13-letter words containing g, a, s, t
- dissimilating — Present participle of dissimilate.
- dissimulating — Present participle of dissimulate.
- distractingly — to draw away or divert, as the mind or attention: The music distracted him from his work.
- distress flag — any flag flown by a vessel to show that it is in distress, as an ensign flown at half-mast or upside down.
- dog-leg stair — a half-turn stair, the successive flights of which are immediately side by side and connected by an intervening platform.
- domesticating — Present participle of domesticate.
- downregulates — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of downregulate.
- dragon's tail — (formerly) the descending node of the moon or a planet.
- draughtboards — Plural form of draughtboard.
- draughtsboard — The board on which draughts is played, resembling a chessboard but (depending on the game variation) often having a side length of ten squares rather than eight.
- draughtswoman — Alternative spelling of draftswoman.
- drilling mast — A drilling mast is a structure over an oil well which supports the drilling equipment and allows it to be lifted into and out of the wellbore.
- dysregulation — A failure to regulate properly.
- ear-splitting — ear-piercing: an earsplitting explosion.
- earth-goddess — a goddess of fertility and vegetation.
- east germanic — a branch of the Germanic languages no longer extant, comprising Gothic and probably others of which there are no written records. Abbreviation: EGmc.
- easter egging — (jargon) (IBM, From the custom of the Easter Egg hunt observed in the US and many parts of Europe) The act of replacing unrelated components more or less at random in the hope that a malfunction will go away. Hackers consider this the normal operating mode of field circus techs and do not love them for it. Compare Easter egg, shotgun debugging.
- easter rising — an armed insurrection in Dublin in 1916 against British rule in Ireland: the insurgents proclaimed the establishment of an independent Irish republic before surrendering, 16 of the leaders later being executed
- easter-ledges — a pudding made from the young leaves of the bistort
- eastern ghats — a mountain range in S India, parallel to the Bay of Bengal: united with the Western Ghats by the Nilgiri Hills; forms the E margin of the Deccan plateau
- eating habits — the way a person or group eats, considered in terms of what types of food are eaten, in what quantities, and when
- egotistically — In an egotistic manner.
- electrographs — Plural form of electrograph.
- emigrationist — a person who promotes emigration
- encapsulating — Present participle of encapsulate.
- ensanguinated — stained with blood
- entanglements — Plural form of entanglement.
- entomophagous — feeding mainly on insects; insectivorous
- epigrammatism — The use of epigrams; epigrammatical character.
- epigrammatist — Someone who writes an epigram (any meanings).
- escapologists — Plural form of escapologist.
- eschatologies — Plural form of eschatology.
- escort agency — an agency where people, esp young women, may be hired to accompany someone for entertainment, etc
- estate agency — business that sells property
- estrangedness — the state of being estranged
- estrangements — Plural form of estrangement.
- ethnographers — Plural form of ethnographer.
- ethnographies — Plural form of ethnography.
- 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
- everlastingly — In an everlasting manner; so as to be everlasting.
- exaggerations — Plural form of exaggeration.
- 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.
- expostulating — Present participle of expostulate.
- exsanguinated — Simple past tense and past participle of exsanguinate.
- externalising — Present participle of externalise.
- extinguishant — a substance, such as a liquid, foam, powder, etc, used in extinguishing fires
- 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
- extravaganzas — Plural form of extravaganza.