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

  • gouldian finch — a multicoloured finch, Chloebia gouldiae, of tropical N Australia
  • graduation day — the day on which the ceremony is held at which university or college degrees and diplomas are conferred
  • grand junction — a city in W Colorado.
  • grand seigneur — a dignified or aristocratic man
  • grandiloquence — speech that is lofty in tone, often to the point of being pompous or bombastic.
  • granny dumping — the abandonment of an elderly person, especially a relative, at a hospital, bus station, etc.
  • groundbreaking — the act or ceremony of breaking ground for a new construction project.
  • group dynamics — (used with a plural verb) the interactions that influence the attitudes and behavior of people when they are grouped with others through either choice or accidental circumstances.
  • guardian angel — an angel believed to protect a particular person, as from danger or error.
  • heading course — (in brickwork) a course of headers.
  • huffman coding — (algorithm)   A data compression technique which varies the length of the encoded symbol in proportion to its information content, that is the more often a symbol or token is used, the shorter the binary string used to represent it in the compressed stream. Huffman codes can be properly decoded because they obey the prefix property, which means that no code can be a prefix of another code, and so the complete set of codes can be represented as a binary tree, known as a Huffman tree. Huffman coding was first described in a seminal paper by D.A. Huffman in 1952.
  • hungtow island — an island off the SE coast of Taiwan. 8 miles (13 km) long.
  • image-building — improving the brand image or public image of something or someone by good public relations, advertising, etc
  • indian pudding — a sweet baked pudding made of cornmeal, molasses, milk, and various spices.
  • judgementalism — Alternative form of judgmentalism.
  • landing ground — airfield
  • laser-guidance — a technique of guiding a missile, etc, using a laser beam
  • longitudinally — of or relating to longitude or length: longitudinal measurement.
  • martin du gard — Roger [raw-zhey] /rɔˈʒeɪ/ (Show IPA), 1881–1958, French novelist: Nobel prize 1937.
  • merchant guild — a medieval guild composed of merchants.
  • mind uploading — (application)   The science fiction concept of copying one's mind into an artificial body or computer.
  • mixed language — any language containing items of vocabulary or other linguistic characteristics borrowed from two or more existing languages
  • moulding board — a board on which dough is kneaded
  • mountain guide — a trained professional mountaineer who guides climbers up a mountain
  • 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.
  • 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.
  • painted tongue — a Chilean plant, Salpiglossis sinuata, of the nightshade family, having large, funnel-shaped flowers in a variety of colors.
  • postgraduation — designating or occurring in the period after graduation
  • quadragenarian — 40 years of age.
  • quadrigeminate — made up of four parts
  • 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.
  • rude awakening — If you have a rude awakening, you are suddenly made aware of an unpleasant fact.
  • scheduling api — Scheduling Application Programming Interface
  • self-adjusting — that adjusts itself in response to circumstances
  • shawinigan-sud — a town in S Quebec, in E Canada, S of Shawinigan.
  • shooting guard — the player responsible for attempting long-range shots
  • social dumping — the practice of allowing employers to lower wages and reduce employees' benefits in order to attract and retain employment and investment
  • 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
  • sunday morning — a poem (1923) by Wallace Stevens.
  • sunday opening — the act of allowing shops and businesses to open on a Sunday
  • sunday trading — the fact of opening a shop or business on a Sunday
  • take soundings — to try to find out people's opinions on a subject
  • tunbridge ware — decorative wooden ware, including tables, trays, boxes, and ornamental objects, produced especially in the late 17th and 18th centuries in Tunbridge Wells, England, with mosaiclike marquetry sawed from square-sectioned wooden rods of different natural colors.
  • un-distracting — to draw away or divert, as the mind or attention: The music distracted him from his work.
  • under-training — Railroads. a self-propelled, connected group of rolling stock.
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