13-letter words containing r, e, i, n, l
- grandiloquent — speaking or expressed in a lofty style, often to the point of being pompous or bombastic.
- granuliferous — full of granules, or producing granules
- graphic novel — a novel in the form of comic strips.
- grease nipple — a metal nipple designed to engage with a grease gun for injecting grease into a bearing, etc
- grease pencil — a pencil of pigment and compressed grease encased in a spiral paper strip that can be partially unwound to expose a new point and used especially for writing on glossy surfaces.
- 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.
- green vitriol — a bluish-green, crystalline, saline-tasting, water-soluble heptahydrated solid, FeSO 4 ⋅7H 2 O, used chiefly in the manufacture of other iron salts, in water purification, fertilizer, inks, pigments, tanning, photography, and in medicine in the treatment of anemia.
- grimes golden — a yellow variety of apple that ripens in late autumn.
- ground sluice — a trench, cut through a placer or through bedrock, through which a stream is diverted in order to dislodge and wash the gravel.
- gubernatorial — of or relating to a state governor or the office of state governor.
- guernsey lily — a bulbous plant, Nerine sarniensis, of the amaryllis family, native to southern Africa, having clusters of crimson flowers.
- half-integral — noting or pertaining to a fractional number obtained by dividing an odd integer by two, as 1/2.
- 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.
- hardenability — The quality or degree of being hardenable.
- harlequin bug — a black stink bug, Murgantia histrionica, having red and yellow markings, that feeds on cabbages and other cruciferous plants.
- harlequinades — Plural form of harlequinade.
- headline rate — a basic rate of inflation, taxation, etc, before distorting factors have been removed
- heli-boarding — the sport of snowboarding on mountains or glaciers accessible only by helicopter or skiplane
- heliocentrism — The theory that the sun is the center of the universe, (This theory is historically important and was widely accepted at the time of Copernicus, Galileo and Kepler.).
- heliographing — Present participle of heliograph.
- hermeneutical — of or relating to hermeneutics; interpretative; explanatory.
- heteropolitan — a heterosexual man, typically living in a city, whose attitudes and interests are regarded as masculine but not excessively so
- hiatal hernia — an abnormal condition in which part of the stomach protrudes upward through the esophageal cleft in the diaphragm, sometimes causing a backflow of acid stomach contents into the esophagus.
- hilariousness — The characteristic of being hilarious; hilarity.
- horned lizard — an insectivorous iguanid lizard of the genus Phrynosoma, of western North America, having hornlike spines on the head and a flattened body covered with spiny scales.
- hunter trials — a test for hunters held under the auspices of a hunt, in which the course is laid with obstacles to simulate actual hunting conditions.
- hunter-killer — of or relating to a combined naval air and fleet force operating to seek out and destroy enemy submarines.
- hunting rifle — shotgun used to kill game
- hyaluronidase — Biochemistry. a mucolytic enzyme found in the testes, in snake venom, and in hemolytic streptococci and certain other bacteria, that decreases the viscosity of the intercellular matrix by breaking down hyaluronic acid.
- hydroairplane — a hydroplane.
- hydroxylamine — an unstable, weakly basic, crystalline compound, NH 3 O, used as a reducing agent, analytical reagent, and chemical intermediate.
- hyperbolising — to use hyperbole; exaggerate.
- hyperinflated — to subject to hyperinflation: hyperinflated prices.
- hyperrational — characterized by excessive rationality
- hypersalinity — an excess of salt in a saline solution
- hypersplenism — an abnormal condition characterized by an enlarged spleen that prematurely destroys red blood cells or platelets.
- hypervigilant — keenly watchful to detect danger; wary: a vigilant sentry.
- hypervirulent — actively poisonous; intensely noxious: a virulent insect bite.
- ile de france — a former province in N France, including Paris and the region around it.
- Île-de-france — a region of N France, in the Paris Basin: part of the duchy of France in the 10th century
- ill-nourished — underfed or inadequately fed
- ill-treatment — Ill-treatment is harsh or cruel treatment.
- illiberalness — The state of being illiberal; illiberality.
- illuminometer — an instrument for measuring illumination.
- impartialness — The quality of being impartial.
- impermanently — In an impermanent manner.
- impersonalise — to make impersonal: The dial system impersonalized the telephone.
- impersonalism — the practice of maintaining impersonal relations with individuals or groups.
- impersonality — absence of human character or of the traits associated with the human character: He feared the impersonality of a mechanized world.
- impersonalize — to make impersonal: The dial system impersonalized the telephone.