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16-letter words containing d, e, g, u

  • designer stubble — (on a man) facial hair that is carefully trimmed to give what is thought to be an attractive rugged slightly unshaven look
  • digestive juices — fluids secreted in the stomach or intestines that assist in the digestion of food
  • digital computer — a computer that processes information in digital form.
  • discountenancing — Present participle of discountenance.
  • disingenuousness — The state or quality of being disingenuous.
  • distinguishments — to mark off as different (often followed by from or by): He was distinguished from the other boys by his height.
  • doctor's surgery — A doctor's surgery is the same as a doctor's office.
  • document imaging — the process of converting paper documents into an electronic or digital format
  • double centering — a method of extending a survey line by taking the average of two foresights, one with the telescope direct and one with it inverted, made each time by transiting the telescope after a backsight.
  • double-breasting — the practice of employing nonunion workers, especially in a separate division, to supplement the work of higher-paid union workers.
  • double-clutching — (of a bird) to produce a second clutch of eggs after the first has been removed, usually for hatching in an incubator.
  • draught excluder — a device (such as a strip of wood, or a long cylindrical cushion) placed at the bottom of a door to keep out draughts
  • drinking-up time — (in Britain) a short time allowed for finishing drinks before closing time in a public house
  • drogue parachute — Also called drogue. a small parachute that deploys first in order to pull a larger parachute from its pack.
  • drugstore cowboy — a young man who loafs around drugstores or on street corners.
  • drumhead cabbage — acommon type of cabbage with tightly packed leaves and a rounded form with a slightly flattened top
  • dual carriageway — divided highway.
  • duplicate bridge — a form of contract bridge used in tournaments in which contestants play the identical series of deals, with each deal being scored independently, permitting individual scores to be compared.
  • dutch guinea pig — a breed of two-tone short-haired guinea pig
  • dutch new guinea — a former name of Irian Jaya.
  • dynamic language — (language)   (Dylan) A simple object-oriented Lisp dialect, most closely resembling CLOS and Scheme, developed by Advanced Technology Group East at Apple Computer. See also Marlais.
  • edinburgh prolog — Prolog dialect which eventually developed into the standard, as opposed to Marseille Prolog. (The difference is largely syntax.) Clocksin & Mellish describe Edinburgh Prolog. Version: C-Prolog.
  • exchange student — sb who studies abroad
  • feel the draught — to be short of money
  • ferruginous duck — a common European duck, Aythyra nyroca, having reddish-brown plumage with white wing bars
  • flamborough head — a chalk promontory in NE England, on the coast of the East Riding of Yorkshire
  • focused strategy — a business strategy in which an organization divests itself of all but its core activities, using the funds raised to enhance the distinctive abilities that give it an advantage over its rivals
  • foot fault judge — on official on the baseline who is responsible for calling foot faults
  • for a good cause — If you say that something is for a good cause, you mean that it is worth doing or giving to because it will help other people, for example by raising money for charity.
  • for good measure — a unit or standard of measurement: weights and measures.
  • four-deal bridge — a version of bridge in which four hands only are played, the players then cutting for new partners
  • four-masted brig — jackass bark (def 2).
  • gadsden purchase — a tract of 45,535 sq. mi. (117,935 sq. km), now contained in New Mexico and Arizona, purchased for $10,000,000 from Mexico in 1853, the treaty being negotiated by James Gadsden.
  • gallium arsenide — a crystalline and highly toxic semiconductor, GaAs, used in light-emitting diodes, lasers, and electronic devices.
  • gaudeamus igitur — let us therefore rejoice
  • gaudí (i cornet) — An‧to‧nio (ɑnˈtɔnjɔ ) ; änt^ōˈny^ō) 1852-1926; Sp. architect
  • get the lead out — Chemistry. a heavy, comparatively soft, malleable, bluish-gray metal, sometimes found in its natural state but usually combined as a sulfide, especially in galena. Symbol: Pb; atomic weight: 207.19; atomic number: 82; specific gravity: 11.34 at 20°C.
  • gingerbread plum — a tree, Neocarya macrophylla, of western Africa, bearing a large, edible, starchy fruit.
  • gold-of-pleasure — a yellow-flowered Eurasian plant, Camelina sativa, widespread as a weed, esp in flax fields, and formerly cultivated for its oil-rich seeds: family Brassicaceae (crucifers)
  • golden delicious — a bright yellow type of Delicious apple.
  • golden handcuffs — payments deferred over a number of years that induce a person to stay with a particular company or in a particular job
  • golden parachute — an employment contract or agreement guaranteeing a key executive of a company substantial severance pay and other financial benefits in the event of job loss caused by the company's being sold or merged.
  • good housekeeper — a person who is an efficient and thrifty domestic manager
  • grace-and-favour — (of a house, flat, etc) owned by the sovereign and granted free of rent to a person to whom the sovereign wishes to express gratitude
  • graduate student — postgraduate-level student
  • granulated paper — paper with a roughened surface
  • granulated sugar — a coarsely ground white sugar, widely used as a sweetener.
  • great-granduncle — an uncle of one's grandfather or grandmother.
  • grenade launcher — a device attached to the muzzle of a rifle, permitting the firing of rifle grenades.
  • greyhound racing — a sport in which a mechanically propelled dummy hare is pursued by greyhounds around a race track
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