13-letter words containing g, i, r, l, e, m
- millau bridge — a road bridge, the highest in the world, crossing the River Tarn in the Massif Central in SW France; designed by Sir Norman Foster and opened in 2004
- milliroentgen — a unit of radiation equal to one thousandth of a roentgen. Abbreviation: mR, mr.
- mills grenade — a type of high-explosive grenade weighing about 1.5 pounds (0.7 kg).
- mind-altering — causing marked changes in patterns of mood and behavior, as a hallucinogenic drug.
- mine-clearing — the process of disarming and removing explosive mines from an area
- mineralogical — Relating to mineralogy.
- minor-leaguer — a member of a minor-league team.
- molly maguire — Irish History. a member of a secret terrorist society organized in Ireland in 1843 to prevent evictions by the government: so called because the members disguised themselves as women.
- mongol empire — an empire founded in the 12th century by Genghis Khan, which reached its greatest territorial extent in the 13th century, encompassing the larger part of Asia and extending westward to the Dnieper River in eastern Europe.
- monoglyceride — an ester obtained from glycerol by the esterification of one hydroxyl group with a fatty acid.
- mood-altering — (especially of drugs) capable of changing one's emotional state.
- morse signals — signals encoded using the Morse Code
- 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.
- multicategory — (mathematics) A generalization of the concept of category that allows morphisms of multiple arity.
- multiregional — of, relating to or involving several regions
- nonmanagerial — pertaining to management or a manager: managerial functions; the managerial class of society.
- normoglycemic — (medicine) Having the normal amount of glucose in the blood.
- numerological — Of, pertaining to, or based on numerology.
- 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.
- oleomargarine — margarine.
- outlaw regime — a dangerously unpredictable political regime, as of a country, state, etc, which disregards international law or diplomacy
- overglamorize — to glamorize excessively
- pantagruelism — (in Rabelais' Pantagruel) the huge son of Gargantua, represented as dealing with serious matters in a spirit of broad and somewhat cynical good humor.
- parliamenting — parliamentary debating
- pearl molding — a molding having the form of a row of pearls.
- placer mining — mining of placer deposits by washing, dredging, or other hydraulic methods
- quadragesimal — of, relating to, or suitable for Lent; Lenten.
- quadrigeminal — Having four parts, or two pairs.
- radiotelegram — a message transmitted by radiotelegraphy.
- rambling rose — any of various cultivated hybrid roses that straggle over other vegetation
- reggio emilia — a city in N Italy.
- remythologize — to mythologize anew, to make a new mythological system out of (an existing one)
- rumelgumption — commonsense
- rumlegumption — commonsense
- semilegendary — having some historical basis, but legendary in part
- semireligious — having a somewhat religious character.
- single market — a market consisting of a number of nations, esp those of the European Union, in which goods, capital, and currencies can move freely across borders without tariffs or restrictions
- single mother — a mother who brings up a child or children alone, without a partner.
- slipstreaming — Aeronautics. the airstream pushed back by a revolving aircraft propeller. Compare backwash (def 2), wash (def 31).
- spurge family — the large plant family Euphorbiaceae, characterized by herbaceous plants, shrubs, and trees having milky juice, simple alternate leaves or no leaves, usually petalless flowers often with showy bracts, and capsular fruit, and including cassava, croton, crown-of-thorns, poinsettia, snow-on-the-mountain, spurge, and the plants that produce castor oil, rubber, and tung oil.
- sterculia gum — karaya gum.
- syringomyelia — a disease of the spinal cord in which the nerve tissue is replaced by a cavity filled with fluid.
- telegrammatic — a message or communication sent by telegraph; a telegraphic dispatch.
- telemarketing — selling or advertising by telephone.
- temporizingly — in a yielding manner
- troublemaking — a person who causes difficulties, distress, worry, etc., for others, especially one who does so habitually as a matter of malice.
- ugly american — An Ugly American is an American who travels to a foreign country and gives the United States a bad reputation by acting in an offensive way.
- underwhelming — to fail to interest or astonish: After all the ballyhoo, most critics were underwhelmed by the movie.
- unremittingly — not slackening or abating; incessant: unremitting noise; unremitting attention.