14-letter words containing g, r, u, d
- guided writing — In language teaching, when students do guided writing activities, they are given an outline in words or pictures to help them write.
- guido d'arezzo — (Guido Aretinus"Fra Guittone") c995–1049? Italian monk and music theorist: reformer of musical notation.
- gulf of anadyr — an inlet of the Bering Sea, off the coast of NE Russia
- gull-wing door — a car door that opens upwards
- gunpowder plot — an unsuccessful plot to kill King James I and the assembled Lords and Commons by blowing up Parliament, November 5, 1605, in revenge for the laws against Roman Catholics.
- half-submerged — under the surface of water or any other enveloping medium; inundated.
- hardy ageratum — the mistflower.
- heading course — (in brickwork) a course of headers.
- hedgehog gourd — a prickly-stemmed Arabian vine, Cucumis dipsaceus, of the gourd family, having burlike, bristly fruit.
- honours degree — a degree at honours level
- hundredweights — Plural form of hundredweight.
- hunting ground — a section or area for hunting game.
- hydroxyl group — the univalent group –OH, as in inorganic compounds, such as sodium hydroxide, NaOH, or as in organic compounds, such as ethyl alcohol, C 2 H 6 O.
- 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
- league leaders — the team at the top of a league
- leather-lunged — speaking or capable of speaking in a loud, resonant voice, especially for prolonged periods: The leather-lunged senator carried on the filibuster for 18 hours.
- light industry — consumer goods manufacturing
- light-coloured — having a light colour
- long drawn out — A long drawn out process or conflict lasts an unnecessarily long time or an unpleasantly long time.
- long underwear — a close-fitting, usually knitted undergarment with legs reaching to the ankles, as a union suit, worn as protection against the cold.
- long-drawn-out — lasting a very long time; protracted: a long-drawn-out story.
- magdeburg laws — the local laws of the city of Magdeburg, which were adopted by many European cities in the middle ages
- mangold-wurzel — mangel-wurzel.
- martin du gard — Roger [raw-zhey] /rɔˈʒeɪ/ (Show IPA), 1881–1958, French novelist: Nobel prize 1937.
- merchant guild — a medieval guild composed of merchants.
- merry-go-round — Also called carousel, carrousel. (in amusement parks, carnivals, etc.) a revolving, circular platform with wooden horses or other animals, benches, etc., on which people may sit or ride, usually to the accompaniment of mechanical or recorded music.
- middlesborough — a city in SE Kentucky.
- modular prolog — An interpreter for SB-Prolog version 3.1 extended with ML-style modules. Runs on SPARC. Distributed under GNU General Public License.
- 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.
- muddle through — to mix up in a confused or bungling manner; jumble.
- 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.
- natural gender — gender based on the sex or, for neuter, the lack of sex of the referent of a noun, as English girl (feminine) is referred to by the feminine pronoun she, boy (masculine) by the masculine pronoun he, and table (neuter) by the neuter pronoun it.
- neighbourhoods — Plural form of neighbourhood.
- neubrandenburg — a city in Mecklenburg–West Pomerania, in NE Germany.
- neurodivergent — Having an atypical neurological configuration.
- neuroradiology — the branch of radiology dealing with the central nervous system
- neutral ground — a median strip on a highway or boulevard, especially one planted with grass.
- nitroguanidine — (chemistry) A colourless, crystalline solid manufactured from guanine and used in explosives and pesticides.
- off the ground — the solid surface of the earth; firm or dry land: to fall to the ground.
- old portuguese — the language of Portugal as spoken and written from the 14th to the middle of the 16th centuries.
- on firm ground — in a safe situation
- on home ground — If you say that someone is on their home ground, you mean that they are in or near where they work or live, and feel confident and secure because of this.