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

  • hydrargillite — gibbsite.
  • ideographical — Alternative form of ideographic.
  • intermeddling — Present participle of intermeddle.
  • interpleading — to litigate with each other in order to determine which of two parties is the rightful claimant against a third party.
  • land registry — In Britain, a land registry is a government office where records are kept about each area of land in a country or region, including information about who owns it.
  • landgraviates — Plural form of landgraviate.
  • landing clerk — a representative of a shipping line who boards its incoming passenger ships to give passengers information and advice.
  • landing force — the ground forces of an amphibious task force that effect the assault landing in an amphibious operation.
  • lateen-rigged — having lateen sails.
  • leading reins — straps or a harness and strap used to assist and control a child who is learning to walk
  • legal adviser — a lawyer who gives advice
  • levelling rod — a graduated rod that is used to determine differences in elevation
  • light reading — reading which is not considered too demanding or intellectual
  • light-hearted — carefree; cheerful; merry: a lighthearted laugh.
  • lighter fluid — a combustible fluid used in cigarette, cigar, and pipe lighters.
  • line breeding — a form of inbreeding directed toward keeping the offspring closely related to a superior ancestor.
  • london bridge — a bridge over the Thames between the City of London on the north side, and Southwark on the south side.
  • lounge lizard — a foppish man who frequents bars, cafés, hotel lounges, etc., with or in search of women.
  • lysergic acid — a crystalline solid, C 16 H 16 N 2 O 2 , obtained from ergot or synthesized: used in the synthesis of LSD.
  • middle finger — the finger between the forefinger and the third finger.
  • middle ground — an intermediate position, area, or recourse between two opposites or extremes; a halfway or neutral standpoint.
  • middleborough — a town in SE Massachusetts.
  • middlesbrough — a seaport in NE England, on the Tees estuary.
  • midriff bulge — a roll of fat around your midriff
  • millau bridge — a road bridge, the highest in the world, crossing the River Tarn in the Massif Central in SW France; designed by Sir Norman Foster and opened in 2004
  • mills grenade — a type of high-explosive grenade weighing about 1.5 pounds (0.7 kg).
  • mind-altering — causing marked changes in patterns of mood and behavior, as a hallucinogenic drug.
  • monoglyceride — an ester obtained from glycerol by the esterification of one hydroxyl group with a fatty acid.
  • mood-altering — (especially of drugs) capable of changing one's emotional state.
  • mud wrestling — sport: physical combat in mud
  • mud-wrestling — wrestling in an enclosure with a floor or base of wet mud, staged as a public display and competitive event.
  • nearsightedly — In a nearsighted manner; as if nearsighted; myopically.
  • niggardliness — The state of being niggardly.
  • oil hardening — to quench (steel) in a bath of oil.
  • old norwegian — the language of Norway as spoken and written from the middle of the 12th to the end of the 14th centuries.
  • olduvai gorge — a gorge in Tanzania in which is located a site containing Australopithecine and human skeletal and cultural remains.
  • organ-builder — a maker of organs
  • overpedalling — the overuse of the piano's pedals
  • pantie girdle — a girdle with a crotch.
  • pearl molding — a molding having the form of a row of pearls.
  • pelvic girdle — (in vertebrates) a bony or cartilaginous arch supporting the hind limbs or analogous parts.
  • plague-ridden — afflicted by the plague or a plague
  • power loading — the act of a person or thing that loads.
  • quadragesimal — of, relating to, or suitable for Lent; Lenten.
  • quadrigeminal — Having four parts, or two pairs.
  • quadriplegics — Plural form of quadriplegic.
  • 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
  • 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
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