13-letter words containing g, u, i, d
- preconfigured — 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.
- pride's purge — the forceful exclusion from the House of Commons, carried out by Col. Thomas Pride in December 1648, of about 100 members who favored compromise with the Royalist party.
- pseudepigraph — a book or piece of writing that is falsely titled or credited
- pudding basin — A pudding basin is a deep round bowl that is used in the kitchen, especially for mixing or for cooking puddings.
- pudding stone — conglomerate (def 3).
- pulse dialing — a system of calling telephone numbers wherein electrical pulses corresponding to the digits in the number called are generated by manipulating a rotary dial or push buttons (contrasted with tone dialing).
- quadragesimal — of, relating to, or suitable for Lent; Lenten.
- quadrigeminal — Having four parts, or two pairs.
- quadrilingual — using or involving four languages: a quadrilingual person; a quadrilingual translation of the Bible.
- quadringenary — a 400th anniversary
- quadriplegics — Plural form of quadriplegic.
- queen's guide — (in Britain and the Commonwealth when the sovereign is female) a Guide who has passed the highest tests of proficiency
- quindecagonal — (geometry) Shaped like a quindecagon; fifteen-sided.
- railway guide — a publication containing routes and timetables for train journeys
- reading group — a group of people who meet regularly to discuss a book that they have all read
- red underwing — a large noctuid moth, Catocala nupta, having dull forewings and hind wings coloured red and black
- rendezvousing — an agreement between two or more persons to meet at a certain time and place.
- ring compound — a compound whose structural formula contains a closed chain or ring of atoms; a cyclic compound. Compare cyclic (def 3).
- river red gum — a large Australian red gum tree, Eucalyptus camaldulensis, growing along river banks
- rock hounding — the activity of searching for and collecting rocks, fossils, or minerals.
- 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
- round herring — any of several herringlike fishes of the family Dussumieriidae having a rounded abdomen, living chiefly in tropical marine waters.
- roundtripping — a form of trading in which a company borrows a sum of money from one source and takes advantage of a short-term rise in interest rates to make a profit by lending it to another
- rubber bridge — a form of contract bridge in which deals are not replayed and in which scores are settled after each rubber.
- 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
- running board — a small ledge, step, or footboard, formerly beneath the doors of an automobile, to assist passengers entering or leaving the car.
- running order — The running order of the items in a broadcast, concert, or show is the order in which the items will come.
- saint-gaudens — Augustus, 1848–1907, U.S. sculptor, born in Ireland.
- scoping study — a preliminary study to define the scope of a project
- self-doubting — lacking in confidence
- shoulder-high — A shoulder-high object is as high as your shoulders.
- shunt winding — the winding of an electric motor or generator in such a way that the field and armature circuits are connected in parallel
- shunting yard — a place where railway coaches are manoeuvred
- sigmund freud — Anna, 1895–1982, British psychoanalyst, born in Austria (daughter of Sigmund Freud).
- signed number — Mathematics. a number preceded by a plus sign (+) to indicate a positive quantity or by a minus sign (−) to indicate a negative quantity.
- single-valued — (of a function) having the property that each element in the domain has corresponding to it exactly one element in the range.
- sitting judge — a presiding judge; a judge in office
- snuff-dipping — the practice of absorbing nicotine by holding in one's mouth, between the cheek and the gum, a small amount of tobacco, either loose or enclosed in a sachet
- 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.
- sounding line — 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.
- soundproofing — materials used to make something soundproof
- spot reducing — the usually futile effort to exercise one part of the body, as the thighs, in hopes of reducing the amount of fat stored in that area.
- 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
- subdelegation — a group or body of delegates: Our club sent a delegation to the rally.