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13-letter words containing g, l, e, n, r, o

  • rabblerousing — Of or pertaining to a rabble-rouser.
  • rambling rose — any of various cultivated hybrid roses that straggle over other vegetation
  • re-regulation — a law, rule, or other order prescribed by authority, especially to regulate conduct.
  • recognitional — an act of recognizing or the state of being recognized.
  • 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.
  • religiousness — of, relating to, or concerned with religion: a religious holiday.
  • 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.
  • rocking valve — (on a steam engine) a valve mechanism oscillating through an arc to open and close.
  • roentgenology — the branch of medicine dealing with diagnosis and therapy through x-rays.
  • rollerblading — skating on rollerblades
  • rolling paper — cigarette paper available in small packages to smokers for rolling their own cigarettes.
  • rolling stone — person: nomadic
  • rote learning — memorization by repetition
  • rumelgumption — commonsense
  • rumlegumption — commonsense
  • scandalmonger — a person who spreads scandal or gossip.
  • segregational — the act or practice of segregating; a setting apart or separation of people or things from others or from the main body or group: gender segregation in some fundamentalist religions.
  • selenographer — the branch of astronomy that deals with the charting of the moon's surface.
  • self-governed — governed by itself or having self-government, as a state or community; independent.
  • self-ignorant — lacking in knowledge or training; unlearned: an ignorant man.
  • selling floor — floor (def 10).
  • serpiginously — in a serpiginous manner; in the manner characteristic of serpigo
  • shivering owl — screech owl.
  • short selling — a person, as a speculator, who sells short.
  • silver tongue — the characteristic of being skilful at persuading people to believe what they say or to do what they want them to do
  • single mother — a mother who brings up a child or children alone, without a partner.
  • single-storey — (of a building) having only one floor or level
  • sloane ranger — a member of a trendy and acquisitive set of largely upper-middle-class young people of London, England.
  • solar heating — to heat (a building) by means of solar energy.
  • spring-loaded — (of a machine part) kept normally in a certain position by a spring: a spring-loaded safety valve.
  • starring role — a main role; the main role
  • steering lock — an anti-theft device
  • sterling bloc — those countries having currencies whose values tend to vary directly with the rise and fall of the value of the pound sterling.
  • strong-willed — having a powerful will; resolute.
  • superregional — involving many regions
  • syringomyelia — a disease of the spinal cord in which the nerve tissue is replaced by a cavity filled with fluid.
  • telerecording — the recording of television signals on tape or, more usually, on film
  • temple orange — a hybrid fruit, Citrus nobilis, that is a cross between the sweet orange and the tangerine.
  • temporizingly — in a yielding manner
  • the long term — the time some years ahead, (as opposed to the immediate future)
  • thong leather — whang2 (def 2).
  • triple-tongue — to interrupt the wind flow by moving the tongue as if pronouncing t and t and k successively, especially in playing rapid passages or staccato notes on a brass instrument.
  • tropocollagen — the molecular unit which forms collagen, consisting of three polypeptide chains
  • troublemaking — a person who causes difficulties, distress, worry, etc., for others, especially one who does so habitually as a matter of malice.
  • tung-oil tree — tung tree.
  • uncategorical — without exceptions or conditions; absolute; unqualified and unconditional: a categorical denial.
  • underclothing — clothing worn next to the skin under outer clothes.
  • unforgettable — impossible to forget; indelibly impressed on the memory: scenes of unforgettable beauty.
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