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13-letter words containing g, r, e, n, s, p

  • progestogenic — relating to progestogen
  • prognosticate — to forecast or predict (something future) from present indications or signs; prophesy.
  • progressional — the act of progressing; forward or onward movement.
  • prolegomenous — prefatory; preliminary; introductory.
  • psychosurgeon — a surgeon who specializes in psychosurgery
  • purse strings — hold the purse strings, to have the power to determine how money shall be spent.
  • raising plate — wall plate (def 1).
  • reading speed — the rate at which something is read, often expressed in terms of words per minute. Reading speed is usually determined by the purpose of reading (for comprehension, learning, memorization, etc)
  • reagent strip — A reagent strip is a thin piece of paper impregnated with a reagent (= a substance that causes a chemical reaction) to a specific substance, used in testing for that substance in a body of fluid.
  • regent's park — a park in central London, laid out as Marylebone Park by John Nash; now known for the London Zoo, its open-air theatre, and Nash's curved terraces
  • reichspfennig — a former bronze coin of Germany, the 100th part of a reichsmark.
  • repositioning — to put in a new or different position; shift: to reposition the artwork on the advertising layout.
  • resting place — grave
  • retrospecting — contemplation of the past; a survey of past time, events, etc.
  • selenographer — the branch of astronomy that deals with the charting of the moon's surface.
  • selling price — cost at which sth is put up for sale
  • sempstressing — the profession of being a seamstress
  • sepia drawing — a drawing with a brownish tone, produced by first bleaching it (after fixing) and then immersing it for a short time in a solution of sodium sulphide or of alkaline thiourea
  • serpiginously — in a serpiginous manner; in the manner characteristic of serpigo
  • serving spoon — utensil used to serve food
  • sharecropping — the practice of cultivating farmland as a sharecropper
  • sharp-tongued — characterized by or given to harshness, bitterness, or sarcasm in speech.
  • sheep farming — agriculture: sheep raising
  • sheepshearing — an act or instance of shearing sheep.
  • shepherd king — any of the Hyksos kings.
  • silver spring — a town in central Maryland, near Washington, D.C.
  • single parent — mother or father without a partner
  • single-parent — of or noting a family in which a parent brings up a child or children alone, without a partner: a single-parent family; a single-parent household.
  • skipping rope — A skipping rope or skip rope is a piece of rope, usually with handles at each end. You exercise or play with it by turning it round and round and jumping over it.
  • skipping-rope — Also, jump roping. a children's game or an exercise for children and adults in which a rope is swung over and under the standing jumper, who must leap over it each time it reaches the feet.
  • sleeping area — an area in a room or house where people can sleep
  • slipstreaming — Aeronautics. the airstream pushed back by a revolving aircraft propeller. Compare backwash (def 2), wash (def 31).
  • speaking part — a part in which the character speaks scripted dialogue
  • speechreading — the act or process of determining the intended meaning of a speaker by utilizing all visual clues accompanying speech attempts, as lip movements, facial expressions, and bodily gestures, used especially by people with impaired hearing.
  • speed reading — a method of reading faster than normal, esp by skimming
  • sperm washing — a technique that separates sperm from the seminal fluid, used especially for isolating active sperm for artificial insemination.
  • spermatangium — the organ that produces spermatia in red algae.
  • spermatogenic — relating to the development of spermatozoa
  • spinning reel — a fishing reel mounted on a spinning rod, having a stationary spool on the side of which is a revolving metal arm that catches the line and winds it onto the spool as a handle is turned, the metal arm being disengaged during casting so the line spirals freely off the spool, carried by the cast lure.
  • splutteringly — in a spluttering manner
  • sponge finger — sweet finger-shaped biscuit
  • sponge rubber — a light, spongy rubber, usually prepared by bubbling carbon dioxide through or whipping air into latex, used for padding, insulation, gaskets, etc.; foam rubber.
  • spot reducing — the usually futile effort to exercise one part of the body, as the thighs, in hopes of reducing the amount of fat stored in that area.
  • sprightliness — animated or vivacious; lively.
  • spring a leak — to develop a leak
  • spring beauty — any American spring plant belonging to the genus Claytonia, of the purslane family, especially C. virginica, having an elongated cluster of white flowers tinged with pink.
  • spring binder — a loose-leaf binder in which a single, long, clamplike spring, forming the spine, holds the leaves.
  • spring greens — Young cabbages are sometimes referred to as spring greens.
  • spring peeper — a tree frog, Hyla crucifer, having an X -shaped mark on the back and voicing a shrill call commonly heard near ponds and swamps of eastern North America in the early spring.
  • spring valley — a city in SW California, near San Diego.
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