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13-letter words containing g, u, a, d, i, n

  • grand guignol — a short drama stressing horror and sensationalism.
  • grandiloquent — speaking or expressed in a lofty style, often to the point of being pompous or bombastic.
  • grandiloquous — grandiloquent
  • ground-to-air — (of weapons) designed to be fired at aircraft from the ground
  • guanylic acid — GMP.
  • guard against — prevent
  • hanging judge — sb who sentences criminals to execution
  • hasty pudding — New England. cornmeal mush.
  • hydraulicking — a type of mining that uses water to move rock
  • india drugget — drugget (def 1).
  • individuating — Present participle of individuate.
  • judgmentalism — Judgmental behaviour or attitude.
  • junggar pendi — an arid region of W China, in N Xinjiang between the Altai Mountains and the Tian Shan
  • launching pad — the platform on which a missile or launch vehicle undergoes final prelaunch checkout and countdown and from which it is launched from the surface of the earth.
  • lounge lizard — a foppish man who frequents bars, cafés, hotel lounges, etc., with or in search of women.
  • lunar landing — arrival on surface of the moon
  • machinegunned — Simple past tense and past participle of machinegun.
  • magnetic drum — a cylinder coated with magnetic material, on which data and programs can be stored.
  • magnitudinous — size; extent; dimensions: to determine the magnitude of an angle.
  • match-funding — the stipulation set by a grant-providing body that the recipients of a grant raise a certain percentage of the money they require, generally a sum more or less equal to that of the sum of money being granted
  • measuring rod — ruler, gauge, stick for measuring
  • mourning band — a piece of black material, esp an armband, worn to indicate that the wearer is in mourning
  • much-maligned — If you describe someone or something as much-maligned, you mean that they are often criticized by people, but you think the criticism is unfair or exaggerated because they have good qualities too.
  • muzzleloading — Of a gun, having ammunition loaded from the front of the barrel where it will exit.
  • my giddy aunt — an exclamation of surprise
  • nondiapausing — lacking a diapause
  • old bulgarian — the Bulgarian language of the Middle Ages.
  • organ-builder — a maker of organs
  • outdistancing — Present participle of outdistance.
  • outstandingly — prominent; conspicuous; striking: an outstanding example of courage.
  • pease pudding — a pudding of strained split peas mixed with egg.
  • piper gurnard — a marine fish, Trigla lyra, of the family Triglidae
  • plague-ridden — afflicted by the plague or a plague
  • pudding basin — A pudding basin is a deep round bowl that is used in the kitchen, especially for mixing or for cooking puddings.
  • pulse dialing — a system of calling telephone numbers wherein electrical pulses corresponding to the digits in the number called are generated by manipulating a rotary dial or push buttons (contrasted with tone dialing).
  • quadrigeminal — Having four parts, or two pairs.
  • quadrilingual — using or involving four languages: a quadrilingual person; a quadrilingual translation of the Bible.
  • quadringenary — a 400th anniversary
  • quindecagonal — (geometry) Shaped like a quindecagon; fifteen-sided.
  • reading group — a group of people who meet regularly to discuss a book that they have all read
  • rough diamond — gemstone: uncut diamond
  • rubberbanding — (in online video games) the backward popping of characters in motion to their recently occupied spaces that results from high latency in the network connection.
  • ruggedization — the act or process of making something rugged
  • running board — a small ledge, step, or footboard, formerly beneath the doors of an automobile, to assist passengers entering or leaving the car.
  • saint-gaudens — Augustus, 1848–1907, U.S. sculptor, born in Ireland.
  • shunting yard — a place where railway coaches are manoeuvred
  • single-valued — (of a function) having the property that each element in the domain has corresponding to it exactly one element in the range.
  • solidungulate — having a single, undivided hoof on each foot, as a horse.
  • sound ranging — a method for determining the distance between a point and the position of a sound source by measuring the time lapse between the origin of the sound and its arrival at the point.
  • sounding lead — a line weighted with a lead or plummet (sounding lead) and bearing marks to show the length paid out, used for sounding, as at sea.
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