12-letter words containing g, u, e, n
- black tongue — canine pellagra.
- blue springs — a town in W Missouri.
- blue whiting — a fish of the cod family, Micromesistius poutassou
- blue-singlet — working-class
- blueprinting — a process of photographic printing, used chiefly in copying architectural and mechanical drawings, which produces a white line on a blue background.
- bluesnarfing — the practice of using one Bluetooth-enabled mobile phone to steal contact details, ring tones, images, etc from another
- bluestocking — A bluestocking is an intellectual woman.
- bonnet rouge — a red cap worn by ardent supporters of the French Revolution
- bougainville — an island in the W Pacific, in Papua New Guinea: the largest of the Solomon Islands: unilaterally declared independence in 1990; occupied by government troops in 1992, and granted autonomy in 2001. Chief town: Kieta. Area: 10 049 sq km (3880 sq miles)
- boulangerite — a bluish lead-gray mineral, lead antimony sulfide, Pb 5 Sb 4 S 11 , a minor ore of lead.
- bounce light — Also, bounce lighting. light that is bounced off a reflective surface onto the subject in order to achieve a softer lighting effect.
- bouncing bet — a perennial soapwort (Saponaria officinalis) with clusters of pinkish flowers
- bound charge — any electric charge that is bound to an atom or molecule (opposed to free charge).
- braunschweig — Brunswick
- break ground — to do something that has not been done before
- buccaneering — If you describe someone as buccaneering, you mean that they enjoy being involved in risky or even dishonest activities, especially in order to make money.
- bumping race — (esp at Oxford and Cambridge) a race in which rowing eights start an equal distance one behind the other and each tries to bump the boat in front
- bundle buggy — a shopping cart, usually one owned by the shopper rather than one provided by the store.
- burnt orange — of a dark orange colour, sometimes due to calcination of orange pigment
- bush singlet — a black woollen singlet often worn by farm labourers
- butter icing — a mixture of butter and icing sugar used for filling or topping cakes
- buying order — an order to buy a certain security
- buying power — the amount of services or goods a company, person, group or currency is able to purchase
- buying spree — the hurried acquisition by a company, of goods, assets, or other companies
- buying-power — Also called buying power. the ability to purchase goods and services.
- caterwauling — the shrieking and yowling made by a cat, for example when it is on heat or fighting
- centrifugate — the denser of the centrifuged materials.
- centrifuging — an apparatus that rotates at high speed and by centrifugal force separates substances of different densities, as milk and cream.
- ch-ien--lung — (Kao Tsung) 1711–99, Chinese emperor of the Ch'ing dynasty 1736–96.
- change purse — A change purse is a very small bag that people, especially women, keep their money in.
- change round — to place in or adopt a different or opposite position
- changearound — the act of changing to a different position
- charge nurse — A charge nurse is a nurse who is in charge of a hospital ward.
- chauffeuring — Present participle of chauffeur.
- chincoteague — a town on a small island in a lagoon (Chincoteague Bay) in E Virginia: annual wild pony roundup.
- chirurgeonly — in the manner of a surgeon
- chukot range — mountain range in NE Siberia: highest peak, c. 7,500 ft (2,286 m)
- chump change — Slang. a small or insignificant amount of money.
- cip language — language> (CIP-L, Computer-aided Intuition-guided Programming Language) A wide-spectrum language for incremental program transformation. There are ALGOL- and Pascal-like variants.
- citrangequat — A trigenic hybrid cross of two types of orange and a kumquat.
- clearcutting — the act of felling all trees in area
- come running — hurry, rush
- come unglued — If something comes unglued, it becomes separated from the thing that it was attached to.
- configurable — to design or adapt to form a specific configuration or for some specific purpose: The planes are being configured to hold more passengers in each row.
- configurated — to give a configuration, form, or design to.
- conglobulate — to form into a globe or ball
- conglutinate — to cause (the edges of a wound or fracture) to join during the process of healing or (of the edges of a wound or fracture) to join during this process
- congratulate — If you congratulate someone, you say something to show you are pleased that something nice has happened to them.
- congruencies — congruence.
- congruential — (mathematics) That uses congruency (division by a modulus).