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13-letter words containing g, a, l, i, u

  • claim-jumping — a person who seizes another's claim of land, especially for mineral rights.
  • clearinghouse — If an organization acts as a clearinghouse, it collects, sorts, and distributes specialized information.
  • cleistogamous — having small, unopened, self-pollinating flowers, usually in addition to the showier flowers
  • coachbuilding — the manufacture of bodies for cars, buses, and coaches
  • coagulability — The ability to coagulate, of being coagulable.
  • colleagueship — workplace companionship
  • communalizing — Present participle of communalize.
  • confabulating — Present participle of confabulate.
  • conglutinated — Simple past tense and past participle of conglutinate.
  • conglutinator — an agent that conglutinates
  • conjugational — Of or pertaining to conjugation.
  • consanguineal — having the same ancestry or descent; related by blood.
  • coralligenous — producing coral
  • cottage tulip — a late-flowering type of tulip, usually having pointed or elongated flowers.
  • cupping glass — a glass vessel from which air can be removed by suction or heat to create a partial vacuum: formerly used in drawing blood to the surface of the skin for slow bloodletting
  • dabbling duck — any of numerous shallow-water ducks, especially of the genus Anas, that typically feed by upending and dabbling (contrasted with diving duck).
  • dean of guild — the titular head of the guild or merchant company in a Scots burgh, who formerly exercised jurisdiction over all building in the burgh in the Dean of Guild Court
  • deglutination — to extract the gluten from.
  • degranulation — a cellular process in which cytoplasmic granules within certain cells secrete their contents, often to the outside of the cell
  • delian league — an alliance of ancient Greek states formed in 478–77 bc to fight Persia
  • dentosurgical — relating to or used in both dentistry and surgery
  • digital audio — (multimedia, file format)   A sequence of discrete samples taken from a continuous sound (audio) waveform. Tens of thousands of samples are taken each second. Each sample represents the intensity of the sound pressure wave at that instant. Apart from the sampling frequency, the other parameter is the digital encoding of each sample including the number of bits used. The encoding may be linear, logarithmic or mu-law. Digital audio is typically created by taking 16-bit samples over a spectrum of 44.1 thousand cycles per second (kHz), this means that CD quality sound requires 1.4 million bits of data per second. Digital telephone systems use lower sample rates. See also Audio IFF, MP3, wav. A FAQ on audio file formats is available. Part 1, Part 2.
  • digital fount — a typeface of which the letter-shapes have been converted into digital form so that they can be used in computer-aided typesetting
  • disgracefully — In a disgraceful manner.
  • disqualifying — Present participle of disqualify.
  • disregulation — Misspelling of dysregulation.
  • dissimulating — Present participle of dissimulate.
  • double-acting — (of a reciprocating engine, pump, etc.) having pistons accomplishing work in both directions, fluid being admitted alternately to opposite ends of the cylinders. Compare single-acting.
  • dramaturgical — the craft or the techniques of dramatic composition.
  • drum paneling — flush paneling in a door.
  • dual heritage — an upbringing in which one's parents are of different ethnic or religious backgrounds
  • dun laoghaire — a seaport in E Republic of Ireland, near Dublin.
  • dysregulation — A failure to regulate properly.
  • encapsulating — Present participle of encapsulate.
  • encouragingly — In an encouraging manner.
  • enculturating — Present participle of enculturate.
  • equilibrating — Present participle of equilibrate.
  • equivalencing — Present participle of equivalence.
  • excalibur bug — (humour, programming)   The legendary bug that, despite repeated valliant attempts, none but the true king of all programmers can fix. Named after the sword in the stone in the legend of King Arthur.
  • expostulating — Present participle of expostulate.
  • extenuatingly — in an extenuating manner
  • fatiguability — Alternative form of fatigability.
  • fatigue limit — the maximum stress to which a material can be subjected without failing.
  • fault-finding — the act of pointing out faults, especially faults of a petty nature; carping.
  • figured glass — plate or sheet glass having a pattern rolled onto one side of the surface.
  • flame cutting — a method of cutting ferrous metals in which the metal is heated by a torch to about 800°C and is oxidized by a stream of oxygen from the torch
  • fluorographic — of or pertaining to fluorography
  • flying saucer — any of various disk-shaped objects allegedly seen flying at high speeds and altitudes, often with extreme changes in speed and direction, and thought by some to be manned by intelligent beings from outer space.
  • fooling about — the act of speaking or acting in a playful, teasing, or jesting manner
  • formularising — Present participle of formularise.
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