13-letter words containing i, r, e, g, u
- objurgatively — In an objurgative or reproving manner.
- olduvai gorge — a gorge in Tanzania in which is located a site containing Australopithecine and human skeletal and cultural remains.
- oligofluorene — (organic chemistry) Any of a class of aromatic polycyclic hydrocarbons consisting of several fluorene units attached end-to-end.
- opening hours — Opening hours are the times during which a shop, bank, library, or bar is open for business.
- organ-builder — a maker of organs
- outgeneraling — Present participle of outgeneral.
- outlaw regime — a dangerously unpredictable political regime, as of a country, state, etc, which disregards international law or diplomacy
- outperforming — Present participle of outperform.
- outprocessing — to end a military tour of duty, accompanied by necessary paperwork: All enlisted soldiers out-process as a class.
- outside-right — a footballer who plays on the outside right wing of the field
- outstretching — Present participle of outstretch.
- over-trusting — reliance on the integrity, strength, ability, surety, etc., of a person or thing; confidence.
- overburdening — Present participle of overburden.
- overingenious — ingenious to a fault
- 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
- 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.
- pneumogastric — of or relating to the lungs and stomach.
- postbourgeois — (in Marxist thought) belonging to a period of society after the decline of the bourgeoisie
- 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
- prestigiously — indicative of or conferring prestige: the most prestigious address in town.
- price cutting — the act or practice of cutting prices
- pride's purge — the forceful exclusion from the House of Commons, carried out by Col. Thomas Pride in December 1648, of about 100 members who favored compromise with the Royalist party.
- primitive gut — archenteron.
- primogeniture — the state or fact of being the firstborn of children of the same parents.
- pruning knife — a knife used for pruning
- pseudepigraph — a book or piece of writing that is falsely titled or credited
- 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).
- quadragesimal — of, relating to, or suitable for Lent; Lenten.
- quadrigeminal — Having four parts, or two pairs.
- quadringenary — a 400th anniversary
- quadriplegics — Plural form of quadriplegic.
- 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.
- railway guide — a publication containing routes and timetables for train journeys
- raking course — a concealed course of bricks laid diagonally to the wall surface in a raking bond.