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13-letter words containing o, r, g, a, n, e

  • grease monkey — a mechanic, especially one who works on automobiles or airplanes.
  • great council — (in Norman England) an assembly composed of the king's tenants in chief that served as the principal council of the realm and replaced the witenagemot.
  • greater ionic — Architecture. noting or pertaining to one of the five classical orders that in ancient Greece consisted of a fluted column with a molded base and a capital composed of four volutes, usually parallel to the architrave with a pulvinus connecting a pair on each side of the column, and an entablature typically consisting of an architrave of three fascias, a richly ornamented frieze, and a cornice corbeled out on egg-and-dart and dentil moldings, with the frieze sometimes omitted. Roman and Renaissance examples are often more elaborate, and usually set the volutes of the capitals at 45° to the architrave. Compare composite (def 3), Corinthian (def 2), Doric (def 3), Tuscan (def 2).
  • gross tonnage — the total volume of a vessel, expressed in units of 100 cubic feet (gross ton) with certain open structures, deckhouses, tanks, etc., exempted.
  • ground tackle — equipment, as anchors, chains, or windlasses, for mooring a vessel away from a pier or other fixed moorings.
  • groundbreaker — a person who is an originator, innovator, or pioneer in a particular activity.
  • gubernatorial — of or relating to a state governor or the office of state governor.
  • gunpowder tea — an explosive mixture, as of potassium nitrate, sulfur, and charcoal, used in shells and cartridges, in fireworks, for blasting, etc.
  • gynecocracies — Plural form of gynecocracy.
  • gyromagnetism — the condition or state of being gyromagnetic
  • haemorrhaging — Present participle of haemorrhage.
  • hang together — to fasten or attach (a thing) so that it is supported only from above or at a point near its own top; suspend.
  • hart's-tongue — a fern, Phyllitis scolopendrium, having long, leathery, wavy-edged leaves.
  • hatemongering — The behaviour of a hatemonger; the spreading of hatred.
  • haute-garonne — a department in S France. 2458 sq. mi. (6365 sq. km). Capital: Toulouse.
  • heading sword — a sword used for beheading.
  • heart surgeon — a surgeon who specializes in performing operations on the heart
  • heartstopping — Very exciting or shocking, as though to cause one's heart to skip beats.
  • heating power — power that can be used to heat something
  • heli-boarding — the sport of snowboarding on mountains or glaciers accessible only by helicopter or skiplane
  • heliographing — Present participle of heliograph.
  • hemp agrimony — a European composite plant, Eupatorium cannabinum, having dull purplish flowers.
  • horse gentian — any weedy North American plant of the genus Triosteum, of the honeysuckle family, especially T. perfoliatum, having stalkless leaves and purplish-brown flowers and bearing orange fruits.
  • horse trading — the act or fact of conducting a shrewd exchange or engaging in a horse trade; bargaining.
  • horse-trading — to bargain or trade shrewdly.
  • hotel manager — sb who runs a hotel
  • house manager — a business manager responsible for managing a theater and its staff.
  • house-raising — a gathering of persons in a rural community to help one of its members build a house.
  • house-warming — a party to celebrate a person's or family's move to a new home.
  • housebreaking — to train (a pet) to excrete outdoors or in a specific place.
  • housetraining — Present participle of housetrain.
  • housewarmings — Plural form of housewarming.
  • hydrogenating — Present participle of hydrogenate.
  • hydrogenation — to combine or treat with hydrogen, especially to add hydrogen to the molecule of (an unsaturated organic compound).
  • iconographies — Plural form of iconography.
  • impersonating — to assume the character or appearance of; pretend to be: He was arrested for impersonating a police officer.
  • incouragement — Archaic form of encouragement.
  • indo-germanic — Indo-European
  • interferogram — a photographic record of light interference patterns produced with an interferometer, used for recording shock waves and fluid flow patterns.
  • interpolating — Present participle of interpolate.
  • interregional — of or relating to a region of considerable extent; not merely local: a regional meeting of the Boy Scouts.
  • interrogating — to ask questions of (a person), sometimes to seek answers or information that the person questioned considers personal or secret.
  • interrogation — the act of interrogating; questioning.
  • interrogative — of, relating to, or conveying a question.
  • interrogators — Plural form of interrogator.
  • interrogatory — conveying or expressing a question; interrogative.
  • intraregional — Within a region.
  • introgressant — an individual resulting from introgression
  • investigators — Plural form of investigator.
  • investigatory — to examine, study, or inquire into systematically; search or examine into the particulars of; examine in detail.
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