13-letter words containing r, i, g, o, s
- graminicolous — (esp of parasitic fungi) living on grass
- graminivorous — feeding or subsisting on grass: a graminivorous bird.
- gran paradiso — the highest peak in the Graian Alps, in N Italy. 13,324 feet (4061 meters).
- grand passion — an intense or overwhelming attraction or love.
- grandiloquous — grandiloquent
- grandioseness — affectedly grand or important; pompous: grandiose words.
- granuliferous — full of granules, or producing granules
- grass widower — a man who is separated, divorced, or lives apart from his wife.
- great society — the goal of the Democratic Party under the leadership of President Lyndon B. Johnson, chiefly to enact domestic programs to improve education, provide medical care for the aged, and eliminate poverty.
- grimes golden — a yellow variety of apple that ripens in late autumn.
- gross premium — A gross premium is the total premium of an insurance contract before brokerage or discounts have been deducted.
- grotesqueries — Plural form of grotesquery.
- 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.
- growing pains — If a person or organization suffers from growing pains, they experience temporary difficulties and problems at the beginning of a particular stage of development.
- gulf of sidra — a wide inlet of the Mediterranean on the N coast of Libya
- gynecocracies — Plural form of gynecocracy.
- gyromagnetism — the condition or state of being gyromagnetic
- hagiographers — Plural form of hagiographer.
- hagiographies — Plural form of hagiography.
- heading sword — a sword used for beheading.
- heartstopping — Very exciting or shocking, as though to cause one's heart to skip beats.
- heresiography — a treatise on heresy.
- heresiologist — a person who studies or writes about heresies.
- herpetologist — the branch of zoology dealing with reptiles and amphibians.
- heterogenesis — Also, heterogeny [het-uh-roj-uh-nee] /ˌhɛt əˈrɒdʒ ə ni/ (Show IPA). alternation of generations, especially the alternation of parthenogenetic and sexual generations.
- heteroglossia — (linguistics) the coexistence of distinct varieties within a single linguistic code.
- heterozygosis — the state of being a heterozygote.
- hieroglyphics — Also, hieroglyphical. designating or pertaining to a pictographic script, particularly that of the ancient Egyptians, in which many of the symbols are conventionalized, recognizable pictures of the things represented.
- hieroglyphist — a person who studies hieroglyphics; hieroglyphologist.
- histogramming — (mathematics) The construction of histograms.
- historicizing — Present participle of historicize.
- home straight — the section of a racecourse forming the approach to the finish
- hornswoggling — Present participle of hornswoggle.
- 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.
- housing start — an instance of beginning the construction of a dwelling.
- hunting sword — a short, light saber of the 18th century, having a straight or slightly curved blade.
- hyperbolising — to use hyperbole; exaggerate.
- iconographies — Plural form of iconography.
- idiot strings — strings attached to children's mittens to prevent the wearer from losing them
- 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: