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13-letter words containing e, n, r, o, u, g

  • deep mourning — completely black mourning clothes made of a drab material: After her brother died, she was in deep mourning for a year.
  • deer's-tongue — green gentian.
  • degranulation — a cellular process in which cytoplasmic granules within certain cells secrete their contents, often to the outside of the cell
  • dendrophagous — feeding on the wood of trees, as certain insects.
  • dentosurgical — relating to or used in both dentistry and surgery
  • deuteragonist — (in ancient Greek drama) the character next in importance to the protagonist, esp the antagonist
  • disregulation — Misspelling of dysregulation.
  • downregulates — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of downregulate.
  • dun laoghaire — a seaport in E Republic of Ireland, near Dublin.
  • dysregulation — A failure to regulate properly.
  • egregiousness — The quality of being egregious.
  • electrocuting — Present participle of electrocute.
  • encourageable — Able to be encouraged; suggestible.
  • encouragement — The action of giving someone support, confidence, or hope.
  • encouragingly — In an encouraging manner.
  • eusporangiate — (of ferns) having each sporangium developing from a group of cells, rather than a single cell, and with no specialized dispersal of spores
  • ferrotungsten — a ferroalloy containing up to 80 percent tungsten.
  • figure of fun — If you describe someone as a figure of fun, you mean that people think they are ridiculous.
  • 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.
  • flugelhornist — One who plays the flugelhorn.
  • forcing house — a place where growth or maturity (as of fruit, animals, etc) is artificially hastened
  • foregrounding — Present participle of foreground.
  • forgetfulness — apt to forget; that forgets: a forgetful person.
  • forked tongue — lying or deceitful talk
  • four-wheeling — traveling in a vehicle using four-wheel drive.
  • garnetiferous — containing or yielding garnets.
  • garrulousness — Garrulity.
  • gartner group — (company)   One of the biggest IT industry research firms. Address: Connecticut, USA.
  • gastrocnemius — the largest muscle in the calf of the leg, the action of which extends the foot, raises the heel, and assists in bending the knee.
  • geminiflorous — having flowers arranged in pairs.
  • general court — the state legislature of Massachusetts or New Hampshire.
  • genitourinary — of or relating to the genital and urinary organs; urogenital.
  • 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.
  • glucuronidase — an enzyme that catalyzes glucuronide hydrolysis
  • go great guns — to act or function with great speed, intensity, etc
  • go the rounds — If a story, idea, or joke is going the rounds or doing the rounds, a lot of people have heard it and are telling it to other people.
  • gobar numeral — any of a set of ancient numerals derived from Hindu numerals
  • golden number — a number between 1 and 19, used to indicate the position of any year in the Metonic cycle, calculated as the remainder when 1 is added to the given year and the sum is divided by 19. If the remainder is zero the number is 19
  • goodnaturedly — In a good-natured manner.
  • gourmandizers — Plural form of gourmandizer.
  • grandiloquent — speaking or expressed in a lofty style, often to the point of being pompous or bombastic.
  • granuliferous — full of granules, or producing granules
  • great council — (in Norman England) an assembly composed of the king's tenants in chief that served as the principal council of the realm and replaced the witenagemot.
  • grotesqueness — odd or unnatural in shape, appearance, or character; fantastically ugly or absurd; bizarre.
  • ground beetle — any of numerous nocturnal, terrestrial beetles of the family Carabidae that feed chiefly on other insects.
  • ground cherry — Also called husk tomato. any of several plants belonging to the genus Physalis, of the nightshade family, the several species bearing an edible berry enclosed in an enlarged calyx.
  • ground effect — the improvement to the aerodynamic qualities of a low-slung motor vehicle resulting from a cushion of air beneath it
  • ground return — Ground return is the return path for an electrical circuit made by connections to ground at each end.
  • ground sluice — a trench, cut through a placer or through bedrock, through which a stream is diverted in order to dislodge and wash the gravel.
  • ground stroke — a stroke made by hitting the ball after it has bounced from the ground. Compare volley (def 4b).
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