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

  • prestigiously — indicative of or conferring prestige: the most prestigious address in town.
  • price cutting — the act or practice of cutting prices
  • 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.
  • primitive gut — archenteron.
  • primogeniture — the state or fact of being the firstborn of children of the same parents.
  • product range — variety of merchandise within a brand
  • prolegomenous — prefatory; preliminary; introductory.
  • protolanguage — the reconstructed or postulated parent form of a language or a group of related languages.
  • pruning knife — a knife used for pruning
  • pseudepigraph — a book or piece of writing that is falsely titled or credited
  • psychosurgeon — a surgeon who specializes in psychosurgery
  • psychosurgery — treatment of mental disorders by means of brain surgery.
  • public charge — a person who is in economic distress and is supported at government expense: He assured the American consul that the prospective immigrant would not become a public charge.
  • pull together — to draw or haul toward oneself or itself, in a particular direction, or into a particular position: to pull a sled up a hill.
  • pulling power — the ability to attract and influence other people
  • purse stringshold the purse strings, to have the power to determine how money shall be spent.
  • putting green — green (def 24).
  • quadragesimal — of, relating to, or suitable for Lent; Lenten.
  • quadrigeminal — Having four parts, or two pairs.
  • quadringenary — a 400th anniversary
  • quadriplegics — Plural form of quadriplegic.
  • quarter eagle — a gold coin of the U.S. (issued 1796–1929), one fourth of an eagle.
  • quarter grain — the grain appearing in quartersawed wood.
  • queen dowager — the widow of a king.
  • queen regnant — a queen who reigns on her own behalf
  • queer-bashing — the activity of making vicious and unprovoked verbal or physical assaults upon homosexuals or supposed homosexuals
  • queer-looking — odd or strange in appearance
  • quinquagenary — a 50th anniversary.
  • rabblerousing — Of or pertaining to a rabble-rouser.
  • railway guide — a publication containing routes and timetables for train journeys
  • raking course — a concealed course of bricks laid diagonally to the wall surface in a raking bond.
  • re-evaluating — to determine or set the value or amount of; appraise: to evaluate property.
  • re-regulation — a law, rule, or other order prescribed by authority, especially to regulate conduct.
  • re-submitting — to give over or yield to the power or authority of another (often used reflexively).
  • reacquainting — to make more or less familiar, aware, or conversant (usually followed by with): to acquaint the mayor with our plan.
  • reading group — a group of people who meet regularly to discuss a book that they have all read
  • reconfiguring — to change the shape or formation of; remodel; restructure.
  • red underwing — a large noctuid moth, Catocala nupta, having dull forewings and hind wings coloured red and black
  • regiomontanus — Friedrich Max [free-drik maks;; German free-drikh mahks] /ˈfri drɪk mæks;; German ˈfri drɪx mɑks/ (Show IPA), 1823–1900, English Sanskrit scholar and philologist born in Germany.
  • regular bevel — the bevel of a bolt or lock on a door opening into the building, room, etc., to which the doorway leads (opposed to reverse bevel).
  • regular graph — (mathematics)   A graph in which all nodes have the same degree.
  • regulator pin — either of two pins on the regulators of certain timepieces, one on each side of the hairspring, that can be moved to adjust the rate of the timepiece.
  • regurgitation — the act of regurgitating.
  • religiousness — of, relating to, or concerned with religion: a religious holiday.
  • rendezvousing — an agreement between two or more persons to meet at a certain time and place.
  • restructuring — to change, alter, or restore the structure of: to restructure a broken nose.
  • return flight — a flight going back
  • revenue agent — a government official who is responsible for the collection of revenue.
  • revictuallingvictuals, food supplies; provisions.
  • right you are — If someone says 'right you are', they are agreeing to do something in a very willing and happy way.
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