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

  • counterweighs — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of counterweigh.
  • counterweight — A counterweight is an action or proposal that is intended to balance or counter other actions or proposals.
  • counting room — counting house.
  • court hearing — an official meeting held in court
  • court packing — an unsuccessful attempt by President Franklin D. Roosevelt in 1937 to appoint up to six additional justices to the Supreme Court, which had invalidated a number of his New Deal laws.
  • cousin-german — the child of one's aunt or uncle
  • cross-cutting — linking traditionally separate or independent parties or interests
  • crowd surfing — the practice of being passed over the top of a crowd of people such as an audience at a pop concert
  • crowdsourcing — Crowdsourcing is the practice of getting ideas or help on a project from a large number of people, usually through the Internet.
  • curling irons — a metal scissor-like device that is heated, so that strands of hair may be twined around it in order to form curls
  • curling stone — a large, heavy, ellipsoidal stone or a similar object made of iron, usually having one rough side and one smooth side with a hole in the center of each for screwing in a handle by which the stone is released, for use in the game of curling.
  • curling tongs — a metal scissor-like device that is heated, so that strands of hair may be twined around it in order to form curls
  • cutting board — A cutting board is a wooden or plastic board that you chop meat and vegetables on.
  • cutting horse — a saddle horse trained for use in separating an individual animal, such as a cow, from a herd
  • deep mourning — completely black mourning clothes made of a drab material: After her brother died, she was in deep mourning for a year.
  • degranulation — a cellular process in which cytoplasmic granules within certain cells secrete their contents, often to the outside of the cell
  • dentosurgical — relating to or used in both dentistry and surgery
  • deuteragonist — (in ancient Greek drama) the character next in importance to the protagonist, esp the antagonist
  • disfiguration — an act or instance of disfiguring.
  • disregulation — Misspelling of dysregulation.
  • dun laoghaire — a seaport in E Republic of Ireland, near Dublin.
  • dysregulation — A failure to regulate properly.
  • egregiousness — The quality of being egregious.
  • electrocuting — Present participle of electrocute.
  • encouragingly — In an encouraging manner.
  • eusporangiate — (of ferns) having each sporangium developing from a group of cells, rather than a single cell, and with no specialized dispersal of spores
  • figure of fun — If you describe someone as a figure of fun, you mean that people think they are ridiculous.
  • figure-ground — a property of perception in which there is a tendency to see parts of a visual field as solid, well-defined objects standing out against a less distinct background.
  • flourishingly — In a flourishing way; tending to succeed and grow.
  • flugelhornist — One who plays the flugelhorn.
  • fluoroscoping — Present participle of fluoroscope.
  • forcing house — a place where growth or maturity (as of fruit, animals, etc) is artificially hastened
  • foregrounding — Present participle of foreground.
  • formularising — Present participle of formularise.
  • formularizing — Present participle of formularize.
  • four-wheeling — traveling in a vehicle using four-wheel drive.
  • fruiting body — an organ that produces spores; fructification.
  • garnetiferous — containing or yielding garnets.
  • gastrocnemius — the largest muscle in the calf of the leg, the action of which extends the foot, raises the heel, and assists in bending the knee.
  • geminiflorous — having flowers arranged in pairs.
  • genitourinary — of or relating to the genital and urinary organs; urogenital.
  • giulio romano — (Giulio Pippi de' Giannuzzi) 1492?–1546, Italian painter and architect.
  • glucuronidase — an enzyme that catalyzes glucuronide hydrolysis
  • gourmandizers — Plural form of gourmandizer.
  • gourmandizing — Present participle of gourmandize.
  • grain sorghum — any of several varieties of sorghum, as durra or milo, having starchy seeds, grown for grain and forage.
  • graminicolous — (esp of parasitic fungi) living on grass
  • graminivorous — feeding or subsisting on grass: a graminivorous bird.
  • 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.
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