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

  • flying saucer — any of various disk-shaped objects allegedly seen flying at high speeds and altitudes, often with extreme changes in speed and direction, and thought by some to be manned by intelligent beings from outer space.
  • flying tackle — a tackle made by hurling one's body through the air at the player carrying the ball.
  • fn tunnelling — Fowler-Nordheim tunnelling
  • folding money — paper money.
  • folding press — a fall in wrestling won by folding one's opponent's legs up to his head and pressing his shoulders to the floor
  • foliage plant — any plant grown chiefly for its attractive leaves.
  • fore clipping — a word formed by omitting the first part of the form from which it is derived.
  • forefeelingly — by way of forefeeling
  • foresightedly — In a foresighted manner.
  • foresightless — lacking foresight
  • forge welding — the welding of pieces of hot metal with pressure or blows.
  • fortnightlies — Plural form of fortnightly.
  • fossil energy — heat energy released by burning fossil fuel
  • foul-smelling — having a very unpleasant smell
  • four-wheeling — traveling in a vehicle using four-wheel drive.
  • fowling piece — a shotgun for shooting wildfowl.
  • foxtail wedge — a wedge in the split end of a tenon, bolt, or the like, for spreading and securing it when driven into a blind mortise or hole.
  • fragmentarily — consisting of or reduced to fragments; broken; disconnected; incomplete: fragmentary evidence; fragmentary remains.
  • free climbing — climbing without using pitons, étriers, etc, as direct aids to ascent, but using ropes, belays, etc, at discretion for security
  • free-floating — (of an emotional state) lacking an apparent cause, focus, or object; generalized: free-floating hostility.
  • free-wheeling — operating in the manner of a freewheel.
  • freight plane — an aeroplane used to transport goods
  • frelinghuysen — Frederick Theodore, 1817–85, U.S. statesman.
  • frighteningly — to make afraid or fearful; throw into a fright; terrify; scare.
  • frightfulness — The quality of being frightful.
  • furshlugginer — crazy; foolish
  • gabriel fauré — Gabriel Urbain [ga-bree-el oor-ban] /ga briˈɛl urˈbɛ̃/ (Show IPA), 1845–1924, French composer.
  • gaidhealtachd — the area of Scotland in which Scottish Gaelic is the vernacular speech
  • galactic pole — either of the two opposite points on the celestial sphere that are farthest north and south of the Milky Way.
  • galactic year — the duration of a complete rotation of the Milky Way, approximately 200 million years.
  • galactosaemia — Alternative spelling of galactosemia.
  • galactosaemic — of, relating to, or affected by galactosaemia
  • galactosamine — an amino sugar that is a major component of glycolipids and chondroitin.
  • galactosidase — An enzyme, such as lactase, that is involved in the hydrolytic breakdown of a galactoside.
  • galah session — an occasion on which people from remote areas converse with each other by radio
  • galerie house — (in French Louisiana) a house with its main story above the ground floor and with verandas (galeries) for both stories in tiers on at least one side.
  • gallimaufries — Plural form of gallimaufry.
  • galois theory — the branch of mathematics that deals with the application of the theory of finite groups to the solution of algebraic equations.
  • galvanic cell — cell1 (def 7a).
  • galvanic pile — voltaic pile.
  • galvanometric — Of or pertaining to galvanometry.
  • game of skill — a game in which the outcome is determined by skill rather than by chance, as chess.
  • games library — a type of library for video games where games (usually downloaded via the internet) can be paid for per use rather than be bought at full price
  • garcia robles — Alfonso [al-fon-soh,, -zoh;; Spanish ahl-fawn-saw] /ælˈfɒn soʊ,, -zoʊ;; Spanish ɑlˈfɔn sɔ/ (Show IPA), 1911–91, Mexican diplomat: Nobel Prize 1982.
  • garrison life — the life of troops who maintain and guard a military base or fortified place
  • gas explosion — an explosion caused by a gas leak in the presence of an ignition source
  • gastric ulcer — a peptic ulcer located in the stomach's inner wall, caused in part by the corrosive action of the gastric juice on the mucous membrane.
  • gazillionaire — An extremely rich person.
  • gefullte fish — dish of fish stuffed with various ingredients
  • geissler tube — a sealed glass tube with platinum connections at the ends, containing rarefied gas made luminous by an electrical discharge.
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