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13-letter words containing r, u, n, i, g, l

  • flying saucer — any of various disk-shaped objects allegedly seen flying at high speeds and altitudes, often with extreme changes in speed and direction, and thought by some to be manned by intelligent beings from outer space.
  • formularising — Present participle of formularise.
  • formularizing — Present participle of formularize.
  • four-wheeling — traveling in a vehicle using four-wheel drive.
  • frelinghuysenFrederick Theodore, 1817–85, U.S. statesman.
  • frightfulness — The quality of being frightful.
  • frustratingly — to make (plans, efforts, etc.) worthless or of no avail; defeat; nullify: The student's indifference frustrated the teacher's efforts to help him.
  • furshlugginer — crazy; foolish
  • geminiflorous — having flowers arranged in pairs.
  • general audit — an audit of all a company's accounts
  • giulio romano — (Giulio Pippi de' Giannuzzi) 1492?–1546, Italian painter and architect.
  • glass curtain — a transparent or translucent curtain covering the interior of a window opening.
  • gliding lemur — flying lemur.
  • glucuronidase — an enzyme that catalyzes glucuronide hydrolysis
  • gnu c library — (library)   (glibc) The run-time library for the GNU C compiler, gcc, and others. glibc is the source code for libc.a. It is maintained separately from the compilers and is a superset of ANSI C and POSIX.1 and a large subset of POSIX.2. Mailing list: <[email protected]> (bugs).
  • graminicolous — (esp of parasitic fungi) living on grass
  • grand guignol — a short drama stressing horror and sensationalism.
  • grandiloquent — speaking or expressed in a lofty style, often to the point of being pompous or bombastic.
  • grandiloquous — grandiloquent
  • granuliferous — full of granules, or producing granules
  • graticulation — the division of a design, plan, etc into squares in order to improve the accuracy of enlargement or reduction
  • great council — (in Norman England) an assembly composed of the king's tenants in chief that served as the principal council of the realm and replaced the witenagemot.
  • 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.
  • groundnut oil — a mild-tasting oil extracted from peanuts and used in cooking
  • gubernatorial — of or relating to a state governor or the office of state governor.
  • guernsey lily — a bulbous plant, Nerine sarniensis, of the amaryllis family, native to southern Africa, having clusters of crimson flowers.
  • half mourning — a mourning garb less somber than deep mourning, usually following a period of deep mourning.
  • half-mourning — a mourning garb less somber than deep mourning, usually following a period of deep mourning.
  • harlequin bug — a black stink bug, Murgantia histrionica, having red and yellow markings, that feeds on cabbages and other cruciferous plants.
  • highly strung — person: tense, sensitive
  • hunting rifle — shotgun used to kill game
  • hydraulicking — a type of mining that uses water to move rock
  • incongruently — not congruent.
  • incongruously — out of keeping or place; inappropriate; unbecoming: an incongruous effect; incongruous behavior.
  • infuriatingly — causing or tending to cause anger or outrage; maddening: His delay is infuriating.
  • intergranular — located or occurring between granules or grains: intergranular corrosion.
  • interlanguage — a language created or used for international communication.
  • interreligous — Between religions.
  • involute gear — a gear tooth form that is generated by involute geometry
  • irregularness — Quality of being irregular.
  • junior league — any local branch of a women's organization, the Association of the Junior Leagues of America, Inc., the members of which are engaged in volunteer welfare work, civic affairs, etc.
  • labour-saving — A labour-saving device or idea makes it possible for you to do something with less effort than usual.
  • letter ruling — a written ruling sent by the U.S. Internal Revenue Service in response to a query concerning the application of the tax laws to a specific situation.
  • lingua franca — any language that is widely used as a means of communication among speakers of other languages.
  • lingual brace — a specialized dental brace that fits behind the teeth so that it is not visible when the wearer speaks or smiles.
  • linkage group — a group of genes in a chromosome that tends to be inherited as a unit.
  • longsuffering — enduring injury, trouble, or provocation long and patiently.
  • lounge lizard — a foppish man who frequents bars, cafés, hotel lounges, etc., with or in search of women.
  • lunar landing — arrival on surface of the moon
  • luxembourgian — of or relating to Luxembourg, its people, or their language.
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