13-letter words containing g, l, a, i, r
- archipelagoes — Plural form of archipelago.
- arcticologist — a person who specializes in arcticology.
- argilliferous — containing or yielding clay
- arm wrestling — a contest in which two people sit facing each other each with one elbow resting on a table, clasp hands, and each tries to force the other's arm flat onto the table while keeping his own elbow touching the table
- armor-plating — The armor-plating on a vehicle or building is the hard metal covering that is intended to protect it from gunfire and other missiles.
- arshile gorky — Arshile [ahr-sheel] /ˈɑr ʃil/ (Show IPA), (Vosdanig Adoian) 1904–48, American painter, born in Armenia.
- arterializing — Present participle of arterialize.
- aryepiglottic — pertaining to or connecting the arytenoid cartilage and the epiglottis.
- aspergillosis — a rare fungal infection, esp of the mucous membranes or lungs, caused by various species of Aspergillus
- assyriologist — A person who studies ancient Assyria.
- autographical — Relating to, or used in, the process of autography.
- bachelor girl — a young unmarried woman, esp one who is self-supporting
- bacteriologic — a branch of microbiology dealing with the identification, study, and cultivation of bacteria and with their applications in medicine, agriculture, industry, and biotechnology.
- bailey bridge — a temporary bridge made of prefabricated steel panels that can be rapidly assembled
- balch springs — a town in NE Texas.
- ball and ring — a simplified bead-and-reel turning, used especially in English and American furniture of the 17th century.
- bar-and-grill — a place where food and alcoholic drinks are served to customers; a combined barroom and grillroom.
- barrel engine — an engine having cylinders arranged around and parallel to a shaft, which they rotate by means of the contact of their piston rods with a swash plate or cam on the shaft.
- bearing plate — a heavy metal plate for receiving and distributing concentrated weight, as from a column or one end of a truss.
- beggar's-lice — any of several plants, esp the stickseed, having small prickly fruits that adhere to clothing, fur, etc
- bible reading — a passage from the Bible, esp one read in a service
- bibliographer — an expert in bibliography
- bibliographic — a complete or selective list of works compiled upon some common principle, as authorship, subject, place of publication, or printer.
- big gray wall — (jargon) What faces a VMS user searching for documentation. A full VMS kit comes on a pallet, the documentation taking up around 15 feet of shelf space before the addition of layered products such as compilers, databases, multi-vendor networking, and programming tools. Recent (since VMS version 5) DEC documentation comes with grey binders; under VMS version 4 the binders were orange and under version 3 they were blue. Often contracted to "Gray Wall".
- big-heartedly — in a big-hearted manner
- bildungsroman — a novel concerned with a person's formative years and development
- biodegradable — Something that is biodegradable breaks down or decays naturally without any special scientific treatment, and can therefore be thrown away without causing pollution.
- birectangular — having two right angles.
- birthday girl — the girl or woman whose birthday is being celebrated
- birthing ball — a large soft rubber ball used by women during childbirth to give support and to aid pain relief
- blamestorming — a discussion or meeting for the purpose of assigning blame.
- block diagram — a diagram showing the interconnections between the parts of an industrial process
- boiling range — A boiling range is the temperature range involved in the distillation of oil, from the start to the time when it evaporates.
- book learning — knowledge gained from books rather than from direct personal experience
- book-learning — knowledge acquired by reading books, as distinguished from that obtained through observation and experience.
- borage family — any member of the plant family Boraginaceae, typified by herbaceous plants, shrubs, and trees having simple, alternate, hairy leaves and usually blue, five-lobed flowers in a cluster that uncoils as they bloom, including borage, bugloss, and forget-me-not.
- bosman ruling — an EU ruling that allows out-of-contract footballers to leave their clubs without the clubs receiving a transfer fee
- boutros-ghali — ˈBoutros (ˈbutroʊs ) ; bo̅oˈtrōs) 1922- ; Egypt. diplomat: secretary-general of the United Nations (1992-96)
- brace molding — keel1 (def 6).
- brazing alloy — a solder fusing at temperatures above 1200°F (650°C).
- brazing metal — a nonferrous metal, as copper, zinc, or nickel, or an alloy, as hard solder, used for brazing together pieces of metal.
- breaking ball — any pitch that breaks; specif., a curve or slider
- breechloading — loaded at the breech.
- bridge player — a person who plays the game of bridge
- bridging loan — A bridging loan is money that a bank lends you for a short time, for example so that you can buy a new house before you have sold the one you already own.
- bristle-grass — any of various grasses of the genus Setaria, such as S. viridis, having a bristly inflorescence
- bully-ragging — to bully; harass: to bullyrag fraternity plebs.
- burglariously — in the manner of a burglar or buglary
- burial ground — A burial ground is a place where bodies are buried, especially an ancient place.
- burning glass — a convex lens for concentrating the sun's rays into a small area to produce heat or fire