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15-letter words containing g, u, i, d

  • groundbreakings — Plural form of groundbreaking.
  • growth industry — an industry that is experiencing rapid growth
  • 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
  • guidance system — The guidance system of a missile or rocket is the device which controls its course.
  • guild socialism — a form of socialism developed in England in the 20th century, emphasizing decentralization of industry and services with control to be vested in autonomous guilds of workers.
  • gulf of finland — an arm of the Baltic Sea between Finland, Estonia, and Russia
  • 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.
  • heat-conducting — able to conduct heat or whose function is to conduct heat
  • 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.
  • homing guidance — a method of missile guidance in which internal equipment enables it to steer itself onto the target, as by sensing the target's heat radiation
  • humpback bridge — arched bridge
  • hunting leopard — the cheetah.
  • huntingdonshire — a former county in E England, now part of Cambridgeshire.
  • hydrofracturing — a process in which fractures in rocks below the earth's surface are opened and widened by injecting chemicals and liquids at high pressure: used especially to extract natural gas or oil.
  • immunodiagnosis — serodiagnosis.
  • in high dudgeon — If you say that someone is in high dudgeon, you are emphasizing that they are very angry or unhappy about something.
  • in the doghouse — a small shelter for a dog.
  • in-suite dining — In-suite dining in a hotel is when guests eat meals in their rooms.
  • indistinguished — (archaic) indistinct.
  • individualising — Present participle of individualise.
  • individualizing — Present participle of individualize.
  • industrialising — Present participle of industrialise.
  • industrializing — Present participle of industrialize.
  • into the ground — beyond what is requisite or can be endured; to exhaustion
  • inunderstanding — (obsolete) Devoid of understanding.
  • lapland bunting — a passerine bird: Calcarius lapponicus
  • leading counsel — the more senior of two counsels
  • liquid nitrogen — nitrogen in a liquid state
  • listed building — (in Britain) a building officially recognized as having special historical or architectural interest and therefore protected from demolition or alteration
  • magnesium oxide — magnesia.
  • 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.
  • mind how you go — Some people say 'Mind how you go' when they are saying goodbye to someone who is leaving.
  • 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.
  • nation-building — Journalists sometimes use nation-building to refer to government policies that are designed to create a strong sense of national identity.
  • 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
  • office building — building containing offices
  • oligonucleotide — a chain of a few nucleotides.
  • outline drawing — a drawing consisting only of external lines
  • outstandingness — prominent; conspicuous; striking: an outstanding example of courage.
  • outward-looking — looking beyond oneself; open-minded and reaching out to other people, organizations, etc
  • painted bunting — a brilliantly colored bunting, Passerina ciris, of the southern U.S.
  • pedagoguishness — the quality of being pedagoguish
  • photoconducting — of or relating to photoconduction
  • pituitary gland — a small, somewhat cherry-shaped double structure attached by a stalk to the base of the brain and constituting the master endocrine gland affecting all hormonal functions in the body, consisting of an anterior region ((anterior pituitary) or (adenohypophysis)) that develops embryonically from the roof of the mouth and that secretes growth hormone, LH, FSH, ACTH, TSH, and MSH, a posterior region ((posterior pituitary) or (neurohypophysis)) that develops from the back of the forebrain and that secretes the hormones vasopressin and oxytocin, and an intermediate part (pars intermedia) derived from the anterior region but joined to the posterior region, that secretes the hormone MSH in lower vertebrates.
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