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13-letter words containing l, u, n, g, o

  • old bulgarian — the Bulgarian language of the Middle Ages.
  • oligofluorene — (organic chemistry) Any of a class of aromatic polycyclic hydrocarbons consisting of several fluorene units attached end-to-end.
  • organ-builder — a maker of organs
  • organolithium — (organic chemistry) Describing any organic compound containing a carbon to lithium bond.
  • outgeneraling — Present participle of outgeneral.
  • outgeneralled — Simple past tense and past participle of outgeneral.
  • outstandingly — prominent; conspicuous; striking: an outstanding example of courage.
  • plain yoghurt — natural yoghurt, without added flavouring
  • plough monday — the first Monday after Epiphany, which in N and E England used to be celebrated with a procession of ploughmen drawing a plough from house to house
  • plural voting — right to vote more than once
  • pole-vaulting — a field sport in which competitors attempt to clear a high bar with the aid of an extremely flexible long pole
  • polygonaceous — belonging to the Polygonaceae, the buckwheat family of plants.
  • port language — ["Communicating Parallel Processes", J. Kerridge et al, Soft Prac & Exp 16(1):63-86 (Jan 1986)].
  • postinaugural — of or relating to the period after an inauguration
  • prolegomenous — prefatory; preliminary; introductory.
  • protolanguage — the reconstructed or postulated parent form of a language or a group of related languages.
  • pulling power — the ability to attract and influence other people
  • queer-looking — odd or strange in appearance
  • questioningly — In a questioning manner.
  • quindecagonal — (geometry) Shaped like a quindecagon; fifteen-sided.
  • rabblerousing — Of or pertaining to a rabble-rouser.
  • re-regulation — a law, rule, or other order prescribed by authority, especially to regulate conduct.
  • 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.
  • religiousness — of, relating to, or concerned with religion: a religious holiday.
  • 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
  • school outing — a short trip that a school organizes for schoolchildren, usually during the school day, to a place of interest such as museum or art gallery
  • self-doubting — lacking in confidence
  • serpiginously — in a serpiginous manner; in the manner characteristic of serpigo
  • 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-tongue — to play (any nonlegato passage) on a wind instrument by obstructing and uncovering the air passage through the lips with the tongue
  • 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.
  • skeletogenous — forming a skeleton, or parts of one
  • solidungulate — having a single, undivided hoof on each foot, as a horse.
  • solomon gundy — a dish of salted marinated herring in vinegar and spices
  • soul-stirring — arousing excitement and enthusiasm; uplifting
  • sounding lead — a line weighted with a lead or plummet (sounding lead) and bearing marks to show the length paid out, used for sounding, as at sea.
  • sounding line — a line weighted with a lead or plummet (sounding lead) and bearing marks to show the length paid out, used for sounding, as at sea.
  • sphagnicolous — growing in moss
  • strangulation — Pathology, Surgery. to compress or constrict (a duct, intestine, vessel, etc.) so as to prevent circulation or suppress function.
  • subdelegation — a group or body of delegates: Our club sent a delegation to the rally.
  • sucking louse — See under louse (def 1).
  • suffocatingly — to kill by preventing the access of air to the blood through the lungs or analogous organs, as gills; strangle.
  • superregional — involving many regions
  • telecommuting — working at home by using a computer terminal electronically linked to one's place of employment.
  • thyroglobulin — a protein which is found in the thyroid gland and which contains iodine
  • tone language — a language, as Swedish, Chinese, Yoruba, or Serbo-Croatian, in which words that are otherwise phonologically identical are distinguished by having different pitches or pitch contour.
  • touch-in-goal — the area at each end of the field outside of a touch-in-goal line.
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