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

  • capital budget — a budget for major capital or investment expenditures
  • caprimulgiform — Of or pertaining to the taxonomic order Caprimulgiformes.
  • centrifugalize — to subject (something) to centrifugal motion
  • child guidance — the counselling of emotionally disturbed children
  • chladni figure — a pattern formed by fine powder placed on a vibrating surface, used to display the positions of nodes and antinodes
  • circular light — light that is circularly polarized.
  • circumgalactic — (astronomy) Surrounding a galaxy.
  • cisalpine gaul — (in the ancient world) that part of Gaul between the Alps and the Apennines
  • cleaning fluid — a solvent or other solution for removing stains or cleaning particular objects
  • clearing house — If an organization acts as a clearing house, it collects, sorts, and distributes specialized information.
  • clearing-house — a place or institution where mutual claims and accounts are settled, as between banks.
  • clearinghouses — Plural form of clearinghouse.
  • clouded magpie — a geometrid moth, Abraxas sylvata, that is paler than the magpie moth
  • clustergeeking — (jargon)   /kluh'st*r-gee"king/ (CMU) Spending more time at a computer cluster doing CS homework than most people spend breathing.
  • colouring book — A colouring book is a book of simple drawings which children can colour in.
  • configuraholic — (jargon)   A luser who twiddles with computer settings until it no longer works and must be fixed by the system administror.
  • conglobulation — the act of conglobing
  • conglutinating — Present participle of conglutinate.
  • conglutination — glued together; adhering.
  • congratulating — to express pleasure to (a person), as on a happy occasion: They congratulated him on his marriage.
  • congratulation — the act of congratulating
  • contour flying — the technique of flying at a constant altitude of less than 22.8 metres (75 feet) above the ground.
  • cornucopia leg — a leg used on pieces in the Directoire and Empire styles, curving downward from the piece and curving upward again to a point and having a foot or caster at the lowest part of the curve.
  • countervailing — A countervailing force, power, or opinion is one which is of equal strength to another one but is its opposite or opposes it.
  • courtesy light — the interior light in a motor vehicle
  • cult following — the admiration that is felt by a particular group for a film, book, band, etc
  • cutting stylus — stylus (def 4a).
  • cutting-stylus — stylus (def 4a).
  • daughterliness — The quality of being daughterly.
  • daylight hours — the hours when it is daylight
  • de-icing fluid — a liquid that removes or discourages the formation of ice
  • debugging tool — debugger
  • delightfulness — The state or quality of being delightful.
  • denuclearizing — Present participle of denuclearize.
  • devil's-tongue — a foul-smelling, fleshy plant, Amorphophallus rivieri, of the Old World tropics, having flowers on a spike surrounded by a dark-red spathe.
  • dihedral group — the group of reflections, rotations, and symmetries of a regular n -sided polygon.
  • discourageable — Capable of being discouraged; easily disheartened.
  • discouragingly — In a discouraging manner.
  • disgruntlement — to put into a state of sulky dissatisfaction; make discontent.
  • disgustfulness — the quality of being disgustful
  • disillusioning — to free from or deprive of illusion, belief, idealism, etc.; disenchant.
  • disingenuously — In a manner that is not frank or open; deceptively.
  • disk duplexing — (hardware, storage)   A variation on disk mirroring where, as well as redundant disk drives, a second disk controller or host adapter is also present.
  • disregardfully — In a disregardful manner; negligently; heedlessly.
  • divine liturgy — liturgy (def 5).
  • double digging — a method of digging ground in a series of trenches two spits deep, mixing the soil of the bottom spit with manure, and then transferring the soil from the top spit of one trench to the top spit of the preceding one
  • double glazing — glazing consisting of two thicknesses of glass with a dead air space between them.
  • double marking — a method of assessment in which two individuals independently mark a test or evaluate a performance
  • double parking — the activity or offence of parking a vehicle in a traffic lane
  • double spacing — text layout: extra space between lines
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