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14-letter words containing g, u, i

  • guided missile — an aerial missile, as a rocket, steered during its flight by radio signals, clockwork controls, etc.
  • guided writing — In language teaching, when students do guided writing activities, they are given an outline in words or pictures to help them write.
  • guido d'arezzo — (Guido Aretinus"Fra Guittone") c995–1049? Italian monk and music theorist: reformer of musical notation.
  • guinea current — an ocean current flowing E along the Guinea coast of W Africa.
  • gulf of guinea — a large inlet of the S Atlantic on the W coast of Africa, extending from Cape Palmas, Liberia, to Cape Lopez, Gabon: contains two large bays, the Bight of Bonny and the Bight of Benin, separated by the Niger delta
  • gulf of mexico — a republic in S North America. 761,530 sq. mi. (1,972,363 sq. km). . Capital: Mexico City.
  • gulf of tonkin — an arm of the South China Sea, bordered by N Vietnam, the Leizhou Peninsula of SW China, and Hainan Island. Length: about 500 km (300 miles)
  • gull-wing door — a car door that opens upwards
  • gum turpentine — turpentine (sense 2)
  • gunstock stile — (in a door) a diminished stile having an oblique transition between the broader and narrower parts.
  • gunter's chain — a series of objects connected one after the other, usually in the form of a series of metal rings passing through one another, used either for various purposes requiring a flexible tie with high tensile strength, as for hauling, supporting, or confining, or in various ornamental and decorative forms.
  • gynomonoecious — having both female and hermaphrodite flowers on the same plant.
  • haemagglutinin — Alternative spelling of hemagglutinin.
  • hague tribunal — the court of arbitration for the peaceful settlement of international disputes, established at The Hague by the international peace conference of 1899: its panel of jurists nominates a list of persons from which members of the United Nations International Court of Justice are elected.
  • haight-ashbury — a district of San Francisco, in the central part of the city: a center for hippies and the drug culture in the 1960s.
  • hallucinogenic — producing hallucinations: a hallucinogenic drug.
  • have bought it — to be killed
  • heading course — (in brickwork) a course of headers.
  • hemagglutinate — to cause the clumping of red blood cells in
  • hemingwayesque — of, relating to, or characteristic of Ernest Hemingway or his works.
  • hemoglobinuria — the presence of hemoglobin pigment in the urine.
  • high frequency — the range of frequencies in the radio spectrum between 3 and 30 megahertz.
  • holding thumbs — holding the thumb of one hand with the other, in the hope of bringing good luck
  • honour killing — a murder committed by a male on a female relative considered to have brought dishonour to the family, usually through sexual activity forbidden by religion or tradition
  • horse vaulting — gymnastics performed on horseback
  • house-cleaning — the act of cleaning a house, room, etc., and its furnishings, especially the act of cleaning thoroughly and completely.
  • housing estate — housing development.
  • housing market — property trade
  • housing scheme — arrangement offering subsidized housing
  • huckleberrying — the activity of gathering huckleberries
  • huffman coding — (algorithm)   A data compression technique which varies the length of the encoded symbol in proportion to its information content, that is the more often a symbol or token is used, the shorter the binary string used to represent it in the compressed stream. Huffman codes can be properly decoded because they obey the prefix property, which means that no code can be a prefix of another code, and so the complete set of codes can be represented as a binary tree, known as a Huffman tree. Huffman coding was first described in a seminal paper by D.A. Huffman in 1952.
  • hundredweights — Plural form of hundredweight.
  • hungry viewkit — (operating system, library)   A C++ class library for developing Motif application programs (although this restriction will be lifted once LessTif is finished). It follows the API of the Iris(tm) ViewKit, put out by SGI. The Hungry ViewKit is a superset of the Iris ViewKit, so any code developed for the Iris version will work with the Hungry version, but possibly not vice versa.
  • hungtow island — an island off the SE coast of Taiwan. 8 miles (13 km) long.
  • hunting ground — a section or area for hunting game.
  • hunting season — annual period when hunting is permitted
  • ichthyophagous — the practice of eating or subsisting on fish.
  • illuminatingly — In an illuminating manner.
  • image-building — improving the brand image or public image of something or someone by good public relations, advertising, etc
  • imaginary unit — the complex number i.
  • immunoblotting — The use of immunoblots to analyse proteins.
  • immunogenetics — the branch of immunology dealing with the study of immunity in relation to genetic makeup.
  • immunogenicity — causing or capable of producing an immune response.
  • immunoglobulin — any of several classes of structurally related proteins that function as antibodies or receptors and are found in plasma and other body fluids and in the membrane of certain cells. Compare IgA, IgD, IgE, IgG, IgM.
  • immunostaining — (uncountable, immunology) Any of several staining techniques that are used to detect specific proteins.
  • impulse buying — the buying of retail merchandise prompted by a whim on seeing the product displayed
  • in league with — along with, plotting with
  • in the running — the act of a person, animal, or thing that runs.
  • incongruencies — Plural form of incongruency.
  • incontiguously — in an incontiguous or unconnected fashion; discretely
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