15-letter words containing g, u, i, d, e, r
- guadalupe river — a river in SE Texas, flowing SE to the San Antonio River. 250 miles (402 km) long.
- guardian angels — an angel believed to protect a particular person, as from danger or error.
- guardian reader — a reader of the Guardian newspaper, seen as being typically left-wing, liberal, and politically correct
- guru meditation — (operating system) The Amiga equivalent of Unix's panic (sometimes just called a "guru" or "guru event"). When the system crashes, a cryptic message of the form "GURU MEDITATION #XXXXXXXX.YYYYYYYY" may appear, indicating what the problem was. An Amiga guru can figure things out from the numbers. In the earliest days of the Amiga, there was a device called a "Joyboard" which was basically a plastic board built onto a joystick-like device; it was sold with a skiing game cartridge for the Atari game machine. It is said that whenever the prototype OS crashed, the system programmer responsible would concentrate on a solution while sitting cross-legged, balanced on a Joyboard, resembling a meditating guru. Sadly, the joke was removed in AmigaOS 2.04. The Jargon File claimed that a guru event had to be followed by a Vulcan nerve pinch but, according to a correspondent, a mouse click was enough to start a reboot.
- hindenburg line — a line of elaborate fortifications established by the German army in World War I, near the French-Belgian border, from Lille SE to Metz.
- holding furnace — a small furnace for holding molten metal produced in a larger melting furnace at a desired temperature for casting.
- humpback bridge — arched bridge
- hunting leopard — the cheetah.
- huntingdonshire — a former county in E England, now part of Cambridgeshire.
- into the ground — beyond what is requisite or can be endured; to exhaustion
- inunderstanding — (obsolete) Devoid of understanding.
- liquid nitrogen — nitrogen in a liquid state
- marburg disease — a viral disease producing a severe and often fatal illness with fever, rash, diarrhea, vomiting, and gastrointestinal bleeding, transmitted to humans through contact with infected green monkeys.
- mogi das cruzes — a city in SE Brazil, E of São Paulo.
- mouse droppings — 1. (graphics, operating system, jargon) Pixels (usually single) that are not properly restored when the mouse pointer moves away from a particular location on the screen, producing the appearance that the mouse pointer has left droppings behind. The major causes for this problem are MS-DOS programs that write to the screen memory corresponding to the mouse pointer's current location without hiding the mouse pointer first, and mouse drivers that do not quite support the graphics mode in use. 2. (web, jargon) The client address recorded in a web server's log whenever a client connects to a site. Users may be unaware that their activity is being logged in this way but the potential for misuse of the information is limited.
- nuisance ground — a garbage dump.
- nuke the fridge — (of a film, etc.) to lose credibility following a particularly ill-judged scene or plot development
- nursing studies — the study of nursing
- outline drawing — a drawing consisting only of external lines
- pseudepigraphon — any book of the Pseudepigrapha
- quadragenarians — Plural form of quadragenarian.
- quarter binding — a style of bookbinding in which the spine is leather and the sides are cloth or paper.
- religious order — monks: monastery
- robert guiscard — Robert [French raw-ber] /French rɔˈbɛr/ (Show IPA), (Robert de Hauteville) c1015–85, Norman conqueror in Italy.
- rouget de lisle — Claude Joseph [klohd zhaw-zef] /kloʊd ʒɔˈzɛf/ (Show IPA), 1760–1836, French army officer and composer of songs: wrote and composed Marseillaise.
- routeing domain — (networking) (US "routing") A set of routers that exchange routeing information within an administrative domain.
- santa gertrudis — one of an American breed of beef cattle, developed from Shorthorn and Brahman stock for endurance to torrid temperatures.
- secundogeniture — the state of being the second born child
- securicor guard — a guard who works for Securicor
- shoulder girdle — pectoral girdle (def 2).
- sigmoid flexure — Zoology. an S -shaped curve in a body part.
- silver quandong — an Australian tree, Elaeocarpus grandis: family Elaeocarpaceae
- sliver building — a very narrow skyscraper designed in response to restriction of the building site or zoning, frequently containing only a single apartment per floor or comparably limited office space.
- soul-destroying — Activities or situations that are soul-destroying make you depressed, because they are boring or because there is no hope of improvement.
- sounding rocket — a rocket equipped with instruments for making meteorological observations in the upper atmosphere.
- suppressor grid — an electrode placed between the screen grid and anode of a valve. Its negative potential, relative to both screen and anode, prevents secondary electrons from the anode reaching the screen
- surgical needle — a needle for suturing.
- svedberg (unit) — a unit of time, equal to 10-13 second, used in determining the rate of sedimentation of a macromolecule in an ultracentrifuge
- target audience — the target audience of a programme is the group of people that the programme-makers are trying to persuade to watch or listen to it
- the high ground — a position of moral or ethical superiority in a dispute
- the undersigned — the person or persons who have signed at the foot of a document, statement, etc
- thought reading — mind reading.
- treacle pudding — a sponge cake with syrup on top
- tunbridge wells — a city in SW Kent, in SE England: mineral springs; resort.
- turkish delight — a candy made of fruit juice and gelatin, cubed and dusted with sugar.
- uncomprehending — to understand the nature or meaning of; grasp with the mind; perceive: He did not comprehend the significance of the ambassador's remark.
- uncorresponding — identical in all essentials or respects: corresponding fingerprints.
- underfulfilling — falling short of satisfactory
- underprivileged — denied the enjoyment of the normal privileges or rights of a society because of low economic and social status.
- understandingly — mental process of a person who comprehends; comprehension; personal interpretation: My understanding of the word does not agree with yours.