13-letter words containing d, r, u, g
- quadrigeminal — Having four parts, or two pairs.
- quadrilingual — using or involving four languages: a quadrilingual person; a quadrilingual translation of the Bible.
- quadringenary — a 400th anniversary
- quadriplegics — Plural form of quadriplegic.
- queen dowager — the widow of a king.
- railway guide — a publication containing routes and timetables for train journeys
- reading group — a group of people who meet regularly to discuss a book that they have all read
- red underwing — a large noctuid moth, Catocala nupta, having dull forewings and hind wings coloured red and black
- rendezvousing — an agreement between two or more persons to meet at a certain time and place.
- ring compound — a compound whose structural formula contains a closed chain or ring of atoms; a cyclic compound. Compare cyclic (def 3).
- river red gum — a large Australian red gum tree, Eucalyptus camaldulensis, growing along river banks
- rock hounding — the activity of searching for and collecting rocks, fossils, or minerals.
- roger-ducasse — Jean Jules Amable [zhahn zhyl a-ma-bluh] /ʒɑ̃ ʒül aˈma blə/ (Show IPA), 1873–1954, French composer.
- rogue dialler — a dial-up connection placed on a computer without the user's knowledge which, when the user tries to connect to the internet, automatically connects to a premium-rate phone number
- rough diamond — gemstone: uncut diamond
- round herring — any of several herringlike fishes of the family Dussumieriidae having a rounded abdomen, living chiefly in tropical marine waters.
- roundtripping — a form of trading in which a company borrows a sum of money from one source and takes advantage of a short-term rise in interest rates to make a profit by lending it to another
- rubber bridge — a form of contract bridge in which deals are not replayed and in which scores are settled after each rubber.
- rubberbanding — (in online video games) the backward popping of characters in motion to their recently occupied spaces that results from high latency in the network connection.
- rube goldberg — having a fantastically complicated, improvised appearance: a Rube Goldberg arrangement of flasks and test tubes.
- ruffed grouse — a North American grouse, Bonasa umbellus, having a tuft of black feathers on each side of the neck.
- ruggedization — the act or process of making something rugged
- run sb ragged — If someone runs you ragged, they make you do so much that you become exhausted.
- running board — a small ledge, step, or footboard, formerly beneath the doors of an automobile, to assist passengers entering or leaving the car.
- running order — The running order of the items in a broadcast, concert, or show is the order in which the items will come.
- sharp-tongued — characterized by or given to harshness, bitterness, or sarcasm in speech.
- shoulder-high — A shoulder-high object is as high as your shoulders.
- shunting yard — a place where railway coaches are manoeuvred
- sigmund freud — Anna, 1895–1982, British psychoanalyst, born in Austria (daughter of Sigmund Freud).
- signed number — Mathematics. a number preceded by a plus sign (+) to indicate a positive quantity or by a minus sign (−) to indicate a negative quantity.
- sound ranging — a method for determining the distance between a point and the position of a sound source by measuring the time lapse between the origin of the sound and its arrival at the point.
- soundproofing — materials used to make something soundproof
- sports ground — an area of land where sports are played
- spot reducing — the usually futile effort to exercise one part of the body, as the thighs, in hopes of reducing the amount of fat stored in that area.
- squanderingly — in a squandering manner
- square-rigged — having square sails as the principal sails.
- student grant — a grant of money awarded to somebody to fund their studying at a university or college
- sugar of lead — lead acetate.
- sugar orchard — sugarbush (def 2).
- sunken garden — a formal garden set below the main level of the ground surrounding it.
- superdelegate — a party leader or elected public official chosen as an uncommitted delegate to a national political convention.
- teeing ground — tee2 (def 1a).
- thoroughpaced — trained to go through all the possible paces, as a horse.
- to the ground — completely; absolutely
- trade figures — a record of how much a country has paid for goods which it has bought from other countries, compared with how much it has been paid for goods which it has sold to other countries
- trigger guard — safety feature on a gun
- turbo-charged — A turbo-charged engine or vehicle is fitted with a turbo.
- uncategorized — to arrange in categories or classes; classify.
- unconsidering — not reflective or thoughtful
- under the gun — a weapon consisting of a metal tube, with mechanical attachments, from which projectiles are shot by the force of an explosive; a piece of ordnance.