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

  • girl's blouse — used to refer to a man who is not behaving in a very strong or masculine way
  • glass slipper — an imaginary ladies' shoe made of glass, as worn by Cinderella in the fairy tale of that name
  • globuliferous — containing or producing globules.
  • glucuronidase — an enzyme that catalyzes glucuronide hydrolysis
  • glycoproteins — Plural form of glycoprotein.
  • golden shiner — a small, silvery freshwater minnow, Notemigonus crysoleucas, native to eastern North America and introduced into western North America: often used as live bait in sport fishing.
  • goldie's fern — a wood fern, Dryopteris goldiana, of northeastern North America, having large, golden-green, leathery fronds with blades that tilt backward.
  • gospel singer — a singer performing gospel music
  • granuliferous — full of granules, or producing granules
  • gravity scale — a scale giving the relative density of fluids
  • gray squirrel — a common, grayish squirrel, Sciurus carolinensis, of eastern North America.
  • grease nipple — a metal nipple designed to engage with a grease gun for injecting grease into a bearing, etc
  • grease pencil — a pencil of pigment and compressed grease encased in a spiral paper strip that can be partially unwound to expose a new point and used especially for writing on glossy surfaces.
  • grey squirrel — a grey-furred squirrel, Sciurus carolinensis, native to E North America but now widely established elsewhere
  • grimes golden — a yellow variety of apple that ripens in late autumn.
  • ground sluice — a trench, cut through a placer or through bedrock, through which a stream is diverted in order to dislodge and wash the gravel.
  • guernsey lily — a bulbous plant, Nerine sarniensis, of the amaryllis family, native to southern Africa, having clusters of crimson flowers.
  • hard feelings — Hard feelings are feelings of anger or bitterness towards someone who you have had an argument with or who has upset you. If you say 'no hard feelings', you are making an agreement with someone not to be angry or bitter about something.
  • hellgrammites — Plural form of hellgrammite (Alternative spelling of hellgramites).
  • heresiologist — a person who studies or writes about heresies.
  • herpetologist — the branch of zoology dealing with reptiles and amphibians.
  • heteroglossia — (linguistics) the coexistence of distinct varieties within a single linguistic code.
  • hieroglyphics — Also, hieroglyphical. designating or pertaining to a pictographic script, particularly that of the ancient Egyptians, in which many of the symbols are conventionalized, recognizable pictures of the things represented.
  • hieroglyphist — a person who studies hieroglyphics; hieroglyphologist.
  • hyperbolising — to use hyperbole; exaggerate.
  • incorrigibles — Plural form of incorrigible.
  • integral test — the theorem that a given infinite series converges if the function whose value at each integer is the corresponding term in the series is decreasing, tends to zero, and results in a finite number when integrated from one to infinity.
  • interestingly — engaging or exciting and holding the attention or curiosity: an interesting book.
  • interglacials — Plural form of interglacial.
  • internalising — Present participle of internalise.
  • interreligous — Between religions.
  • irish english — the English language as spoken in Ireland; Hiberno-English.
  • irregularness — Quality of being irregular.
  • irreligionist — One who is irreligious.
  • irreligiously — In an irreligious fashion.
  • kentish glory — a moth, Endromis versicolora, common in north and central Europe, having brown variegated front wings and, in the male, orange hindwings
  • killing spree — a series of murders that are committed
  • klipspringers — Plural form of klipspringer.
  • kriss kringle — Santa Claus.
  • labiogression — location of the anterior teeth forward of their natural position.
  • 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.
  • lane markings — white lines on the road that mark lanes
  • laryngotomies — Plural form of laryngotomy.
  • laser cooling — a technique using laser light to cool atoms to a very low temperature by removing momentum from the particles.
  • lasik surgery — laser surgery to correct short sight
  • 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
  • legislatorial — of or relating to a legislator, legislature, or legislation; legislative.
  • letterspacing — the amount of space between each letter in a word, or the adjustment of this amount of space
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