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14-letter words containing e, u, l, o

  • fulfil oneself — to achieve one's potential or desires
  • full professor — professor (def 1).
  • full-fashioned — knitted to conform to the shape of a body part, as of the foot or leg: full-fashioned hosiery.
  • full-flavoured — Full-flavoured food or wine has a pleasant fairly strong taste.
  • functionalised — to make functional.
  • functionalized — Simple past tense and past participle of functionalize.
  • funeral parlor — A funeral parlor is the same as a funeral home.
  • funnily enough — You use funnily enough to indicate that, although something is surprising, it is true or really happened.
  • galvanocautery — a cautery heated by a galvanic current.
  • gambling house — a building for gambling, especially for a large number of betting games.
  • gastroduodenal — of or relating to the stomach and the duodenum
  • gelatiniferous — Yielding gelatine on boiling with water; capable of gelatination.
  • geolinguistics — the study of the geographical distribution of languages
  • george pullman — plural Pullmans. a railroad sleeping car or parlor car.
  • gesticulations — Plural form of gesticulation.
  • glanduliferous — having glands or glandules
  • gluttonousness — The quality of being gluttonous.
  • glyceryl group — the trivalent group (C 3 H 5)− 3 , derived from glycerol.
  • go a bundle on — to be extremely fond of
  • go up the wall — to become crazy or furious
  • 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)
  • grandiloquence — speech that is lofty in tone, often to the point of being pompous or bombastic.
  • granulopoietin — a hormone that promotes the production of white blood cells.
  • grapple ground — an anchorage, especially for small vessels.
  • 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.
  • 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.
  • group velocity — the velocity of finite numbers of waves undergoing simple harmonic motion, equal to the phase velocity when it does not vary with the wavelengths of the waves. The group velocity of the set of waves produced in water when a stone is dropped is less than the velocity of the individual waves.
  • gulf of guinea — a large inlet of the S Atlantic on the W coast of Africa, extending from Cape Palmas, Liberia, to Cape Lopez, Gabon: contains two large bays, the Bight of Bonny and the Bight of Benin, separated by the Niger delta
  • gulf of mexico — a republic in S North America. 761,530 sq. mi. (1,972,363 sq. km). . Capital: Mexico City.
  • 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.
  • gunstock stile — (in a door) a diminished stile having an oblique transition between the broader and narrower parts.
  • hallucinogenic — producing hallucinations: a hallucinogenic drug.
  • haplostemonous — (of plants) having the stamens arranged in a single whorl
  • harlequin opal — a variety of opal having patches of various colors.
  • health tourism — tourist travel for the purpose of receiving medical treatment or improving health or fitness: The spiraling cost of healthcare has contributed to the growth of medical tourism. Also called health tourism.
  • heart and soul — Anatomy. a hollow, pumplike organ of blood circulation, composed mainly of rhythmically contractile smooth muscle, located in the chest between the lungs and slightly to the left and consisting of four chambers: a right atrium that receives blood returning from the body via the superior and inferior vena cavae, a right ventricle that pumps the blood through the pulmonary artery to the lungs for oxygenation, a left atrium that receives the oxygenated blood via the pulmonary veins and passes it through the mitral valve, and a left ventricle that pumps the oxygenated blood, via the aorta, throughout the body.
  • helium balloon — a balloon that is filled with helium and rises up into the air if not held
  • hellaciousness — Quality of being hellacious.
  • hemicelluloses — Plural form of hemicellulose.
  • hemimetabolous — incomplete metamorphosis.
  • hemoglobinuria — the presence of hemoglobin pigment in the urine.
  • hepatocellular — pertaining to or affecting liver cells.
  • hero's formula — the formula for the area of a triangle when the sides are given: for a triangle with sides a, b, and c, the area is equal to , where s is equal to one half the perimeter of the triangle.
  • heroic couplet — a stanza consisting of two rhyming lines in iambic pentameter, especially one forming a rhetorical unit and written in an elevated style, as, Know then thyself, presume not God to scan / The proper study of Mankind is Man.
  • heterologously — In a heterologous manner.
  • heterophyllous — having different kinds of leaves on the same plant.
  • heterosexually — In a heterosexual way.
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