13-letter words containing r, i, g, o, s
- program music — music intended to convey an impression of a definite series of images, scenes, or events.
- 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.
- progressivism — the principles and practices of progressives.
- progressivist — the principles and practices of progressives.
- progressivity — 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.
- prosopagnosia — an inability to recognize faces
- prostaglandin — Biochemistry. any of a class of unsaturated fatty acids that are involved in the contraction of smooth muscle, the control of inflammation and body temperature, and many other physiological functions.
- psychographic — Psychology. a graph indicating the relative strength of the personality traits of an individual.
- rabblerousing — Of or pertaining to a rabble-rouser.
- raking course — a concealed course of bricks laid diagonally to the wall surface in a raking bond.
- rambling rose — any of various cultivated hybrid roses that straggle over other vegetation
- reassignation — an appointment for a meeting, especially a lover's secret rendezvous.
- reconsignment — a consigning again.
- redesignation — an act of designating.
- regiomontanus — Friedrich Max [free-drik maks;; German free-drikh mahks] /ˈfri drɪk mæks;; German ˈfri drɪx mɑks/ (Show IPA), 1823–1900, English Sanskrit scholar and philologist born in Germany.
- regionalistic — Government. the principle or system of dividing a city, state, etc., into separate administrative regions.
- religiousness — of, relating to, or concerned with religion: a religious holiday.
- rendezvousing — an agreement between two or more persons to meet at a certain time and place.
- repositioning — to put in a new or different position; shift: to reposition the artwork on the advertising layout.
- reprographics — reprography.
- resegregation — 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.
- retrofittings — acts of retrofitting
- retrogression — the act of retrogressing; movement backward.
- retrogressive — characterized by retrogression; degenerating.
- retrospecting — contemplation of the past; a survey of past time, events, etc.
- riding school — a place where equitation is taught.
- right section — a representation of an object as it would appear if cut by a plane perpendicular to its longest axis.
- righteousness — the quality or state of being righteous.
- rising action — a related series of incidents in a literary plot that build toward the point of greatest interest.
- roasting jack — a rotating spit for roasting meat on
- rocking horse — a toy horse, as of wood, mounted on rockers or springs, on which children may ride; hobbyhorse.
- rocking shear — a shear having a curved blade that cuts with a rocking motion.
- rocking stone — any fairly large rock so situated on its base that slight forces can cause it to move or sway.
- rogation days — Usually, rogations. Ecclesiastical. solemn supplication, especially as chanted during procession on the three days (Rogation Days) before Ascension Day.
- rolling stock — the wheeled vehicles of a railroad, including locomotives, freight cars, and passenger cars.
- rolling stone — person: nomadic
- romanticising — to make romantic; invest with a romantic character: Many people romanticize the role of an editor.
- rooming house — a house with furnished rooms to rent; lodging house.
- rose geranium — a geranium, Pelargonium graveolens, cultivated for its fragrant, lobed or narrowly divided leaves.
- rough justice — If you describe someone's treatment or punishment as rough justice, you mean that it is not given according to the law.
- roxburghshire — a historic county in SE Scotland.
- running costs — The running costs of a business are the amount of money that is regularly spent on things such as salaries, heating, lighting, and rent.
- running story — a story continued in subsequent issues of a newspaper or magazine; serial.
- saint gregory — Saint (Hildebrand) c1020–85, Italian ecclesiastic: pope 1073–85.
- saratoga chip — potato chip.
- savings ratio — the ratio of personal savings to disposable income, esp using the difference between national figures for disposable income and consumer spending as a measure of savings
- 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.
- schoolgirlish — like or characteristic of a schoolgirl
- scorchingness — the state or quality of being scorching