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

  • mills grenade — a type of high-explosive grenade weighing about 1.5 pounds (0.7 kg).
  • morse signals — signals encoded using the Morse Code
  • mulligan stew — a stew made of odd bits of meat and vegetables, esp. as prepared by hobos
  • navigableness — Quality of being navigable.
  • nearsightedly — In a nearsighted manner; as if nearsighted; myopically.
  • negative lens — a lens that causes a beam of parallel rays to diverge after refraction, as from a virtual image; a lens that has a negative focal length.
  • neonatologist — the study of the development and disorders of newborn children.
  • nesting table — one of a set of usually three or four small tables that are graduated in size so that they may be stacked on top of one another.
  • neurosurgical — Of, or pertaining to neurosurgery.
  • niggardliness — The state of being niggardly.
  • nightcrawlers — Plural form of nightcrawler.
  • nominal wages — minimum pay
  • oilspot glaze — a brown or black ceramic glaze dotted with silvery spots caused by impurities.
  • oligosiloxane — (organic chemistry) Any polysiloxane having a relatively small number of -Si-O- groups.
  • olympic games — international sports event
  • 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.
  • palingenesist — a person who believes in a doctrine of rebirth or transmigration of souls.
  • palos heights — a city in NE Illinois, near Chicago.
  • panic selling — widespread selling of a security or investment, causing sharp price declines. Usually caused by an unexpected event seen to devalue the security.
  • 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.
  • pantheologist — a student of, or expert in, pantheology
  • paring chisel — a woodworking chisel moved by steady hand pressure to make long, light cuts.
  • passing place — a wider place on a narrow road where vehicles can pass
  • phlogisticate — to integrate or blend phlogiston with
  • phraseologist — a person who treats of or is concerned with phraseology.
  • pilsner-glass — a pale, light lager beer.
  • place setting — the group of dishes, silverware, glasses, etc., set at the place of each person at a meal.
  • place-setting — the group of dishes, silverware, glasses, etc., set at the place of each person at a meal.
  • plane sailing — sailing on a course plotted without reference to the curvature of the earth.
  • planetologist — the branch of astronomy that deals with the physical features of the planets.
  • plasma engine — an engine that generates thrust by reaction to the emission of a jet of plasma
  • playing games — If you say that someone is playing games or playing silly games, you mean that they are not treating a situation seriously and you are annoyed with them.
  • progressional — the act of progressing; forward or onward movement.
  • pulse dialing — a system of calling telephone numbers wherein electrical pulses corresponding to the digits in the number called are generated by manipulating a rotary dial or push buttons (contrasted with tone dialing).
  • 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.
  • resting place — grave
  • riding stable — a place where horses are kept for people to ride
  • sales figures — the amount of sales of something within a particular time frame
  • sales meeting — briefing of sales representatives
  • salpingectomy — excision of the Fallopian tube.
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