13-letter words containing r, i, d, g, n
- grandstanding — the main seating area of a stadium, racetrack, parade route, or the like, usually consisting of tiers with rows of individual seats.
- granodioritic — relating to granodiorite
- grants-in-aid — a subsidy furnished by a central government to a local one to help finance a public project, as the construction of a highway or school.
- greeting card — card1 (def 4).
- 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.
- ground-to-air — (of weapons) designed to be fired at aircraft from the ground
- groundnut oil — a mild-tasting oil extracted from peanuts and used in cooking
- guard against — prevent
- hairdressings — Plural form of hairdressing.
- hand-wringing — a physical expression of concern, distress, or guilt.
- 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.
- hard standing — a hard-surfaced area on which heavy vehicles or airplanes can be parked.
- hard-drinking — If you describe someone as a hard-drinking person, you mean that they frequently drink large quantities of alcohol.
- heading sword — a sword used for beheading.
- heart-rending — causing or expressing intense grief, anguish, or distress.
- heli-boarding — the sport of snowboarding on mountains or glaciers accessible only by helicopter or skiplane
- highland park — a city in NE Illinois, on Lake Michigan.
- hinged girder — a type of girder with a hinge, used in bridge building
- 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.
- housed string — a string of a stair (housed stair) receiving the ends of the risers or treads in a series of housings.
- hundredweight — Also called cental, quintal. a unit of avoirdupois weight commonly equivalent to 100 pounds (45.359 kilograms) in the U.S. Abbreviation: cwt.
- hunting sword — a short, light saber of the 18th century, having a straight or slightly curved blade.
- hydraulicking — a type of mining that uses water to move rock
- hydrocracking — the cracking of petroleum or the like in the presence of hydrogen.
- hydrofracking — a process in which fractures in rocks below the earth's surface are opened and widened by injecting chemicals and liquids at high pressure: used especially to extract natural gas or oil.
- hydrogenating — Present participle of hydrogenate.
- hydrogenation — to combine or treat with hydrogen, especially to add hydrogen to the molecule of (an unsaturated organic compound).
- hydrogenizing — Present participle of hydrogenize.
- hydronitrogen — a chemical compound containing only hydrogen and nitrogen.
- idiot strings — strings attached to children's mittens to prevent the wearer from losing them
- in good order — If something is in good order, it is in good condition.
- india drugget — drugget (def 1).
- indira gandhi — Indira [in-deer-uh] /ɪnˈdɪər ə/ (Show IPA), 1917–84, Indian political leader: prime minister 1966–77 and 1980–84 (daughter of Jawaharlal Nehru).
- indo-germanic — Indo-European
- infrigidation — (obsolete) The act of chilling or making cold; congelation.
- interbreeding — Present participle of interbreed.
- interdigitate — (of two or more things ) interlock like the fingers of two clasped hands.
- intermeddling — Present participle of intermeddle.
- interpleading — to litigate with each other in order to determine which of two parties is the rightful claimant against a third party.
- ironing board — a flat, cloth-covered board or other surface, often foldable and having legs, on which clothing, linens, or similar articles are ironed.
- jordan engine — a machine for beating and refining pulp, used in manufacturing certain grades of paper.
- junggar pendi — an arid region of W China, in N Xinjiang between the Altai Mountains and the Tian Shan
- kindergartens — Plural form of kindergarten.
- kindergartner — a child who attends a kindergarten.
- knife grinder — tool
- kolding fjord — an inlet of the Little Belt at the head of which is Kolding
- 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.
- landgraviates — Plural form of landgraviate.