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

  • jerry-building — the act of building (houses, flats, etc) badly using cheap materials
  • judgementalism — Alternative form of judgmentalism.
  • junior college — a collegiate institution offering courses only through the first one or two years of college instruction and granting a certificate of title instead of a degree.
  • king's counsel — a body of barristers of a higher status who are specially appointed to be the crown's counsel, and who are permitted to plead inside the bar in the court.
  • lactoglobulins — Plural form of lactoglobulin.
  • lake nicaragua — a lake in SW Nicaragua, separated from the Pacific by an isthmus 19 km (12 miles) wide: the largest lake in Central America. Area: 8264 sq km (3191 sq miles)
  • landing ground — airfield
  • lapsus linguae — a slip of the tongue.
  • laser-guidance — a technique of guiding a missile, etc, using a laser beam
  • laughing hyena — an African hyena, Crocuta crocuta, having a yellowish-gray coat with brown or black spots, noted for its distinctive howl.
  • laughing stock — object of others' amusement
  • laughingstocks — Plural form of laughingstock.
  • laughter lines — Laughter lines are the same as laugh lines.
  • learning curve — Education. a graphic representation of progress in learning measured against the time required to achieve mastery.
  • lemon geranium — a garden geranium, Pelargonium crispum, having lemon-scented leaves.
  • lifestyle guru — a person hired to give someone advice on various aspects of his or her life, work, and relationships
  • light industry — consumer goods manufacturing
  • light the fuse — If someone or something lights the fuse of a particular situation or activity, they suddenly get it started.
  • light-coloured — having a light colour
  • lignocellulose — any of various compounds of lignin and cellulose comprising the essential part of woody cell walls.
  • lignosulfonate — a brown powder consisting of a sulfonate salt made from waste liquor of the sulfate pulping process of soft wood: used in concrete, leather tanning, as an additive in oil-well drilling mud, and as a source of vanillin.
  • limburg cheese — a semihard white cheese of very strong smell and flavour
  • linguistically — of or belonging to language: linguistic change.
  • liquiritigenin — (organic compound) A flavanone found in a variety of plants including liquorice.
  • liturgiologist — a person who studies liturgiology
  • living picture — tableau (def 3).
  • logic emulator — A system of FPGAs, programmable interconnect and software which automatically configures itself into an operating prototype of a large-scale logic design, such as a microprocessor. An emulated design can be connected into the target system and really operated and tested before the design is made into an integrated circuit.
  • logistic curve — a curve, shaped like a letter S , defined as an exponential function and used to model various forms of growth.
  • long-suffering — enduring injury, trouble, or provocation long and patiently.
  • longitudinally — of or relating to longitude or length: longitudinal measurement.
  • lugger topsail — a fore-and-aft topsail used above a lugsail.
  • lugubriousness — The property of being lugubrious.
  • luminous range — the distance at which a certain light, as that of a lighthouse, is visible in clear weather, disregarding interference from obstructions and from the curvature of the earth and depending on the power of the light.
  • lunatic fringe — members on the periphery of any group, especially political, social, or religious, who hold extreme or fanatical views.
  • lupus vulgaris — a rare form of tuberculosis of the skin, characterized by brownish tubercles that often heal slowly and leave scars.
  • macroglobulins — Plural form of macroglobulin.
  • magniloquently — In a magniloquent manner.
  • malfunctioning — failure to function properly: a malfunction of the liver; the malfunction of a rocket.
  • malpighiaceous — of, relating to, or belonging to the Malpighiaceae, a family of tropical plants many of which are lianas
  • manual testing — (testing)   That part of software testing that requires human input, analysis, or evaluation.
  • manuel noriega — Manuel Antonio, born 1934, military leader of Panama 1983–89: captured by U.S. forces and sentenced to prison for drug trafficking 1992.
  • meaningfulness — full of meaning, significance, purpose, or value; purposeful; significant: a meaningful wink; a meaningful choice.
  • merchant guild — a medieval guild composed of merchants.
  • metalinguistic — Pertaining to metalinguistics.
  • middlesborough — a city in SE Kentucky.
  • millennium bug — Year 2000
  • milligram hour — a unit of measure for a dose of radium expressed as the amount of radiation received by exposure to one milligram of radium for one hour.
  • milligram-hour — a unit of measure for a dose of radium expressed as the amount of radiation received by exposure to one milligram of radium for one hour.
  • milling cutter — any of various rotating toothed cutters used in a milling machine to cut or shape metal parts
  • mind uploading — (application)   The science fiction concept of copying one's mind into an artificial body or computer.
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