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13-letter words containing u, n, g, l, o, r

  • golden number — a number between 1 and 19, used to indicate the position of any year in the Metonic cycle, calculated as the remainder when 1 is added to the given year and the sum is divided by 19. If the remainder is zero the number is 19
  • goodnaturedly — In a good-natured manner.
  • graminicolous — (esp of parasitic fungi) living on grass
  • grand guignol — a short drama stressing horror and sensationalism.
  • grandiloquent — speaking or expressed in a lofty style, often to the point of being pompous or bombastic.
  • grandiloquous — grandiloquent
  • granular snow — a rare form of opaque precipitation consisting of very tiny ice crystals
  • granuliferous — full of granules, or producing granules
  • granulomatous — an inflammatory tumor or growth composed of granulation tissue.
  • graticulation — the division of a design, plan, etc into squares in order to improve the accuracy of enlargement or reduction
  • great council — (in Norman England) an assembly composed of the king's tenants in chief that served as the principal council of the realm and replaced the witenagemot.
  • ground beetle — any of numerous nocturnal, terrestrial beetles of the family Carabidae that feed chiefly on other insects.
  • ground colour — a colour on which other colours are superimposed to create a pattern
  • 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 tackle — equipment, as anchors, chains, or windlasses, for mooring a vessel away from a pier or other fixed moorings.
  • groundnut oil — a mild-tasting oil extracted from peanuts and used in cooking
  • gubernatorial — of or relating to a state governor or the office of state governor.
  • half mourning — a mourning garb less somber than deep mourning, usually following a period of deep mourning.
  • half-mourning — a mourning garb less somber than deep mourning, usually following a period of deep mourning.
  • hollow-ground — ground so as to produce a concave surface or surfaces behind a cutting edge: the hollow-ground blade of an ice skate.
  • incongruently — not congruent.
  • incongruously — out of keeping or place; inappropriate; unbecoming: an incongruous effect; incongruous behavior.
  • interreligous — Between religions.
  • involute gear — a gear tooth form that is generated by involute geometry
  • junior league — any local branch of a women's organization, the Association of the Junior Leagues of America, Inc., the members of which are engaged in volunteer welfare work, civic affairs, etc.
  • labour-saving — A labour-saving device or idea makes it possible for you to do something with less effort than usual.
  • lake sturgeon — a sturgeon, Acipenser fulvescens, of the Great Lakes and Mississippi and St. Lawrence rivers.
  • linkage group — a group of genes in a chromosome that tends to be inherited as a unit.
  • long trousers — full-length trousers (as opposed to shorts)
  • longsuffering — enduring injury, trouble, or provocation long and patiently.
  • 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.
  • luxembourgian — of or relating to Luxembourg, its people, or their language.
  • macroglobulin — A plasma globulin of high molecular weight.
  • malonyl group — the bivalent group C 3 H 2 O 2 , derived from malonic acid.
  • middle ground — an intermediate position, area, or recourse between two opposites or extremes; a halfway or neutral standpoint.
  • minor-leaguer — a member of a minor-league team.
  • multiregional — of, relating to or involving several regions
  • neuroethology — the study of the role of the nervous system in animal behaviour
  • neurolinguist — One who studies neurolinguistics.
  • neurosurgical — Of, or pertaining to neurosurgery.
  • nominal group — A nominal group is the same as a noun group.
  • nonliturgical — Not liturgical.
  • nonregulation — not regulation, not conforming to accepted standards
  • numerological — Of, pertaining to, or based on numerology.
  • numerologists — the study of numbers, as the figures designating the year of one's birth, to determine their supposed influence on one's life, future, etc.
  • old bulgarian — the Bulgarian language of the Middle Ages.
  • oligofluorene — (organic chemistry) Any of a class of aromatic polycyclic hydrocarbons consisting of several fluorene units attached end-to-end.
  • organ-builder — a maker of organs
  • organolithium — (organic chemistry) Describing any organic compound containing a carbon to lithium bond.
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