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13-letter words containing r, i, o, t, g

  • stork parking — spaces reserved in a parking lot for cars driven by pregnant women or new mothers.
  • storm warning — a showing of storm signals.
  • straightforth — straight or directly forward
  • 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.
  • string theory — a slender cord or thick thread used for binding or tying; line.
  • strong-minded — having a forceful and independent mind.
  • strong-willed — having a powerful will; resolute.
  • subcategorize — to split into subcategories
  • subgeneration — a generation within another generation
  • surgical boot — a specially designed boot or shoe that compensates for deformities of the foot or leg
  • szent-gyorgyi — Albert [al-bert;; Hungarian ol-bert] /ˈæl bərt;; Hungarian ˈɒl bɛrt/ (Show IPA), 1893–1986, U.S. biochemist, born in Hungary: Nobel Prize in medicine 1937.
  • tangata māori — someone of Māori origin
  • taphrogenesis — the process of forming rifts, resulting in regional faulting and subsidence
  • teeing ground — tee2 (def 1a).
  • telerecording — the recording of television signals on tape or, more usually, on film
  • temporizingly — in a yielding manner
  • teratogenesis — the production or induction of malformations or monstrosities, especially of a developing embryo or fetus.
  • tergiversator — to change repeatedly one's attitude or opinions with respect to a cause, subject, etc.; equivocate.
  • the foregoing — the one or ones previously mentioned
  • the high road — the principal road from one place to another
  • thermogenesis — the production of heat, especially in an animal body by physiological processes.
  • thermosetting — pertaining to a type of plastic, as the urea resins, that sets when heated and cannot be remolded.
  • thermostating — a device, including a relay actuated by thermal conduction or convection, that functions to establish and maintain a desired temperature automatically or signals a change in temperature for manual adjustment.
  • thigmotropism — oriented growth of an organism in response to mechanical contact, as a plant tendril coiling around a string support.
  • think through — to have a conscious mind, to some extent of reasoning, remembering experiences, making rational decisions, etc.
  • thoroughgoing — doing things thoroughly.
  • thyroglobulin — a protein which is found in the thyroid gland and which contains iodine
  • thyroid gland — a two-lobed endocrine gland, located at the base of the neck that secretes two hormones that regulate the rates of metabolism, growth, and development.
  • tiger economy — an economy that maintains a high growth rate, originally referring to the relatively small economies of South Korea, Singapore, Hong Kong, and Taiwan in East Asia.
  • tight forward — one of a number of forwards who are bound wholly into the scrum
  • timothy grass — a coarse grass, Phleum pratense, having cylindrical spikes, used as fodder.
  • to go off air — to stop broadcasting
  • toasting fork — a long-handled fork used for cooking or toasting frankfurters, marshmallows, bread, etc., usually over an open fire.
  • together with — combined with
  • toothbrushing — the act or method of cleaning the teeth with a toothbrush.
  • topographical — the detailed mapping or charting of the features of a relatively small area, district, or locality.
  • torsion group — a group in which every element has finite order.
  • tracking poll — a type of poll repeated periodically with the same group of people to check and measure changes of opinion or knowledge.
  • tracking shot — dolly shot.
  • trading floor — stock exchange: room where trading is done
  • training shoe — Training shoes are the same as trainers.
  • trainspotting — hobby: observing trains
  • transgression — an act of transgressing; violation of a law, command, etc.; sin.
  • transmisogyny — discrimination or prejudice against transgender women.
  • triangulation — a technique for establishing the distance between any two points, or the relative position of two or more points, by using such points as vertices of a triangle or series of triangles, such that each triangle has a side of known or measurable length (base or base line) that permits the size of the angles of the triangle and the length of its other two sides to be established by observations taken either upon or from the two ends of the base line.
  • tribune group — (in Britain) a group made up of left-wing Labour Members of Parliament: founded 1966
  • trig function — Also called circular function. a function of an angle, as sine or cosine, expressed as the ratio of the sides of a right triangle.
  • triple-tongue — to interrupt the wind flow by moving the tongue as if pronouncing t and t and k successively, especially in playing rapid passages or staccato notes on a brass instrument.
  • trotting race — a horse race using trotters.
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