13-letter words containing g, u, i, p, r, e
- public charge — a person who is in economic distress and is supported at government expense: He assured the American consul that the prospective immigrant would not become a public charge.
- pulling power — the ability to attract and influence other people
- purse strings — hold the purse strings, to have the power to determine how money shall be spent.
- putting green — green (def 24).
- quadriplegics — Plural form of quadriplegic.
- reading group — a group of people who meet regularly to discuss a book that they have all read
- regulator pin — either of two pins on the regulators of certain timepieces, one on each side of the hairspring, that can be moved to adjust the rate of the timepiece.
- rumelgumption — commonsense
- rumlegumption — commonsense
- serpiginously — in a serpiginous manner; in the manner characteristic of serpigo
- shag pile rug — a piece of thick material with a nap of long rough strands that you put on a floor. It is like a carpet but covers a smaller area
- spermatangium — the organ that produces spermatia in red algae.
- splutteringly — in a spluttering manner
- spot reducing — the usually futile effort to exercise one part of the body, as the thighs, in hopes of reducing the amount of fat stored in that area.
- spring beauty — any American spring plant belonging to the genus Claytonia, of the purslane family, especially C. virginica, having an elongated cluster of white flowers tinged with pink.
- spurge family — the large plant family Euphorbiaceae, characterized by herbaceous plants, shrubs, and trees having milky juice, simple alternate leaves or no leaves, usually petalless flowers often with showy bracts, and capsular fruit, and including cassava, croton, crown-of-thorns, poinsettia, snow-on-the-mountain, spurge, and the plants that produce castor oil, rubber, and tung oil.
- straighten up — stand straighter
- string-puller — a person who uses his or her influence with other people to get things done, often unfairly
- 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.
- tribune group — (in Britain) a group made up of left-wing Labour Members of Parliament: founded 1966
- 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.
- turning piece — a wooden pattern for an arch built without centering.
- 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.
- unrepentingly — in an unrepenting or impenitent manner
- unreproaching — not reproaching or blaming
- untrespassing — not trespassing or infringing
- uprighteously — in an upright or moral manner
- uranite group — the mineralogical group including uranites and related minerals.
- volute spring — a coil spring, conical in shape, extending in the direction of the axis of the coil.