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14-letter words containing a, g, u, c

  • garlic sausage — sausage meat flavoured with garlic
  • gastrovascular — serving for digestion and circulation, as a cavity.
  • gaudi i cornet — Antoni [ahn-taw-nee] /ɑnˈtɔ ni/ (Show IPA), 1852–1926, Spanish architect and designer.
  • gaussian curve — normal curve.
  • general public — people in general
  • generic markup — (text)   In computerised document preparation, a method of adding information to the text indicating the logical components of a document, such as paragraphs, headers or footnotes. SGML is an example of such a system. Specific instructions for layout of the text on the page do not appear in the markup.
  • gesticulations — Plural form of gesticulation.
  • global product — a commercial product that is marketed throughout the world under the same brand name
  • golden currant — a western North American shrub, Ribes aureum, of the saxifrage family, having purplish fruit and fragrant, drooping clusters of yellow flowers that turn reddish.
  • gouda (cheese) — a mild, semisoft to hard cheese similar to Edam and sometimes coated with red wax
  • gouldian finch — a multicoloured finch, Chloebia gouldiae, of tropical N Australia
  • grand junction — a city in W Colorado.
  • grandiloquence — speech that is lofty in tone, often to the point of being pompous or bombastic.
  • greyhound race — a race in which greyhounds chase a dummy hare around a track
  • group dynamics — (used with a plural verb) the interactions that influence the attitudes and behavior of people when they are grouped with others through either choice or accidental circumstances.
  • group practice — Also called group medicine. the practice of medicine by an association of physicians and other health professionals who work together, usually in one suite of offices.
  • guatemala city — a republic in N Central America. 42,042 sq. mi. (108,889 sq. km).
  • guiana current — an ocean current flowing northwest along the northeast coast of South America.
  • guinea current — an ocean current flowing E along the Guinea coast of W Africa.
  • gulf of cambay — an inlet of the Arabian Sea on the W coast of India, southeast of the Kathiawar Peninsula
  • gum tragacanth — tragacanth.
  • gunter's chain — a series of objects connected one after the other, usually in the form of a series of metal rings passing through one another, used either for various purposes requiring a flexible tie with high tensile strength, as for hauling, supporting, or confining, or in various ornamental and decorative forms.
  • hallucinogenic — producing hallucinations: a hallucinogenic drug.
  • happy-go-lucky — trusting cheerfully to luck; happily unworried or unconcerned.
  • heading course — (in brickwork) a course of headers.
  • house-cleaning — the act of cleaning a house, room, etc., and its furnishings, especially the act of cleaning thoroughly and completely.
  • huffman coding — (algorithm)   A data compression technique which varies the length of the encoded symbol in proportion to its information content, that is the more often a symbol or token is used, the shorter the binary string used to represent it in the compressed stream. Huffman codes can be properly decoded because they obey the prefix property, which means that no code can be a prefix of another code, and so the complete set of codes can be represented as a binary tree, known as a Huffman tree. Huffman coding was first described in a seminal paper by D.A. Huffman in 1952.
  • ichthyophagous — the practice of eating or subsisting on fish.
  • integral curve — a curve that is a geometric representation of a functional solution to a given differential equation.
  • isocyano group — the univalent group −NC.
  • jackass gunter — a gunter having a wire rope with a traveler in place of the usual upper iron.
  • judge advocate — a staff officer designated as legal adviser to a commander and charged with the administration of military justice.
  • juicing orange — an orange that is grown especially for its juice, for example the Valencia orange
  • kangaroo court — a self-appointed or mob-operated tribunal that disregards or parodies existing principles of law or human rights, especially one in a frontier area or among criminals in prison.
  • kwangsi chuang — Guangxi Zhuang.
  • lactoglobulins — Plural form of lactoglobulin.
  • lake nicaragua — a lake in SW Nicaragua, separated from the Pacific by an isthmus 19 km (12 miles) wide: the largest lake in Central America. Area: 8264 sq km (3191 sq miles)
  • langue de chat — a flat sweet finger-shaped biscuit
  • laser-guidance — a technique of guiding a missile, etc, using a laser beam
  • laughing stock — object of others' amusement
  • laughingstocks — Plural form of laughingstock.
  • learning curve — Education. a graphic representation of progress in learning measured against the time required to achieve mastery.
  • legal currency — money that is officially part of a country's currency
  • legal document — a document concerning a legal matter; a document drawn up by a lawyer
  • linguistically — of or belonging to language: linguistic change.
  • logic emulator — A system of FPGAs, programmable interconnect and software which automatically configures itself into an operating prototype of a large-scale logic design, such as a microprocessor. An emulated design can be connected into the target system and really operated and tested before the design is made into an integrated circuit.
  • lu-wang school — School of Mind.
  • luggage locker — a large locker at a transport terminal or airport where luggage can be left temporarily
  • lunatic fringe — members on the periphery of any group, especially political, social, or religious, who hold extreme or fanatical views.
  • macroglobulins — Plural form of macroglobulin.
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