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13-letter words containing c, i, n, g, u, l

  • due-diligence — reasonable care and caution exercised by a person who is buying, selling, giving professional advice, etc., especially as required by law to protect against incurring liability: The court said there was due diligence on the part of the plaintiff.
  • electrocuting — Present participle of electrocute.
  • encapsulating — Present participle of encapsulate.
  • encouragingly — In an encouraging manner.
  • enculturating — Present participle of enculturate.
  • equivalencing — Present participle of equivalence.
  • eugeosyncline — a geosyncline characterized by lithology typical of deep ocean environments
  • flame cutting — a method of cutting ferrous metals in which the metal is heated by a torch to about 800°C and is oxidized by a stream of oxygen from the torch
  • floutingstock — a laughing-stock; the object of mockery or flouting
  • fluoroscoping — Present participle of fluoroscope.
  • flying circus — a squadron of airplanes operating together, especially any of several squadrons of famous World War I aviators.
  • flying column — (formerly) a force of troops equipped and organized to move swiftly and independently of a principal unit to which it is attached.
  • flying saucer — any of various disk-shaped objects allegedly seen flying at high speeds and altitudes, often with extreme changes in speed and direction, and thought by some to be manned by intelligent beings from outer space.
  • genuflections — Plural form of genuflection.
  • gesticulating — Present participle of gesticulate.
  • gesticulation — the act of gesticulating.
  • glass curtain — a transparent or translucent curtain covering the interior of a window opening.
  • gluconeogenic — glucose formation in animals from a noncarbohydrate source, as from proteins or fats.
  • gluconic acid — a colorless, water-soluble acid, C 6 H 12 O 7 , obtained by the oxidation of glucose, used commercially in a 50-percent solution for cleaning metals.
  • glucuronidase — an enzyme that catalyzes glucuronide hydrolysis
  • gnu c library — (library)   (glibc) The run-time library for the GNU C compiler, gcc, and others. glibc is the source code for libc.a. It is maintained separately from the compilers and is a superset of ANSI C and POSIX.1 and a large subset of POSIX.2. Mailing list: <[email protected]> (bugs).
  • gossip column — newspaper: celebrity news article
  • graminicolous — (esp of parasitic fungi) living on grass
  • 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 sluice — a trench, cut through a placer or through bedrock, through which a stream is diverted in order to dislodge and wash the gravel.
  • guanylic acid — GMP.
  • half coupling — a flange fixed at the end of each of the two shafts that are connected in a flange coupling
  • hallucinating — Present participle of hallucinate.
  • hallucinogens — Plural form of hallucinogen.
  • housecleaning — the act of cleaning a house, room, etc., and its furnishings, especially the act of cleaning thoroughly and completely.
  • human cloning — the act of producing a human as a clone
  • hydraulicking — a type of mining that uses water to move rock
  • immunological — (immunology) Of, or relating to immunology.
  • incongruently — not congruent.
  • incongruously — out of keeping or place; inappropriate; unbecoming: an incongruous effect; incongruous behavior.
  • insulinogenic — Promoting the production of insulin.
  • john suckling — Sir John, 1609–42, English poet.
  • lactoglobulin — A protein or mixture of similar proteins occurring in milk, obtained after the removal of casein and precipitated in a salt solution.
  • 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.
  • launching pad — the platform on which a missile or launch vehicle undergoes final prelaunch checkout and countdown and from which it is launched from the surface of the earth.
  • leucaemogenic — leukemogenic
  • leukaemogenic — relating to the development of leukaemia, or causing leukaemia
  • li hung-chang — 1823–1901, Chinese statesman.
  • lingua franca — any language that is widely used as a means of communication among speakers of other languages.
  • lingual brace — a specialized dental brace that fits behind the teeth so that it is not visible when the wearer speaks or smiles.
  • linguistician — linguist (def 1).
  • macroglobulin — A plasma globulin of high molecular weight.
  • magnetic flux — the total magnetic induction crossing a surface, equal to the integral of the component of magnetic induction perpendicular to the surface over the surface: usually measured in webers or maxwells.
  • magniloquence — speaking or expressed in a lofty or grandiose style; pompous; bombastic; boastful.
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