13-letter words containing l, e, g, a, i, s
- mills grenade — a type of high-explosive grenade weighing about 1.5 pounds (0.7 kg).
- morse signals — signals encoded using the Morse Code
- mulligan stew — a stew made of odd bits of meat and vegetables, esp. as prepared by hobos
- navigableness — Quality of being navigable.
- nearsightedly — In a nearsighted manner; as if nearsighted; myopically.
- negative lens — a lens that causes a beam of parallel rays to diverge after refraction, as from a virtual image; a lens that has a negative focal length.
- neonatologist — the study of the development and disorders of newborn children.
- nesting table — one of a set of usually three or four small tables that are graduated in size so that they may be stacked on top of one another.
- neurosurgical — Of, or pertaining to neurosurgery.
- niggardliness — The state of being niggardly.
- nightcrawlers — Plural form of nightcrawler.
- nominal wages — minimum pay
- oilspot glaze — a brown or black ceramic glaze dotted with silvery spots caused by impurities.
- oligosiloxane — (organic chemistry) Any polysiloxane having a relatively small number of -Si-O- groups.
- olympic games — international sports event
- organ whistle — a steam or air whistle in which the jet is forced up against the thin edge of a pipe closed at the top.
- originalities — Plural form of originality.
- orthogonalise — to make (vectors, functions, etc.) orthogonal.
- palingenesist — a person who believes in a doctrine of rebirth or transmigration of souls.
- palos heights — a city in NE Illinois, near Chicago.
- panic selling — widespread selling of a security or investment, causing sharp price declines. Usually caused by an unexpected event seen to devalue the security.
- 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.
- pantheologist — a student of, or expert in, pantheology
- paring chisel — a woodworking chisel moved by steady hand pressure to make long, light cuts.
- passing place — a wider place on a narrow road where vehicles can pass
- phlogisticate — to integrate or blend phlogiston with
- phraseologist — a person who treats of or is concerned with phraseology.
- pilsner-glass — a pale, light lager beer.
- place setting — the group of dishes, silverware, glasses, etc., set at the place of each person at a meal.
- place-setting — the group of dishes, silverware, glasses, etc., set at the place of each person at a meal.
- plane sailing — sailing on a course plotted without reference to the curvature of the earth.
- planetologist — the branch of astronomy that deals with the physical features of the planets.
- plasma engine — an engine that generates thrust by reaction to the emission of a jet of plasma
- playing games — If you say that someone is playing games or playing silly games, you mean that they are not treating a situation seriously and you are annoyed with them.
- progressional — the act of progressing; forward or onward movement.
- pulse dialing — a system of calling telephone numbers wherein electrical pulses corresponding to the digits in the number called are generated by manipulating a rotary dial or push buttons (contrasted with tone dialing).
- quadragesimal — of, relating to, or suitable for Lent; Lenten.
- quadriplegics — Plural form of quadriplegic.
- rabblerousing — Of or pertaining to a rabble-rouser.
- raising plate — wall plate (def 1).
- rambling rose — any of various cultivated hybrid roses that straggle over other vegetation
- rayleigh disc — a small light disc suspended in the path of a sound wave, used to measure the intensity of the sound by analysing the resulting deflection of the disc
- rayleigh disk — a small circular disk, usually of mica, that is suspended from a fiber and tends to be deflected at right angles to a stream of air, indicating by its deflection the intensity of a sound wave.
- reading glass — a magnifying glass that people use to enlarge text to make it easier to read
- regionalistic — Government. the principle or system of dividing a city, state, etc., into separate administrative regions.
- resting place — grave
- riding stable — a place where horses are kept for people to ride
- sales figures — the amount of sales of something within a particular time frame
- sales meeting — briefing of sales representatives
- salpingectomy — excision of the Fallopian tube.