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13-letter words containing e, i, g, n, s, p

  • gossipmongers — Plural form of gossipmonger.
  • 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
  • grease nipple — a metal nipple designed to engage with a grease gun for injecting grease into a bearing, etc
  • grease pencil — a pencil of pigment and compressed grease encased in a spiral paper strip that can be partially unwound to expose a new point and used especially for writing on glossy surfaces.
  • guttersnipish — Resembling or characteristic of a guttersnipe.
  • gypsy setting — a setting, as on a ring, completely enclosing the girdle of the stone.
  • heartstopping — Very exciting or shocking, as though to cause one's heart to skip beats.
  • high-spending — spending more than is necessary or appropriate
  • high-stepping — seeking unrestrained pleasure, as by frequenting night clubs, parties, etc.; leading a wild and fast life: a high-stepping young crowd.
  • home shopping — buying items via tv or internet
  • horsewhipping — Present participle of horsewhip.
  • hyperbolising — to use hyperbole; exaggerate.
  • hypothesising — Present participle of hypothesise.
  • hypothesizing — to form a hypothesis.
  • iconographies — Plural form of iconography.
  • impersonating — to assume the character or appearance of; pretend to be: He was arrested for impersonating a police officer.
  • impoverishing — Present participle of impoverish.
  • in good shape — person: fit, healthy
  • interspersing — Present participle of intersperse.
  • introspecting — to practice introspection; consider one's own internal state or feelings.
  • jumping genes — transposon.
  • jumping mouse — any of several primitive, mouselike rodents of the family Zapodidae, having long hind legs, common in the woodlands of Europe, Asia, and North America.
  • killing spree — a series of murders that are committed
  • king's speech — (in the British Parliament) a speech reviewing domestic conditions and foreign relations, prepared by the ministry in the name of the sovereign, and read at the opening of the Parliament either by the sovereign in person or by commission.
  • klipspringers — Plural form of klipspringer.
  • landing speed — the minimum air speed at which an aircraft lands safely
  • leptomeninges — The inner two meninges, the arachnoid and the pia mater, between which circulates the cerebrospinal fluid.
  • letterspacing — the amount of space between each letter in a word, or the adjustment of this amount of space
  • magnetooptics — the branch of physics that deals with magnetooptic phenomena.
  • masking piece — a flat, curtain, or other piece of scenery for concealing a part of a stage from the audience.
  • measuring cup — a graduated cup used especially in cooking for measuring ingredients.
  • megasporangia — a sporangium containing megaspores.
  • misperceiving — Present participle of misperceive.
  • moneyspinning — earning money or making a profit
  • morphogenesis — the development of structural features of an organism or part.
  • mousetrapping — Present participle of mousetrap.
  • mule spinning — a process of spinning that produces extremely fine yarn by drawing and twisting the roving, and winding the resultant yarn onto a bobbin or spindle in the form of a cop.
  • noise shaping — (communications)   Spectral noise transformation in a quantisation processes. Noise is "colourised" in the time domain an/or frequency domain by adding parts of the previous sample. The SNR bandwidth and SNR time integral stay the same, so some noise decreases, some increases, but overall noise always increases. An example of noise shaping in the frequency domain is quantisation of samples on a Compact Disc to reduce noise below -98 dB. The are different algorithms with slightly different filters, e.g. Super Bitmapping, 4D Recording. A time domain example is MPEG-4 AAC TNS, which is a method to enhance quality by temporal forming of the noise in a transform block.
  • ocean springs — a town in SE Mississippi.
  • open registry — ship registration under a national flag available to all ships regardless of nationality.
  • opening hours — Opening hours are the times during which a shop, bank, library, or bar is open for business.
  • outprocessing — to end a military tour of duty, accompanied by necessary paperwork: All enlisted soldiers out-process as a class.
  • packing house — A packing house is a company that processes and packs food, especially meat, to be sold.
  • palingenesist — a person who believes in a doctrine of rebirth or transmigration of souls.
  • pan-germanism — the idea or advocacy of a union of all the German peoples in a single political organization or state.
  • panic selling — widespread selling of a security or investment, causing sharp price declines. Usually caused by an unexpected event seen to devalue the security.
  • pantagruelism — (in Rabelais' Pantagruel) the huge son of Gargantua, represented as dealing with serious matters in a spirit of broad and somewhat cynical good humor.
  • pantheologist — a student of, or expert in, pantheology
  • paper-pushing — a person who has a routine desk job.
  • paramagnetism — a body or substance that, placed in a magnetic field, possesses magnetization in direct proportion to the field strength; a substance in which the magnetic moments of the atoms are not aligned.
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