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13-letter words containing u, n, d, e, r, g

  • grandiloquent — speaking or expressed in a lofty style, often to the point of being pompous or bombastic.
  • ground beetle — any of numerous nocturnal, terrestrial beetles of the family Carabidae that feed chiefly on other insects.
  • ground cherry — Also called husk tomato. any of several plants belonging to the genus Physalis, of the nightshade family, the several species bearing an edible berry enclosed in an enlarged calyx.
  • ground effect — the improvement to the aerodynamic qualities of a low-slung motor vehicle resulting from a cushion of air beneath it
  • ground return — Ground return is the return path for an electrical circuit made by connections to ground at each end.
  • ground sluice — a trench, cut through a placer or through bedrock, through which a stream is diverted in order to dislodge and wash the gravel.
  • ground stroke — a stroke made by hitting the ball after it has bounced from the ground. Compare volley (def 4b).
  • ground tackle — equipment, as anchors, chains, or windlasses, for mooring a vessel away from a pier or other fixed moorings.
  • groundbreaker — a person who is an originator, innovator, or pioneer in a particular activity.
  • groundkeepers — Plural form of groundkeeper.
  • groundskeeper — a person who is responsible for the care and maintenance of a particular tract of land, as an estate, a park, or a cemetery.
  • groundstrokes — Plural form of groundstroke.
  • groundworkers — Plural form of groundworker.
  • gunpowder tea — an explosive mixture, as of potassium nitrate, sulfur, and charcoal, used in shells and cartridges, in fireworks, for blasting, etc.
  • housed string — a string of a stair (housed stair) receiving the ends of the risers or treads in a series of housings.
  • hundredweight — Also called cental, quintal. a unit of avoirdupois weight commonly equivalent to 100 pounds (45.359 kilograms) in the U.S. Abbreviation: cwt.
  • india drugget — drugget (def 1).
  • junggar pendi — an arid region of W China, in N Xinjiang between the Altai Mountains and the Tian Shan
  • lounge around — to pass time idly and indolently.
  • lounge lizard — a foppish man who frequents bars, cafés, hotel lounges, etc., with or in search of women.
  • magnetic drum — a cylinder coated with magnetic material, on which data and programs can be stored.
  • measuring rod — ruler, gauge, stick for measuring
  • middle ground — an intermediate position, area, or recourse between two opposites or extremes; a halfway or neutral standpoint.
  • misconfigured — Simple past tense and past participle of misconfigure.
  • mordant rouge — a solution of aluminum acetate in acetic acid, used in dyeing and calico printing.
  • mourning dove — variety of pigeon
  • mud wrestling — sport: physical combat in mud
  • mud-wrestling — wrestling in an enclosure with a floor or base of wet mud, staged as a public display and competitive event.
  • neighbourhood — Standard spelling of neighborhood.
  • nom de guerre — an assumed name, as one under which a person fights, paints, writes, etc.; pseudonym.
  • non-budgetary — an estimate, often itemized, of expected income and expense for a given period in the future.
  • non-dangerous — full of danger or risk; causing danger; perilous; risky; hazardous; unsafe.
  • nonguaranteed — Not guaranteed; unguaranteed.
  • organ-builder — a maker of organs
  • out of danger — no longer at risk
  • outgeneralled — Simple past tense and past participle of outgeneral.
  • overburdening — Present participle of overburden.
  • parade ground — A parade ground is an area of ground where soldiers practise marching and have parades.
  • piper gurnard — a marine fish, Trigla lyra, of the family Triglidae
  • plague-ridden — afflicted by the plague or a plague
  • preconfigured — to design or adapt to form a specific configuration or for some specific purpose: The planes are being configured to hold more passengers in each row.
  • product range — variety of merchandise within a brand
  • quadrigeminal — Having four parts, or two pairs.
  • quadringenary — a 400th anniversary
  • queen dowager — the widow of a king.
  • reading group — a group of people who meet regularly to discuss a book that they have all read
  • red underwing — a large noctuid moth, Catocala nupta, having dull forewings and hind wings coloured red and black
  • rendezvousing — an agreement between two or more persons to meet at a certain time and place.
  • round herring — any of several herringlike fishes of the family Dussumieriidae having a rounded abdomen, living chiefly in tropical marine waters.
  • rubberbanding — (in online video games) the backward popping of characters in motion to their recently occupied spaces that results from high latency in the network connection.
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