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13-letter words containing i, n, g, u, r

  • overingenuity — the state of being ingenious to a fault
  • pantagruelian — (in Rabelais' Pantagruel) the huge son of Gargantua, represented as dealing with serious matters in a spirit of broad and somewhat cynical good humor.
  • 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.
  • paper-pushing — a person who has a routine desk job.
  • piper gurnard — a marine fish, Trigla lyra, of the family Triglidae
  • plague-ridden — afflicted by the plague or a plague
  • plain yoghurt — natural yoghurt, without added flavouring
  • plunging fire — artillery or other fire that strikes the ground at a steep angle, as from high ground overlooking the target or from a weapon fired at a high angle of elevation.
  • plural voting — right to vote more than once
  • pneumogastric — of or relating to the lungs and stomach.
  • postinaugural — of or relating to the period after an inauguration
  • pouring-basin — (in a vacuum induction furnace) a trough through which molten metal flows under vacuum to a mold chamber.
  • prague spring — a brief period of democratization in Czechoslovakia in 1968, under Alexander Dubček.
  • preconfigured — to design or adapt to form a specific configuration or for some specific purpose: The planes are being configured to hold more passengers in each row.
  • prefiguration — the act of prefiguring.
  • prefigurement — to show or represent beforehand by a figure or type; foreshadow.
  • press cutting — an article or picture from a newspaper about someone or something
  • price cutting — the act or practice of cutting prices
  • primogeniture — the state or fact of being the firstborn of children of the same parents.
  • print-through — the unwanted transfer of a recorded magnetic field pattern from one turn of magnetic tape to the preceding or succeeding turn on a reel, causing distortion
  • prix goncourt — Goncourt (def 2).
  • pruning knife — a knife used for pruning
  • 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).
  • quadrigeminal — Having four parts, or two pairs.
  • quadrilingual — using or involving four languages: a quadrilingual person; a quadrilingual translation of the Bible.
  • quadringenary — a 400th anniversary
  • quaking grass — any of several grasses of the genus Briza, having spikelets with slender, drooping stalks.
  • quarter grain — the grain appearing in quartersawed wood.
  • queer-bashing — the activity of making vicious and unprovoked verbal or physical assaults upon homosexuals or supposed homosexuals
  • queer-looking — odd or strange in appearance
  • quinquagenary — a 50th anniversary.
  • rabblerousing — Of or pertaining to a rabble-rouser.
  • raking course — a concealed course of bricks laid diagonally to the wall surface in a raking bond.
  • rambling club — a club for people who enjoy taking walks in the country
  • re-evaluating — to determine or set the value or amount of; appraise: to evaluate property.
  • re-regulation — a law, rule, or other order prescribed by authority, especially to regulate conduct.
  • re-submitting — to give over or yield to the power or authority of another (often used reflexively).
  • reacquainting — to make more or less familiar, aware, or conversant (usually followed by with): to acquaint the mayor with our plan.
  • reading group — a group of people who meet regularly to discuss a book that they have all read
  • reconfiguring — to change the shape or formation of; remodel; restructure.
  • red underwing — a large noctuid moth, Catocala nupta, having dull forewings and hind wings coloured red and black
  • regiomontanus — Friedrich Max [free-drik maks;; German free-drikh mahks] /ˈfri drɪk mæks;; German ˈfri drɪx mɑks/ (Show IPA), 1823–1900, English Sanskrit scholar and philologist born in Germany.
  • 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.
  • regurgitation — the act of regurgitating.
  • religiousness — of, relating to, or concerned with religion: a religious holiday.
  • rendezvousing — an agreement between two or more persons to meet at a certain time and place.
  • restructuring — to change, alter, or restore the structure of: to restructure a broken nose.
  • return flight — a flight going back
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