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13-letter words containing g, u, e, n

  • bread pudding — a rich cake made with bread soaked in milk, eggs, dried fruit and spices and baked, usually eaten cold
  • brownie guide — a member of the Brownie Guides, one of the junior branches (aged 7–10 years) in The Guide Association
  • buccaneerings — the characteristic actions of a buccaneer
  • buck sergeant — a newly promoted sergeant
  • buffing wheel — a wheel covered with a soft material, such as lamb's wool or leather, used for shining and polishing
  • building line — the boundary line along a street beyond which buildings must not project
  • building site — A building site is an area of land on which a building or a group of buildings is in the process of being built or altered.
  • bulk settling — Bulk settling is a process in which two liquids, or a solid and a liquid, of different densities are allowed to separate by gravity.
  • bus mastering — bus master
  • butterfingers — a person who drops things inadvertently or fails to catch things
  • cadmium green — a pigment used in painting, consisting of a mixture of hydrated oxide of chromium with cadmium sulfide, and characterized by its strong green color and slow drying rate.
  • calf's tongue — a molding having pendent, tonguelike members in relief against a flat or molded surface.
  • canon regular — a clergyman of certain religious communities following a monastic rule
  • capsule range — a small range of clothes by a particular designer, intended to be representative of the full range
  • carnegie unit — a standardized unit of measurement for evaluating courses in secondary schools in terms of college entrance requirements, representing one year's study in any subject, that subject having been taught for a minimum of 120 classroom hours to qualify.
  • cellar fungus — a fungus, Coniophora puteana, that causes dry rot in timber.
  • centre ground — the nominal space in the political spectrum that is neither right or left
  • centrifugally — Away from a centre or axis.
  • centrifugence — the property of being centrifugal
  • chaise longue — A chaise longue is a kind of sofa with only one arm and usually a back along half its length.
  • chaise lounge — A chaise lounge is the same as a chaise longue.
  • changefulness — Propensity to change.
  • chewing louse — See under louse (def 2).
  • chickenburger — A hot sandwich made of a patty of chicken in a bun, often with other ingredients.
  • chilean guava — a tropical shrub or small tree, Ugni molinae, of the myrtle family, having leathery, oval leaves, rose-pink flowers, and blue-black, edible fruit.
  • circumflexing — Present participle of circumflex.
  • circumventing — to go around or bypass: to circumvent the lake; to circumvent the real issues.
  • clearinghouse — If an organization acts as a clearinghouse, it collects, sorts, and distributes specialized information.
  • cloud seeding — any technique of adding material to a cloud to alter its natural development, usually to increase or obtain precipitation.
  • coco language — (language)   (Cocol) A language for writing left-attributed LL1 grammars, used as the input language for the Coco LL1 parser generator, which produces Modula-2 table-driven parsers as output. Cocol-2 is a version for the Coco-2 generator. Cocol/R is an improvement over the original Cocol and Cocol-2.
  • college-bound — intending to go to college
  • computerising — Present participle of computerise.
  • computerizing — Present participle of computerize.
  • concertgebouw — a concert hall in Amsterdam, inaugurated in 1888: the Concertgebouw Orchestra established in 1888, has been independent of the hall since World War II
  • configurative — the relative disposition or arrangement of the parts or elements of a thing.
  • confusingness — causing or tending to cause confusion: a confusing attempt at explanation.
  • conglutinated — Simple past tense and past participle of conglutinate.
  • congratulable — worthy of congratulation
  • congratulated — to express pleasure to (a person), as on a happy occasion: They congratulated him on his marriage.
  • congratulates — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of congratulate.
  • congruousness — The state or quality of being congruous.
  • conjugateness — The quality of being conjugate.
  • consanguineal — having the same ancestry or descent; related by blood.
  • coralligenous — producing coral
  • cough and die — (jargon)   barf. Connotes that the program is throwing its hands up by design rather than because of a bug or oversight. "The parser saw a control-A in its input where it was looking for a printable, so it coughed and died." Compare die, die horribly, scream and die.
  • countenancing — appearance, especially the look or expression of the face: a sad countenance.
  • counter image — the point or set of points in the domain of a function corresponding to a given point or set of points in the range of the function.
  • counter-argue — to present reasons for or against a thing: He argued in favor of capital punishment.
  • counteracting — Present participle of counteract.
  • counterboring — a tool for enlarging a drilled hole for a portion of its length, as to permit sinking a screw head.
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