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13-letter words containing s, a, n, g

  • evangelistary — a book containing passages from the gospels to be used as part of the liturgy
  • evening class — An evening class is a course for adults that is taught in the evening rather than during the day.
  • everlastingly — In an everlasting manner; so as to be everlasting.
  • exaggerations — Plural form of exaggeration.
  • expostulating — Present participle of expostulate.
  • exsanguinated — Simple past tense and past participle of exsanguinate.
  • externalising — Present participle of externalise.
  • extinguishant — a substance, such as a liquid, foam, powder, etc, used in extinguishing fires
  • extravagances — Plural form of extravagance.
  • extravagantes — decretals circulating outside some recognized collection of canon law. Those of John XXII and the so-called Extravagantes communes form part of the Corpus Juris Canonici
  • extravaganzas — Plural form of extravaganza.
  • extravasating — Present participle of extravasate.
  • familiarising — Present participle of familiarise.
  • fantasmagoria — phantasmagoria.
  • fantasmagoric — phantasmagoria.
  • farmer's lung — a lung disorder caused by inhalation of moldy hay dust, marked by shortness of breath, dry cough, and weight loss.
  • fascinatingly — of great interest or attraction; enchanting; charming; captivating: a fascinating story; fascinating jewelry.
  • fashionmonger — (derogatory) One who slavishly follows the latest fashions.
  • fast-breaking — (of a news story) occurring suddenly, and often portending a series of events or further developments in rapid succession.
  • fast-tracking — the practice of speeding up the progress of a project or person
  • fatigableness — the quality of being fatigable
  • finagle's law — (humour)   The generalised or "folk" version of Murphy's Law, fully named "Finagle's Law of Dynamic Negatives" and usually rendered "Anything that can go wrong, will". One variant favoured among hackers is "The perversity of the Universe tends toward a maximum". The label "Finagle's Law" was popularised by SF author Larry Niven in several stories depicting a frontier culture of asteroid miners; this "Belter" culture professed a religion and/or running joke involving the worship of the dread god Finagle and his mad prophet Murphy.
  • fingal's cave — a cave on the island of Staffa, in the Hebrides, Scotland. 227 feet (69 meters) long; 42 feet (13 meters) wide.
  • first reading — the reading of a bill when it is first introduced in a legislative body.
  • fish geranium — zonal geranium.
  • fishing banks — a place where fish are abundant, as off Newfoundland
  • fishing smack — any of various fore-and-aft-rigged fishing vessels of rather large size, often containing a well to keep the catch alive.
  • flabergasting — Present participle of flabergast.
  • flaming sword — a cultivated bromeliad, Vriesea splendens, native to French Guiana, having long, red bracts and yellow flowers.
  • flemish giant — one of a breed of large domestic rabbits of Belgian origin, having a solid gray, white, or black coat, and raised for its meat and fur.
  • floating ribs — the eleventh and twelfth pairs of ribs, not attached to the breastbone or to other ribs but only to the vertebrae
  • flowering ash — a variety of ash tree that produces conspicuous flowers
  • 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.
  • foreshadowing — to show or indicate beforehand; prefigure: Political upheavals foreshadowed war.
  • forest ranger — any of the officers employed by the government to supervise the care and preservation of forests, especially public forests.
  • formularising — Present participle of formularise.
  • free-standing — A free-standing piece of furniture or other object is not fixed to anything, or stands on its own away from other things.
  • frontal gyrus — any of several convolutions on the outer surface of the frontal lobe of the cerebrum.
  • 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.
  • fugaciousness — (obsolete) fugacity.
  • fun and games — frivolously diverting activity.
  • gala occasion — a festive, social occasion
  • galactosamine — an amino sugar that is a major component of glycolipids and chondroitin.
  • galah session — an occasion on which people from remote areas converse with each other by radio
  • galvanisation — Alternative form of galvanization.
  • galvanometers — Plural form of galvanometer.
  • galvanoplasty — electrotypy.
  • galveston bay — an inlet of the Gulf of Mexico.
  • games console — Also called game(s) console, gaming console, video-game console. a computer system specially made for playing video games by connecting it to a television or other display for video and sound.
  • gametogenesis — the development of gametes.
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