13-letter words containing g, e, t, r
- night fighter — an interceptor aircraft used for operations at night
- night journey — the journey in which Muhammad was carried from Mecca to Jerusalem and ascended into heaven.
- night shelter — an organization that provides dormitory-style accommodation for the homeless at night, or the accommodation so provided
- night terrors — a sudden feeling of extreme fear that awakens a sleeping person, usually during slow-wave sleep, and is not associated with a dream or nightmare.
- night-terrors — a sudden feeling of extreme fear that awakens a sleeping person, usually during slow-wave sleep, and is not associated with a dream or nightmare.
- nightcrawlers — Plural form of nightcrawler.
- nitrogelatine — an explosive, consisting mainly of nitroglycerine, that is used in the production of gelignite
- nitrogen base — Chemistry, Biochemistry. a nitrogen-containing organic compound that has the chemical properties of a base, especially a pyrimidine or purine: Four nitrogen bases are present in a DNA molecule.
- nitrogenation — to combine with nitrogen or add nitrogenous material to.
- nitrogenizing — Present participle of nitrogenize.
- 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.
- no entry sign — a sign, esp a traffic sign, that prohibits entry into a place
- non-budgetary — an estimate, often itemized, of expected income and expense for a given period in the future.
- non-congruent — agreeing; accordant; congruous.
- non-detergent — any of a group of synthetic, organic, liquid or water-soluble cleaning agents that, unlike soap, are not prepared from fats and oils, are not inactivated by hard water, and have wetting-agent and emulsifying-agent properties.
- non-divergent — diverging; differing; deviating.
- non-irrigated — to supply (land) with water by artificial means, as by diverting streams, flooding, or spraying.
- nonconvergent — Not convergent.
- noncorrecting — (of eyeglass lenses) ground and polished without a corrective prescription.
- nondegenerate — not degenerate
- nonfigurative — of the nature of or involving a figure of speech, especially a metaphor; metaphorical and not literal: The word “head” has several figurative senses, as in “She's the head of the company.”. Synonyms: metaphorical, not literal, symbolic.
- nongovernment — Not governmental in nature.
- nonguaranteed — Not guaranteed; unguaranteed.
- nonintegrated — not integrated, lacking integration
- nonreflecting — Not reflecting.
- nonregulation — not regulation, not conforming to accepted standards
- nonsegregated — Not segregated.
- nonvegetarian — a person who is not vegetarian
- north reading — a city in NE Massachusetts.
- north sea gas — natural gas extracted from deposits beneath the North Sea
- numerologists — the study of numbers, as the figures designating the year of one's birth, to determine their supposed influence on one's life, future, etc.
- nusa tenggara — an island chain east of Java, mostly in Indonesia: the main islands are Bali, Lombok, Sumbawa, Sumba, Flores, Alor, and Timor. Pop: 11 112 702 (2000). Area: 73 144 sq km (28 241 sq miles)
- nutmeg grater — a utensil used to grate the seed nutmeg, so that is can be used as a spice in cooking, etc
- nutrigenetics — the branch of science concerned with the effect of heredity on diet and nutrition
- nutrigenomics — the study of how individual genetic makeup interacts with diet, especially the effects of this interaction on a person's health.
- objurgatively — In an objurgative or reproving manner.
- octane-rating — (of gasoline) a designation of antiknock quality, numerically equal to the percentage of isooctane by volume in a mixture of isooctane and normal heptane that matches the given gasoline in antiknock characteristics.
- octogenarians — Plural form of octogenarian.
- on good terms — in a friendly way, amicably
- open registry — ship registration under a national flag available to all ships regardless of nationality.
- orchestrating — Present participle of orchestrate.
- oregon myrtle — California laurel
- organ whistle — a steam or air whistle in which the jet is forced up against the thin edge of a pipe closed at the top.
- organogenetic — Relating to organogenesis.
- organotherapy — the branch of therapeutics that deals with the use of remedies prepared from the organs of animals, as from the thyroid gland, the pancreas, or the suprarenal bodies.
- orientalizing — Present participle of orientalize.
- originalities — Plural form of originality.
- originatively — in an originative manner
- orthogonalise — to make (vectors, functions, etc.) orthogonal.
- orthogonalize — to make (vectors, functions, etc.) orthogonal.