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13-letter words containing g, e, t, r

  • progressivist — the principles and practices of progressives.
  • progressivity — favoring or advocating progress, change, improvement, or reform, as opposed to wishing to maintain things as they are, especially in political matters: a progressive mayor.
  • prolonge knot — a knot consisting of three overlapping loops formed by a single rope passed alternately over and under itself at crossings.
  • protolanguage — the reconstructed or postulated parent form of a language or a group of related languages.
  • proxy gateway — proxy server
  • pterylography — the description of the feather arrangement on birds
  • pull together — to draw or haul toward oneself or itself, in a particular direction, or into a particular position: to pull a sled up a hill.
  • purse strings — hold the purse strings, to have the power to determine how money shall be spent.
  • putting green — green (def 24).
  • quarter eagle — a gold coin of the U.S. (issued 1796–1929), one fourth of an eagle.
  • quarter grain — the grain appearing in quartersawed wood.
  • queen regnant — a queen who reigns on her own behalf
  • r-methodology — any statistical methodology in psychology that is contrasted with Q-methodology
  • radiotelegram — a message transmitted by radiotelegraphy.
  • ragged jacket — a young seal that, having lost parts of its initially white fur, presents a parti-colored or piebald appearance.
  • raggle-taggle — ragtag.
  • raising agent — in baking, a substance added to dough to make it rise
  • raising plate — wall plate (def 1).
  • re-engagement — the reinstatement of an employee
  • re-evaluating — to determine or set the value or amount of; appraise: to evaluate property.
  • re-regulation — a law, rule, or other order prescribed by authority, especially to regulate conduct.
  • re-submitting — to give over or yield to the power or authority of another (often used reflexively).
  • reacquainting — to make more or less familiar, aware, or conversant (usually followed by with): to acquaint the mayor with our plan.
  • reading light — any small electric light that you use for reading. You can usually move it in order to direct the light to where you need it for reading. It can be attached to a wall or shelf in the home, or be above your head inside an aircraft or other vehicle.
  • reagent strip — A reagent strip is a thin piece of paper impregnated with a reagent (= a substance that causes a chemical reaction) to a specific substance, used in testing for that substance in a body of fluid.
  • reaggregation — the act or process of reaggregrating something
  • rearrangement — an act of arranging; state of being arranged.
  • reassignation — an appointment for a meeting, especially a lover's secret rendezvous.
  • receiving set — a radio receiver.
  • reciprocating — to give, feel, etc., in return.
  • recognitional — an act of recognizing or the state of being recognized.
  • reconnoitring — the activity of obtaining information about the geographical features of a place or about the size and position of an army there
  • reconsignment — a consigning again.
  • redesignation — an act of designating.
  • redistricting — to divide anew into districts, as for administrative or electoral purposes.
  • reflectograph — a type of mechanical instrument used for communication with spirits or the dead
  • refrigeration — the act or process of refrigerating.
  • regent's park — a park in central London, laid out as Marylebone Park by John Nash; now known for the London Zoo, its open-air theatre, and Nash's curved terraces
  • regimentation — the act of regimenting or the state of being regimented.
  • regiomontanus — Friedrich Max [free-drik maks;; German free-drikh mahks] /ˈfri drɪk mæks;; German ˈfri drɪx mɑks/ (Show IPA), 1823–1900, English Sanskrit scholar and philologist born in Germany.
  • regionalistic — Government. the principle or system of dividing a city, state, etc., into separate administrative regions.
  • register mark — any of several marks incorporated onto printing plates to assist in the accurate positioning of images during printing
  • 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.
  • regurgitation — the act of regurgitating.
  • reintegration — restoration to a unified state.
  • reintegrative — characterized by integration; tending to restore unity
  • reinterrogate — to interrogate or question again
  • reinvestigate — to examine, study, or inquire into systematically; search or examine into the particulars of; examine in detail.
  • reinvigorated — to give vigor to; fill with life and energy; energize.
  • reinvigorator — something that gives new life and energy (to something)
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