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

  • colouring book — A colouring book is a book of simple drawings which children can colour in.
  • configuraholic — (jargon)   A luser who twiddles with computer settings until it no longer works and must be fixed by the system administror.
  • conglobulation — the act of conglobing
  • conglomerateur — a person who forms or leads a business conglomerate
  • conglutinating — Present participle of conglutinate.
  • conglutination — glued together; adhering.
  • congratulating — to express pleasure to (a person), as on a happy occasion: They congratulated him on his marriage.
  • congratulation — the act of congratulating
  • congratulatory — A congratulatory message expresses congratulations.
  • consul general — a consul of the highest grade, usually stationed in a city of considerable commercial importance
  • consular agent — a consul of one of the lower grades
  • contour flying — the technique of flying at a constant altitude of less than 22.8 metres (75 feet) above the ground.
  • cornucopia leg — a leg used on pieces in the Directoire and Empire styles, curving downward from the piece and curving upward again to a point and having a foot or caster at the lowest part of the curve.
  • countervailing — A countervailing force, power, or opinion is one which is of equal strength to another one but is its opposite or opposes it.
  • courtesy light — the interior light in a motor vehicle
  • cult following — the admiration that is felt by a particular group for a film, book, band, etc
  • cumberland gap — pass in the Cumberland Plateau, at the juncture of the Va., Ky., & Tenn. borders: c. 1,700 ft (518 m) high
  • cutting stylus — stylus (def 4a).
  • cutting-stylus — stylus (def 4a).
  • cuyahoga falls — a city in NE Ohio, near Akron.
  • de-icing fluid — a liquid that removes or discourages the formation of ice
  • denuclearizing — Present participle of denuclearize.
  • discourageable — Capable of being discouraged; easily disheartened.
  • 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.
  • ductless gland — endocrine gland.
  • dutchman's log — a method of gauging a ship's speed, in which the distance between two shipboard observation stations is divided by the time elapsing between the throwing overboard of an object by the first station and the sighting of it by the second.
  • eau de cologne — cologne.
  • electrosurgery — Surgery using a high-frequency electric current to heat and so cut tissue with great precision.
  • eugeosynclinal — of or relating to a eugeosyncline
  • eulogistically — In the form or manner of a eulogy; with praise.
  • excess luggage — luggage that is greater in weight or in number of pieces than an airline, etc, will carry free
  • excruciatingly — In an excruciating manner or to an excruciating degree; in a manner causing great pain or anguish.
  • faculty lounge — a staffroom
  • 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
  • french bulldog — one of a French breed of small, bat-eared dogs having a large, square head, a short tail, and a short, sleek coat.
  • galactophorous — bearing milk; lactiferous.
  • galvanocautery — a cautery heated by a galvanic current.
  • 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
  • gastrovascular — serving for digestion and circulation, as a cavity.
  • gemuetlichkeit — warm cordiality; comfortable friendliness; congeniality.
  • general public — people in general
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