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13-letter words containing t, i, d, a, l, g

  • digital watch — a watch that displays the time in numerical digits rather than by hands on a dial.
  • diphthongally — in a diphthongal manner
  • diplomatology — diplomatics as a subject of scientific study
  • disentangling — Present participle of disentangle.
  • disintegrable — Capable of being disintegrated.
  • disobligation — the state of being without obligation
  • disobligatory — not obligatory
  • disregulation — Misspelling of dysregulation.
  • dissimilating — Present participle of dissimilate.
  • dissimulating — Present participle of dissimulate.
  • distractingly — to draw away or divert, as the mind or attention: The music distracted him from his work.
  • distress flag — any flag flown by a vessel to show that it is in distress, as an ensign flown at half-mast or upside down.
  • dog-leg stair — a half-turn stair, the successive flights of which are immediately side by side and connected by an intervening platform.
  • domiciliating — Present participle of domiciliate.
  • double-acting — (of a reciprocating engine, pump, etc.) having pistons accomplishing work in both directions, fluid being admitted alternately to opposite ends of the cylinders. Compare single-acting.
  • draggletailed — untidy; bedraggled; slovenly.
  • dragon's tail — (formerly) the descending node of the moon or a planet.
  • dramaturgical — the craft or the techniques of dramatic composition.
  • drawing table — a table having a surface consisting of a drawing board adjustable to various heights and angles.
  • 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.
  • dual heritage — an upbringing in which one's parents are of different ethnic or religious backgrounds
  • dysregulation — A failure to regulate properly.
  • fault-finding — the act of pointing out faults, especially faults of a petty nature; carping.
  • flight leader — a pilot who commands a flight of military airplanes.
  • floating debt — short-term government borrowing, esp by the issue of three-month Treasury bills
  • floating dock — a submersible, floating structure used as a dry dock, having a floor that is submerged, slipped under a floating vessel, and then raised so as to raise the vessel entirely out of the water.
  • floor trading — trading by personal contact on the floor of a market or exchange
  • foxtail wedge — a wedge in the split end of a tenon, bolt, or the like, for spreading and securing it when driven into a blind mortise or hole.
  • front-loading — Also, front-loaded. front-loading (def 1).
  • gaidhealtachd — the area of Scotland in which Scottish Gaelic is the vernacular speech
  • galactosidase — An enzyme, such as lactase, that is involved in the hydrolytic breakdown of a galactoside.
  • general audit — an audit of all a company's accounts
  • genital ridge — the area in the vertebrate embryo that develops into ovaries in the female and testes in the male.
  • glacial drift — material, as gravel, sand, or clay, transported and deposited by a glacier or by glacial meltwater.
  • gladiatorship — the work of a gladiator
  • glutamic acid — an amino acid, HOOCCH 2 CH 2 CH(NH 2)COOH, obtained by hydrolysis from wheat gluten and sugar-beet residues, used commercially chiefly in the form of its sodium salt to intensify the flavor of meat or other food. Symbol: E. Abbreviation: Glu;
  • goal-oriented — (of a person) focused on reaching a specific objective or accomplishing a given task; driven by purpose: goal-oriented teams of teachers.
  • goldtail moth — European moth with white wings and a soft white furry body with a yellow tail tuft
  • grandiloquent — speaking or expressed in a lofty style, often to the point of being pompous or bombastic.
  • grylloblattid — a primitive insect of the order Grylloblattidea, having a soft, unpigmented wingless body with long antennae and no eyes, living under stones in moderately high mountains of the western U.S., Japan, and the U.S.S.R.
  • half-digested — to convert (food) in the alimentary canal into absorbable form for assimilation into the system.
  • hazard lights — Usually, hazard lights. an indicator light on a vehicle that flashes to warn that it is unexpectedly slowing down, reversing, or not moving.
  • hydrargillite — gibbsite.
  • indefatigable — incapable of being tired out; not yielding to fatigue; untiring.
  • indefatigably — In an extremely persistent and untiring manner; in an indefatigable manner.
  • intellidating — the practice of going on a date at a venue, event, etc, associated with high culture or learning (rather than at a bar, cinema, etc)
  • interpleading — to litigate with each other in order to determine which of two parties is the rightful claimant against a third party.
  • judgmatically — in the manner of a judge
  • judgmentalism — Judgmental behaviour or attitude.
  • land registry — In Britain, a land registry is a government office where records are kept about each area of land in a country or region, including information about who owns it.
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