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13-letter words containing se

  • focal seizure — an epileptic manifestation arising from a localized anomaly in the brain, as a small tumor or scar, and usually involving a single motor or sensory mechanism but occasionally spreading to other areas and causing convulsions and loss of consciousness.
  • food security — an economic and social condition of ready access by all members of a household to nutritionally adequate and safe food: a household with high food security.
  • for the worse — into a less desirable or inferior state or condition
  • forcing house — a place where growth or maturity (as of fruit, animals, etc) is artificially hastened
  • forty-seventh — next after the forty-sixth; being the ordinal number for 47.
  • four horsemen — four riders on white, red, black, and pale horses symbolizing pestilence, war, famine, and death, respectively. Rev. 6:2–8.
  • fractionalise — Alt form fractionalize.
  • franchisement — a privilege of a public nature conferred on an individual, group, or company by a government: a franchise to operate a bus system.
  • franz josef i — English name Francis Joseph I. 1830–1916, emperor of Austria (1848–1916) and king of Hungary (1867–1916)
  • fraser island — an island off the south-east coast of Queensland and the largest sand island in the world; contains rainforests, heathlands, and freshwater lakes; a national park (since 1976) and a World Heritage site (since 1992). Area: 1840 sq km (710 sq miles). Pop: 194 (2011)
  • freight house — a depot or storage place for freight.
  • frelinghuysen — Frederick Theodore, 1817–85, U.S. statesman.
  • friese-greene — William. 1855–1921, British photographer. He invented (with Mortimer Evans) the first practicable motion-picture camera
  • frise aileron — an aircraft wing control surface designed with its leading edge extending forward of its axis of rotation so that when the aileron's trailing edge is raised the leading edge extends below the bottom surface of the wing.
  • frozen assets — business assets that are not convertible into cash, as by government direction or business conditions
  • full sentence — any sentence the form of which exemplifies the most frequently used structural pattern of a particular language, as, in English, any sentence that contains a subject and a predicate; a sentence from which elliptical sentences may be derived by grammatical transformations.
  • functionalise — to make functional.
  • galactosidase — An enzyme, such as lactase, that is involved in the hydrolytic breakdown of a galactoside.
  • galah session — an occasion on which people from remote areas converse with each other by radio
  • galerie house — (in French Louisiana) a house with its main story above the ground floor and with verandas (galeries) for both stories in tiers on at least one side.
  • gallowglasses — Plural form of gallowglass.
  • gas separator — A gas separator is a device used to remove liquids from a natural gas stream.
  • gelsenkirchen — a city in W Germany, in the Ruhr valley.
  • gene sequence — the arrangement of the nucleotides of a particular gene
  • genital phase — the final stage of psychosexual development, in which a person achieves an affectionate, mature relationship with a sexual partner.
  • giant sequoia — big tree.
  • gibson desert — a desert in W central Australia: scrub; salt marshes. About 85,000 sq. mi. (220,000 sq. km).
  • girl's blouse — used to refer to a man who is not behaving in a very strong or masculine way
  • give pause to — to cause to hesitate
  • global search — a word-processing operation in which a complete computer file or set of files is searched for every occurrence of a particular word or other sequence of characters
  • glossectomies — Plural form of glossectomy.
  • glucochlorose — chloralose.
  • glucuronidase — an enzyme that catalyzes glucuronide hydrolysis
  • gnu assembler — (GAS) A Unix assembler for the GNU project. Many CPU types are handled and COFF and IEEE-695 formats are supported as well as standard a.out. Current version 2.2 ported to Sun-3, Sun-4, i386, 386BSD, BSD/386, Linux, PS/2-AIX, VAX, Ultrix, BSD, VMS. The assembler has been merged with GNU Binutils. E-mail: <[email protected]>.
  • goat's cheese — cheese made from goat's milk
  • goods service — a transport service in which goods are sent by train from one location to another
  • goose pimples — Goose pimples are the same as goose bumps.
  • gordon setter — one of a Scottish breed of medium-sized setters having a black-and-tan coat.
  • governmentese — complicated or obscurantist language thought to be characteristic of government bureaucratic statements; officialese.
  • grandioseness — affectedly grand or important; pompous: grandiose words.
  • grandma moses — Anna Mary Robertson ("Grandma Moses") 1860–1961, U.S. painter.
  • grease monkey — a mechanic, especially one who works on automobiles or airplanes.
  • grease nipple — a metal nipple designed to engage with a grease gun for injecting grease into a bearing, etc
  • grease pencil — a pencil of pigment and compressed grease encased in a spiral paper strip that can be partially unwound to expose a new point and used especially for writing on glossy surfaces.
  • greenland sea — a part of the Arctic Ocean, NE of Greenland and N of Iceland.
  • guernsey lily — a bulbous plant, Nerine sarniensis, of the amaryllis family, native to southern Africa, having clusters of crimson flowers.
  • gypsy setting — a setting, as on a ring, completely enclosing the girdle of the stone.
  • gyrocompasses — Plural form of gyrocompass.
  • haemodialyses — Plural form of haemodialysis.
  • half-deserted — (of a place) not having many inhabitants, visitors, etc
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