14-letter words containing g, e, n, i, o, u
- devil's-tongue — a foul-smelling, fleshy plant, Amorphophallus rivieri, of the Old World tropics, having flowers on a spike surrounded by a dark-red spathe.
- discouragement — an act or instance of discouraging.
- disingenuously — In a manner that is not frank or open; deceptively.
- double digging — a method of digging ground in a series of trenches two spits deep, mixing the soil of the bottom spit with manure, and then transferring the soil from the top spit of one trench to the top spit of the preceding one
- double glazing — glazing consisting of two thicknesses of glass with a dead air space between them.
- double marking — a method of assessment in which two individuals independently mark a test or evaluate a performance
- double parking — the activity or offence of parking a vehicle in a traffic lane
- double spacing — text layout: extra space between lines
- double wedding — a wedding in which two couples marry
- double-dealing — duplicity; treachery; deception.
- double-dipping — the act or practice of receiving more than one income or collecting double benefits from the same employer or organization.
- downregulating — Present participle of downregulate.
- downregulation — (genetics) The process, in the regulation of gene expression, in which the number, or activity of receptors decreases in order to decrease sensitivity.
- 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.
- dwelling house — a house occupied, or intended to be occupied, as a residence.
- education page — a page in a newspaper devoted to news relating to education or teaching
- engine trouble — malfunction of a vehicle's engine
- ethnoreligious — Of or pertaining to ethnicity and religion.
- eugeosynclinal — of or relating to a eugeosyncline
- exsanguination — The action of draining a person, animal, or organ of blood.
- feeding ground — The feeding ground of a group of animals or birds, is the place where they find food and eat.
- finger trouble — trouble caused by operator error, such as striking the wrong key
- flagitiousness — The state or quality of being flagitious.
- flight surgeon — a medical officer in the U.S. Air Force who is trained in aviation medicine.
- fortunetelling — the act or practice of predicting the future.
- francois guise — François de Lorraine [frahn-swa duh law-ren] /frɑ̃ˈswa də lɔˈrɛn/ (Show IPA), 2nd Duc de, 1519–63, French general and statesman.
- frozen pudding — a frozen or chilled dessert mixture of rich custard, nuts or candied fruit, and sometimes liquor.
- funnily enough — You use funnily enough to indicate that, although something is surprising, it is true or really happened.
- gambling house — a building for gambling, especially for a large number of betting games.
- garrison house — a style of early New England house in which the second floor projects beyond the first.
- gaudi i cornet — Antoni [ahn-taw-nee] /ɑnˈtɔ ni/ (Show IPA), 1852–1926, Spanish architect and designer.
- geiger counter — an instrument for detecting ionizing radiations, consisting of a gas-filled tube in which electric-current pulses are produced when the gas is ionized by radiation, and of a device to register these pulses: used chiefly to measure radioactivity.
- gelatiniferous — Yielding gelatine on boiling with water; capable of gelatination.
- gentoo penguin — a penguin, Pygoscelis papua, of small Antarctic islands.
- geolinguistics — the study of the geographical distribution of languages
- gesticulations — Plural form of gesticulation.
- giuseppe peano — (person, mathematics, logic) (1858-08-27 - 1932-04-20) An Italian mathematician who wrote over 200 books and papers, was a founder of mathematical logic and set theory and taught at the University of Turin. He contributed to mathematical analysis, logic, the teaching of calculus, differential equations, vector analysis and the axiomatization of mathematics. The standard axiomatization of the natural numbers is named Peano arithmetic or the Peano axioms after him. He also invented the Peano curve, an early example of a fractal.
- glanduliferous — having glands or glandules
- go up in smoke — the visible vapor and gases given off by a burning or smoldering substance, especially the gray, brown, or blackish mixture of gases and suspended carbon particles resulting from the combustion of wood, peat, coal, or other organic matter.
- 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.
- gratuitousness — The state or characteristic of being gratuitous.
- gregariousness — fond of the company of others; sociable.
- groundbreaking — the act or ceremony of breaking ground for a new construction project.
- groundskeeping — The activity of tending an area of land for aesthetic or functional purposes; typically as an employee of a person or institution.
- group genitive — (in English) a construction in which the genitive ending 's is added to an entire phrase, especially when added to a word other than the head of the noun phrase, as the woman who lives across the street's in That is the woman who lives across the street's cat or the people next-door's in The people next-door's house is for rent.
- group medicine — the practice of medicine by a number of specialists working together in association
- grouse-beating — hunting for grouse by trying to drive them towards hunters using flags, sticks, and other devices