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

  • light cruiser — a naval cruiser having 6-inch (15-cm) guns as its main armament.
  • liqueur glass — a small glass intended for drinking liqueur from
  • liver sausage — liverwurst.
  • longsuffering — enduring injury, trouble, or provocation long and patiently.
  • losing streak — a succession of losses or defeats
  • luxembourgish — Also, Luxembourgish [luhk-suh m-bur-gish] /ˈlʌk səmˌbɜr gɪʃ/ (Show IPA). Letzeburgesch.
  • lysergic acid — a crystalline solid, C 16 H 16 N 2 O 2 , obtained from ergot or synthesized: used in the synthesis of LSD.
  • magic realism — a style of painting and literature in which fantastic or imaginary and often unsettling images or events are depicted in a sharply detailed, realistic manner.
  • magisterially — In a magisterial manner; authoritatively.
  • managerialism — Belief in or reliance on the use of professional managers in administering or planning an activity.
  • marginal seat — a seat in which elections tend to be won by small margins
  • martyrologies — Plural form of martyrology.
  • memorialising — Present participle of memorialise.
  • mesmerizingly — In a way or to an extent that mesmerizes.
  • metallurgists — Plural form of metallurgist.
  • meteorologist — the science dealing with the atmosphere and its phenomena, including weather and climate.
  • middlesbrough — a seaport in NE England, on the Tees estuary.
  • mills grenade — a type of high-explosive grenade weighing about 1.5 pounds (0.7 kg).
  • morse signals — signals encoded using the Morse Code
  • 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.
  • neurolinguist — One who studies neurolinguistics.
  • neurosurgical — Of, or pertaining to neurosurgery.
  • niggardliness — The state of being niggardly.
  • night shelter — an organization that provides dormitory-style accommodation for the homeless at night, or the accommodation so provided
  • nightcrawlers — Plural form of nightcrawler.
  • numerologists — the study of numbers, as the figures designating the year of one's birth, to determine their supposed influence on one's life, future, etc.
  • organ whistle — a steam or air whistle in which the jet is forced up against the thin edge of a pipe closed at the top.
  • originalities — Plural form of originality.
  • orthogonalise — to make (vectors, functions, etc.) orthogonal.
  • pantagruelism — (in Rabelais' Pantagruel) the huge son of Gargantua, represented as dealing with serious matters in a spirit of broad and somewhat cynical good humor.
  • paring chisel — a woodworking chisel moved by steady hand pressure to make long, light cuts.
  • perseveringly — displaying perseverance; resolutely persistent; steadfast: a persevering student.
  • phraseologist — a person who treats of or is concerned with phraseology.
  • pilsner-glass — a pale, light lager beer.
  • prestigiously — indicative of or conferring prestige: the most prestigious address in town.
  • progressional — the act of progressing; forward or onward movement.
  • progressively — 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.
  • quadragesimal — of, relating to, or suitable for Lent; Lenten.
  • quadriplegics — Plural form of quadriplegic.
  • rabblerousing — Of or pertaining to a rabble-rouser.
  • raising plate — wall plate (def 1).
  • rambling rose — any of various cultivated hybrid roses that straggle over other vegetation
  • 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
  • rayleigh disk — a small circular disk, usually of mica, that is suspended from a fiber and tends to be deflected at right angles to a stream of air, indicating by its deflection the intensity of a sound wave.
  • reading glass — a magnifying glass that people use to enlarge text to make it easier to read
  • regionalistic — Government. the principle or system of dividing a city, state, etc., into separate administrative regions.
  • religiousness — of, relating to, or concerned with religion: a religious holiday.
  • resting place — grave
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