11-letter words containing g, u, i
- swan-upping — the taking up of young swans to mark them with nicks on the beak for identification.
- swing-music — Also called Big Band music, swing music. a style of jazz, popular especially in the 1930s and often arranged for a large dance band, marked by a smoother beat and more flowing phrasing than Dixieland and having less complex harmonies and rhythms than modern jazz.
- swiss guard — a member of a corps of bodyguards protecting the pope, with membership restricted to natives of Switzerland.
- switch plug — a plug, as for an electric iron, equipped with an on-off switch.
- tankbusting — the practice of destroying tanks
- tautologism — the use of tautology.
- tautologize — to use tautology.
- tegucigalpa — a republic in NE Central America. 43,277 sq. mi. (112,087 sq. km). Capital: Tegucigalpa.
- tentiginous — relating to feelings of lust
- terrigenous — produced by the earth.
- thingumabob — thingamajig.
- thoroughpin — an abnormal swelling just above the hock of a horse, usually appearing on both sides of the leg and sometimes causing lameness.
- thrummingly — in a thrumming manner or by way of thrumming
- tîrgu mureş — a city in central Romania.
- toe-curling — If you describe something as toe-curling, you mean that it makes you feel very embarrassed.
- tongue-tied — unable to speak, as from shyness, embarrassment, or surprise.
- tough pitch — the state of refined copper when it is soft, malleable, and flexible: tough pitch copper.
- tough titty — (often used dismissively) regrettable
- touring car — an open automobile designed for five or more passengers.
- trade guild — a medieval guild composed of tradesmen.
- traducingly — in a traducing manner
- transfigure — to change in outward form or appearance; transform.
- trial judge — the judge in a trial
- triangulate — composed of or marked with triangles.
- tubthumping — to promote something or express opinions vociferously.
- tumorigenic — (of cells or a substance) capable of producing tumors.
- tuning fork — a steel instrument consisting of a stem with two prongs, producing a musical tone of definite, constant pitch when struck, and serving as a standard for tuning musical instruments, making acoustical experiments, and the like.
- tuning head — the part of a stringed instrument where the tension of the strings is adjusted by means of screwed pegs.
- tuning knob — a knob or dial on a radio used to tune into different stations
- tuning pipe — pitch pipe.
- turing plus — Systems programming language, a concurrent descendant of Turing. Available from Holt Software Assocs, Toronto <[email protected]>.
- turing test — (artificial intelligence) A criterion proposed by Alan Turing in 1950 for deciding whether a computer is intelligent. Turing called it "the Imitation Game" and offered it as a replacement for the question, "Can machines think?" A human holds a written conversation on any topic with an unseen correspondent (nowadays it might be by electronic mail or chat). If the human believes he is talking to another human when he is really talking to a computer then the computer has passed the Turing test and is deemed to be intelligent. Turing predicted that within 50 years (by the year 2000) technological progress would produce computing machines with a capacity of 10**9 bits, and that with such machinery, a computer program would be able to fool the average questioner for 5 minutes about 70% of the time. The Loebner Prize is a competition to find a computer program which can pass an unrestricted Turing test. See also AI-complete.
- turkish rug — any of a large variety of handwoven rugs produced in Turkey, characterized by coarse, heavy yarn and a long, uneven pile.
- turn signal — A car's turn signals are the flashing lights that tell you it is going to turn left or right.
- tut-tutting — tut.
- ulcerogenic — producing or inducing the formation of an ulcer.
- ultra-right — having extreme right-wing views
- un-charming — pleasing; delightful: a charming child.
- unabatingly — to reduce in amount, degree, intensity, etc.; lessen; diminish: to abate a tax; to abate one's enthusiasm.
- unadvancing — to move or bring forward: The general advanced his troops to the new position.
- unaffecting — moving or exciting the feelings or emotions.
- unalachtigo — a member of a North American Indian people, one of the Delaware group.
- unambiguous — not ambiguous, or unclear; distinct; unequivocal: The object of the experiment was to reach an unambiguous conclusion about climate change.
- unamusingly — in an unamusing or unentertaining manner
- unappealing — evoking or attracting interest, desire, curiosity, sympathy, or the like; attractive.
- unapproving — expressing disapproval or displeasure
- unassisting — providing no help or assistance
- unawakening — not characterized by wakefulness
- unbefitting — not befitting to a person; not appropriate or suitable
- unbegetting — (esp referring to God) not begetting or generating a like being