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13-letter words containing g, l, o, s, e

  • steering lock — an anti-theft device
  • stereological — of, relating to, stereology
  • stereoregular — pertaining to stereochemical regularity or having repeating units in a sequential configuration
  • sterling bloc — those countries having currencies whose values tend to vary directly with the rise and fall of the value of the pound sterling.
  • stone boiling — a primitive method of boiling liquid with heated stones
  • stores ledger — a record kept of the amount, type, etc., of raw materials and supplies on hand, as in a manufacturing plant.
  • strong-willed — having a powerful will; resolute.
  • subcollegiate — of, relating to, or characteristic of subcollege students or a subcollege
  • subdelegation — a group or body of delegates: Our club sent a delegation to the rally.
  • sucking louse — See under louse (def 1).
  • sugar of lead — lead acetate.
  • superregional — involving many regions
  • swimming hole — a place, as in a stream or creek, where there is water deep enough to use for swimming.
  • syringomyelia — a disease of the spinal cord in which the nerve tissue is replaced by a cavity filled with fluid.
  • systematology — the science of systems or their formation.
  • technologised — to make technological; to modernize or modify with technology.
  • telediagnosis — the detection of a disease by evaluating data transmitted to a receiving station from instruments monitoring a distant patient, as someone in a spacecraft.
  • the spotlight — the focus of attention
  • toggle switch — a switch in which a projecting knob or arm, moving through a small arc, causes the contacts to open or close an electric circuit suddenly, as commonly used in most homes.
  • ugly customer — a hostile or dangerous person.
  • undiagnosable — unable to be diagnosed
  • uprighteously — in an upright or moral manner
  • ustilagineous — belonging to the Ustilaginales, an order of fungi that cause plant disease
  • venereologist — the branch of medicine dealing with the study and treatment of venereal, or sexually transmitted, disease.
  • vexillologist — the study of flags.
  • virgo cluster — a cluster of about 2500 galaxies in the constellation Virgo, the nearest cluster to our galaxy.
  • volute spring — a coil spring, conical in shape, extending in the direction of the axis of the coil.
  • wages council — (formerly, in Britain) a statutory body empowered to fix minimum wages in an industry; abolished in 1994
  • wagon soldier — a field-artillery soldier.
  • walking horse — Tennessee walking horse.
  • wallcoverings — Plural form of wallcovering.
  • wellingtonias — Plural form of wellingtonia.
  • willing horse — a person prepared to work hard
  • willow grouse — a N European grouse, Lagopus lagopus, with a reddish-brown plumage and white wings: now regarded as the same species as the red grouse (L. lagopus scoticus) of Britain
  • zygapophyseal — one of the four processes of a vertebra, occurring in pairs that interlock each vertebra with the vertebrae above and below.
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