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14-letter words containing a, l, r, o, u

  • galactophorous — bearing milk; lactiferous.
  • gallows humour — sinister and ironic humour
  • galvanocautery — a cautery heated by a galvanic current.
  • gastroduodenal — of or relating to the stomach and the duodenum
  • gastrovascular — serving for digestion and circulation, as a cavity.
  • gelatiniferous — Yielding gelatine on boiling with water; capable of gelatination.
  • george pullman — plural Pullmans. a railroad sleeping car or parlor car.
  • glamourisation — Alternative spelling of glamorization.
  • glamourization — Alternative form of glamorization.
  • glanduliferous — having glands or glandules
  • 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.
  • grandiloquence — speech that is lofty in tone, often to the point of being pompous or bombastic.
  • granulomatosis — any disease characterized by the formation of numerous granulomas.
  • granulopoietin — a hormone that promotes the production of white blood cells.
  • grapple ground — an anchorage, especially for small vessels.
  • ground leakage — Ground leakage is the flow of current from a live conductor to the earth through the insulation.
  • gulf of anadyr — an inlet of the Bering Sea, off the coast of NE Russia
  • gulf of mannar — the part of the Indian Ocean between SE India and the island of Sri Lanka: pearl fishing
  • harlequin opal — a variety of opal having patches of various colors.
  • haul your wind — to sail closer to the wind
  • health tourism — tourist travel for the purpose of receiving medical treatment or improving health or fitness: The spiraling cost of healthcare has contributed to the growth of medical tourism. Also called health tourism.
  • heart and soul — Anatomy. a hollow, pumplike organ of blood circulation, composed mainly of rhythmically contractile smooth muscle, located in the chest between the lungs and slightly to the left and consisting of four chambers: a right atrium that receives blood returning from the body via the superior and inferior vena cavae, a right ventricle that pumps the blood through the pulmonary artery to the lungs for oxygenation, a left atrium that receives the oxygenated blood via the pulmonary veins and passes it through the mitral valve, and a left ventricle that pumps the oxygenated blood, via the aorta, throughout the body.
  • hemoglobinuria — the presence of hemoglobin pigment in the urine.
  • hepatocellular — pertaining to or affecting liver cells.
  • hero's formula — the formula for the area of a triangle when the sides are given: for a triangle with sides a, b, and c, the area is equal to , where s is equal to one half the perimeter of the triangle.
  • heterosexually — In a heterosexual way.
  • honourableness — Alternative spelling of honorableness.
  • horse vaulting — gymnastics performed on horseback
  • hospital nurse — a hospital nurse works in a hospital, rather than with a general practitioner, in the army, etc
  • household arts — activities such as sewing, cooking, etc, that are conducted in the running of a household
  • humoristically — In a humoristic way.
  • hydrocephalous — Having a swollen head.
  • hypotrachelium — (on a classical column) any member, as a necking, between the capital and the shaft.
  • ichthyolatrous — relating to the worship of fish or divination by means of fish parts
  • idolatrousness — The quality of being idolatrous.
  • illustrational — of, relating to, or characteristic of illustrations: illustrational art.
  • in circulation — an act or instance of circulating, moving in a circle or circuit, or flowing.
  • inarticulation — (uncountable) The state of being inarticulate; inarticulateness.
  • infopreneurial — of or relating to the manufacture or sales of electronic office or factory equipment designed to distribute information
  • inharmoniously — In an inharmonious way.
  • insurmountable — incapable of being surmounted, passed over, or overcome; insuperable: an insurmountable obstacle.
  • insurmountably — incapable of being surmounted, passed over, or overcome; insuperable: an insurmountable obstacle.
  • insurrectional — Pertaining to insurrection.
  • intermolecular — existing or occurring between molecules.
  • intramolecular — existing or occurring within a molecule.
  • intrapulmonary — (anatomy) Within the material of the lungs.
  • iridopupillary — pertaining to the iris and the pupil.
  • journal bronze — an alloy of about 83 percent copper, 13 percent tin, 3 percent zinc, and 1 percent lead.
  • journal intime — a personal or private diary.
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