13-letter words containing l, a, g, u, r
- 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.
- quadragesimal — of, relating to, or suitable for Lent; Lenten.
- quadrigeminal — Having four parts, or two pairs.
- quadrilingual — using or involving four languages: a quadrilingual person; a quadrilingual translation of the Bible.
- quadriplegics — Plural form of quadriplegic.
- quarter eagle — a gold coin of the U.S. (issued 1796–1929), one fourth of an eagle.
- rabblerousing — Of or pertaining to a rabble-rouser.
- railway guide — a publication containing routes and timetables for train journeys
- 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.
- regular bevel — the bevel of a bolt or lock on a door opening into the building, room, etc., to which the doorway leads (opposed to reverse bevel).
- regular graph — (mathematics) A graph in which all nodes have the same degree.
- 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.
- revictualling — victuals, food supplies; provisions.
- rhumb sailing — sea navigation along rhumb lines.
- rogue dialler — a dial-up connection placed on a computer without the user's knowledge which, when the user tries to connect to the internet, automatically connects to a premium-rate phone number
- rotary plough — an implement with a series of blades mounted on a power-driven shaft, used to break up soil or weeds
- 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 total — a running total is a total which changes because numbers keep being added to it as something progresses
- sales figures — the amount of sales of something within a particular time frame
- shag pile rug — a piece of thick material with a nap of long rough strands that you put on a floor. It is like a carpet but covers a smaller area
- 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.
- slaughterable — (of an animal) ready for slaughter
- sparking plug — spark plug (def 1).
- spurge family — the large plant family Euphorbiaceae, characterized by herbaceous plants, shrubs, and trees having milky juice, simple alternate leaves or no leaves, usually petalless flowers often with showy bracts, and capsular fruit, and including cassava, croton, crown-of-thorns, poinsettia, snow-on-the-mountain, spurge, and the plants that produce castor oil, rubber, and tung oil.
- spurge laurel — a European thymelaeaceous evergreen shrub, Daphne laureola, with glossy leaves and small green flowers
- squanderingly — in a squandering manner
- squirrel cage — a cage containing a cylindrical framework that is rotated by a squirrel or other small animal running inside of it.
- sterculia gum — karaya gum.
- stereoregular — pertaining to stereochemical regularity or having repeating units in a sequential configuration
- strangulation — Pathology, Surgery. to compress or constrict (a duct, intestine, vessel, etc.) so as to prevent circulation or suppress function.
- subtriangular — almost triangular;not quite triangular
- sugar of lead — lead acetate.
- sugar of milk — lactose.
- superdelegate — a party leader or elected public official chosen as an uncommitted delegate to a national political convention.
- supergalactic — a system of galaxies.
- superregional — involving many regions
- surgical boot — a specially designed boot or shoe that compensates for deformities of the foot or leg
- table-turning — the movement of a table attributed by spiritualists to the power of spirits working through a group of persons placing their hands or fingers on the table top
- texas leaguer — a pop fly that falls safely between converging infielders and outfielders.
- tramping club — an organization of people who walk for recreation, esp in the bush
- triangularity — pertaining to or having the form of a triangle; three-cornered.
- triangulation — a technique for establishing the distance between any two points, or the relative position of two or more points, by using such points as vertices of a triangle or series of triangles, such that each triangle has a side of known or measurable length (base or base line) that permits the size of the angles of the triangle and the length of its other two sides to be established by observations taken either upon or from the two ends of the base line.
- troublemaking — a person who causes difficulties, distress, worry, etc., for others, especially one who does so habitually as a matter of malice.
- ugly american — An Ugly American is an American who travels to a foreign country and gives the United States a bad reputation by acting in an offensive way.
- ullage rocket — a small hydrogen peroxide rocket engine that produces sufficient acceleration to keep propellants in their places when the main rocket is shut off
- ultrarightist — ultraright.
- unapprovingly — in an unapproving manner
- uncategorical — without exceptions or conditions; absolute; unqualified and unconditional: a categorical denial.