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13-letter words containing a, u, t, o

  • futtock plate — a metal plate placed perpendicular to the top of a ship's lower mast to hold the futtock shrouds.
  • futurological — Pertaining to futurology.
  • galactagogues — Plural form of galactagogue.
  • gametothallus — a gamete-producing thallus.
  • garnetiferous — containing or yielding garnets.
  • gartner group — (company)   One of the biggest IT industry research firms. Address: Connecticut, USA.
  • gastrocnemius — the largest muscle in the calf of the leg, the action of which extends the foot, raises the heel, and assists in bending the knee.
  • geitonogamous — of or relating to geitonogamy
  • general court — the state legislature of Massachusetts or New Hampshire.
  • genitourinary — of or relating to the genital and urinary organs; urogenital.
  • gentianaceous — belonging to the plant family Gentianaceae.
  • gesticulation — the act of gesticulating.
  • gesticulatory — Making a lot of gesticulations.
  • get around to — When you get around to doing something that you have delayed doing or have been too busy to do, you finally do it.
  • get-up-and-go — energy, drive, and enthusiasm.
  • giant sequoia — big tree.
  • give pause to — to cause to hesitate
  • glamour stock — a popular stock that rises quickly or continuously in price and attracts large numbers of investors.
  • go great guns — to act or function with great speed, intensity, etc
  • godwin-austen — Also called Godwin Austen [god-win aw-stin] /ˈgɒd wɪn ˈɔ stɪn/ (Show IPA), Dapsang [duh p-suhng] /dəpˈsʌŋ/ (Show IPA). a mountain in N Kashmir, in the Karakoram range: second highest peak in the world. 28,250 feet (8611 meters).
  • goodnaturedly — In a good-natured manner.
  • grandiloquent — speaking or expressed in a lofty style, often to the point of being pompous or bombastic.
  • granulomatous — an inflammatory tumor or growth composed of granulation tissue.
  • graticulation — the division of a design, plan, etc into squares in order to improve the accuracy of enlargement or reduction
  • 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.
  • ground attack — an attack using ground forces, as opposed to air or naval forces
  • ground tackle — equipment, as anchors, chains, or windlasses, for mooring a vessel away from a pier or other fixed moorings.
  • ground-to-air — (of weapons) designed to be fired at aircraft from the ground
  • group annuity — a plan in which the members of a group, usually employees of the same company, receive annuities upon retirement.
  • group captain — an officer holding commissioned rank senior to a wing commander but junior to an air commodore in the RAF and certain other air forces
  • group therapy — psychotherapy in which a number of patients discuss their problems together, usually under the leadership of a therapist, using shared knowledge and experiences to provide constructive feedback about maladaptive behavior.
  • gubernatorial — of or relating to a state governor or the office of state governor.
  • guesstimation — (pejorative) An estimation made without good justification and often biased.
  • gunpowder tea — an explosive mixture, as of potassium nitrate, sulfur, and charcoal, used in shells and cartridges, in fireworks, for blasting, etc.
  • haematogenous — producing blood
  • haemodilution — an increase in the fluid content of blood leading to a lower concentration of red blood cells
  • hallucination — a sensory experience of something that does not exist outside the mind, caused by various physical and mental disorders, or by reaction to certain toxic substances, and usually manifested as visual or auditory images.
  • hallucinatory — pertaining to or characterized by hallucination: hallucinatory visions.
  • halobacterium — Any of various extremophiles, of genus Halobacterium, found in water saturated or nearly saturated with salt.
  • hand-to-mouth — offering or providing the barest livelihood, sustenance, or support; meager; precarious: a hand-to-mouth existence.
  • harbourmaster — (British, Canada, nautical) An official responsible for the enforcement of regulations in a port.
  • harold burton — Harold Hitz [hits] /hɪts/ (Show IPA), 1888–1964, associate justice of the U.S. Supreme Court 1945–58.
  • harry hotspur — the nickname of Sir Henry Percy
  • hart's-tongue — a fern, Phyllitis scolopendrium, having long, leathery, wavy-edged leaves.
  • haruspication — the use of animal entrails for divination
  • harvest mouse — an Old World field mouse, Micromys minutus, that builds a spherical nest among the stems of grains and other plants.
  • hash function — (programming)   A hash coding function which assigns a data item distinguished by some "key" into one of a number of possible "hash buckets" in a hash table. The hash function is usually combined with another more precise function. For example a program might take a string of letters and put it in one of twenty six lists depending on its first letter. Ideally, a hash function should distribute items evenly between the buckets to reduce the number of hash collisions. If, for example, the strings were names beginning with "Mr.", "Miss" or "Mrs." then taking the first letter would be a very poor hash function because all names would hash the same.
  • haute couture — high fashion; the most fashionable and influential dressmaking and designing.
  • haute-garonne — a department in S France. 2458 sq. mi. (6365 sq. km). Capital: Toulouse.
  • heart surgeon — a surgeon who specializes in performing operations on the heart
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