13-letter words containing g, r, i, p
- sulfur spring — a spring the water of which contains naturally occurring sulfur compounds.
- supergalactic — a system of galaxies.
- supergraphics — large-scale painted or applied decorative art in bold colors and typically in geometric or typographic designs, used over walls and sometimes floors and ceilings to create an illusion of expanded or altered space.
- superorganism — a form of life composed of mutually interdependent parts that maintain various vital processes.
- superregional — involving many regions
- supreme being — God.
- table-rapping — the sounds of knocking or tapping made without any apparent physical agency while a group of people sit round a table, and attributed by spiritualists to the spirit of a dead person using this as a means of communication with the living
- taphrogenesis — the process of forming rifts, resulting in regional faulting and subsidence
- temporizingly — in a yielding manner
- thigh-slapper — a very funny joke, remark, story, or incident.
- thigmotropism — oriented growth of an organism in response to mechanical contact, as a plant tendril coiling around a string support.
- topographical — the detailed mapping or charting of the features of a relatively small area, district, or locality.
- 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 happy — ready to fire a gun at the least provocation, regardless of the situation or probable consequences: a trigger-happy hunter.
- trigger plant — any of several small grasslike plants of the genus Stylidium, having sensitive stamens that are erected when disturbed: family Stylidiaceae
- trigger price — if a commodity reaches a trigger price, its price, or the conditions governing its sale are changed; a price at which certain consequences ensue
- trigger-happy — ready to fire a gun at the least provocation, regardless of the situation or probable consequences: a trigger-happy hunter.
- triple figure — a number made up of three digits.
- 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.
- typographical — of or relating to typography.
- 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
- upgradability — an incline going up in the direction of movement.
- upright piano — a piano with an upright rectangular body and with its strings running vertically. Compare spinet (def 1).
- uprighteously — in an upright or moral manner
- uranite group — the mineralogical group including uranites and related minerals.