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13-letter words containing e, r, a, g

  • eusporangiate — (of ferns) having each sporangium developing from a group of cells, rather than a single cell, and with no specialized dispersal of spores
  • evangelistary — a book containing passages from the gospels to be used as part of the liturgy
  • evening paper — a newspaper that comes out in the evening
  • everlastingly — In an everlasting manner; so as to be everlasting.
  • exaggeratedly — To an excessive degree; in an exaggerated manner.
  • exaggerations — Plural form of exaggeration.
  • excalibur bug — (humour, programming)   The legendary bug that, despite repeated valliant attempts, none but the true king of all programmers can fix. Named after the sword in the stone in the legend of King Arthur.
  • exchange rate — relative value of currency
  • excoriatingly — So as to excoriate.
  • exit strategy — In politics and business, an exit strategy is a way of ending your involvement in a situation such as a military operation or a business arrangement.
  • expectorating — Present participle of expectorate.
  • expropriating — Present participle of expropriate.
  • exterminating — Present participle of exterminate.
  • externalising — Present participle of externalise.
  • externalizing — Present participle of externalize.
  • extragalactic — Situated, occurring, or originating outside the Milky Way galaxy.
  • extrapolating — Present participle of extrapolate.
  • extravagances — Plural form of extravagance.
  • extravagantes — decretals circulating outside some recognized collection of canon law. Those of John XXII and the so-called Extravagantes communes form part of the Corpus Juris Canonici
  • extravagantly — With lavish expenditure or behaviour.
  • extravaganzas — Plural form of extravaganza.
  • extravasating — Present participle of extravasate.
  • fairy penguin — a small penguin, Eudyptula minor, with a bluish head and back, found on the Australian coast
  • farmer's lung — a lung disorder caused by inhalation of moldy hay dust, marked by shortness of breath, dry cough, and weight loss.
  • fashionmonger — (derogatory) One who slavishly follows the latest fashions.
  • fast telegram — a type of domestic telegram sent at full rate with a minimum charge for 10 words or less and accepted for immediate delivery.
  • fast-breaking — (of a news story) occurring suddenly, and often portending a series of events or further developments in rapid succession.
  • father figure — a man embodying or seeming to embody the qualities of an idealized conception of the male parent, eliciting from others the emotional responses that a child typically has toward its father.
  • fatigue party — a group of soldiers undertaking fatigues
  • fatigue ratio — the ratio between the fatigue limit and the tensile strength of a material.
  • favrile glass — a type of iridescent glass developed by L.C. Tiffany
  • fearmongering — The action of deliberately arousing public fear or alarm about a particular issue.
  • feather grass — any American grass of the genus Stipa, having a feathery appendage.
  • featherweight — a boxer or other contestant intermediate in weight between a bantamweight and a lightweight, especially a professional boxer weighing up to 126 pounds (57 kg).
  • ferret badger — any of several small omnivores of the genus Melogale, of southern and eastern Asia, having a bushy tail and distinctive white or yellow markings on a black face.
  • ferricyanogen — (chemistry) A hexavalent radical, Fe2(CN)12, a compound of cyanogen and iron in the ferric state.
  • ferrimagnetic — noting or pertaining to a substance, as a ferrite, in which the magnetic moments of some neighboring atoms point in opposite directions, with a net magnetization still resulting because of differences in magnitudes of the opposite moments.
  • ferrocyanogen — a ferrocyanide radical
  • ferromagnetic — noting or pertaining to a substance, as iron, that below a certain temperature, the Curie point, can possess magnetization in the absence of an external magnetic field; noting or pertaining to a substance in which the magnetic moments of the atoms are aligned.
  • festivalgoers — Plural form of festivalgoer.
  • figured glass — plate or sheet glass having a pattern rolled onto one side of the surface.
  • filmographies — Plural form of filmography.
  • fingerbreadth — the breadth of a finger: approximately 3/4 inch (2 cm).
  • fingerpainted — Simple past tense and past participle of fingerpaint.
  • fire watching — the job of watching for fires, especially those caused by aerial bombardment
  • firing hammer — the part of the firing mechanism of a firearm that ignites the charge by striking the primer
  • first reading — the reading of a bill when it is first introduced in a legislative body.
  • fish geranium — zonal geranium.
  • flabbergasted — to overcome with surprise and bewilderment; astound.
  • flabbergaster — to overcome with surprise and bewilderment; astound.
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