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

  • rogue dialler — a dial-up connection placed on a computer without the user's knowledge which, when the user tries to connect to the internet, automatically connects to a premium-rate phone number
  • 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
  • run sb ragged — If someone runs you ragged, they make you do so much that you become exhausted.
  • 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.
  • sharp-tongued — characterized by or given to harshness, bitterness, or sarcasm in speech.
  • 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.
  • squanderingly — in a squandering manner
  • square-rigged — having square sails as the principal sails.
  • standing jump — a jump performed from a stationary position without a run-up
  • steganopodous — belonging to the Stegandopodes or having all four toes webbed together
  • student grant — a grant of money awarded to somebody to fund their studying at a university or college
  • subdelegation — a group or body of delegates: Our club sent a delegation to the rally.
  • sugar of lead — lead acetate.
  • sugar orchard — sugarbush (def 2).
  • sunken garden — a formal garden set below the main level of the ground surrounding it.
  • superdelegate — a party leader or elected public official chosen as an uncommitted delegate to a national political convention.
  • tanjungpandan — a town on NW Billiton, in central Indonesia.
  • thoroughpaced — trained to go through all the possible paces, as a horse.
  • trade figures — a record of how much a country has paid for goods which it has bought from other countries, compared with how much it has been paid for goods which it has sold to other countries
  • trigger guard — safety feature on a gun
  • tungstic acid — a hydrate of tungsten trioxide, H 2 WO 4 ⋅H 2 O, used in the manufacture of tungsten-lamp filaments.
  • turbo-charged — A turbo-charged engine or vehicle is fitted with a turbo.
  • ujung pandang — a seaport on SW Sulawesi (Celebes), in central Indonesia.
  • un-negotiated — to deal or bargain with another or others, as in the preparation of a treaty or contract or in preliminaries to a business deal.
  • uncamouflaged — the act, means, or result of obscuring things to deceive an enemy, as by painting or screening objects so that they are lost to view in the background, or by making up objects that from a distance have the appearance of fortifications, guns, roads, etc.: Was camouflage used extensively on fighter aircraft during World War I?
  • uncategorized — to arrange in categories or classes; classify.
  • under-manager — a person who has control or direction of an institution, business, etc., or of a part, division, or phase of it.
  • under-meaning — what is intended to be, or actually is, expressed or indicated; signification; import: the three meanings of a word.
  • under-packing — the act or work of a person or thing that packs.
  • undercarriage — the supporting framework underneath a vehicle, as an automobile or trailer; the structure to which the wheels, tracks, or the like are attached or fitted.
  • underdrainage — drainage of agricultural lands and removal of excess water and of alkali by drains buried beneath the surface.
  • undergraduate — a student in a university or college who has not received a first, especially a bachelor's, degree.
  • underpainting — the first coat of paint, especially the initial painting on a canvas in which the major areas, tones, colors, and forms are indicated in mass.
  • understaffing — the condition of being understaffed or of lacking a number of employees
  • understanding — mental process of a person who comprehends; comprehension; personal interpretation: My understanding of the word does not agree with yours.
  • undeviatingly — to turn aside, as from a route, way, course, etc.
  • undiagnosable — unable to be diagnosed
  • undiscouraged — to deprive of courage, hope, or confidence; dishearten; dispirit.
  • undisguisable — to change the appearance or guise of so as to conceal identity or mislead, as by means of deceptive garb: The king was disguised as a peasant.
  • undistracting — not distracting; not showy or ostentatious
  • unexaggerated — not exaggerated or overblown
  • unideological — not having, belonging to, or relating to any particular ideology or belief system
  • unimpregnated — not saturated, soaked or infused (with something)
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