9-letter words containing g, e, n, i, u
- genuinely — possessing the claimed or attributed character, quality, or origin; not counterfeit; authentic; real: genuine sympathy; a genuine antique.
- geraniums — Plural form of geranium.
- germanium — a scarce, metallic, grayish-white element, normally tetravalent, used chiefly in transistors. Symbol: Ge; atomic weight: 72.59; atomic number: 32; specific gravity: 5.36 at 20°C.
- gerundial — (in certain languages, as Latin) a form regularly derived from a verb and functioning as a noun, having in Latin all case forms but the nominative, as Latin dicendī gen., dicendō, dat., abl., etc., “saying.”. See also gerundive (def 1).
- gerundive — (in Latin) a verbal adjective similar to the gerund in form and noting the obligation, necessity, or worthiness of the action to be done, as legendus in Liber legendus est, “The book is worth reading.”. See also gerund (def 1).
- gesturing — Present participle of gesture.
- ginger up — a reedlike plant, Zingiber officinale, native to the East Indies but now cultivated in most tropical countries, having a pungent, spicy rhizome used in cookery and medicine. Compare ginger family.
- gingerous — (of hair) reddish
- glulisine — A rapid-acting insulin analogue.
- glutamine — a crystalline amino acid, HOOCCH(NH 2)CH 2 CH 2 CONH 2 , related to glutamic acid. Symbol: Q. Abbreviation: Gln;
- granulite — a metamorphic rock composed of granular minerals of uniform size, as quartz, feldspar, or pyroxene, and showing a definite banding.
- gruelling — exhausting; very tiring; arduously severe: the grueling Boston marathon.
- guanidine — a colorless, crystalline, strongly alkaline, water-soluble solid, CH 5 N 3 , used chiefly in the manufacture of plastics, resins, rubber accelerators, and explosives.
- guanodine — (biochemistry, genetics) any of the three nucleotides guanosine monophosphate, guanosine diphosphate and guanosine triphosphate.
- guanosine — a ribonucleoside component of ribonucleic acid, comprising ribose and guanine.
- guberniya — (in the Soviet Union) an administrative division of the volosts, smaller than a district.
- guidances — the act or function of guiding; leadership; direction.
- guideline — any guide or indication of a future course of action: guidelines on the government's future policy.
- guildsmen — a member of a guild.
- guillemin — Roger (Charles Louis) [roj-er chahrlz loo-ee;; French raw-zhey sharl lwee] /ˈrɒdʒ ər tʃɑrlz ˈlu i;; French rɔˈʒeɪ ʃarl lwi/ (Show IPA), born 1924, U.S. physiologist, born in France: Nobel Prize in Medicine 1977.
- guineapig — Alternative spelling of guinea pig.
- guinevere — Arthurian Romance. wife of King Arthur and mistress of Lancelot.
- gum resin — a plant exudation consisting of a mixture of gum and resin.
- gumminess — The state or condition of being gummy.
- gun crime — offences involving firearms
- gurneyite — a supporter of Joseph John Gurney (1788–1847), an English Quaker, who, on a preaching tour of America, advocated Christian evangelical principles.
- gushiness — The property of being gushy.
- gustiness — blowing or coming in gusts, as wind, rain, or storms.
- gutsiness — The state or condition of being gutsy.
- guttering — a channel at the side or in the middle of a road or street, for leading off surface water.
- gynoecium — the pistil or pistils of a flower; the female parts.
- heisenbug — (jargon) /hi:'zen-buhg/ (From Heisenberg's Uncertainty Principle in quantum physics) A bug that disappears or alters its behaviour when one attempts to probe or isolate it. (This usage is not even particularly fanciful; the use of a debugger sometimes alters a program's operating environment enough that buggy code, such as that which relies on the values of uninitialised memory, behaves quite differently.) In C, nine out of ten heisenbugs result from uninitialised auto variables, fandango on core phenomena (especially corruption of the malloc arena) or errors that smash the stack. Opposite: Bohr bug. See also mandelbug, schroedinbug.
- hindenbug — (humour) A catastrophic, data-destroying bug, after the 1937 Hindenburg airship disaster.
- hired gun — a person hired to kill someone, as a gunfighter or professional killer.
- humdinger — a person, thing, action, or statement of remarkable excellence or effect.
- hungering — Present participle of hunger.
- hungriest — Superlative form of hungry.
- hunkering — to squat on one's heels (often followed by down).
- immunogen — any substance or cell introduced into the body in order to generate an immune response.
- in league — If you say that someone is in league with another person to do something bad, you mean that they are working together to do that thing.
- incourage — Archaic form of encourage.
- indulgent — characterized by or showing indulgence; benignly lenient or permissive: an indulgent parent.
- ingenious — characterized by cleverness or originality of invention or construction: an ingenious machine.
- ingenuine — False, not genuine or authentic.
- ingenuity — the quality of being cleverly inventive or resourceful; inventiveness: a designer of great ingenuity.
- ingenuous — free from reserve, restraint, or dissimulation; candid; sincere.
- ingluvies — a dilation or pouch in the oesophagus of certain animals that receives food prior to the main stomach, esp a bird's craw, or the first stomach of a cow or other ruminating animal
- insurgent — a person who rises in forcible opposition to lawful authority, especially a person who engages in armed resistance to a government or to the execution of its laws; rebel.
- integrous — (rare) Having or characterized by integrity.
- intrigued — to arouse the curiosity or interest of by unusual, new, or otherwise fascinating or compelling qualities; appeal strongly to; captivate: The plan intrigues me, but I wonder if it will work.