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14-letter words containing g, u, i

  • sunday morning — a poem (1923) by Wallace Stevens.
  • sunday opening — the act of allowing shops and businesses to open on a Sunday
  • sunday trading — the fact of opening a shop or business on a Sunday
  • supercargoship — a giant cargo ship
  • supererogation — to do more than duty requires.
  • supplicatingly — in a pleading manner
  • support buying — buying carried out to support an exchange rate
  • surgical shock — a state of shock that can occur during or after surgery
  • surpassingness — the fact of surpassing
  • survivor guilt — feelings of guilt for having survived a catastrophe in which others died.
  • take soundings — to try to find out people's opinions on a subject
  • tanen taunggyi — a mountain range in NW Thailand and SE Burma, rising to a height of 7000 feet (2134 meters).
  • testing ground — place where sth is tested
  • thaumaturgical — pertaining to a thaumaturge or to thaumaturgy.
  • the game is up — If you say the game is up, you mean that someone's secret plans or activities have been revealed and therefore must stop because they cannot succeed.
  • the guillotine — a device for beheading persons, consisting of a weighted blade set between two upright posts
  • the ivy league — a group of eight universities (Brown, Columbia, Cornell, Dartmouth College, Harvard, Princeton, the University of Pennsylvania, and Yale) that have similar academic and social prestige in the US to Oxford and Cambridge in Britain
  • thought police — a group of people with totalitarian views on a given subject, who constantly monitor others for any deviation from prescribed thinking
  • three-pin plug — an electrical plug with three pins or metal projections to fit into a socket
  • through bridge — a bridge in which the track is carried by the lower horizontal members
  • thrust bearing — a bearing designed to absorb thrusts parallel to the axis of revolution.
  • thunder thighs — thick-set upper legs
  • tiger mosquito — a large Asian mosquito, Aedes albopictus, introduced into the southern U.S., that is a vector of dengue and other infectious diseases.
  • time signature — a numerical or other indication at the beginning of a piece showing the meter.
  • time-consuming — (of an action) requiring or wasting much time.
  • to be bursting — to want desperately to urinate
  • tongue twister — a word or sequence of words difficult to pronounce, especially rapidly, because of alliteration or a slight variation of consonant sounds, as “She sells seashells by the seashore.”.
  • tongue-lashing — severe scolding
  • tongue-twister — A tongue-twister is a sentence or expression which is very difficult to say properly, especially when you try to say it quickly. An example of a tongue-twister is 'Red leather, yellow leather'.
  • torture flight — a flight used to carry out extraordinary rendition
  • transit lounge — a waiting room at an international airport used mainly by passengers transferring from one flight to another without presenting themselves to customs or immigration officials
  • traumatologist — a branch of surgery dealing with major wounds caused by accidents or violence.
  • tsugaru strait — a strait between the islands of Honshu and Hokkaido, N Japan, connecting the Sea of Japan with the Pacific Ocean. 100 miles (160 km) long and 15–25 miles (24–40 km) wide.
  • tubal ligation — a method of permanent sterilization for women, involving the surgical sealing of the fallopian tubes to prevent the ovum from passing from the ovary to the uterus.
  • tumorigenicity — (of cells or a substance) capable of producing tumors.
  • tunbridge ware — decorative wooden ware, including tables, trays, boxes, and ornamental objects, produced especially in the late 17th and 18th centuries in Tunbridge Wells, England, with mosaiclike marquetry sawed from square-sectioned wooden rods of different natural colors.
  • tunguska basin — large coal basin in central Siberia, between the Yenisei & Lena rivers: it is drained by three rivers, the Lower Tunguska, Stony Tunguska, & Upper Tunguska (usually called the Angara River), which flow west into the Yenisei
  • turbine engine — a rotary engine that converts kinetic energy of a moving fluid (water, steam, air, or combustion products of a fuel) into mechanical energy
  • turing machine — a hypothetical device with a set of logical rules of computation: the concept is used in mathematical studies of the computability of numbers and in the mathematical theories of automata and computers.
  • turing tar-pit — A place where anything is possible but nothing of interest is practical. Alan M. Turing helped lay the foundations of computer science by showing that all machines and languages capable of expressing a certain very primitive set of operations are logically equivalent in the kinds of computations they can carry out, and in principle have capabilities that differ only in speed from those of the most powerful and elegantly designed computers. However, no machine or language exactly matching Turing's primitive set has ever been built (other than possibly as a classroom exercise), because it would be horribly slow and far too painful to use. A "Turing tar-pit" is any computer language or other tool that shares this property. That is, it's theoretically universal but in practice, the harder you struggle to get any real work done, the deeper its inadequacies suck you in. Compare bondage-and-discipline language. A tar pit is a geological occurence where subterranean tar leaks to the surface, creating a large puddle (or pit) of tar. Animals wandering or falling in get stuck, being unable to extricate themselves from the tar. La Brea, California, has a museum built around the fossilized remains of mammals and birds found in such a tar pit.
  • turkish angora — a long-haired breed of cat, similar to the Persian
  • turning chisel — a chisel used for shaping work on a lathe.
  • turning circle — the smallest circle in which a vehicle can turn
  • turnip cabbage — kohlrabi.
  • tutorial group — a small grouping of students given intensive tuition by a tutor
  • twilight hours — the period in which there occurs soft diffused light due to the sun being just below the horizon, esp following sunset
  • ujamaa village — communally organized village in Tanzania
  • ulrich zwingli — Ulrich [oo l-rikh] /ˈʊl rɪx/ (Show IPA), or Huldreich [hoo l-drahykh] /ˈhʊl draɪx/ (Show IPA), 1484–1531, Swiss Protestant reformer.
  • ultimogeniture — postremogeniture.
  • ultra-rightism — the beliefs of extremely right-wing political parties or groups
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