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

  • distinguished — made conspicuous by excellence; noted; eminent; famous: a distinguished scholar. Synonyms: renowned, illustrious.
  • distinguisher — to mark off as different (often followed by from or by): He was distinguished from the other boys by his height.
  • distinguishes — to mark off as different (often followed by from or by): He was distinguished from the other boys by his height.
  • double-acting — (of a reciprocating engine, pump, etc.) having pistons accomplishing work in both directions, fluid being admitted alternately to opposite ends of the cylinders. Compare single-acting.
  • drainage tube — a tube that drains fluid from an incision or body cavity during surgery
  • drum magazine — a receptacle that holds and feeds cartridges to a submachine gun or light machine gun.
  • drum paneling — flush paneling in a door.
  • duc d'enghien — Duc [dyk] /dük/ (Show IPA), (Louis Antoine Henry de Bourbon-Condé) 1772–1804, French prince: executed by Napoleon I.
  • due diligence — the degree of care that is to be reasonably expected or that is legally required, esp. of persons giving professional advice
  • due-diligence — reasonable care and caution exercised by a person who is buying, selling, giving professional advice, etc., especially as required by law to protect against incurring liability: The court said there was due diligence on the part of the plaintiff.
  • duino elegies — a collection of ten poems (1923) by Rainer Maria Rilke.
  • dun laoghaire — a seaport in E Republic of Ireland, near Dublin.
  • dysregulation — A failure to regulate properly.
  • echo sounding — the determining of depth of water by means of a device (echo sounder) that measures the time required for a sound wave to be reflected from the bottom: a similar process (echo ranging) is used to measure the distance to an underwater object
  • edinburgh sml — (EdML) Implementation of the Core language of SML. Byte-code interpreter in C. Ported to Amiga, Atari, Archimedes and IBM PC. Version: 0.44. E-mail: <[email protected]>.
  • egregiousness — The quality of being egregious.
  • eigenfunction — Each of a set of independent functions that are the solutions to a given differential equation.
  • electrocuting — Present participle of electrocute.
  • encapsulating — Present participle of encapsulate.
  • encouragingly — In an encouraging manner.
  • enculturating — Present participle of enculturate.
  • ensanguinated — stained with blood
  • equilibrating — Present participle of equilibrate.
  • equivalencing — Present participle of equivalence.
  • ethnolinguist — a person who studies ethnolinguistics
  • eugeosyncline — a geosyncline characterized by lithology typical of deep ocean environments
  • eusporangiate — (of ferns) having each sporangium developing from a group of cells, rather than a single cell, and with no specialized dispersal of spores
  • euthanatizing — Present participle of euthanatize.
  • eve's pudding — a baked sponge pudding with a layer of apple at the bottom
  • expostulating — Present participle of expostulate.
  • exsanguinated — Simple past tense and past participle of exsanguinate.
  • extenuatingly — in an extenuating manner
  • extinguishant — a substance, such as a liquid, foam, powder, etc, used in extinguishing fires
  • extinguishers — Plural form of extinguisher.
  • extinguishing — Present participle of extinguish.
  • fairy penguin — a small penguin, Eudyptula minor, with a bluish head and back, found on the Australian coast
  • figure of fun — If you describe someone as a figure of fun, you mean that people think they are ridiculous.
  • figure-ground — a property of perception in which there is a tendency to see parts of a visual field as solid, well-defined objects standing out against a less distinct background.
  • filibustering — Present participle of filibuster.
  • finger buffet — a buffet meal at which food that may be picked up with the fingers (finger food), such as canapés or vol-au-vents, is served
  • finger puppet — a miniature puppet fitting over and manipulated by one finger.
  • fish geranium — zonal geranium.
  • flame cutting — a method of cutting ferrous metals in which the metal is heated by a torch to about 800°C and is oxidized by a stream of oxygen from the torch
  • flight number — the identifying number of a scheduled flight
  • flugelhornist — One who plays the flugelhorn.
  • flying saucer — any of various disk-shaped objects allegedly seen flying at high speeds and altitudes, often with extreme changes in speed and direction, and thought by some to be manned by intelligent beings from outer space.
  • fn tunnelling — Fowler-Nordheim tunnelling
  • forcing house — a place where growth or maturity (as of fruit, animals, etc) is artificially hastened
  • foregrounding — Present participle of foreground.
  • foul-smelling — having a very unpleasant smell
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