13-letter words containing n, a, g, r, i
- regurgitation — the act of regurgitating.
- reintegration — restoration to a unified state.
- reintegrative — characterized by integration; tending to restore unity
- reinterrogate — to interrogate or question again
- reinvestigate — to examine, study, or inquire into systematically; search or examine into the particulars of; examine in detail.
- reinvigorated — to give vigor to; fill with life and energy; energize.
- reinvigorator — something that gives new life and energy (to something)
- relief agency — an organization that provides aid for people in need, esp in disaster areas
- resegregation — 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.
- resting place — grave
- revictualling — victuals, food supplies; provisions.
- rhumb sailing — sea navigation along rhumb lines.
- rhyming slang — a form of slang in which a rhyming word or phrase is substituted for the word intended, as Kate and Sidney for steak and kidney or khaki rocks for army socks.
- riding jacket — coat worn for horse-riding
- riding master — a person who teaches equitation.
- riding stable — a place where horses are kept for people to ride
- rifle grenade — a grenade designed to be fired from a grenade launcher attached to the muzzle of a rifle or carbine.
- right as rain — perfectly healthy
- right-brained — having the right brain dominant, therefore being more adept at spatial and nonverbal concepts and being more creative and emotional than logical and analytical.
- ring-a-lievio — a game played usually between two teams in which the members of one team attempt to find, capture, and imprison the members of the other, who can be freed only by a teammate not yet captured.
- ring-streaked — having streaks or bands of color around the body.
- rising action — a related series of incidents in a literary plot that build toward the point of greatest interest.
- road-blocking — an obstruction placed across a road, especially of barricades or police cars, for halting or hindering traffic, as to facilitate the capture of a pursued car or inspection for safety violations.
- roasting jack — a rotating spit for roasting meat on
- robot dancing — a dance of the 1980s characterized by jerky mechanical movements
- rock painting — a painting done on rock, usually by early people
- rocking chair — a chair mounted on rockers or springs so as to permit a person to rock back and forth while sitting.
- rocking shear — a shear having a curved blade that cuts with a rocking motion.
- rocking valve — (on a steam engine) a valve mechanism oscillating through an arc to open and close.
- rogation days — Usually, rogations. Ecclesiastical. solemn supplication, especially as chanted during procession on the three days (Rogation Days) before Ascension Day.
- rollerblading — skating on rollerblades
- rolling paper — cigarette paper available in small packages to smokers for rolling their own cigarettes.
- romanticising — to make romantic; invest with a romantic character: Many people romanticize the role of an editor.
- rose geranium — a geranium, Pelargonium graveolens, cultivated for its fragrant, lobed or narrowly divided leaves.
- rotary engine — an engine, as a turbine, in which the impelling fluid produces torque directly rather than by acting upon reciprocating parts.
- rote learning — memorization by repetition
- rough diamond — gemstone: uncut diamond
- rubberbanding — (in online video games) the backward popping of characters in motion to their recently occupied spaces that results from high latency in the network connection.
- ruggedization — the act or process of making something rugged
- 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 board — a small ledge, step, or footboard, formerly beneath the doors of an automobile, to assist passengers entering or leaving the car.
- running start — Sports. a start, as in the hop, step, and jump or the running broad jump, in which a contestant begins moving before reaching the starting or take-off point.
- running total — a running total is a total which changes because numbers keep being added to it as something progresses
- running track — a piece of ground, usually oval-shaped, that is used for races involving athletes
- safety margin — something required to ensure safety
- saint gregory — Saint (Hildebrand) c1020–85, Italian ecclesiastic: pope 1073–85.
- savings ratio — the ratio of personal savings to disposable income, esp using the difference between national figures for disposable income and consumer spending as a measure of savings
- scale drawing — illustration made in proportion
- scan register — (electronics, testing) A digital logic circuit which can act either as a flip-flop or as a serial shift register and which is used to form a scan path for testing. The most common design is a multiplexed flip-flop: The other common design is level-sensitive scan design (LSSD).
- scintigraphic — of or relating to scintigraphy