14-letter words containing d, u, n, g
- groundbreaking — the act or ceremony of breaking ground for a new construction project.
- groundlessness — The state or condition of being groundless.
- groundsel tree — a composite shrub, Baccharis halimifolia, having dull, gray-green leaves and fruit with tufts of long, white hair, growing in salt marshes of eastern North America.
- groundskeepers — Plural form of groundskeeper.
- 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.
- group medicine — the practice of medicine by a number of specialists working together in association
- guard of honor — a guard specially designated for welcoming or escorting distinguished guests or for accompanying a casket in a military funeral.
- guardian angel — an angel believed to protect a particular person, as from danger or error.
- guided writing — In language teaching, when students do guided writing activities, they are given an outline in words or pictures to help them write.
- gulf of anadyr — an inlet of the Bering Sea, off the coast of NE Russia
- gull-wing door — a car door that opens upwards
- gunpowder plot — an unsuccessful plot to kill King James I and the assembled Lords and Commons by blowing up Parliament, November 5, 1605, in revenge for the laws against Roman Catholics.
- heading course — (in brickwork) a course of headers.
- hognosed skunk — Also called badger skunk, rooter skunk. a large, naked-muzzled skunk, Conepatus mesoleucus, common in the southwestern U.S. and Mexico, having a black coat with one broad white stripe down the back and tail.
- holding thumbs — holding the thumb of one hand with the other, in the hope of bringing good luck
- honours degree — a degree at honours level
- hound's-tongue — any of various plants belonging to the genus Cynoglossum, of the borage family, especially C. officinale, having coarse, tongue-shaped leaves, dull purple flowers, and prickly nutlets.
- huffman coding — (algorithm) A data compression technique which varies the length of the encoded symbol in proportion to its information content, that is the more often a symbol or token is used, the shorter the binary string used to represent it in the compressed stream. Huffman codes can be properly decoded because they obey the prefix property, which means that no code can be a prefix of another code, and so the complete set of codes can be represented as a binary tree, known as a Huffman tree. Huffman coding was first described in a seminal paper by D.A. Huffman in 1952.
- hundredweights — Plural form of hundredweight.
- hungtow island — an island off the SE coast of Taiwan. 8 miles (13 km) long.
- hunting ground — a section or area for hunting game.
- image-building — improving the brand image or public image of something or someone by good public relations, advertising, etc
- indian pudding — a sweet baked pudding made of cornmeal, molasses, milk, and various spices.
- indigenousness — The quality or state of being indigenous.
- indigo bunting — a North American bunting, Passerina cyanea, the male of which is indigo.
- jelly doughnut — a raised doughnut filled with jelly or jam and sometimes sprinkled with powdered sugar.
- jerry-building — the act of building (houses, flats, etc) badly using cheap materials
- 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.
- landing ground — airfield
- language death — the complete displacement of one language by another in a population of speakers.
- langue de chat — a flat sweet finger-shaped biscuit
- laser-guidance — a technique of guiding a missile, etc, using a laser beam
- last judgement — In the Christian religion, the Last Judgement is the last day of the world when God will judge everyone who has died and decide whether they will go to Heaven or Hell.
- leather-lunged — speaking or capable of speaking in a loud, resonant voice, especially for prolonged periods: The leather-lunged senator carried on the filibuster for 18 hours.
- legal document — a document concerning a legal matter; a document drawn up by a lawyer
- light industry — consumer goods manufacturing
- long drawn out — A long drawn out process or conflict lasts an unnecessarily long time or an unpleasantly long time.
- long underwear — a close-fitting, usually knitted undergarment with legs reaching to the ankles, as a union suit, worn as protection against the cold.
- long-drawn-out — lasting a very long time; protracted: a long-drawn-out story.
- longitudinally — of or relating to longitude or length: longitudinal measurement.
- lymphoglandula — (anatomy) An alternative name for a lymph node.
- mangold-wurzel — mangel-wurzel.
- martin du gard — Roger [raw-zhey] /rɔˈʒeɪ/ (Show IPA), 1881–1958, French novelist: Nobel prize 1937.
- merchant guild — a medieval guild composed of merchants.
- merry-go-round — Also called carousel, carrousel. (in amusement parks, carnivals, etc.) a revolving, circular platform with wooden horses or other animals, benches, etc., on which people may sit or ride, usually to the accompaniment of mechanical or recorded music.
- mind uploading — (application) The science fiction concept of copying one's mind into an artificial body or computer.
- mixed language — any language containing items of vocabulary or other linguistic characteristics borrowed from two or more existing languages
- moulding board — a board on which dough is kneaded