13-letter words containing g, r, o, a
- rising action — a related series of incidents in a literary plot that build toward the point of greatest interest.
- road-blocking — an obstruction placed across a road, especially of barricades or police cars, for halting or hindering traffic, as to facilitate the capture of a pursued car or inspection for safety violations.
- roasting jack — a rotating spit for roasting meat on
- robot dancing — a dance of the 1980s characterized by jerky mechanical movements
- rock painting — a painting done on rock, usually by early people
- rocking chair — a chair mounted on rockers or springs so as to permit a person to rock back and forth while sitting.
- rocking shear — a shear having a curved blade that cuts with a rocking motion.
- rocking valve — (on a steam engine) a valve mechanism oscillating through an arc to open and close.
- roentgenogram — a photograph made with x-rays.
- rogation days — Usually, rogations. Ecclesiastical. solemn supplication, especially as chanted during procession on the three days (Rogation Days) before Ascension Day.
- roger-ducasse — Jean Jules Amable [zhahn zhyl a-ma-bluh] /ʒɑ̃ ʒül aˈma blə/ (Show IPA), 1873–1954, French composer.
- rogue dialler — a dial-up connection placed on a computer without the user's knowledge which, when the user tries to connect to the internet, automatically connects to a premium-rate phone number
- rogue program — a computer virus
- rogue's march — a derisive tune played to accompany a person's expulsion from a regiment, community, etc.
- rollerblading — skating on rollerblades
- rolling paper — cigarette paper available in small packages to smokers for rolling their own cigarettes.
- romanticising — to make romantic; invest with a romantic character: Many people romanticize the role of an editor.
- rose geranium — a geranium, Pelargonium graveolens, cultivated for its fragrant, lobed or narrowly divided leaves.
- rotary engine — an engine, as a turbine, in which the impelling fluid produces torque directly rather than by acting upon reciprocating parts.
- rotary plough — an implement with a series of blades mounted on a power-driven shaft, used to break up soil or weeds
- rote learning — memorization by repetition
- rough as bags — uncouth
- rough diamond — gemstone: uncut diamond
- rough passage — a stormy sea journey
- ruggedization — the act or process of making something rugged
- running board — a small ledge, step, or footboard, formerly beneath the doors of an automobile, to assist passengers entering or leaving the car.
- running total — a running total is a total which changes because numbers keep being added to it as something progresses
- saint gregory — Saint (Hildebrand) c1020–85, Italian ecclesiastic: pope 1073–85.
- saratoga chip — potato chip.
- saurognathous — related to or resembling the Saurognathae family of birds that possess palate bones similar to those in saurians or lizards
- savings ratio — the ratio of personal savings to disposable income, esp using the difference between national figures for disposable income and consumer spending as a measure of savings
- scandalmonger — a person who spreads scandal or gossip.
- second-grader — a pupil who is in the second grade
- segregational — the act or practice of segregating; a setting apart or separation of people or things from others or from the main body or group: gender segregation in some fundamentalist religions.
- selenographer — the branch of astronomy that deals with the charting of the moon's surface.
- self-ignorant — lacking in knowledge or training; unlearned: an ignorant man.
- serodiagnosis — a diagnosis involving tests on blood serum or other serous fluid of the body.
- serologically — as pertains to or with respect to serology; in a serological manner
- sharecropping — the practice of cultivating farmland as a sharecropper
- sharp-tongued — characterized by or given to harshness, bitterness, or sarcasm in speech.
- shaving horse — a trestle for supporting and steadying a piece of work being shaved.
- shell program — A shell program is a basic computer program that provides a framework within which the user can develop the program to suit their own needs.
- shooting star — meteor (def 1b).
- shopping cart — a four-wheeled cart provided by a supermarket or other retail store for a customer's use in collecting purchases.
- significatory — serving to signify
- singular noun — A singular noun is a noun such as 'standstill' or 'vicinity' that does not have a plural form and always has a determiner such as 'a' or 'the' in front of it.
- skateboarding — a device for riding upon, usually while standing, consisting of a short, oblong piece of wood, plastic, or aluminum mounted on large roller-skate wheels, used on smooth surfaces and requiring better balance of the rider than the ordinary roller skate does.
- sloane ranger — a member of a trendy and acquisitive set of largely upper-middle-class young people of London, England.
- solar heating — to heat (a building) by means of solar energy.
- sound ranging — a method for determining the distance between a point and the position of a sound source by measuring the time lapse between the origin of the sound and its arrival at the point.