13-letter words containing g, e, n, t, l, r
- intertriglyph — metope.
- intraregional — Within a region.
- involute gear — a gear tooth form that is generated by involute geometry
- irreligionist — One who is irreligious.
- kentish glory — a moth, Endromis versicolora, common in north and central Europe, having brown variegated front wings and, in the male, orange hindwings
- lake sturgeon — a sturgeon, Acipenser fulvescens, of the Great Lakes and Mississippi and St. Lawrence rivers.
- land registry — In Britain, a land registry is a government office where records are kept about each area of land in a country or region, including information about who owns it.
- landed gentry — land-owning class
- landgraviates — Plural form of landgraviate.
- language arts — study of reading and writing
- laryngectomee — someone who has had a laryngectomy
- laryngotomies — Plural form of laryngotomy.
- lateen-rigged — having lateen sails.
- leafleteering — The printing and distribution of leaflets, especially as propaganda.
- legionary ant — army ant
- letter ruling — a written ruling sent by the U.S. Internal Revenue Service in response to a query concerning the application of the tax laws to a specific situation.
- letterspacing — the amount of space between each letter in a word, or the adjustment of this amount of space
- lift a finger — the terminal, prehensile part of the upper limb in humans and other primates, consisting of the wrist, metacarpal area, fingers, and thumb.
- light mineral — any rock-forming mineral that has a specific gravity of less than 2.8 and is generally light in color.
- light reading — reading which is not considered too demanding or intellectual
- lighter flint — the small piece of flint in a lighter pressure on which creates a spark that ignites the fuel
- line integral — the limit, as the norm of the partition of a given curve approaches zero, of the sum of the product of the length of the arcs in the partition times the value of the function at some point on each arc.
- little finger — the finger farthest from the thumb, the smallest of the five fingers.
- long trousers — full-length trousers (as opposed to shorts)
- losing streak — a succession of losses or defeats
- love triangle — relationship between three people
- magic lantern — a device having an enclosed lamp and a lenslike opening, formerly used for projecting and magnifying images mounted on slides or films.
- marginal note — aside
- marginal seat — a seat in which elections tend to be won by small margins
- marie galante — an island in the E West Indies: a dependency of Guadeloupe. 58 sq. mi. (150 sq. km).
- materializing — Present participle of materialize.
- merchant flag — the ensign used by all ships engaged in commerce, fishing, etc.
- metalcrafting — metalworking.
- milliroentgen — a unit of radiation equal to one thousandth of a roentgen. Abbreviation: mR, mr.
- mind-altering — causing marked changes in patterns of mood and behavior, as a hallucinogenic drug.
- mood-altering — (especially of drugs) capable of changing one's emotional state.
- mud wrestling — sport: physical combat in mud
- mud-wrestling — wrestling in an enclosure with a floor or base of wet mud, staged as a public display and competitive event.
- multiregional — of, relating to or involving several regions
- nathan glazer — Nathan, born 1923, U.S. sociologist.
- nearsightedly — In a nearsighted manner; as if nearsighted; myopically.
- neuroethology — the study of the role of the nervous system in animal behaviour
- neurolinguist — One who studies neurolinguistics.
- night crawler — an earthworm.
- night shelter — an organization that provides dormitory-style accommodation for the homeless at night, or the accommodation so provided
- nightcrawlers — Plural form of nightcrawler.
- nitrogelatine — an explosive, consisting mainly of nitroglycerine, that is used in the production of gelignite
- nitroglycerin — a colorless, thick, oily, flammable, highly explosive, slightly water-soluble liquid, C 3 H 5 N 3 O 9 , prepared from glycerol with nitric and sulfuric acids: used chiefly as a constituent of dynamite and other explosives, in rocket propellants, and in medicine as a vasodilator in the treatment of angina pectoris.
- nonreflecting — Not reflecting.
- nonregulation — not regulation, not conforming to accepted standards