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14-letter words containing g, l, u, c, i

  • discouragingly — In a discouraging manner.
  • double spacing — text layout: extra space between lines
  • drifting cloud — Japanese Uki Gumo. a novel (1887–89) by Shimei Futabatei.
  • eugeosynclinal — of or relating to a eugeosyncline
  • eulogistically — In the form or manner of a eulogy; with praise.
  • excruciatingly — In an excruciating manner or to an excruciating degree; in a manner causing great pain or anguish.
  • field guidance — a method of guiding a missile to a point within a gravitational or radio field by means of the properties of the field
  • floating cloud — Drifting Cloud, The.
  • fluid coupling — Machinery. an apparatus in which a fluid, usually oil, transmits torque from one shaft to another, producing an equal torque in the other shaft.
  • flying colours — conspicuous success; triumph
  • focusing cloth — an opaque cloth surrounding the ground glass of a camera so as to shield the eyes of the photographer from light that would otherwise prevent seeing the image in the ground glass.
  • food colouring — substances used to impart colour to food
  • garlic crusher — a kitchen implement used to crush cloves of garlic
  • garlic mustard — a plant, Alliaria petiolata, of N temperate regions, with small white flowers and an odour of garlic: family Brassicaceae (crucifers)
  • garlic sausage — sausage meat flavoured with garlic
  • gemuetlichkeit — warm cordiality; comfortable friendliness; congeniality.
  • general public — people in general
  • geolinguistics — the study of the geographical distribution of languages
  • gesticulations — Plural form of gesticulation.
  • glucocorticoid — any of a class of steroid hormones that are synthesized by the adrenal cortex of vertebrates and have anti-inflammatory activity.
  • gouldian finch — a multicoloured finch, Chloebia gouldiae, of tropical N Australia
  • grandiloquence — speech that is lofty in tone, often to the point of being pompous or bombastic.
  • 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.
  • guatemala city — a republic in N Central America. 42,042 sq. mi. (108,889 sq. km).
  • gulf of mexico — a republic in S North America. 761,530 sq. mi. (1,972,363 sq. km). . Capital: Mexico City.
  • gunstock stile — (in a door) a diminished stile having an oblique transition between the broader and narrower parts.
  • hallucinogenic — producing hallucinations: a hallucinogenic drug.
  • house-cleaning — the act of cleaning a house, room, etc., and its furnishings, especially the act of cleaning thoroughly and completely.
  • huckleberrying — the activity of gathering huckleberries
  • incontiguously — in an incontiguous or unconnected fashion; discretely
  • integral curve — a curve that is a geometric representation of a functional solution to a given differential equation.
  • junior college — a collegiate institution offering courses only through the first one or two years of college instruction and granting a certificate of title instead of a degree.
  • king's counsel — a body of barristers of a higher status who are specially appointed to be the crown's counsel, and who are permitted to plead inside the bar in the court.
  • lactoglobulins — Plural form of lactoglobulin.
  • lake nicaragua — a lake in SW Nicaragua, separated from the Pacific by an isthmus 19 km (12 miles) wide: the largest lake in Central America. Area: 8264 sq km (3191 sq miles)
  • laser-guidance — a technique of guiding a missile, etc, using a laser beam
  • laughing stock — object of others' amusement
  • laughingstocks — Plural form of laughingstock.
  • learning curve — Education. a graphic representation of progress in learning measured against the time required to achieve mastery.
  • light-coloured — having a light colour
  • lignocellulose — any of various compounds of lignin and cellulose comprising the essential part of woody cell walls.
  • limburg cheese — a semihard white cheese of very strong smell and flavour
  • linguistically — of or belonging to language: linguistic change.
  • living picture — tableau (def 3).
  • logic emulator — A system of FPGAs, programmable interconnect and software which automatically configures itself into an operating prototype of a large-scale logic design, such as a microprocessor. An emulated design can be connected into the target system and really operated and tested before the design is made into an integrated circuit.
  • logistic curve — a curve, shaped like a letter S , defined as an exponential function and used to model various forms of growth.
  • lunatic fringe — members on the periphery of any group, especially political, social, or religious, who hold extreme or fanatical views.
  • macroglobulins — Plural form of macroglobulin.
  • malfunctioning — failure to function properly: a malfunction of the liver; the malfunction of a rocket.
  • malpighiaceous — of, relating to, or belonging to the Malpighiaceae, a family of tropical plants many of which are lianas
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