13-letter words containing l, o, r, g, n
- rolling paper — cigarette paper available in small packages to smokers for rolling their own cigarettes.
- rolling stock — the wheeled vehicles of a railroad, including locomotives, freight cars, and passenger cars.
- rolling stone — person: nomadic
- rote learning — memorization by repetition
- roughing mill — a rolling mill for converting steel ingots into blooms, billets, or slabs.
- rumelgumption — commonsense
- rumlegumption — commonsense
- running total — a running total is a total which changes because numbers keep being added to it as something progresses
- scandalmonger — a person who spreads scandal or gossip.
- segregational — the act or practice of segregating; a setting apart or separation of people or things from others or from the main body or group: gender segregation in some fundamentalist religions.
- selenographer — the branch of astronomy that deals with the charting of the moon's surface.
- self-governed — governed by itself or having self-government, as a state or community; independent.
- self-ignorant — lacking in knowledge or training; unlearned: an ignorant man.
- selling floor — floor (def 10).
- serpiginously — in a serpiginous manner; in the manner characteristic of serpigo
- shivering owl — screech owl.
- short selling — a person, as a speculator, who sells short.
- 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 mother — a mother who brings up a child or children alone, without a partner.
- single-storey — (of a building) having only one floor or level
- 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.
- sloane ranger — a member of a trendy and acquisitive set of largely upper-middle-class young people of London, England.
- solar heating — to heat (a building) by means of solar energy.
- soul-stirring — arousing excitement and enthusiasm; uplifting
- sporting lady — a prostitute.
- spring-loaded — (of a machine part) kept normally in a certain position by a spring: a spring-loaded safety valve.
- starring role — a main role; the main role
- steering lock — an anti-theft device
- sterling bloc — those countries having currencies whose values tend to vary directly with the rise and fall of the value of the pound sterling.
- strangulation — Pathology, Surgery. to compress or constrict (a duct, intestine, vessel, etc.) so as to prevent circulation or suppress function.
- strong-willed — having a powerful will; resolute.
- superregional — involving many regions
- synchronology — combined chronology
- syringomyelia — a disease of the spinal cord in which the nerve tissue is replaced by a cavity filled with fluid.
- telerecording — the recording of television signals on tape or, more usually, on film
- temple orange — a hybrid fruit, Citrus nobilis, that is a cross between the sweet orange and the tangerine.
- temporizingly — in a yielding manner
- the long term — the time some years ahead, (as opposed to the immediate future)
- thong leather — whang2 (def 2).
- thyroglobulin — a protein which is found in the thyroid gland and which contains iodine
- thyroid gland — a two-lobed endocrine gland, located at the base of the neck that secretes two hormones that regulate the rates of metabolism, growth, and development.
- tracking poll — a type of poll repeated periodically with the same group of people to check and measure changes of opinion or knowledge.
- trading floor — stock exchange: room where trading is done
- 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.
- triple-tongue — to interrupt the wind flow by moving the tongue as if pronouncing t and t and k successively, especially in playing rapid passages or staccato notes on a brass instrument.
- tropocollagen — the molecular unit which forms collagen, consisting of three polypeptide chains
- troublemaking — a person who causes difficulties, distress, worry, etc., for others, especially one who does so habitually as a matter of malice.
- tung-oil tree — tung tree.
- unapprovingly — in an unapproving manner
- uncategorical — without exceptions or conditions; absolute; unqualified and unconditional: a categorical denial.