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13-letter words containing eat

  • flog to death — to persuade a person so persistently of the value of (an idea or venture) that he or she loses interest in it
  • globe theatre — a theater on the south bank of the Thames in London, 1599–1613: many of Shakespeare's plays were first produced here.
  • glove leather — a soft, smooth, pliable, stretchable leather.
  • go great guns — to act or function with great speed, intensity, etc
  • great basinet — a basinet having a beaver permanently attached.
  • great britain — an island of NW Europe, separated from the mainland by the English Channel and the North Sea: since 1707 the name has applied politically to England, Scotland, and Wales. 88,139 sq. mi. (228,280 sq. km).
  • great bustard — a large bustard, Otis tarda, of southern and central Europe and western and central Asia, having a wingspread of about 8 feet (2.4 meters).
  • great calorie — calorie (sense 2)
  • 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.
  • great daedala — either of two festivals held in ancient Boeotia in honor of the reconciliation of Hera with Zeus, one (Little Daedala) being held every 6 years, the other (Great Daedala) every 59 years.
  • great goddess — The, a vaguely defined deity symbolizing maternity, the fertility of the earth, and femininity in general; the central figure in the religions of ancient Anatolia, the Near East, and the eastern Mediterranean, later sometimes taking the form of a specific goddess, as Cybele, Rhea, or Demeter.
  • great grimsby — seaport in Humberside, NE England, at the mouth of the Humber estuary: county district pop. 91,000
  • great khingan — a mountain range in NE China: highest peak, 5000 feet (1525 meters).
  • great lobelia — a North American plant, Lobelia siphilitica, having long, showy clusters of blue flowers.
  • great ragweed — any of the composite plants of the genus Ambrosia, the airborne pollen of which is the most prevalent cause of autumnal hay fever, as the common North American species, A. trifida (great ragweed or giant ragweed) and A. artemisiifolia.
  • 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.
  • great-hearted — having or showing a generous heart; magnanimous.
  • greater ionic — Architecture. noting or pertaining to one of the five classical orders that in ancient Greece consisted of a fluted column with a molded base and a capital composed of four volutes, usually parallel to the architrave with a pulvinus connecting a pair on each side of the column, and an entablature typically consisting of an architrave of three fascias, a richly ornamented frieze, and a cornice corbeled out on egg-and-dart and dentil moldings, with the frieze sometimes omitted. Roman and Renaissance examples are often more elaborate, and usually set the volutes of the capitals at 45° to the architrave. Compare composite (def 3), Corinthian (def 2), Doric (def 3), Tuscan (def 2).
  • greater scaup — any of several diving ducks of the genus Aythya, especially A. marila (greater scaup) of the Northern Hemisphere, having a bluish-gray bill.
  • greater siren — a salamander, Siren lacertina, having external gills, tiny front legs, and no hind legs, inhabiting shallow waters in the southeastern U.S.
  • gyro repeater — a navigational compass, under the control of a gyroscope, that automatically indicates true north.
  • hard-featured — having stern, harsh, or unattractive features.
  • heat capacity — the heat required to raise the temperature of a substance one degree.
  • heat equation — a partial differential equation the solution of which gives the distribution of temperature in a region as a function of space and time when the temperature at the boundaries, the initial distribution of temperature, and the physical properties of the medium are specified.
  • heat transfer — Heat transfer is the movement of heat from one substance or material to another.
  • heating plant — a building or facility containing a boiler or furnace that provides heat to a building or a number of buildings
  • heating power — power that can be used to heat something
  • horsefeathers — (used with a singular or plural verb) something not worth considering.
  • ill-treatment — Ill-treatment is harsh or cruel treatment.
  • interlineated — interline1 (defs 1, 2).
  • interpermeate — to penetrate or pervade mutually or reciprocally
  • interwreathed — Simple past tense and past participle of interwreathe.
  • kiss of death — a fatal or destructive relationship or action: The support of the outlawed group was the kiss of death to the candidate.
  • laurel wreath — a wreath of interlocking laurel leaves and branches, which can be worn on the head to represent victory
  • lavatory seat — the part on a toilet or lavatory which can be moved up or down and which is used for sitting on
  • leather goods — products made of animal skin
  • leatherjacket — Also called leather jack. any of several carangid fishes having narrow, linear scales embedded in the skin at various angles, especially Oligoplites saurus, found in tropical American waters.
  • life-or-death — life-and-death.
  • luncheon meat — any of various sausages or molded loaf meats, usually sliced and served cold, as in sandwiches or as garnishes for salads.
  • macronucleate — having a macronucleus.
  • magnetosheath — the region between the magnetopause of the earth or of some other planet and the shock front caused by the solar wind.
  • marginal seat — a seat in which elections tend to be won by small margins
  • meat products — foods that consist of or contain meat
  • methyl oleate — an oily, clear to amber, water-insoluble liquid, C 1 9 H 3 6 O 2 , used chiefly as an intermediate for detergents, wetting agents, and emulsifiers.
  • micronucleate — having a micronucleus.
  • modern greats — (at Oxford University) the Honour School of Philosophy, Politics, and Economics
  • mononucleated — having a single nucleus
  • mouthbreather — a person who breathes through the mouth instead of through the nose
  • movie theater — a motion-picture theater.
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