight depot — (on a rail network) a place where freight is stored while awaiting onward transport
  • fridge magnet — a small flat decorative object with a magnet on its back which is used to attach it to the front door of a fridge or other domestic appliance
  • friendsgiving — a gathering of friends to celebrate Thanksgiving with a feast, falling near or on Thanksgiving Day, in contrast to the traditional celebrations that typically involve family.
  • gagging order — an official order against certain information being made public or discussed (by the press, etc)
  • garret window — a skylight that lies along the slope of the roof
  • gender binary — a classification system consisting of two genders, male and female.
  • general audit — an audit of all a company's accounts
  • genetic drift — random changes in the frequency of alleles in a gene pool, usually of small populations.
  • genital ridge — the area in the vertebrate embryo that develops into ovaries in the female and testes in the male.
  • geohydrologic — relating to geohydrology
  • 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.
  • gheorghiu-dej — Gheorghe [gyawr-ge] /ˈgyɔr gɛ/ (Show IPA), 1901–65, Romanian statesman: premier 1952–55; president of the state council 1961–65.
  • 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 ragweed — any of the composite plants of the genus Ambrosia, the airborne pollen of which is the most prevalent cause of autumnal hay fever, as the common North American species, A. trifida (great ragweed or giant ragweed) and A. artemisiifolia.
  • giant redwood — big tree.
  • gibson desert — a desert in W central Australia: scrub; salt marshes. About 85,000 sq. mi. (220,000 sq. km).
  • ginger-haired — having ginger hair
  • gingerbreaded — flavoured with gingerbread
  • gliding lemur — flying lemur.
  • glittertinden — the highest peak in Norway, in the S central part. 8110 feet (2473 meters).
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