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13-letter words containing o, r, g, e, l

  • prestigiously — indicative of or conferring prestige: the most prestigious address in town.
  • progenitorial — characteristic of a progenitor
  • progressional — the act of progressing; forward or onward movement.
  • progressively — favoring or advocating progress, change, improvement, or reform, as opposed to wishing to maintain things as they are, especially in political matters: a progressive mayor.
  • prolegomenous — prefatory; preliminary; introductory.
  • prolonge knot — a knot consisting of three overlapping loops formed by a single rope passed alternately over and under itself at crossings.
  • protolanguage — the reconstructed or postulated parent form of a language or a group of related languages.
  • pterylography — the description of the feather arrangement on birds
  • pull together — to draw or haul toward oneself or itself, in a particular direction, or into a particular position: to pull a sled up a hill.
  • pulling power — the ability to attract and influence other people
  • queer-looking — odd or strange in appearance
  • r-methodology — any statistical methodology in psychology that is contrasted with Q-methodology
  • rabblerousing — Of or pertaining to a rabble-rouser.
  • radiotelegram — a message transmitted by radiotelegraphy.
  • ragged school — (in Britain, formerly) a free elementary school for poor children
  • rambling rose — any of various cultivated hybrid roses that straggle over other vegetation
  • re-regulation — a law, rule, or other order prescribed by authority, especially to regulate conduct.
  • recognitional — an act of recognizing or the state of being recognized.
  • reflectograph — a type of mechanical instrument used for communication with spirits or the dead
  • regardless of — in spite of
  • reggio emilia — a city in N Italy.
  • regionalistic — Government. the principle or system of dividing a city, state, etc., into separate administrative regions.
  • 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.
  • remythologize — to mythologize anew, to make a new mythological system out of (an existing one)
  • rheologically — in a rheological manner
  • rialto bridge — a bridge over the Grand Canal in Venice, Italy, liking Rialto Island with San Marco Island
  • right to life — When people talk about an unborn baby's right to life, they mean that a baby has the right to be born, even if it has a severe disability or if its mother does not want it.
  • right-to-life — pertaining to or advocating laws making abortion, especially abortion-on-demand, illegal; antiabortion: right-to-life advocates.
  • 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.
  • ringed plover — any of several cosmopolitan plovers of the genus Charadrius, especially C. hiaticula, brownish above and white below with a black band around the breast.
  • robbe-grillet — Alain [a-lan] /aˈlɛ̃/ (Show IPA), 1922–2008, French writer.
  • rocking valve — (on a steam engine) a valve mechanism oscillating through an arc to open and close.
  • roentgenology — the branch of medicine dealing with diagnosis and therapy through x-rays.
  • rogue dialler — a dial-up connection placed on a computer without the user's knowledge which, when the user tries to connect to the internet, automatically connects to a premium-rate phone number
  • rollerblading — skating on rollerblades
  • rolling paper — cigarette paper available in small packages to smokers for rolling their own cigarettes.
  • rolling stone — person: nomadic
  • rote learning — memorization by repetition
  • rough sleeper — a homeless person who sleeps rough
  • rubber gloves — gloves made of rubber, worn to protect the hands while washing up, gardening, etc
  • rube goldberg — having a fantastically complicated, improvised appearance: a Rube Goldberg arrangement of flasks and test tubes.
  • rumelgumption — commonsense
  • rumlegumption — commonsense
  • scandalmonger — a person who spreads scandal or gossip.
  • school figure — (in ice skating) any one of a group of sixty-nine different figures, skated in two- or three-circle figure-eight patterns, used to test various skating movements, a skater usually being required to perform six selected ones in competition.
  • 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.
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