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13-letter words containing m, e, i, g

  • the big smoke — a large city, esp London
  • the hermitage — an art museum in St Petersburg, originally a palace built by Catherine the Great
  • the high jump — an athletic event in which a competitor has to jump over a high bar set between two vertical supports
  • the limelight — a position of public attention or notice (esp in the phrase in the limelight)
  • thermogenesis — the production of heat, especially in an animal body by physiological processes.
  • thermosetting — pertaining to a type of plastic, as the urea resins, that sets when heated and cannot be remolded.
  • thermostating — a device, including a relay actuated by thermal conduction or convection, that functions to establish and maintain a desired temperature automatically or signals a change in temperature for manual adjustment.
  • thinking time — time to think
  • tiger economy — an economy that maintains a high growth rate, originally referring to the relatively small economies of South Korea, Singapore, Hong Kong, and Taiwan in East Asia.
  • tight-mouthed — tight-lipped.
  • timing device — a device that can be set to detonate a bomb at a particular time
  • troublemaking — a person who causes difficulties, distress, worry, etc., for others, especially one who does so habitually as a matter of malice.
  • tumorgenicity — the state of being tumorgenic, giving rise to tumours
  • tumorigenesis — the production or development of tumors.
  • tzom gedaliah — a Jewish fast day observed on the third day of the month of Tishri in memory of the treacherous murder of Gedaliah, Jewish governor of Judah appointed by King Nebuchadnezzar of Babylonia.
  • 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.
  • unbeseemingly — in an unbeseeming or unbefitting manner
  • under-meaning — what is intended to be, or actually is, expressed or indicated; signification; import: the three meanings of a word.
  • underwhelming — to fail to interest or astonish: After all the ballyhoo, most critics were underwhelmed by the movie.
  • unhomogenized — to form by blending unlike elements; make homogeneous.
  • unimaginative — characterized by or bearing evidence of imagination: an imaginative tale.
  • unimpregnated — not saturated, soaked or infused (with something)
  • unix man page — Unix manual page
  • unremembering — having no recollection or memory
  • unremittingly — not slackening or abating; incessant: unremitting noise; unremitting attention.
  • unstigmatized — to set some mark of disgrace or infamy upon: The crime of the father stigmatized the whole family.
  • untremblingly — not tremblingly; in an untrembling manner; without trembling
  • vaginal cream — A vaginal cream is cream for treating vaginal infections, applied with a special applicator.
  • vaginal smear — a smear sample taken from vaginal mucous for cytological analysis
  • vegetarianism — the beliefs or practices of a vegetarian.
  • virtual image — an optical image formed by the apparent divergence of rays from a point, rather than their actual divergence from a point
  • visiting team — sports team playing away from home ground
  • warping frame — a wooden frame containing evenly spaced pegs on which the warp is wound in preparation for weaving.
  • watch meeting — a religious meeting or service on watch night, terminating on the arrival of the new year.
  • wedding march — a musical composition played during a wedding procession.
  • weeping myall — any of several Australian acacias, especially Acacia pendula (weeping myall) having gray foliage and drooping branches.
  • weighted mean — a mean that is computed with extra weight given to one or more elements of the sample.
  • west germanic — a subbranch of Germanic that includes English, Frisian, Flemish, Dutch, Plattdeutsch, Yiddish, and German. Abbreviation: WGmc.
  • whigmaleeries — a whim; notion.
  • whitesmithing — The trade of a whitesmith.
  • wild bergamot — a plant, Monarda fistulosa, of the mint family, native to eastern North America, having a rounded cluster of lilac-colored or purple flowers, growing in dry places.
  • wild geranium — geranium (def 2).
  • winding frame — a machine on which yarn or thread is wound.
  • working-women — a woman who is regularly employed.
  • yestermorning — yesterday morning.
  • zoomastigotes — Plural form of zoomastigote.
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