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13-letter words containing g, u, i, l

  • burrowing owl — a ground owl (Athene cunicularia) of the prairie regions of North and South America having long legs and a small head: it makes its nest in abandoned burrows
  • calcium light — limelight (sense 1)
  • calculatingly — In a calculating manner.
  • cartilaginous — of or like cartilage; gristly
  • cartiliginous — Alternative form of cartilaginous.
  • centrifugally — Away from a centre or axis.
  • 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.
  • checkout girl — a female employee who works on a supermarket checkout
  • chemosurgical — of or relating to chemosurgery
  • chewing louse — See under louse (def 2).
  • 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.
  • churn molding — a molding decorated with chevrons.
  • circularising — Present participle of circularise.
  • circularizing — Present participle of circularize.
  • circumflexing — Present participle of circumflex.
  • circumvolving — Present participle of circumvolve.
  • claim-jumping — a person who seizes another's claim of land, especially for mineral rights.
  • clearinghouse — If an organization acts as a clearinghouse, it collects, sorts, and distributes specialized information.
  • cleistogamous — having small, unopened, self-pollinating flowers, usually in addition to the showier flowers
  • click through — to navigate around (a website) using the links provided to move onto different pages
  • click-through — the act of clicking on an advertisement or other link to go to another website, especially a retail site: The store gets lots of clickthroughs from social media.
  • cloud seeding — any technique of adding material to a cloud to alter its natural development, usually to increase or obtain precipitation.
  • coachbuilding — the manufacture of bodies for cars, buses, and coaches
  • coagulability — The ability to coagulate, of being coagulable.
  • cold moulding — the production of moulded articles from resins that polymerize chemically
  • colleagueship — workplace companionship
  • communalizing — Present participle of communalize.
  • communicology — the study of communication.
  • confabulating — Present participle of confabulate.
  • confoundingly — in a confounding manner
  • conglutinated — Simple past tense and past participle of conglutinate.
  • conglutinator — an agent that conglutinates
  • conjugational — Of or pertaining to conjugation.
  • consanguineal — having the same ancestry or descent; related by blood.
  • coolidge tube — a cathode ray tube, used for x-ray production, in which a beam of thermoelectrons is produced by heating a wire cathode.
  • coralligenous — producing coral
  • cottage tulip — a late-flowering type of tulip, usually having pointed or elongated flowers.
  • cucking stool — stool in which suspected witches were tested
  • cunnilinguist — One who gives cunnilingus.
  • cupping glass — a glass vessel from which air can be removed by suction or heat to create a partial vacuum: formerly used in drawing blood to the surface of the skin for slow bloodletting
  • curling irons — a metal scissor-like device that is heated, so that strands of hair may be twined around it in order to form curls
  • curling stone — a large, heavy, ellipsoidal stone or a similar object made of iron, usually having one rough side and one smooth side with a hole in the center of each for screwing in a handle by which the stone is released, for use in the game of curling.
  • curling tongs — a metal scissor-like device that is heated, so that strands of hair may be twined around it in order to form curls
  • cutting fluid — a liquid or gas for cooling or lubricating a cutting tool and a piece of work at their point of contact.
  • cyberbullying — Cyberbullying is the use of the Internet to frighten or upset someone, usually by sending them unpleasant messages.
  • dabbling duck — any of numerous shallow-water ducks, especially of the genus Anas, that typically feed by upending and dabbling (contrasted with diving duck).
  • dean of guild — the titular head of the guild or merchant company in a Scots burgh, who formerly exercised jurisdiction over all building in the burgh in the Dean of Guild Court
  • deglutination — to extract the gluten from.
  • degranulation — a cellular process in which cytoplasmic granules within certain cells secrete their contents, often to the outside of the cell
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