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14-letter words containing d, i, s, g, u

  • gluteus medius — the muscle of the buttocks lying between the gluteus maximus and the gluteus minimus, involved in the abduction of the thigh.
  • grand seigneur — a dignified or aristocratic man
  • groundskeeping — The activity of tending an area of land for aesthetic or functional purposes; typically as an employee of a person or institution.
  • group dynamics — (used with a plural verb) the interactions that influence the attitudes and behavior of people when they are grouped with others through either choice or accidental circumstances.
  • guided missile — an aerial missile, as a rocket, steered during its flight by radio signals, clockwork controls, etc.
  • heading course — (in brickwork) a course of headers.
  • holding thumbs — holding the thumb of one hand with the other, in the hope of bringing good luck
  • hundredweights — Plural form of hundredweight.
  • hungtow island — an island off the SE coast of Taiwan. 8 miles (13 km) long.
  • indigenousness — The quality or state of being indigenous.
  • judgementalism — Alternative form of judgmentalism.
  • jumping spider — any of several small, hairy spiders, of the family Salticidae, that stalk and jump upon their prey instead of snaring it in a web.
  • laser-guidance — a technique of guiding a missile, etc, using a laser beam
  • light industry — consumer goods manufacturing
  • middlesborough — a city in SE Kentucky.
  • neighbourhoods — Plural form of neighbourhood.
  • non-indigenous — originating in and characteristic of a particular region or country; native (often followed by to): the plants indigenous to Canada; the indigenous peoples of southern Africa.
  • postgraduation — designating or occurring in the period after graduation
  • pound sterling — pound2 (def 3).
  • pressure ridge — a ridge produced on floating ice by buckling or crushing under lateral pressure of wind or ice.
  • pseudepigrapha — certain writings (other than the canonical books and the Apocrypha) professing to be Biblical in character.
  • pseudepigraphy — the false ascription of a piece of writing to an author.
  • pseudo-english — of, relating to, or characteristic of England or its inhabitants, institutions, etc.
  • pseudo-generic — of, applicable to, or referring to all the members of a genus, class, group, or kind; general.
  • queer-sounding — that sounds odd or strange
  • reducing glass — a lens or mirror that produces a virtual image of an object smaller than the object itself.
  • scheduling api — Scheduling Application Programming Interface
  • security guard — a uniformed guard employed by a bank, airport, office building, etc., to maintain security.
  • self-adjusting — that adjusts itself in response to circumstances
  • self-indulgent — indulging one's own desires, passions, whims, etc., especially without restraint.
  • semiconducting — of, relating to, or having the characteristics of a semiconductor.
  • shawinigan-sud — a town in S Quebec, in E Canada, S of Shawinigan.
  • shooting guard — the player responsible for attempting long-range shots
  • silver-tongued — persuasive; eloquent: a silver-tongued orator.
  • social dumping — the practice of allowing employers to lower wages and reduce employees' benefits in order to attract and retain employment and investment
  • sound engineer — A sound engineer is a person who works in a recording studio or for a radio or television company, and whose job it is to alter and balance the levels of different sounds as they are recorded.
  • sounding board — a thin, resonant plate of wood forming part of a musical instrument, and so placed as to enhance the power and quality of the tone.
  • sounding-block — a small block of wood for rapping with a gavel.
  • sponge pudding — a light steamed or baked pudding, spongy in texture, made with various flavourings or fruit
  • square-dancing — the activity of taking part in a square dance
  • sucking diesel — doing very well; successful
  • sugar diabetes — diabetes mellitus
  • summer pudding — a pudding made by filling a bread-lined basin with a purée of fruit, leaving it to soak, and then turning it out
  • sunday morning — a poem (1923) by Wallace Stevens.
  • sunday opening — the act of allowing shops and businesses to open on a Sunday
  • sunday trading — the fact of opening a shop or business on a Sunday
  • take soundings — to try to find out people's opinions on a subject
  • testing ground — place where sth is tested
  • thunder thighs — thick-set upper legs
  • un-distracting — to draw away or divert, as the mind or attention: The music distracted him from his work.
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