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

  • revictuallingvictuals, food supplies; provisions.
  • rhumb sailing — sea navigation along rhumb lines.
  • righteousness — the quality or state of being righteous.
  • ring compound — a compound whose structural formula contains a closed chain or ring of atoms; a cyclic compound. Compare cyclic (def 3).
  • river bugging — the activity or sport of rafting down fast-flowing rivers on a small inflatable single-seat craft, a river bug, that resembles an armchair
  • rock hounding — the activity of searching for and collecting rocks, fossils, or minerals.
  • rooming house — a house with furnished rooms to rent; lodging house.
  • rose geranium — a geranium, Pelargonium graveolens, cultivated for its fragrant, lobed or narrowly divided leaves.
  • rouge et noir — a gambling game using cards, played at a table marked with two red and two black diamond-shaped spots on which the players place their stakes.
  • rough diamond — gemstone: uncut diamond
  • roughing mill — a rolling mill for converting steel ingots into blooms, billets, or slabs.
  • round herring — any of several herringlike fishes of the family Dussumieriidae having a rounded abdomen, living chiefly in tropical marine waters.
  • roundtripping — a form of trading in which a company borrows a sum of money from one source and takes advantage of a short-term rise in interest rates to make a profit by lending it to another
  • rubberbanding — (in online video games) the backward popping of characters in motion to their recently occupied spaces that results from high latency in the network connection.
  • rubbernecking — staring or gaping inquisitively, esp in a naive or foolish manner
  • ruggedization — the act or process of making something rugged
  • rumelgumption — commonsense
  • rumlegumption — commonsense
  • runjeet singh — Ranjit Singh.
  • runner's high — a state of euphoria experienced during prolonged running or other forms of aerobic, sustained exercise, attributed to an increase of endorphins in the blood.
  • running belay — the clipping of the rope through a karabiner attached to a sling, piton, nut, etc, secured to the mountain: used by a leading climber of a team to reduce the length of a possible fall
  • running board — a small ledge, step, or footboard, formerly beneath the doors of an automobile, to assist passengers entering or leaving the car.
  • running costs — The running costs of a business are the amount of money that is regularly spent on things such as salaries, heating, lighting, and rent.
  • running light — any of various lights required to be displayed by a vessel or aircraft operating between sunset and sunrise.
  • running order — The running order of the items in a broadcast, concert, or show is the order in which the items will come.
  • running start — Sports. a start, as in the hop, step, and jump or the running broad jump, in which a contestant begins moving before reaching the starting or take-off point.
  • running story — a story continued in subsequent issues of a newspaper or magazine; serial.
  • running title — Printing. running head.
  • running total — a running total is a total which changes because numbers keep being added to it as something progresses
  • running track — a piece of ground, usually oval-shaped, that is used for races involving athletes
  • scouring rush — any of certain horsetails, especially Equisetum hyemale, used for scouring and polishing.
  • serpiginously — in a serpiginous manner; in the manner characteristic of serpigo
  • shaving brush — a short, cylindrical brush with long, soft, bristles, used in lathering the face before shaving.
  • shunting yard — a place where railway coaches are manoeuvred
  • sigmund freudAnna, 1895–1982, British psychoanalyst, born in Austria (daughter of Sigmund Freud).
  • signed number — Mathematics. a number preceded by a plus sign (+) to indicate a positive quantity or by a minus sign (−) to indicate a negative quantity.
  • silver tongue — the characteristic of being skilful at persuading people to believe what they say or to do what they want them to do
  • single-figure — relating to numbers below ten
  • single-suiter — one-suiter.
  • 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.
  • soul-stirring — arousing excitement and enthusiasm; uplifting
  • 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.
  • soundproofing — materials used to make something soundproof
  • sparking plug — spark plug (def 1).
  • 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.
  • spring squill — a European liliaceous plant Scilla verna, having small blue or purple flowers
  • spurious wing — alula (def 1).
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