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13-letter words containing g, l, e, i

  • prelitigation — the act or process of litigating: a matter that is still in litigation.
  • prerogatively — by way of privilege or prerogative
  • prestigiously — indicative of or conferring prestige: the most prestigious address in town.
  • progenitorial — characteristic of a progenitor
  • progressional — the act of progressing; forward or onward movement.
  • progressively — 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.
  • public charge — a person who is in economic distress and is supported at government expense: He assured the American consul that the prospective immigrant would not become a public charge.
  • pulling power — the ability to attract and influence other people
  • pulse dialing — a system of calling telephone numbers wherein electrical pulses corresponding to the digits in the number called are generated by manipulating a rotary dial or push buttons (contrasted with tone dialing).
  • quadragesimal — of, relating to, or suitable for Lent; Lenten.
  • quadrigeminal — Having four parts, or two pairs.
  • quadriplegics — Plural form of quadriplegic.
  • queer-looking — odd or strange in appearance
  • questioningly — In a questioning manner.
  • quindecagonal — (geometry) Shaped like a quindecagon; fifteen-sided.
  • rabblerousing — Of or pertaining to a rabble-rouser.
  • radial engine — an internal-combustion engine having the cylinders arranged in radial opposition, found mainly on older aircraft.
  • radiotelegram — a message transmitted by radiotelegraphy.
  • railway guide — a publication containing routes and timetables for train journeys
  • raising plate — wall plate (def 1).
  • rambling rose — any of various cultivated hybrid roses that straggle over other vegetation
  • rayleigh disc — a small light disc suspended in the path of a sound wave, used to measure the intensity of the sound by analysing the resulting deflection of the disc
  • rayleigh disk — a small circular disk, usually of mica, that is suspended from a fiber and tends to be deflected at right angles to a stream of air, indicating by its deflection the intensity of a sound wave.
  • rayleigh wave — a wave along the surface of a solid, elastic body, especially along the surface of the earth.
  • 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.
  • reading glass — a magnifying glass that people use to enlarge text to make it easier to read
  • 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.
  • recognitional — an act of recognizing or the state of being recognized.
  • reggio emilia — a city in N Italy.
  • regionalistic — Government. the principle or system of dividing a city, state, etc., into separate administrative regions.
  • 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.
  • relief agency — an organization that provides aid for people in need, esp in disaster areas
  • religiousness — of, relating to, or concerned with religion: a religious holiday.
  • remythologize — to mythologize anew, to make a new mythological system out of (an existing one)
  • resting place — grave
  • return flight — a flight going back
  • revictualling — victuals, food supplies; provisions.
  • rheologically — in a rheological manner
  • rialto bridge — a bridge over the Grand Canal in Venice, Italy, liking Rialto Island with San Marco Island
  • riding stable — a place where horses are kept for people to ride
  • rifle grenade — a grenade designed to be fired from a grenade launcher attached to the muzzle of a rifle or carbine.
  • right fielder — the player whose position is right field.
  • right to life — When people talk about an unborn baby's right to life, they mean that a baby has the right to be born, even if it has a severe disability or if its mother does not want it.
  • right-to-life — pertaining to or advocating laws making abortion, especially abortion-on-demand, illegal; antiabortion: right-to-life advocates.
  • ring the bell — a hollow instrument of cast metal, typically cup-shaped with a flaring mouth, suspended from the vertex and rung by the strokes of a clapper, hammer, or the like.
  • ring-a-lievio — a game played usually between two teams in which the members of one team attempt to find, capture, and imprison the members of the other, who can be freed only by a teammate not yet captured.
  • ringed plover — any of several cosmopolitan plovers of the genus Charadrius, especially C. hiaticula, brownish above and white below with a black band around the breast.
  • robbe-grillet — Alain [a-lan] /aˈlɛ̃/ (Show IPA), 1922–2008, French writer.
  • rocking valve — (on a steam engine) a valve mechanism oscillating through an arc to open and close.
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