13-letter words containing s, i, r, g, a, n
- deuteragonist — (in ancient Greek drama) the character next in importance to the protagonist, esp the antagonist
- digressionary — Serving as a digression.
- dinitrogenase — (enzyme) One of two enzymes which, together with ATP, catalyze the reduction of molecular nitrogen into ammonia.
- disagreements — Plural form of disagreement.
- disfiguration — an act or instance of disfiguring.
- disheartening — to depress the hope, courage, or spirits of; discourage.
- disintegrable — Capable of being disintegrated.
- disintegrated — Simple past tense and past participle of disintegrate.
- disintegrates — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of disintegrate.
- disintegrator — One who, or that which, disintegrates.
- disinvigorate — to deprive of vigour
- disorganizing — Present participle of disorganize.
- disparagement — the act of disparaging.
- disparagingly — that disparages; tending to belittle or bring reproach upon: a disparaging remark.
- dispraisingly — By way of dispraise.
- disregulation — Misspelling of dysregulation.
- distractingly — to draw away or divert, as the mind or attention: The music distracted him from his work.
- dragon's tail — (formerly) the descending node of the moon or a planet.
- dressing case — a small piece of luggage for carrying toilet articles, medicine, etc.
- dressing sack — a woman's dressing gown.
- drilling mast — A drilling mast is a structure over an oil well which supports the drilling equipment and allows it to be lifted into and out of the wellbore.
- dwarf ginseng — a plant, Panax trifolius, of eastern North America, having globe-shaped clusters of small, white flowers and yellow fruit.
- dysregulation — A failure to regulate properly.
- ear-splitting — ear-piercing: an earsplitting explosion.
- early closing — shop closure at earlier hour
- early english — pertaining to the first style of Gothic architecture in England, ending in the latter half of the 13th century, characterized by the use of lancet arches, plate tracery, and narrow openings.
- east germanic — a branch of the Germanic languages no longer extant, comprising Gothic and probably others of which there are no written records. Abbreviation: EGmc.
- easter egging — (jargon) (IBM, From the custom of the Easter Egg hunt observed in the US and many parts of Europe) The act of replacing unrelated components more or less at random in the hope that a malfunction will go away. Hackers consider this the normal operating mode of field circus techs and do not love them for it. Compare Easter egg, shotgun debugging.
- easter rising — an armed insurrection in Dublin in 1916 against British rule in Ireland: the insurgents proclaimed the establishment of an independent Irish republic before surrendering, 16 of the leaders later being executed
- eavesdropping — to listen secretly to a private conversation.
- edging shears — shears that are used to trim the edges of a lawn
- elgin marbles — a group of 5th-century bc Greek sculptures originally decorating the Parthenon in Athens, brought to England by Thomas Bruce, seventh Earl of Elgin (1766–1841), and now at the British Museum
- embracingness — the quality of something that embraces
- emigrationist — a person who promotes emigration
- endearingness — The quality of being endearing.
- energy saving — the fact of saving energy, or amount of energy saved
- enfranchising — Present participle of enfranchise.
- ensign-bearer — a soldier whose responsibility was to carry a Company's ensign
- ethnographies — Plural form of ethnography.
- eusporangiate — (of ferns) having each sporangium developing from a group of cells, rather than a single cell, and with no specialized dispersal of spores
- evangelistary — a book containing passages from the gospels to be used as part of the liturgy
- everlastingly — In an everlasting manner; so as to be everlasting.
- exaggerations — Plural form of exaggeration.
- externalising — Present participle of externalise.
- extravasating — Present participle of extravasate.
- familiarising — Present participle of familiarise.
- fantasmagoria — phantasmagoria.
- fantasmagoric — phantasmagoria.
- 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.