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13-letter words containing g, u, i, n, e

  • chewing louse — See under louse (def 2).
  • chickenburger — A hot sandwich made of a patty of chicken in a bun, often with other ingredients.
  • 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.
  • circumflexing — Present participle of circumflex.
  • circumventing — to go around or bypass: to circumvent the lake; to circumvent the real issues.
  • clearinghouse — If an organization acts as a clearinghouse, it collects, sorts, and distributes specialized information.
  • cloud seeding — any technique of adding material to a cloud to alter its natural development, usually to increase or obtain precipitation.
  • computerising — Present participle of computerise.
  • computerizing — Present participle of computerize.
  • configurative — the relative disposition or arrangement of the parts or elements of a thing.
  • confusingness — causing or tending to cause confusion: a confusing attempt at explanation.
  • conglutinated — Simple past tense and past participle of conglutinate.
  • consanguineal — having the same ancestry or descent; related by blood.
  • coralligenous — producing coral
  • cough and die — (jargon)   barf. Connotes that the program is throwing its hands up by design rather than because of a bug or oversight. "The parser saw a control-A in its input where it was looking for a printable, so it coughed and died." Compare die, die horribly, scream and die.
  • countenancing — appearance, especially the look or expression of the face: a sad countenance.
  • counter image — the point or set of points in the domain of a function corresponding to a given point or set of points in the range of the function.
  • counteracting — Present participle of counteract.
  • counterboring — a tool for enlarging a drilled hole for a portion of its length, as to permit sinking a screw head.
  • countermining — Present participle of countermine.
  • countermoving — Present participle of countermove.
  • countersigned — a sign used in reply to another sign.
  • counterspying — the activities of a counterspy
  • counterweighs — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of counterweigh.
  • counterweight — A counterweight is an action or proposal that is intended to balance or counter other actions or proposals.
  • countinghouse — a building, room, or office used for keeping books and transacting business
  • coup de poing — (no longer in technical use) a Lower Paleolithic stone hand ax, pointed or ovate in shape and having sharp cutting edges.
  • court hearing — an official meeting held in court
  • cousin-german — the child of one's aunt or uncle
  • cummingtonite — an amphibole mineral, magnesium iron silicate hydroxide, found in metamorphic rocks
  • 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.
  • curve fitting — the determination of a curve that fits a specified set of points: The method of least squares is commonly used for curve fitting.
  • cutting horse — a saddle horse trained for use in separating an individual animal, such as a cow, from a herd
  • cyberbullying — Cyberbullying is the use of the Internet to frighten or upset someone, usually by sending them unpleasant messages.
  • 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
  • decarburizing — Present participle of decarburize.
  • decommunizing — Present participle of decommunize.
  • decompounding — Present participle of decompound.
  • deep mourning — completely black mourning clothes made of a drab material: After her brother died, she was in deep mourning for a year.
  • 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
  • delian league — an alliance of ancient Greek states formed in 478–77 bc to fight Persia
  • dentosurgical — relating to or used in both dentistry and surgery
  • designer drug — any of various narcotic or hallucinogenic substances manufactured illegally from a range of chemicals
  • deuteragonist — (in ancient Greek drama) the character next in importance to the protagonist, esp the antagonist
  • disfigurement — an act or instance of disfiguring.
  • disgruntledly — In a disgruntled manner.
  • disguisedness — the state of being disguised
  • disquietingly — causing anxiety or uneasiness; disturbing: disquieting news.
  • disregulation — Misspelling of dysregulation.
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