13-letter words containing d, i, s, g, u
- glucuronidase — an enzyme that catalyzes glucuronide hydrolysis
- 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).
- good gracious — Some people say good gracious or goodness gracious in order to express surprise or annoyance.
- good question — pertinent or insightful enquiry
- gourmandizers — Plural form of gourmandizer.
- grandiloquous — grandiloquent
- 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.
- guard against — prevent
- gulf of sidra — a wide inlet of the Mediterranean on the N coast of Libya
- gynodioecious — having female flowers on one plant and hermaphrodite flowers on another plant of the same species.
- hasty pudding — New England. cornmeal mush.
- high-sounding — having an impressive or pretentious sound; grand: the high-sounding titles of minor officials.
- housebuilding — The trade or activity of building houses.
- housed string — a string of a stair (housed stair) receiving the ends of the risers or treads in a series of housings.
- hunting sword — a short, light saber of the 18th century, having a straight or slightly curved blade.
- ill-disguised — badly concealed or hidden.
- indigo squill — wild hyacinth.
- judgmentalism — Judgmental behaviour or attitude.
- lodging house — a house in which rooms are rented, especially a house other than an inn or hotel; rooming house.
- magnitudinous — size; extent; dimensions: to determine the magnitude of an angle.
- measuring rod — ruler, gauge, stick for measuring
- middlesbrough — a seaport in NE England, on the Tees estuary.
- misconfigured — Simple past tense and past participle of misconfigure.
- misguidedness — The state or condition of being misguided.
- mud wrestling — sport: physical combat in mud
- mud-wrestling — wrestling in an enclosure with a floor or base of wet mud, staged as a public display and competitive event.
- multigravidas — Plural form of multigravida.
- nondiapausing — lacking a diapause
- nonindigenous — Not indigenous; not native to an area.
- off soundings — in waters more than 100 fathoms in depth
- outdistancing — Present participle of outdistance.
- outside-right — a footballer who plays on the outside right wing of the field
- outstandingly — prominent; conspicuous; striking: an outstanding example of courage.
- paradigm plus — A configurable object-oriented CASE tool from Proto Soft.
- pease pudding — a pudding of strained split peas mixed with egg.
- pride's purge — the forceful exclusion from the House of Commons, carried out by Col. Thomas Pride in December 1648, of about 100 members who favored compromise with the Royalist party.
- pseudepigraph — a book or piece of writing that is falsely titled or credited
- pudding basin — A pudding basin is a deep round bowl that is used in the kitchen, especially for mixing or for cooking puddings.
- pudding stone — conglomerate (def 3).
- pulse dialing — a system of calling telephone numbers wherein electrical pulses corresponding to the digits in the number called are generated by manipulating a rotary dial or push buttons (contrasted with tone dialing).
- quadragesimal — of, relating to, or suitable for Lent; Lenten.
- quadriplegics — Plural form of quadriplegic.
- queen's guide — (in Britain and the Commonwealth when the sovereign is female) a Guide who has passed the highest tests of proficiency
- rendezvousing — an agreement between two or more persons to meet at a certain time and place.
- saint-gaudens — Augustus, 1848–1907, U.S. sculptor, born in Ireland.
- scoping study — a preliminary study to define the scope of a project
- self-doubting — lacking in confidence
- shoulder-high — A shoulder-high object is as high as your shoulders.
- shunt winding — the winding of an electric motor or generator in such a way that the field and armature circuits are connected in parallel
- shunting yard — a place where railway coaches are manoeuvred