13-letter words containing t, i, g, r, e, s
- gravity scale — a scale giving the relative density of fluids
- great basinet — a basinet having a beaver permanently attached.
- great grimsby — seaport in Humberside, NE England, at the mouth of the Humber estuary: county district pop. 91,000
- great russian — a member of the main stock of the Russian people, dwelling chiefly in the northern or central parts of the Russian Federation in Europe.
- great society — the goal of the Democratic Party under the leadership of President Lyndon B. Johnson, chiefly to enact domestic programs to improve education, provide medical care for the aged, and eliminate poverty.
- greater siren — a salamander, Siren lacertina, having external gills, tiny front legs, and no hind legs, inhabiting shallow waters in the southeastern U.S.
- grotesqueries — Plural form of grotesquery.
- gunters-chain — a series of objects connected one after the other, usually in the form of a series of metal rings passing through one another, used either for various purposes requiring a flexible tie with high tensile strength, as for hauling, supporting, or confining, or in various ornamental and decorative forms.
- guttersnipish — Resembling or characteristic of a guttersnipe.
- gyromagnetism — the condition or state of being gyromagnetic
- head register — the high register of the human voice.
- heartstopping — Very exciting or shocking, as though to cause one's heart to skip beats.
- hellgrammites — Plural form of hellgrammite (Alternative spelling of hellgramites).
- heresiologist — a person who studies or writes about heresies.
- heritage site — a historical site, a building, or an area of the unspoilt natural environment, considered to be important to a country or area's heritage
- herpetologist — the branch of zoology dealing with reptiles and amphibians.
- heterogenesis — Also, heterogeny [het-uh-roj-uh-nee] /ˌhɛt əˈrɒdʒ ə ni/ (Show IPA). alternation of generations, especially the alternation of parthenogenetic and sexual generations.
- heteroglossia — (linguistics) the coexistence of distinct varieties within a single linguistic code.
- heterozygosis — the state of being a heterozygote.
- hieroglyphist — a person who studies hieroglyphics; hieroglyphologist.
- high-interest — (of a loan, mortgage, etc) to be repaid at a high rate of interest
- high-spirited — characterized by energetic enthusiasm, elation, vivacity, etc.
- histaminergic — releasing histamine
- home straight — the section of a racecourse forming the approach to the finish
- horse gentian — any weedy North American plant of the genus Triosteum, of the honeysuckle family, especially T. perfoliatum, having stalkless leaves and purplish-brown flowers and bearing orange fruits.
- horse stinger — a dragonfly.
- 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.
- housed string — a string of a stair (housed stair) receiving the ends of the risers or treads in a series of housings.
- housetraining — Present participle of housetrain.
- hunger strike — refusal to eat as a protest
- hunger-strike — to go on a hunger strike.
- image formats — (graphics, file format) There are many formats used to store images in files. GIF, TIFF and JPEG are very common. Others are BIFF, bmp, Clear, FITS, IFF, NFF, OFF, PCX, PNG, TGA, XBM. Some of these are documented on-line at the following sites:
- impersonating — to assume the character or appearance of; pretend to be: He was arrested for impersonating a police officer.
- incongruities — the quality or condition of being incongruous.
- infringements — Plural form of infringement.
- instrumenting — Present participle of instrument.
- integral test — the theorem that a given infinite series converges if the function whose value at each integer is the corresponding term in the series is decreasing, tends to zero, and results in a finite number when integrated from one to infinity.
- inter-segment — one of the parts into which something naturally separates or is divided; a division, portion, or section: a segment of an orange.
- intercrossing — Present participle of intercross.
- interestingly — engaging or exciting and holding the attention or curiosity: an interesting book.
- interglacials — Plural form of interglacial.
- internalising — Present participle of internalise.
- interreligous — Between religions.
- interrogators — Plural form of interrogator.
- interspersing — Present participle of intersperse.
- intransigeant — intransigent
- intransigence — the state or quality of being intransigent, or refusing to compromise or agree; inflexibility: No agreement was reached because of intransigence on both sides.
- intransigency — a person who refuses to agree or compromise, as in politics.
- introgressant — an individual resulting from introgression