13-letter words containing g, e, t, r
- deuteragonist — (in ancient Greek drama) the character next in importance to the protagonist, esp the antagonist
- devirgination — The loss of a girl or woman's virginity.
- dextroglucose — dextrose
- diageotropism — a diatropic response of plant parts, such as rhizomes, to the stimulus of gravity
- digital frame — a picture frame containing an LCD screen that is used to display digital photos: Download pictures to your digital frame directly from your camera's memory card.
- digital meter — A digital meter is a meter that gives a separate reading, in the form of a decimal number, for each given input quantity.
- digitinervate — (of a leaf) having veins that radiate from the petiole like the fingers of a hand.
- dinitrogenase — (enzyme) One of two enzymes which, together with ATP, catalyze the reduction of molecular nitrogen into ammonia.
- direct-acting — (of a steam pump) having the steam pistons connected directly to the pump pistons without a crankshaft or flywheel.
- disaggregated — to separate (an aggregate or mass) into its component parts.
- disagreements — Plural form of disagreement.
- disconcerting — disturbing to one's composure or self-possession; upsetting, discomfiting.
- disfigurement — an act or instance of disfiguring.
- disgruntledly — In a disgruntled manner.
- disheartening — to depress the hope, courage, or spirits of; discourage.
- disinheriting — Present participle of disinherit.
- disintegrable — Capable of being disintegrated.
- disintegrated — Simple past tense and past participle of disintegrate.
- disintegrates — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of disintegrate.
- disintegrator — One who, or that which, disintegrates.
- disinvigorate — to deprive of vigour
- disparagement — the act of disparaging.
- disregulation — Misspelling of dysregulation.
- disrespecting — Present participle of disrespect.
- distinguisher — to mark off as different (often followed by from or by): He was distinguished from the other boys by his height.
- 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.
- distressingly — great pain, anxiety, or sorrow; acute physical or mental suffering; affliction; trouble.
- diving petrel — any of several small seabirds of the family Pelecanoididae, of Southern Hemisphere seas, having compact bodies, tubelike processes near the nostrils, and usually drab plumage.
- dog-leg stair — a half-turn stair, the successive flights of which are immediately side by side and connected by an intervening platform.
- downregulates — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of downregulate.
- downrightness — The personal quality of being straightforward and direct in one's manner.
- draggletailed — untidy; bedraggled; slovenly.
- dragon market — any of the emerging markets of the Pacific rim, esp Indonesia, Malaysia, Thailand, and the Philippines
- drainage tube — a tube that drains fluid from an incision or body cavity during surgery
- drawing table — a table having a surface consisting of a drawing board adjustable to various heights and angles.
- drive-through — the act of driving through a specified locality or place, especially driving into a place of business, completing a transaction from one's car, and driving out: a quick drive-through of Beverly Hills; The bank has outside tellers' windows to accept deposits by drive-through.
- dual heritage — an upbringing in which one's parents are of different ethnic or religious backgrounds
- dutch courage — courage inspired by drunkenness or drinking liquor.
- 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
- edmund gunter — Edmund, 1581–1626, English mathematician and astronomer: inventor of various measuring instruments and scales.
- egocentricity — The quality of being egocentric.
- eighth-grader — someone who is in the eighth grade at school
- electrocuting — Present participle of electrocute.