13-letter words containing a, l, n, g, i, s
- grandiloquous — grandiloquent
- granuliferous — full of granules, or producing granules
- 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.
- gymnastically — In a gymnastic manner.
- gynaecologist — (UK, Canada, dated in US) A physician who specialises in diseases of the female reproductive system.
- hairsplitting — the making of unnecessarily fine distinctions.
- hallucinogens — Plural form of hallucinogen.
- hanging stile — the stile of a door, shutter, etc., by which it is hung.
- hard feelings — Hard feelings are feelings of anger or bitterness towards someone who you have had an argument with or who has upset you. If you say 'no hard feelings', you are making an agreement with someone not to be angry or bitter about something.
- hospitalizing — Present participle of hospitalize.
- housecleaning — the act of cleaning a house, room, etc., and its furnishings, especially the act of cleaning thoroughly and completely.
- illogicalness — The quality of being illogical.
- in all things — In all things means in every situation and at all times.
- insinuatingly — tending to instill doubts, distrust, etc.; suggestive: an insinuating letter.
- integral test — the theorem that a given infinite series converges if the function whose value at each integer is the corresponding term in the series is decreasing, tends to zero, and results in a finite number when integrated from one to infinity.
- interglacials — Plural form of interglacial.
- internalising — Present participle of internalise.
- irregularness — Quality of being irregular.
- isoagglutinin — an agglutinin that can effect isoagglutination.
- isogonal line — an imaginary line, or one drawn on a map, connecting all points of equal magnetic declination.
- james gosling — (person) The software engineer who wrote GOSMACS, and served as Sun Microsystems, Inc. project leader for both NeWS, and Java. He is currently (1997) a Vice President and "Distinguished Engineer" at Sun.
- judgmentalism — Judgmental behaviour or attitude.
- kingsley amis — Kingsley, 1922–95, English novelist.
- labiogression — location of the anterior teeth forward of their natural position.
- labour-saving — A labour-saving device or idea makes it possible for you to do something with less effort than usual.
- land registry — In Britain, a land registry is a government office where records are kept about each area of land in a country or region, including information about who owns it.
- landgraviates — Plural form of landgraviate.
- landing speed — the minimum air speed at which an aircraft lands safely
- landing stage — a floating platform used as a wharf.
- landing strip — airstrip.
- lane markings — white lines on the road that mark lanes
- languishingly — In a languishing manner.
- laryngologist — A person who studies or specializes in laryngology; a subspeciality of otorhinolaryngology.
- laryngoscopic — Of or pertaining to laryngoscopy.
- laryngotomies — Plural form of laryngotomy.
- laser cooling — a technique using laser light to cool atoms to a very low temperature by removing momentum from the particles.
- laughingstock — an object of ridicule; the butt of a joke or the like: His ineptness as a public official made him the laughingstock of the whole town.
- leading reins — straps or a harness and strap used to assist and control a child who is learning to walk
- letterspacing — the amount of space between each letter in a word, or the adjustment of this amount of space
- lightfastness — The quality of being lightfast.
- lighthouseman — a lighthouse keeper
- linguistician — linguist (def 1).
- load shedding — the deliberate shutdown of electric power in a part or parts of a power-distribution system, generally to prevent the failure of the entire system when the demand strains the capacity of the system.
- load-shedding — the deliberate shutdown of electric power in a part or parts of a power-distribution system, generally to prevent the failure of the entire system when the demand strains the capacity of the system.
- loan-sharking — the practice of lending money at exorbitant or illegal interest rates
- long-distance — of, from, or between distant places: a long-distance phone call.
- long-standing — existing or occurring for a long time: a longstanding feud.
- looking glass — a mirror made of glass with a metallic or amalgam backing.
- looking-glass — a mirror made of glass with a metallic or amalgam backing.