13-letter words containing r, i, g, o, u, s
- misconfigured — Simple past tense and past participle of misconfigure.
- misconstruing — Present participle of misconstrue.
- mousetrapping — Present participle of mousetrap.
- multiorgasmic — Capable of multiple orgasms without a refractory period.
- neurolinguist — One who studies neurolinguistics.
- neurosurgical — Of, or pertaining to neurosurgery.
- nitroso group — the univalent group O=N–.
- non-egregious — extraordinary in some bad way; glaring; flagrant: an egregious mistake; an egregious liar. Synonyms: gross, outrageous, notorious, shocking. Antonyms: tolerable, moderate, minor, unnoticeable.
- nongregarious — (zoology) Not gregarious; solitary. Compare 'ungregarious'.
- numerologists — the study of numbers, as the figures designating the year of one's birth, to determine their supposed influence on one's life, future, etc.
- nutrigenomics — the study of how individual genetic makeup interacts with diet, especially the effects of this interaction on a person's health.
- opening hours — Opening hours are the times during which a shop, bank, library, or bar is open for business.
- outprocessing — to end a military tour of duty, accompanied by necessary paperwork: All enlisted soldiers out-process as a class.
- outside-right — a footballer who plays on the outside right wing of the field
- outstretching — Present participle of outstretch.
- over-trusting — reliance on the integrity, strength, ability, surety, etc., of a person or thing; confidence.
- overingenious — ingenious to a fault
- pneumogastric — of or relating to the lungs and stomach.
- postbourgeois — (in Marxist thought) belonging to a period of society after the decline of the bourgeoisie
- postinaugural — of or relating to the period after an inauguration
- pouring-basin — (in a vacuum induction furnace) a trough through which molten metal flows under vacuum to a mold chamber.
- prestigiously — indicative of or conferring prestige: the most prestigious address in town.
- program music — music intended to convey an impression of a definite series of images, scenes, or events.
- 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.
- 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.
- 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.
- righteousness — the quality or state of being righteous.
- 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.
- 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.
- scouring rush — any of certain horsetails, especially Equisetum hyemale, used for scouring and polishing.
- semireligious — having a somewhat religious character.
- serpiginously — in a serpiginous manner; in the manner characteristic of serpigo
- shoulder-high — A shoulder-high object is as high as your shoulders.
- silver tongue — the characteristic of being skilful at persuading people to believe what they say or to do what they want them to do
- singular noun — A singular noun is a noun such as 'standstill' or 'vicinity' that does not have a plural form and always has a determiner such as 'a' or 'the' in front of it.
- soul-stirring — arousing excitement and enthusiasm; uplifting
- sound ranging — a method for determining the distance between a point and the position of a sound source by measuring the time lapse between the origin of the sound and its arrival at the point.
- soundproofing — materials used to make something soundproof
- south georgia — a British island in the S Atlantic, about 800 miles (1290 km) SE of the Falkland Islands. About 1000 sq. mi. (2590 sq. km).
- spot reducing — the usually futile effort to exercise one part of the body, as the thighs, in hopes of reducing the amount of fat stored in that area.
- spurious wing — alula (def 1).
- strangulation — Pathology, Surgery. to compress or constrict (a duct, intestine, vessel, etc.) so as to prevent circulation or suppress function.
- string course — a horizontal band or course, as of stone, projecting beyond or flush with the face of a building, often molded and sometimes richly carved.