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14-letter words containing g, r, u, d, i

  • hundredweights — Plural form of hundredweight.
  • hunting ground — a section or area for hunting game.
  • jerry-building — the act of building (houses, flats, etc) badly using cheap materials
  • jumping spider — any of several small, hairy spiders, of the family Salticidae, that stalk and jump upon their prey instead of snaring it in a web.
  • landing ground — airfield
  • laser-guidance — a technique of guiding a missile, etc, using a laser beam
  • light industry — consumer goods manufacturing
  • light-coloured — having a light colour
  • martin du gard — Roger [raw-zhey] /rɔˈʒeɪ/ (Show IPA), 1881–1958, French novelist: Nobel prize 1937.
  • merchant guild — a medieval guild composed of merchants.
  • middlesborough — a city in SE Kentucky.
  • moulding board — a board on which dough is kneaded
  • mourning bride — a plant, Scabiosa atropurpurea, native to Europe, cultivated for its purple, reddish, or white flowers.
  • muhammad ghori — Mohammed of Ghor.
  • multigrade oil — Multigrade oil is engine or gear oil which works well at both low and high temperatures.
  • multithreading — (parallel)   Sharing a single CPU between multiple tasks (or "threads") in a way designed to minimise the time required to switch threads. This is accomplished by sharing as much as possible of the program execution environment between the different threads so that very little state needs to be saved and restored when changing thread. Multithreading differs from multitasking in that threads share more of their environment with each other than do tasks under multitasking. Threads may be distinguished only by the value of their program counters and stack pointers while sharing a single address space and set of global variables. There is thus very little protection of one thread from another, in contrast to multitasking. Multithreading can thus be used for very fine-grain multitasking, at the level of a few instructions, and so can hide latency by keeping the processor busy after one thread issues a long-latency instruction on which subsequent instructions in that thread depend. A light-weight process is somewhere between a thread and a full process.
  • national guard — state military forces, in part equipped, trained, and quartered by the U.S. government, and paid by the U.S. government, that become an active component of the army when called into federal service by the president in civil emergencies. Compare militia (def 2).
  • natural bridge — a natural limestone bridge in western Virginia. 215 feet (66 meters) high; 90 feet (27 meters) span.
  • neighbourhoods — Plural form of neighbourhood.
  • neurodivergent — Having an atypical neurological configuration.
  • neuroradiology — the branch of radiology dealing with the central nervous system
  • nitroguanidine — (chemistry) A colourless, crystalline solid manufactured from guanine and used in explosives and pesticides.
  • on firm ground — in a safe situation
  • overindulgence — excessive indulgence
  • periodic group — (database)   (PE) Groups of logically related fields which occur multiple times within a group. Periodic groups are a non-relational technique. An example of a PE would be for storing the history of a person's name changes, where name was kept in logically related fields such as surname, first name and middle name - with the person having changed their name more than once.
  • postgraduation — designating or occurring in the period after graduation
  • pound sterling — pound2 (def 3).
  • pressure ridge — a ridge produced on floating ice by buckling or crushing under lateral pressure of wind or ice.
  • proving ground — any place, context, or area for testing something, as a piece of scientific equipment, a theory, etc.
  • pseudepigrapha — certain writings (other than the canonical books and the Apocrypha) professing to be Biblical in character.
  • pseudepigraphy — the false ascription of a piece of writing to an author.
  • pseudo-generic — of, applicable to, or referring to all the members of a genus, class, group, or kind; general.
  • quadragenarian — 40 years of age.
  • quadrigeminate — made up of four parts
  • queer-sounding — that sounds odd or strange
  • radioautograph — autoradiograph.
  • 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.
  • revolving fund — any loan fund intended to be maintained by the repayment of past loans.
  • rounding error — an error introduced into a computation by the need to perform rounding
  • rude awakening — If you have a rude awakening, you are suddenly made aware of an unpleasant fact.
  • security guard — a uniformed guard employed by a bank, airport, office building, etc., to maintain security.
  • shooting guard — the player responsible for attempting long-range shots
  • silver-tongued — persuasive; eloquent: a silver-tongued orator.
  • sound engineer — A sound engineer is a person who works in a recording studio or for a radio or television company, and whose job it is to alter and balance the levels of different sounds as they are recorded.
  • sounding board — a thin, resonant plate of wood forming part of a musical instrument, and so placed as to enhance the power and quality of the tone.
  • square-dancing — the activity of taking part in a square dance
  • sugar diabetes — diabetes mellitus
  • summer pudding — a pudding made by filling a bread-lined basin with a purée of fruit, leaving it to soak, and then turning it out
  • sunday morning — a poem (1923) by Wallace Stevens.
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