13-letter words containing r, e, g, s, i
- home straight — the section of a racecourse forming the approach to the finish
- 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 stinger — a dragonfly.
- 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.
- horsewhipping — Present participle of horsewhip.
- 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.
- housed string — a string of a stair (housed stair) receiving the ends of the risers or treads in a series of housings.
- housetraining — Present participle of housetrain.
- housewarmings — Plural form of housewarming.
- hunger strike — refusal to eat as a protest
- hunger-strike — to go on a hunger strike.
- hyperbolising — to use hyperbole; exaggerate.
- iconographies — Plural form of iconography.
- image formats — (graphics, file format) There are many formats used to store images in files. GIF, TIFF and JPEG are very common. Others are BIFF, bmp, Clear, FITS, IFF, NFF, OFF, PCX, PNG, TGA, XBM. Some of these are documented on-line at the following sites:
- imaginariness — The state of being imaginary.
- impersonating — to assume the character or appearance of; pretend to be: He was arrested for impersonating a police officer.
- impoverishing — Present participle of impoverish.
- improgressive — (archaic) Not progressive.
- incongruences — not congruent.
- incongruities — the quality or condition of being incongruous.
- incorrigibles — Plural form of incorrigible.
- infringements — Plural form of infringement.
- instrumenting — Present participle of instrument.
- integral test — the theorem that a given infinite series converges if the function whose value at each integer is the corresponding term in the series is decreasing, tends to zero, and results in a finite number when integrated from one to infinity.
- inter-segment — one of the parts into which something naturally separates or is divided; a division, portion, or section: a segment of an orange.
- intercrossing — Present participle of intercross.
- interestingly — engaging or exciting and holding the attention or curiosity: an interesting book.
- interglacials — Plural form of interglacial.
- internalising — Present participle of internalise.
- interreligous — Between religions.
- interrogators — Plural form of interrogator.
- interspersing — Present participle of intersperse.
- intransigeant — intransigent
- intransigence — the state or quality of being intransigent, or refusing to compromise or agree; inflexibility: No agreement was reached because of intransigence on both sides.
- intransigency — a person who refuses to agree or compromise, as in politics.
- introgressant — an individual resulting from introgression
- introgression — the introduction of genes from one species into the gene pool of another species, occurring when matings between the two produce fertile hybrids.
- introgressive — Producing introgression.
- introspecting — to practice introspection; consider one's own internal state or feelings.
- investigators — Plural form of investigator.
- investigatory — to examine, study, or inquire into systematically; search or examine into the particulars of; examine in detail.
- ipecac spurge — a spurge, Euphorbia ipecacuanhae, of the eastern U.S.
- irish english — the English language as spoken in Ireland; Hiberno-English.
- ironmongeries — a hardware store or business.
- irregularness — Quality of being irregular.
- irreligionist — One who is irreligious.
- irreligiously — In an irreligious fashion.