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14-letter words containing g, u, i, l, t

  • nursing bottle — a bottle with a rubber nipple, from which an infant sucks milk, water, etc.
  • osmoregulation — the process by which cells and simple organisms maintain fluid and electrolyte balance with their surroundings.
  • outer mongolia — a region in Asia including Inner Mongolia of China and the Mongolian People's Republic.
  • outgeneralling — Present participle of outgeneral.
  • outing flannel — a light cotton flannel with a short, dense nap.
  • outlet village — a collection of shops or outlets where manufacturers sell their own branded goods, often at discounted prices
  • overregulation — a law, rule, or other order prescribed by authority, especially to regulate conduct.
  • paralinguistic — of or relating to paralanguage or paralinguistics.
  • pneumonologist — an expert or specialist in the respiratory system
  • pound sterling — pound2 (def 3).
  • pugilistically — a person who fights with the fists; a boxer, usually a professional.
  • pulsating star — a type of variable star, the variation in brightness resulting from expansion and subsequent contraction of the star
  • quintus prolog — (language, product)   A version of Prolog developed by Quintus. Development of Quintus Prolog had transferred to the Swedish Institute of Computer Science by December 1998. Telephone: +1 (800) 542 1283.
  • quota sampling — a method of conducting market research in which the sample is selected according to a quota-system based on such factors as age, sex, social class, etc
  • repromulgation — to make known by open declaration; publish; proclaim formally or put into operation (a law, decree of a court, etc.).
  • rheumatologist — a specialist in rheumatology, especially a physician who specializes in the treatment of rheumatic diseases, as arthritis, lupus erythematosus, and scleroderma.
  • rolling cutter — A rolling cutter is a drill bit which is often used for drilling hard rock.
  • route flapping — flapping router
  • routing policy — (networking)   Rules implemented on a router or other network device to select routes from peers, customers, and upstream providers; select and modify routes you send to peers, customers and upstream providers and identify routes within your own Autonomous System.
  • rummelgumption — commonsense
  • rummlegumption — common sense
  • running battle — When two groups of people fight a running battle, they keep attacking each other in various parts of a place.
  • running lights — the lights that a ship or aircraft traveling at night is required to display
  • running myrtle — the periwinkle, Vinca minor.
  • scrutinizingly — in a scrutinizing manner
  • self-actuating — to incite or move to action; impel; motivate: actuated by selfish motives.
  • self-adjusting — that adjusts itself in response to circumstances
  • self-executing — going into effect immediately without the need of supplementary legislation: a self-executing treaty.
  • self-indulgent — indulging one's own desires, passions, whims, etc., especially without restraint.
  • self-righteous — confident of one's own righteousness, especially when smugly moralistic and intolerant of the opinions and behavior of others.
  • shutting stile — the stile of a door or shutter that closes against the frame of the opening.
  • sicstus prolog — A Prolog from the SICS (Swedish Inst of Comp Sci). E-mail: <[email protected]>. Mailing list: [email protected]
  • signature loan — a loan requiring no collateral.
  • silver-tongued — persuasive; eloquent: a silver-tongued orator.
  • singular point — a point at which a given function of a complex variable has no derivative but of which every neighborhood contains points at which the function has derivatives.
  • splinter group — a small organization that becomes separated from or acts apart from an original larger group or a number of other small groups, with which it would normally be united, as because of disagreement.
  • sprightfulness — the condition or quality of being sprightful
  • straight flush — a sequence of five consecutive cards of the same suit.
  • string-pulling — the use of one's influence with other people to get things done, often unfairly
  • sturmabteilung — a political militia of the Nazi party, organized about 1923 and notorious for its violence and terrorism up to 1934, when it was purged and reorganized as an instrument of physical training and political indoctrination of German men; Brown Shirts.
  • styling mousse — a light foamy substance applied to the hair before styling in order to retain the shape of the style
  • sugar the pill — to make something unpleasant more agreeable by adding something pleasant
  • suggestibility — subject to or easily influenced by suggestion.
  • supplicatingly — in a pleading manner
  • survivor guilt — feelings of guilt for having survived a catastrophe in which others died.
  • thaumaturgical — pertaining to a thaumaturge or to thaumaturgy.
  • the guillotine — a device for beheading persons, consisting of a weighted blade set between two upright posts
  • the ivy league — a group of eight universities (Brown, Columbia, Cornell, Dartmouth College, Harvard, Princeton, the University of Pennsylvania, and Yale) that have similar academic and social prestige in the US to Oxford and Cambridge in Britain
  • thought police — a group of people with totalitarian views on a given subject, who constantly monitor others for any deviation from prescribed thinking
  • three-pin plug — an electrical plug with three pins or metal projections to fit into a socket
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