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14-letter words containing d, u, n, g

  • dungeness crab — an edible crab, Cancer magister, of shallow Pacific coastal waters from northern California to Alaska.
  • dunning letter — a letter pressing someone for payment
  • dusting powder — a powder used on the skin, especially to relieve irritation or absorb moisture.
  • dusting-powder — a powder used on the skin, especially to relieve irritation or absorb moisture.
  • dutchman's log — a method of gauging a ship's speed, in which the distance between two shipboard observation stations is divided by the time elapsing between the throwing overboard of an object by the first station and the sighting of it by the second.
  • dwelling house — a house occupied, or intended to be occupied, as a residence.
  • eau de cologne — cologne.
  • education page — a page in a newspaper devoted to news relating to education or teaching
  • emergency fund — a sum of money set aside by a country, group, or organization for use in an emergency
  • evergreen fund — a fund that provides capital for new companies and makes regular injections of capital to support their development
  • feeding ground — The feeding ground of a group of animals or birds, is the place where they find food and eat.
  • field guidance — a method of guiding a missile to a point within a gravitational or radio field by means of the properties of the field
  • final judgment — judgment (def 8).
  • fishing ground — a part of a body of water where the fishing is usually good.
  • floating cloud — Drifting Cloud, The.
  • fluid coupling — Machinery. an apparatus in which a fluid, usually oil, transmits torque from one shaft to another, producing an equal torque in the other shaft.
  • flying dustbin — petard (def 3).
  • flying gurnard — any marine fish of the family Dactylopteridae, especially Dactylopterus volitans, having greatly enlarged, colorful pectoral fins that enable it to glide short distances through the air.
  • food colouring — substances used to impart colour to food
  • forward buying — the purchase of merchandise in quantities exceeding demand
  • french bulldog — one of a French breed of small, bat-eared dogs having a large, square head, a short tail, and a short, sleek coat.
  • frozen pudding — a frozen or chilled dessert mixture of rich custard, nuts or candied fruit, and sometimes liquor.
  • garden produce — cultivated or farm-produced goods, such as fruit and vegetables
  • garden rubbish — organic refuse generated by gardening
  • gastroduodenal — of or relating to the stomach and the duodenum
  • gaudi i cornet — Antoni [ahn-taw-nee] /ɑnˈtɔ ni/ (Show IPA), 1852–1926, Spanish architect and designer.
  • gender studies — subject: male and female roles
  • gender-neutral — noting or relating to a word or phrase that does not refer to one gender only: Firefighter and flight attendant are gender-neutral terms.
  • gerald sussman — (person)   (Gerald J. Sussman, Jerry) A noted hacker at MIT and one of the developers of SCHEME and 6.001.
  • gertrude stein — Gertrude, 1874–1946, U.S. author in France.
  • git-up-and-git — get-up-and-go.
  • glanduliferous — having glands or glandules
  • go a bundle on — to be extremely fond of
  • go around with — If you go around with a person or group of people, you regularly meet them and go to different places with them.
  • golden currant — a western North American shrub, Ribes aureum, of the saxifrage family, having purplish fruit and fragrant, drooping clusters of yellow flowers that turn reddish.
  • golden jubilee — the celebration of any of certain anniversaries, as the twenty-fifth (silver jubilee) fiftieth (golden jubilee) or sixtieth or seventy-fifth (diamond jubilee)
  • gouldian finch — a multicoloured finch, Chloebia gouldiae, of tropical N Australia
  • graduate nurse — a person who has graduated from an accredited school of nursing.
  • graduation day — the day on which the ceremony is held at which university or college degrees and diplomas are conferred
  • grand junction — a city in W Colorado.
  • grand seigneur — a dignified or aristocratic man
  • granddaughters — Plural form of granddaughter.
  • grandiloquence — speech that is lofty in tone, often to the point of being pompous or bombastic.
  • granny dumping — the abandonment of an elderly person, especially a relative, at a hospital, bus station, etc.
  • grapple ground — an anchorage, especially for small vessels.
  • great unwashed — the general public; the populace or masses.
  • greyhound race — a race in which greyhounds chase a dummy hare around a track
  • ground control — an airport facility that supervises the movement of aircraft and ground vehicles on ramps and taxiways.
  • ground hemlock — a prostrate yew, Taxus canadensis, of eastern North America, having short, flat needles and red, berrylike fruit.
  • ground leakage — Ground leakage is the flow of current from a live conductor to the earth through the insulation.
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