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13-letter words containing g, e, l, a, n, d

  • slide changer — a device for changing the slide displayed in a projector
  • sliding scale — a variable scale, especially of industrial costs, as wages, that may be adapted to changes in demand.
  • 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.
  • speed dialing — to dial (a telephone number) using speed dial.
  • speed walking — power walking.
  • spring-loaded — (of a machine part) kept normally in a certain position by a spring: a spring-loaded safety valve.
  • squanderingly — in a squandering manner
  • stained glass — glass that has been colored, enameled, painted, or stained, especially by having pigments baked onto its surface or by having various metallic oxides fused into it, as used in church windows, decorative lampshades, etc.
  • star-spangled — spangled with stars.
  • subdelegation — a group or body of delegates: Our club sent a delegation to the rally.
  • table dancing — Table dancing is a type of entertainment in a bar or club in which a woman who is wearing very few clothes dances in a sexy way close to a customer or group of customers.
  • telediagnosis — the detection of a disease by evaluating data transmitted to a receiving station from instruments monitoring a distant patient, as someone in a spacecraft.
  • the highlands — mountainous region occupying nearly all of the N half of Scotland
  • tintagel head — a cape in SW England, on the W coast of Cornwall.
  • trailing edge — the rear edge of a propeller blade or airfoil.
  • uncamouflaged — the act, means, or result of obscuring things to deceive an enemy, as by painting or screening objects so that they are lost to view in the background, or by making up objects that from a distance have the appearance of fortifications, guns, roads, etc.: Was camouflage used extensively on fighter aircraft during World War I?
  • undeviatingly — to turn aside, as from a route, way, course, etc.
  • undiagnosable — unable to be diagnosed
  • undisguisable — to change the appearance or guise of so as to conceal identity or mislead, as by means of deceptive garb: The king was disguised as a peasant.
  • unideological — not having, belonging to, or relating to any particular ideology or belief system
  • unplagiarized — to take and use by plagiarism.
  • wagon soldier — a field-artillery soldier.
  • waterflooding — (in oil, gas, or petroleum production) the practice of injecting water to maintain pressure in a reservoir and to drive the oil, etc towards the production wells
  • well and good — You say well and good or all well and good to indicate that you would be pleased if something happens but you are aware that it has some disadvantages.
  • well arranged — to place in proper, desired, or convenient order; adjust properly: to arrange books on a shelf.
  • well-arranged — to place in proper, desired, or convenient order; adjust properly: to arrange books on a shelf.
  • wild geranium — geranium (def 2).
  • wrongheadedly — In a wrongheaded manner.
  • 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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