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13-letter words containing r, a, g, e, d, l

  • ground tackle — equipment, as anchors, chains, or windlasses, for mooring a vessel away from a pier or other fixed moorings.
  • hard feelings — Hard feelings are feelings of anger or bitterness towards someone who you have had an argument with or who has upset you. If you say 'no hard feelings', you are making an agreement with someone not to be angry or bitter about something.
  • heli-boarding — the sport of snowboarding on mountains or glaciers accessible only by helicopter or skiplane
  • hold a grudge — be resentful
  • hydrargillite — gibbsite.
  • ideographical — Alternative form of ideographic.
  • interpleading — to litigate with each other in order to determine which of two parties is the rightful claimant against a third party.
  • land registry — In Britain, a land registry is a government office where records are kept about each area of land in a country or region, including information about who owns it.
  • landed gentry — land-owning class
  • landgraviates — Plural form of landgraviate.
  • landing clerk — a representative of a shipping line who boards its incoming passenger ships to give passengers information and advice.
  • landing force — the ground forces of an amphibious task force that effect the assault landing in an amphibious operation.
  • large-hearted — having or showing generosity; charitable; understanding.
  • lateen-rigged — having lateen sails.
  • leading reins — straps or a harness and strap used to assist and control a child who is learning to walk
  • leather goods — products made of animal skin
  • legal adviser — a lawyer who gives advice
  • legal redress — money that someone pays you because they have caused you harm or loss
  • light reading — reading which is not considered too demanding or intellectual
  • light-hearted — carefree; cheerful; merry: a lighthearted laugh.
  • lounge around — to pass time idly and indolently.
  • lounge lizard — a foppish man who frequents bars, cafés, hotel lounges, etc., with or in search of women.
  • lysergic acid — a crystalline solid, C 16 H 16 N 2 O 2 , obtained from ergot or synthesized: used in the synthesis of LSD.
  • millau bridge — a road bridge, the highest in the world, crossing the River Tarn in the Massif Central in SW France; designed by Sir Norman Foster and opened in 2004
  • mills grenade — a type of high-explosive grenade weighing about 1.5 pounds (0.7 kg).
  • mind-altering — causing marked changes in patterns of mood and behavior, as a hallucinogenic drug.
  • moderate gale — a wind of 32–38 miles per hour (14–17 m/sec).
  • mood-altering — (especially of drugs) capable of changing one's emotional state.
  • nearsightedly — In a nearsighted manner; as if nearsighted; myopically.
  • new englander — an area in the NE United States, including the states of Connecticut, Maine, Massachusetts, New Hampshire, Rhode Island, and Vermont.
  • niggardliness — The state of being niggardly.
  • nondegradable — not subject to or capable of degradation or decomposition: nondegradable waste.
  • oil hardening — to quench (steel) in a bath of oil.
  • old norwegian — the language of Norway as spoken and written from the middle of the 12th to the end of the 14th centuries.
  • olduvai gorge — a gorge in Tanzania in which is located a site containing Australopithecine and human skeletal and cultural remains.
  • organ-builder — a maker of organs
  • outgeneralled — Simple past tense and past participle of outgeneral.
  • overleveraged — (of a business organization) having an excessively high ratio of debt capital to equity capital
  • overpedalling — the overuse of the piano's pedals
  • pantie girdle — a girdle with a crotch.
  • pearl molding — a molding having the form of a row of pearls.
  • pebble garden — a small ornamental garden mainly composed of an arrangement of pebbles
  • plague-ridden — afflicted by the plague or a plague
  • power loading — the act of a person or thing that loads.
  • pressed glass — molded glass that has been shaped or given its pattern, while molten, by the action of a plunger thrust into the mold.
  • quadragesimal — of, relating to, or suitable for Lent; Lenten.
  • quadrigeminal — Having four parts, or two pairs.
  • quadriplegics — Plural form of quadriplegic.
  • radial engine — an internal-combustion engine having the cylinders arranged in radial opposition, found mainly on older aircraft.
  • radiotelegram — a message transmitted by radiotelegraphy.
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