13-letter words containing t, i, d, e, g, a
- 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.
- drainage tube — a tube that drains fluid from an incision or body cavity during surgery
- drawing table — a table having a surface consisting of a drawing board adjustable to various heights and angles.
- dual heritage — an upbringing in which one's parents are of different ethnic or religious backgrounds
- dysregulation — A failure to regulate properly.
- eighth-grader — someone who is in the eighth grade at school
- ensanguinated — stained with blood
- exsanguinated — Simple past tense and past participle of exsanguinate.
- fingerbreadth — the breadth of a finger: approximately 3/4 inch (2 cm).
- fingerpainted — Simple past tense and past participle of fingerpaint.
- first reading — the reading of a bill when it is first introduced in a legislative body.
- 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
- 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.
- 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.
- fridge magnet — a small flat decorative object with a magnet on its back which is used to attach it to the front door of a fridge or other domestic appliance
- 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.
- garret window — a skylight that lies along the slope of the roof
- 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.
- gentisic acid — a crystalline, water-soluble compound, C 7 H 6 O 4 , used chiefly in the form of its sodium salt as an analgesic and diaphoretic.
- giant hogweed — a tall plant, Heracleum mantegazzianum, of the parsley family, native to Russia and now naturalized in the U.S., having very large leaves and broad, white flower heads somewhat resembling Queen Anne's lace: can cause an allergic rash when touched by susceptible persons.
- giant ragweed — any of the composite plants of the genus Ambrosia, the airborne pollen of which is the most prevalent cause of autumnal hay fever, as the common North American species, A. trifida (great ragweed or giant ragweed) and A. artemisiifolia.
- giant redwood — big tree.
- give and take — the quality or state of being resilient; springiness.
- give-and-take — the practice of dealing by compromise or mutual concession; cooperation.
- gnathic index — Craniometry. the ratio of the distance from basion to prosthion to the distance from basion to nasion, expressed in percent of the latter.
- goal-oriented — (of a person) focused on reaching a specific objective or accomplishing a given task; driven by purpose: goal-oriented teams of teachers.
- godwin-austen — Also called Godwin Austen [god-win aw-stin] /ˈgɒd wɪn ˈɔ stɪn/ (Show IPA), Dapsang [duh p-suhng] /dəpˈsʌŋ/ (Show IPA). a mountain in N Kashmir, in the Karakoram range: second highest peak in the world. 28,250 feet (8611 meters).
- grade cricket — competitive cricket, in which cricket club teams are arranged in grades
- gradient post — a small white post beside a railway line at a point where the gradient changes having arms set at angles representing the gradients
- gradient wind — a wind with a velocity and direction that are mathematically defined by the balanced relationship of the pressure gradient force to the centrifugal force and the Coriolis force: conceived as blowing parallel to isobars.
- grammaticized — Simple past tense and past participle of grammaticize.
- grandiloquent — speaking or expressed in a lofty style, often to the point of being pompous or bombastic.
- greeting card — card1 (def 4).
- half-digested — to convert (food) in the alimentary canal into absorbable form for assimilation into the system.
- head register — the high register of the human voice.
- heart-rending — causing or expressing intense grief, anguish, or distress.
- horse trading — the act or fact of conducting a shrewd exchange or engaging in a horse trade; bargaining.
- horse-trading — to bargain or trade shrewdly.
- hydrargillite — gibbsite.
- hydrogenating — Present participle of hydrogenate.
- hydrogenation — to combine or treat with hydrogen, especially to add hydrogen to the molecule of (an unsaturated organic compound).
- ideogrammatic — Of or pertaining to ideograms.
- indefatigable — incapable of being tired out; not yielding to fatigue; untiring.
- indefatigably — In an extremely persistent and untiring manner; in an indefatigable manner.
- india drugget — drugget (def 1).
- 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)