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13-letter words containing i, n, t, o, d

  • front-loading — Also, front-loaded. front-loading (def 1).
  • fruiting body — an organ that produces spores; fructification.
  • function word — a word, as a preposition, article, auxiliary, or pronoun, that chiefly expresses grammatical relationships, has little semantic content of its own, and belongs to a small, closed class of words whose membership is relatively fixed (distinguished from content word).
  • garret window — a skylight that lies along the slope of the roof
  • ghiordes knot — a hand-tied knot, used in rug weaving, in which the parallel ends of looped yarn alternate with two threads of warp, producing an uneven pile effect.
  • giant hogweed — a tall plant, Heracleum mantegazzianum, of the parsley family, native to Russia and now naturalized in the U.S., having very large leaves and broad, white flower heads somewhat resembling Queen Anne's lace: can cause an allergic rash when touched by susceptible persons.
  • giant redwood — big tree.
  • gibson desert — a desert in W central Australia: scrub; salt marshes. About 85,000 sq. mi. (220,000 sq. km).
  • gin and tonic — a drink made with gin and quinine water, served in a tall glass and usually garnished with a slice of lime or lemon.
  • gliding joint — arthrodia.
  • goal-oriented — (of a person) focused on reaching a specific objective or accomplishing a given task; driven by purpose: goal-oriented teams of teachers.
  • godwin-austen — Also called Godwin Austen [god-win aw-stin] /ˈgɒd wɪn ˈɔ stɪn/ (Show IPA), Dapsang [duh p-suhng] /dəpˈsʌŋ/ (Show IPA). a mountain in N Kashmir, in the Karakoram range: second highest peak in the world. 28,250 feet (8611 meters).
  • gonadotrophic — Of, pertaining to, or stimulating the functions of the gonads.
  • gonadotrophin — a gonadotropic substance.
  • gonadotropins — Plural form of gonadotropin.
  • good question — pertinent or insightful enquiry
  • goods station — a railway station dealing solely with goods trains
  • gradient post — a small white post beside a railway line at a point where the gradient changes having arms set at angles representing the gradients
  • grandiloquent — speaking or expressed in a lofty style, often to the point of being pompous or bombastic.
  • granodioritic — relating to granodiorite
  • ground-to-air — (of weapons) designed to be fired at aircraft from the ground
  • groundnut oil — a mild-tasting oil extracted from peanuts and used in cooking
  • habit of mind — If someone has a particular habit of mind, they usually think in that particular way.
  • haemodilution — an increase in the fluid content of blood leading to a lower concentration of red blood cells
  • hemiterpenoid — (chemistry) a terpenoid having a C5 skeleton.
  • heptadecanoic — as in heptadecanoic acid, a saturated fatty acid, aka margaric acid
  • herod antipas — died after a.d. 39, ruler of Galilee, a.d. 4–39: ordered the execution of John the Baptist and participated in the trial of Jesus.
  • heroin addict — sb dependent on heroin
  • hold the line — a mark or stroke long in proportion to its breadth, made with a pen, pencil, tool, etc., on a surface: a line down the middle of the page.
  • horse trading — the act or fact of conducting a shrewd exchange or engaging in a horse trade; bargaining.
  • horse-trading — to bargain or trade shrewdly.
  • house-trained — housebroken.
  • housed string — a string of a stair (housed stair) receiving the ends of the risers or treads in a series of housings.
  • hudson strait — a strait connecting Hudson Bay and the Atlantic. 450 miles (725 km) long; 100 miles (160 km) wide.
  • hunting lodge — a house or hut in the country or in the mountains where people stay on holiday when they want to go hunting
  • hunting sword — a short, light saber of the 18th century, having a straight or slightly curved blade.
  • hybridisation — Alternative form of hybridization.
  • hybridization — to cause to produce hybrids; cross.
  • hydroboration — (chemistry) the production or organoboranes by the addition of diborane to unsaturated organic compounds.
  • hydrogenating — Present participle of hydrogenate.
  • hydrogenation — to combine or treat with hydrogen, especially to add hydrogen to the molecule of (an unsaturated organic compound).
  • hydrokinetics — the branch of hydrodynamics that deals with the laws governing liquids or gases in motion.
  • hydronitrogen — a chemical compound containing only hydrogen and nitrogen.
  • hydroxylation — (organic chemistry) The introduction of a hydroxyl group into a molecule, especially by the replacement of a hydrogen atom.
  • hypohydration — Dehydration.
  • i don't think — a phrase added to an ironical statement
  • ichthyopsidan — a member of the class Ichthyopsida
  • idealizations — Plural form of idealization.
  • idiomaticness — Idiomaticity.
  • idiosyncratic — pertaining to the nature of idiosyncrasy, or something peculiar to an individual: The best minds are idiosyncratic and unpredictable as they follow the course of scientific discovery.
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