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13-letter words containing e, u, l, o, g, i

  • olduvai gorge — a gorge in Tanzania in which is located a site containing Australopithecine and human skeletal and cultural remains.
  • oligofluorene — (organic chemistry) Any of a class of aromatic polycyclic hydrocarbons consisting of several fluorene units attached end-to-end.
  • organ-builder — a maker of organs
  • outgeneraling — Present participle of outgeneral.
  • outlaw regime — a dangerously unpredictable political regime, as of a country, state, etc, which disregards international law or diplomacy
  • pole-vaulting — a field sport in which competitors attempt to clear a high bar with the aid of an extremely flexible long pole
  • prestigiously — indicative of or conferring prestige: the most prestigious address in town.
  • pulling power — the ability to attract and influence other people
  • queer-looking — odd or strange in appearance
  • questioningly — In a questioning manner.
  • quindecagonal — (geometry) Shaped like a quindecagon; fifteen-sided.
  • rabblerousing — Of or pertaining to a rabble-rouser.
  • re-regulation — a law, rule, or other order prescribed by authority, especially to regulate conduct.
  • 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.
  • religiousness — of, relating to, or concerned with religion: a religious holiday.
  • 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
  • rumelgumption — commonsense
  • rumlegumption — commonsense
  • school figure — (in ice skating) any one of a group of sixty-nine different figures, skated in two- or three-circle figure-eight patterns, used to test various skating movements, a skater usually being required to perform six selected ones in competition.
  • self-doubting — lacking in confidence
  • semireligious — having a somewhat religious character.
  • serpiginously — in a serpiginous manner; in the manner characteristic of serpigo
  • shoulder-high — A shoulder-high object is as high as your shoulders.
  • silver tongue — the characteristic of being skilful at persuading people to believe what they say or to do what they want them to do
  • single-tongue — to play (any nonlegato passage) on a wind instrument by obstructing and uncovering the air passage through the lips with the tongue
  • solidungulate — having a single, undivided hoof on each foot, as a horse.
  • sounding lead — a line weighted with a lead or plummet (sounding lead) and bearing marks to show the length paid out, used for sounding, as at sea.
  • sounding line — a line weighted with a lead or plummet (sounding lead) and bearing marks to show the length paid out, used for sounding, as at sea.
  • subcollegiate — of, relating to, or characteristic of subcollege students or a subcollege
  • subdelegation — a group or body of delegates: Our club sent a delegation to the rally.
  • sucking louse — See under louse (def 1).
  • superregional — involving many regions
  • telecommuting — working at home by using a computer terminal electronically linked to one's place of employment.
  • triple-tongue — to interrupt the wind flow by moving the tongue as if pronouncing t and t and k successively, especially in playing rapid passages or staccato notes on a brass instrument.
  • troublemaking — a person who causes difficulties, distress, worry, etc., for others, especially one who does so habitually as a matter of malice.
  • tung-oil tree — tung tree.
  • uncategorical — without exceptions or conditions; absolute; unqualified and unconditional: a categorical denial.
  • underclothing — clothing worn next to the skin under outer clothes.
  • undiagnosable — unable to be diagnosed
  • unideological — not having, belonging to, or relating to any particular ideology or belief system
  • unneighbourly — unfriendly and unhelpful
  • unreconciling — to cause (a person) to accept or be resigned to something not desired: He was reconciled to his fate.
  • untheological — not theological; not of or pertaining to the nature of theology
  • uprighteously — in an upright or moral manner
  • ustilagineous — belonging to the Ustilaginales, an order of fungi that cause plant disease
  • virgo cluster — a cluster of about 2500 galaxies in the constellation Virgo, the nearest cluster to our galaxy.
  • volute spring — a coil spring, conical in shape, extending in the direction of the axis of the coil.
  • wages council — (formerly, in Britain) a statutory body empowered to fix minimum wages in an industry; abolished in 1994
  • willow grouse — a N European grouse, Lagopus lagopus, with a reddish-brown plumage and white wings: now regarded as the same species as the red grouse (L. lagopus scoticus) of Britain
  • young ireland — a movement or party of Irish patriots in the 1840s who split with Daniel O'Connell because they favoured a more violent policy than that which he promoted
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