13-letter words containing g, u, i, n
- sub-sovereign — a monarch; a king, queen, or other supreme ruler.
- subastringent — slightly astringent.
- subcontiguous — almost touching; nearly contiguous.
- subdelegation — a group or body of delegates: Our club sent a delegation to the rally.
- subgeneration — a generation within another generation
- subjectifying — to make subjective.
- subtriangular — almost triangular;not quite triangular
- sucking louse — See under louse (def 1).
- suffocatingly — to kill by preventing the access of air to the blood through the lungs or analogous organs, as gills; strangle.
- suggestionism — the art of hypnotic suggestion
- suggestionist — a practitioner of suggestionism
- suggestionize — to treat or influence by the power of suggestion
- sulfur spring — a spring the water of which contains naturally occurring sulfur compounds.
- sunlight peak — a mountain in SW Colorado, in the San Juan Mountains. 14,059 feet (4285 meters).
- superorganism — a form of life composed of mutually interdependent parts that maintain various vital processes.
- superregional — involving many regions
- supplementing — something added to complete a thing, supply a deficiency, or reinforce or extend a whole.
- supreme being — God.
- surfing music — rock-'n'-roll music from California in the early 1960s, characterized by close treble harmonies and with lyrics emphasizing the exhilaration of surfing and beach life.
- swashbuckling — characteristic of or behaving in the manner of a swashbuckler.
- table-turning — the movement of a table attributed by spiritualists to the power of spirits working through a group of persons placing their hands or fingers on the table top
- teeing ground — tee2 (def 1a).
- telecommuting — working at home by using a computer terminal electronically linked to one's place of employment.
- the unco guid — narrow-minded, excessively religious, or self-righteous people
- think through — to have a conscious mind, to some extent of reasoning, remembering experiences, making rational decisions, etc.
- thoroughgoing — doing things thoroughly.
- thumb-sucking — a person who habitually sucks a thumb.
- thyroglobulin — a protein which is found in the thyroid gland and which contains iodine
- tissue typing — identification of specific genetically linked antigens in tissue in order to minimize antigenic differences between donor and recipient tissue in organ transplantation.
- toothbrushing — the act or method of cleaning the teeth with a toothbrush.
- torsion group — a group in which every element has finite order.
- touch-in-goal — the area at each end of the field outside of a touch-in-goal line.
- tramping club — an organization of people who walk for recreation, esp in the bush
- triangularity — pertaining to or having the form of a triangle; three-cornered.
- triangulation — a technique for establishing the distance between any two points, or the relative position of two or more points, by using such points as vertices of a triangle or series of triangles, such that each triangle has a side of known or measurable length (base or base line) that permits the size of the angles of the triangle and the length of its other two sides to be established by observations taken either upon or from the two ends of the base line.
- tribune group — (in Britain) a group made up of left-wing Labour Members of Parliament: founded 1966
- trig function — Also called circular function. a function of an angle, as sine or cosine, expressed as the ratio of the sides of a right triangle.
- triple-tongue — to interrupt the wind flow by moving the tongue as if pronouncing t and t and k successively, especially in playing rapid passages or staccato notes on a brass instrument.
- troublemaking — a person who causes difficulties, distress, worry, etc., for others, especially one who does so habitually as a matter of malice.
- trout fishing — angling to catch trout
- tubing hanger — A tubing hanger is a device which is attached to the top tubing joint and supports the tubing.
- tumbling mill — A tumbling mill is a machine for reducing the particle size of a solid, with a drum which turns to lift and drop the feed mixed with a grinding medium.
- tumorgenicity — the state of being tumorgenic, giving rise to tumours
- tumorigenesis — the production or development of tumors.
- tung-oil tree — tung tree.
- tungstic acid — a hydrate of tungsten trioxide, H 2 WO 4 ⋅H 2 O, used in the manufacture of tungsten-lamp filaments.
- turbocharging — the process or action of supplying an internal combustion engine or a motor vehicle with a turbocharger
- turning piece — a wooden pattern for an arch built without centering.
- turning point — a point at which a decisive change takes place; critical point; crisis.
- ugly american — An Ugly American is an American who travels to a foreign country and gives the United States a bad reputation by acting in an offensive way.