14-letter words containing g, u, e, l
- george pullman — plural Pullmans. a railroad sleeping car or parlor car.
- gerald sussman — (person) (Gerald J. Sussman, Jerry) A noted hacker at MIT and one of the developers of SCHEME and 6.001.
- gesticulations — Plural form of gesticulation.
- glanduliferous — having glands or glandules
- glauber's salt — the decahydrate form of sodium sulfate, a colorless, crystalline, water-soluble solid, Na 2 SO 4 ·10H 2 O, used chiefly in textile dyeing and as a cathartic.
- glutaraldehyde — a nonflammable liquid, C 5 H 8 O 2 , soluble in water and alcohol, toxic and an irritant, used for tanning leather and as a fixative for samples to be examined under the electron microscope.
- gluteus medius — the muscle of the buttocks lying between the gluteus maximus and the gluteus minimus, involved in the abduction of the thigh.
- gluttonousness — The quality of being gluttonous.
- glyceryl group — the trivalent group (C 3 H 5)− 3 , derived from glycerol.
- go a bundle on — to be extremely fond of
- go up the wall — to become crazy or furious
- golden currant — a western North American shrub, Ribes aureum, of the saxifrage family, having purplish fruit and fragrant, drooping clusters of yellow flowers that turn reddish.
- golden jubilee — the celebration of any of certain anniversaries, as the twenty-fifth (silver jubilee) fiftieth (golden jubilee) or sixtieth or seventy-fifth (diamond jubilee)
- grandiloquence — speech that is lofty in tone, often to the point of being pompous or bombastic.
- granulopoietin — a hormone that promotes the production of white blood cells.
- grapefruitlike — Resembling or characteristic of grapefruit.
- grapple ground — an anchorage, especially for small vessels.
- ground hemlock — a prostrate yew, Taxus canadensis, of eastern North America, having short, flat needles and red, berrylike fruit.
- ground leakage — Ground leakage is the flow of current from a live conductor to the earth through the insulation.
- groundlessness — The state or condition of being groundless.
- groundsel tree — a composite shrub, Baccharis halimifolia, having dull, gray-green leaves and fruit with tufts of long, white hair, growing in salt marshes of eastern North America.
- group velocity — the velocity of finite numbers of waves undergoing simple harmonic motion, equal to the phase velocity when it does not vary with the wavelengths of the waves. The group velocity of the set of waves produced in water when a stone is dropped is less than the velocity of the individual waves.
- guadalupe palm — a fan palm, Brahea (or Erythea) edulis, of southern California, having long clusters of globe-shaped, black, edible fruit.
- guardian angel — an angel believed to protect a particular person, as from danger or error.
- guatemala city — a republic in N Central America. 42,042 sq. mi. (108,889 sq. km).
- guided missile — an aerial missile, as a rocket, steered during its flight by radio signals, clockwork controls, etc.
- gulf of guinea — a large inlet of the S Atlantic on the W coast of Africa, extending from Cape Palmas, Liberia, to Cape Lopez, Gabon: contains two large bays, the Bight of Bonny and the Bight of Benin, separated by the Niger delta
- gulf of mexico — a republic in S North America. 761,530 sq. mi. (1,972,363 sq. km). . Capital: Mexico City.
- 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.
- gunstock stile — (in a door) a diminished stile having an oblique transition between the broader and narrower parts.
- gypsum plaster — plaster made primarily of gypsum.
- haemagglutinin — Alternative spelling of hemagglutinin.
- hague tribunal — the court of arbitration for the peaceful settlement of international disputes, established at The Hague by the international peace conference of 1899: its panel of jurists nominates a list of persons from which members of the United Nations International Court of Justice are elected.
- half-submerged — under the surface of water or any other enveloping medium; inundated.
- hallucinogenic — producing hallucinations: a hallucinogenic drug.
- hemagglutinate — to cause the clumping of red blood cells in
- hemoglobinuria — the presence of hemoglobin pigment in the urine.
- heterologously — In a heterologous manner.
- horse vaulting — gymnastics performed on horseback
- house-cleaning — the act of cleaning a house, room, etc., and its furnishings, especially the act of cleaning thoroughly and completely.
- household gods — a god presiding over and protecting the home, especially in the religion of ancient Rome.
- huckleberrying — the activity of gathering huckleberries
- image-building — improving the brand image or public image of something or someone by good public relations, advertising, etc
- impulse buying — the buying of retail merchandise prompted by a whim on seeing the product displayed
- in league with — along with, plotting with
- ingloriousness — The state of being inglorious.
- insightfulness — The state or condition of being insightful.
- integral curve — a curve that is a geometric representation of a functional solution to a given differential equation.
- interlanguages — Plural form of interlanguage.
- interlingually — in an interlingual manner