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13-letter words containing g, r, i, p, n

  • temporizingly — in a yielding manner
  • torsion group — a group in which every element has finite order.
  • tracing paper — a thin, transparent paper for making tracings.
  • tracking poll — a type of poll repeated periodically with the same group of people to check and measure changes of opinion or knowledge.
  • trading stamp — a stamp with a certain value given as a premium by a retailer to a customer, specified quantities of these stamps being exchangeable for various articles.
  • training camp — A training camp for soldiers or sports players is an organized period of training at a particular place.
  • training ship — a ship equipped for training novices in seamanship, as for naval service.
  • trainspotting — hobby: observing trains
  • tramping club — an organization of people who walk for recreation, esp in the bush
  • transshipping — to transfer from one ship, truck, freight car, or other conveyance to another.
  • tribune group — (in Britain) a group made up of left-wing Labour Members of Parliament: founded 1966
  • trigger plant — any of several small grasslike plants of the genus Stylidium, having sensitive stamens that are erected when disturbed: family Stylidiaceae
  • 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.
  • tripping line — a journey or voyage: to win a trip to Paris.
  • turning piece — a wooden pattern for an arch built without centering.
  • turning point — a point at which a decisive change takes place; critical point; crisis.
  • unapprovingly — in an unapproving manner
  • uncooperating — to work or act together or jointly for a common purpose or benefit.
  • under-packing — the act or work of a person or thing that packs.
  • underpainting — the first coat of paint, especially the initial painting on a canvas in which the major areas, tones, colors, and forms are indicated in mass.
  • underpinnings — a system of supports beneath a wall or the like.
  • underspending — the process or fact of spending less than one can afford or is allocated
  • unimpregnated — not saturated, soaked or infused (with something)
  • unplagiarized — to take and use by plagiarism.
  • unprogressive — favoring or advocating progress, change, improvement, or reform, as opposed to wishing to maintain things as they are, especially in political matters: a progressive mayor.
  • unpromisingly — in a manner that is not showing any promise of favourable development or future success
  • unprovokingly — serving to provoke; causing annoyance.
  • unrepentingly — in an unrepenting or impenitent manner
  • unreproaching — not reproaching or blaming
  • untrespassing — not trespassing or infringing
  • upright piano — a piano with an upright rectangular body and with its strings running vertically. Compare spinet (def 1).
  • uranite group — the mineralogical group including uranites and related minerals.
  • valet parking — a service offered by a hotel, restaurant, etc., by which patrons' cars are parked by an attendant.
  • virginia pine — a pine tree, Pinus virginiana, of the eastern U.S., that grows in poor soil and has needles in groups of two.
  • virginia plan — a plan, unsuccessfully proposed at the Constitutional Convention, providing for a legislature of two houses with proportional representation in each house and executive and judicial branches to be chosen by the legislature.
  • volute spring — a coil spring, conical in shape, extending in the direction of the axis of the coil.
  • warp knitting — a knitting process in which the yarn is knitted vertically in a flat form.
  • warping board — a rectangular board containing evenly spaced pegs at each end on which the warp is wound in preparation for weaving.
  • warping frame — a wooden frame containing evenly spaced pegs on which the warp is wound in preparation for weaving.
  • water parting — a watershed or divide.
  • watering spot — watering hole
  • waterproofing — Chiefly British. a raincoat or other outer coat impervious to water.
  • waygoing crop — away-going crop.
  • word painting — an effective verbal description.
  • word wrapping — In computing, word wrapping is a process by which a word which comes at the end of a line is automatically moved onto a new line in order to keep the text within the margins.
  • working group — A working group is the same as a working party.
  • working party — A working party is a committee which is formed to investigate a particular situation or problem and to produce a report containing its opinions and suggestions.
  • workingperson — a workingman or workingwoman.
  • writing paper — paper on which to write.
  • yachting trip — a pleasure trip on a yacht
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