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14-letter words containing g, e, n, i, u

  • nursing sister — a female nurse, sometimes of a high grade
  • nyctaginaceous — belonging to the Nyctaginaceae, the four-o'clock family of plants.
  • oleaginousness — The state or condition of being oleaginous; oiliness, unctuousness.
  • osmoregulation — the process by which cells and simple organisms maintain fluid and electrolyte balance with their surroundings.
  • outer mongolia — a region in Asia including Inner Mongolia of China and the Mongolian People's Republic.
  • outgeneralling — Present participle of outgeneral.
  • outing flannel — a light cotton flannel with a short, dense nap.
  • outmaneuvering — Present participle of outmaneuver.
  • outmanoeuvring — Present participle of outmanoeuvre.
  • over-consuming — to destroy or expend by use; use up.
  • overindulgence — excessive indulgence
  • overregulation — a law, rule, or other order prescribed by authority, especially to regulate conduct.
  • oversaturating — to cause (a substance) to unite with the greatest possible amount of another substance, through solution, chemical combination, or the like.
  • painted tongue — a Chilean plant, Salpiglossis sinuata, of the nightshade family, having large, funnel-shaped flowers in a variety of colors.
  • plain language — language that is clear and easy to understand, with no ambiguity or unnecessarily difficult words
  • pneumonologist — an expert or specialist in the respiratory system
  • popular singer — a professional singer who specializes in popular songs.
  • pound sterling — pound2 (def 3).
  • pre-accounting — an oral or written description of particular events or situations; narrative: an account of the meetings; an account of the trip.
  • printing house — a company engaged in the business of producing printed matter
  • progametangium — Mycology. the hyphal tip of certain fungi that produces the gametangium and subsequent gamete.
  • pruning shears — small, sturdy shears used for pruning shrubbery.
  • pseudo-english — of, relating to, or characteristic of England or its inhabitants, institutions, etc.
  • pseudo-generic — of, applicable to, or referring to all the members of a genus, class, group, or kind; general.
  • pugnaciousness — inclined to quarrel or fight readily; quarrelsome; belligerent; combative.
  • quadragenarian — 40 years of age.
  • quadrigeminate — made up of four parts
  • quaker meeting — a meeting of Quakers, at which all members, except those moved to speak, remain silent.
  • quarterbacking — a back in football who usually lines up immediately behind the center and directs the offense of the team.
  • quasi-negative — expressing or containing negation or denial: a negative response to the question.
  • queer-sounding — that sounds odd or strange
  • queuing theory — a theory that deals with providing a service on a waiting line, or queue, especially when the demand for it is irregular and describable by probability distributions, as processing phone calls arriving at a telephone exchange or collecting highway tolls from drivers at tollbooths.
  • quicksilvering — the mercury on the back of a mirror
  • quinquagesimal — of, relating to, or consisting of a set of 50
  • quinquelingual — Written in five languages.
  • quotient group — a group, the elements of which are cosets with respect to a normal subgroup of a given group.
  • rabble-rousing — of, relating to, or characteristic of a rabble-rouser.
  • recklinghausen — a city in NW Rhine-Westphalia, in Germany.
  • reducing agent — a substance that causes another substance to undergo reduction and that is oxidized in the process.
  • reducing glass — a lens or mirror that produces a virtual image of an object smaller than the object itself.
  • repromulgation — to make known by open declaration; publish; proclaim formally or put into operation (a law, decree of a court, etc.).
  • requisitioning — the act of requiring or demanding.
  • retrocomputing — /ret'-roh-k*m-pyoo'ting/ Refers to emulations of way-behind-the-state-of-the-art hardware or software, or implementations of never-was-state-of-the-art; especially if such implementations are elaborate practical jokes and/or parodies, written mostly for hack value, of more "serious" designs. Perhaps the most widely distributed retrocomputing utility was the "pnch(6)" or "bcd(6)" program on V7 and other early Unix versions, which would accept up to 80 characters of text argument and display the corresponding pattern in punched card code. Other well-known retrocomputing hacks have included the programming language INTERCAL, a JCL-emulating shell for Unix, the card-punch-emulating editor named 029, and various elaborate PDP-11 hardware emulators and RT-11 OS emulators written just to keep an old, sourceless Zork binary running.
  • revolving fund — any loan fund intended to be maintained by the repayment of past loans.
  • rolling cutter — A rolling cutter is a drill bit which is often used for drilling hard rock.
  • rounding error — an error introduced into a computation by the need to perform rounding
  • route flapping — flapping router
  • rude awakening — If you have a rude awakening, you are suddenly made aware of an unpleasant fact.
  • rummelgumption — commonsense
  • rummlegumption — common sense
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