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13-letter words containing u, g, l, i, n, e

  • pulling power — the ability to attract and influence other people
  • pulse dialing — a system of calling telephone numbers wherein electrical pulses corresponding to the digits in the number called are generated by manipulating a rotary dial or push buttons (contrasted with tone dialing).
  • quadrigeminal — Having four parts, or two pairs.
  • queer-looking — odd or strange in appearance
  • questioningly — In a questioning manner.
  • quindecagonal — (geometry) Shaped like a quindecagon; fifteen-sided.
  • rabblerousing — Of or pertaining to a rabble-rouser.
  • re-evaluating — to determine or set the value or amount of; appraise: to evaluate property.
  • re-regulation — a law, rule, or other order prescribed by authority, especially to regulate conduct.
  • regulator pin — either of two pins on the regulators of certain timepieces, one on each side of the hairspring, that can be moved to adjust the rate of the timepiece.
  • religiousness — of, relating to, or concerned with religion: a religious holiday.
  • return flight — a flight going back
  • revictuallingvictuals, food supplies; provisions.
  • rumelgumption — commonsense
  • rumlegumption — commonsense
  • running belay — the clipping of the rope through a karabiner attached to a sling, piton, nut, etc, secured to the mountain: used by a leading climber of a team to reduce the length of a possible fall
  • running title — Printing. running head.
  • saving clause — a clause which denotes a reservation or exception
  • self-assuming — taking too much for granted; presumptuous.
  • self-doubting — lacking in confidence
  • serpiginously — in a serpiginous manner; in the manner characteristic of serpigo
  • shelving unit — A shelving unit is a flexible display system which can be moved and adjusted to accommodate different product dimensions.
  • sign language — Also called sign. any of several visual-gestural systems of communication, especially employing manual gestures, as used among deaf people.
  • silver tongue — the characteristic of being skilful at persuading people to believe what they say or to do what they want them to do
  • single sculls — a race for sculls each rowed by one oarsman using a pair of oars.
  • single status — a national agreement that aims to avoid unfairness in pay and reward arrangements for employees and to ensure harmonisation of conditions in comparable posts
  • single-figure — relating to numbers below ten
  • single-suiter — one-suiter.
  • single-tongue — to play (any nonlegato passage) on a wind instrument by obstructing and uncovering the air passage through the lips with the tongue
  • single-valued — (of a function) having the property that each element in the domain has corresponding to it exactly one element in the range.
  • sleeping suit — an all-in-one outfit that babies and young children sleep in
  • solidungulate — having a single, undivided hoof on each foot, as a horse.
  • sounding lead — a line weighted with a lead or plummet (sounding lead) and bearing marks to show the length paid out, used for sounding, as at sea.
  • sounding line — a line weighted with a lead or plummet (sounding lead) and bearing marks to show the length paid out, used for sounding, as at sea.
  • spinning mule — mule1 (def 7).
  • splutteringly — in a spluttering manner
  • squanderingly — in a squandering manner
  • string-puller — a person who uses his or her influence with other people to get things done, often unfairly
  • subdelegation — a group or body of delegates: Our club sent a delegation to the rally.
  • sucking louse — See under louse (def 1).
  • sunlight peak — a mountain in SW Colorado, in the San Juan Mountains. 14,059 feet (4285 meters).
  • superregional — involving many regions
  • supplementing — something added to complete a thing, supply a deficiency, or reinforce or extend a whole.
  • table-turning — the movement of a table attributed by spiritualists to the power of spirits working through a group of persons placing their hands or fingers on the table top
  • telecommuting — working at home by using a computer terminal electronically linked to one's place of employment.
  • triple-tongue — to interrupt the wind flow by moving the tongue as if pronouncing t and t and k successively, especially in playing rapid passages or staccato notes on a brass instrument.
  • troublemaking — a person who causes difficulties, distress, worry, etc., for others, especially one who does so habitually as a matter of malice.
  • tung-oil tree — tung tree.
  • ugly american — An Ugly American is an American who travels to a foreign country and gives the United States a bad reputation by acting in an offensive way.
  • unappealingly — in an unappealing manner
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