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14-letter words containing g, u, i

  • outlet village — a collection of shops or outlets where manufacturers sell their own branded goods, often at discounted prices
  • outmaneuvering — Present participle of outmaneuver.
  • outmanoeuvring — Present participle of outmanoeuvre.
  • over-consuming — to destroy or expend by use; use up.
  • overindulgence — excessive indulgence
  • overregulation — a law, rule, or other order prescribed by authority, especially to regulate conduct.
  • oversaturating — to cause (a substance) to unite with the greatest possible amount of another substance, through solution, chemical combination, or the like.
  • painted tongue — a Chilean plant, Salpiglossis sinuata, of the nightshade family, having large, funnel-shaped flowers in a variety of colors.
  • paralinguistic — of or relating to paralanguage or paralinguistics.
  • periodic group — (database)   (PE) Groups of logically related fields which occur multiple times within a group. Periodic groups are a non-relational technique. An example of a PE would be for storing the history of a person's name changes, where name was kept in logically related fields such as surname, first name and middle name - with the person having changed their name more than once.
  • phloroglucinol — a white to yellow, crystalline, slightly water-soluble powder, C 6 H 3 (OH) 3 ⋅2H 2 O, used chiefly in analytical chemistry and in the preparation of pharmaceuticals.
  • plain language — language that is clear and easy to understand, with no ambiguity or unnecessarily difficult words
  • pneumonologist — an expert or specialist in the respiratory system
  • popular singer — a professional singer who specializes in popular songs.
  • postgraduation — designating or occurring in the period after graduation
  • pound sterling — pound2 (def 3).
  • prairie-grouse — prairie chicken.
  • pre-accounting — an oral or written description of particular events or situations; narrative: an account of the meetings; an account of the trip.
  • premier league — a professional football or soccer league consisting of the top teams in England and Wales
  • pressure ridge — a ridge produced on floating ice by buckling or crushing under lateral pressure of wind or ice.
  • printing house — a company engaged in the business of producing printed matter
  • priority guest — A priority guest at a hotel is a regular guest who has special rights, such as early check-in and discounts on food.
  • progametangium — Mycology. the hyphal tip of certain fungi that produces the gametangium and subsequent gamete.
  • proving ground — any place, context, or area for testing something, as a piece of scientific equipment, a theory, etc.
  • pruning shears — small, sturdy shears used for pruning shrubbery.
  • pseudepigrapha — certain writings (other than the canonical books and the Apocrypha) professing to be Biblical in character.
  • pseudepigraphy — the false ascription of a piece of writing to an author.
  • pseudo-english — of, relating to, or characteristic of England or its inhabitants, institutions, etc.
  • pseudo-generic — of, applicable to, or referring to all the members of a genus, class, group, or kind; general.
  • public gallery — the gallery in a chamber of Parliament reserved for members of the public who wish to listen to the proceedings
  • public housing — housing owned or operated by a government and usually offered at low rent to the needy.
  • pugilistically — a person who fights with the fists; a boxer, usually a professional.
  • pugnaciousness — inclined to quarrel or fight readily; quarrelsome; belligerent; combative.
  • pulsating star — a type of variable star, the variation in brightness resulting from expansion and subsequent contraction of the star
  • quadragenarian — 40 years of age.
  • quadrigeminate — made up of four parts
  • quaker meeting — a meeting of Quakers, at which all members, except those moved to speak, remain silent.
  • quarterbacking — a back in football who usually lines up immediately behind the center and directs the offense of the team.
  • quasi-negative — expressing or containing negation or denial: a negative response to the question.
  • queer-sounding — that sounds odd or strange
  • queuing theory — a theory that deals with providing a service on a waiting line, or queue, especially when the demand for it is irregular and describable by probability distributions, as processing phone calls arriving at a telephone exchange or collecting highway tolls from drivers at tollbooths.
  • quick thinking — problem-solving in an emergency
  • quicksilvering — the mercury on the back of a mirror
  • quinquagesimal — of, relating to, or consisting of a set of 50
  • quinquelingual — Written in five languages.
  • quintus prolog — (language, product)   A version of Prolog developed by Quintus. Development of Quintus Prolog had transferred to the Swedish Institute of Computer Science by December 1998. Telephone: +1 (800) 542 1283.
  • quiz programme — a radio or television programme in which the general or specific knowledge of the players is tested by a series of questions
  • quota sampling — a method of conducting market research in which the sample is selected according to a quota-system based on such factors as age, sex, social class, etc
  • quotient group — a group, the elements of which are cosets with respect to a normal subgroup of a given group.
  • rabble-rousing — of, relating to, or characteristic of a rabble-rouser.
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