13-letter words containing r, i, n, g, l
- troublemaking — a person who causes difficulties, distress, worry, etc., for others, especially one who does so habitually as a matter of malice.
- tung-oil tree — tung tree.
- ugly american — An Ugly American is an American who travels to a foreign country and gives the United States a bad reputation by acting in an offensive way.
- unapprovingly — in an unapproving manner
- unbelligerent — not belligerent or hostile
- uncategorical — without exceptions or conditions; absolute; unqualified and unconditional: a categorical denial.
- uncontrolling — to exercise restraint or direction over; dominate; command: The car is difficult to control at high speeds. That zone is controlled by enemy troops.
- underclothing — clothing worn next to the skin under outer clothes.
- underclubbing — the action of hitting with a club resulting in insufficient distance
- underwhelming — to fail to interest or astonish: After all the ballyhoo, most critics were underwhelmed by the movie.
- undeservingly — in an undeserving manner
- unfalteringly — to hesitate or waver in action, purpose, intent, etc.; give way: Her courage did not falter at the prospect of hardship.
- ungrammatical — grammatically incorrect or awkward; not conforming to the rules or principles of grammar or accepted usage: an ungrammatical sentence.
- unmurmuringly — without a murmur or complaint
- unneighbourly — unfriendly and unhelpful
- unoriginality — the quality or state of being original.
- unplagiarized — to take and use by plagiarism.
- unpromisingly — in a manner that is not showing any promise of favourable development or future success
- unprovokingly — serving to provoke; causing annoyance.
- unreconciling — to cause (a person) to accept or be resigned to something not desired: He was reconciled to his fate.
- unremittingly — not slackening or abating; incessant: unremitting noise; unremitting attention.
- unrepentingly — in an unrepenting or impenitent manner
- unresistingly — in an unresisting or unopposing manner
- unreturningly — in an unreturning manner
- unshrinkingly — in an unshrinking manner
- untremblingly — not tremblingly; in an untrembling manner; without trembling
- vaginal cream — A vaginal cream is cream for treating vaginal infections, applied with a special applicator.
- vaginal smear — a smear sample taken from vaginal mucous for cytological analysis
- valet parking — a service offered by a hotel, restaurant, etc., by which patrons' cars are parked by an attendant.
- vanilla sugar — sugar which has been infused with vanilla
- vcc filtering — (electronics) A technique for reducing the amount of Radio Frequency Interference spread via power supply connections. VCC is a common name for the non-ground power supply line in circuits based on bipolar transistors. When part of a circuit generates lots of radio-frequency noise, that portion of the power plane can be isolated from the rest of the circuit and power delivered to it via a low pass filter, usually a PI filter, as shown in the diagram below.
- venereologist — the branch of medicine dealing with the study and treatment of venereal, or sexually transmitted, disease.
- vestal virgin — (in ancient Rome) one of four, later six, virgins consecrated to Vesta and to the tending of the sacred fire on her altar.
- vicar general — Roman Catholic Church. a priest deputized by a bishop to assist him in the administration of a diocese.
- vicar-general — Roman Catholic Church. a priest deputized by a bishop to assist him in the administration of a diocese.
- village green — park or common in a village
- virginia plan — a plan, unsuccessfully proposed at the Constitutional Convention, providing for a legislature of two houses with proportional representation in each house and executive and judicial branches to be chosen by the legislature.
- virginia rail — a long-billed American rail, Rallus limicola, having blackish and reddish-brown plumage.
- virginia reel — an American country dance in which the partners start by facing each other in two lines.
- volute spring — a coil spring, conical in shape, extending in the direction of the axis of the coil.
- vulgarization — to make vulgar or coarse; lower; debase: to vulgarize standards of behavior.
- wagon soldier — a field-artillery soldier.
- walking horse — Tennessee walking horse.
- wallcoverings — Plural form of wallcovering.
- warning light — a light that indicates danger
- waterflooding — (in oil, gas, or petroleum production) the practice of injecting water to maintain pressure in a reservoir and to drive the oil, etc towards the production wells
- watering hole — a bar, nightclub, or other social gathering place where alcoholic drinks are sold.
- welding torch — tool used to fuse metals
- well dressing — (in parts of rural Britain) a traditional ceremony of decorating wells with flowers in thanks for the blessing of an abundant supply of pure water.
- well engineer — A well engineer is a qualified person who carries out the design, construction, and maintenance of oil and gas wells.