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13-letter words containing d, r, u, g

  • hydraulicking — a type of mining that uses water to move rock
  • india drugget — drugget (def 1).
  • judges' rules — (in English law, formerly) a set of rules, not legally binding, governing the behaviour of police towards suspects, as in administering a caution to a person under arrest
  • junggar pendi — an arid region of W China, in N Xinjiang between the Altai Mountains and the Tian Shan
  • kirkcudbright — a historic county in SW Scotland.
  • lighter fluid — a combustible fluid used in cigarette, cigar, and pipe lighters.
  • lounge around — to pass time idly and indolently.
  • lounge lizard — a foppish man who frequents bars, cafés, hotel lounges, etc., with or in search of women.
  • lunar landing — arrival on surface of the moon
  • magnetic drum — a cylinder coated with magnetic material, on which data and programs can be stored.
  • measuring rod — ruler, gauge, stick for measuring
  • middle ground — an intermediate position, area, or recourse between two opposites or extremes; a halfway or neutral standpoint.
  • middleborough — a town in SE Massachusetts.
  • middlesbrough — a seaport in NE England, on the Tees estuary.
  • midriff bulge — a roll of fat around your midriff
  • millau bridge — a road bridge, the highest in the world, crossing the River Tarn in the Massif Central in SW France; designed by Sir Norman Foster and opened in 2004
  • misconfigured — Simple past tense and past participle of misconfigure.
  • modula-prolog — Adds a Prolog layer to Modula-2. "Modula-Prolog: A Software Development Tool", C. Muller IEEE Software pp.39-45 (Nov 1986).
  • mordant rouge — a solution of aluminum acetate in acetic acid, used in dyeing and calico printing.
  • mourning band — a piece of black material, esp an armband, worn to indicate that the wearer is in mourning
  • mourning dove — variety of pigeon
  • 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.
  • neighbourhood — Standard spelling of neighborhood.
  • nom de guerre — an assumed name, as one under which a person fights, paints, writes, etc.; pseudonym.
  • non-budgetary — an estimate, often itemized, of expected income and expense for a given period in the future.
  • non-dangerous — full of danger or risk; causing danger; perilous; risky; hazardous; unsafe.
  • nonguaranteed — Not guaranteed; unguaranteed.
  • old bulgarian — the Bulgarian language of the Middle Ages.
  • olduvai gorge — a gorge in Tanzania in which is located a site containing Australopithecine and human skeletal and cultural remains.
  • on your guard — If you are on your guard or on guard, you are being very careful because you think a situation might become difficult or dangerous.
  • organ-builder — a maker of organs
  • out of danger — no longer at risk
  • outgeneralled — Simple past tense and past participle of outgeneral.
  • outside-right — a footballer who plays on the outside right wing of the field
  • overburdening — Present participle of overburden.
  • parade ground — A parade ground is an area of ground where soldiers practise marching and have parades.
  • paradigm plus — A configurable object-oriented CASE tool from Proto Soft.
  • piper gurnard — a marine fish, Trigla lyra, of the family Triglidae
  • plague-ridden — afflicted by the plague or a plague
  • plug and pray — (humour)   The Windows 95 equivalent of the Macintosh's plug and play, referring to difficulties encountered when setting up new hardware under Windows 95.
  • post-graduate — of, pertaining to, characteristic of, or consisting of post-graduates: a postgraduate seminar.
  • preconfigured — to design or adapt to form a specific configuration or for some specific purpose: The planes are being configured to hold more passengers in each row.
  • pressure drag — the part of the total drag of a body moving through a gas or liquid caused by the components of the pressures at right angles to the surface of the body
  • pride's purge — the forceful exclusion from the House of Commons, carried out by Col. Thomas Pride in December 1648, of about 100 members who favored compromise with the Royalist party.
  • product range — variety of merchandise within a brand
  • provost guard — a detachment of soldiers assigned to police duties under the provost marshal.
  • pseudepigraph — a book or piece of writing that is falsely titled or credited
  • quadragesimal — of, relating to, or suitable for Lent; Lenten.
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