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14-letter words containing g, u, i

  • indian pudding — a sweet baked pudding made of cornmeal, molasses, milk, and various spices.
  • indigenousness — The quality or state of being indigenous.
  • indigo bunting — a North American bunting, Passerina cyanea, the male of which is indigo.
  • ingloriousness — The state of being inglorious.
  • insightfulness — The state or condition of being insightful.
  • integral curve — a curve that is a geometric representation of a functional solution to a given differential equation.
  • interest group — a group of people drawn or acting together in support of a common interest or to voice a common concern: Political interest groups seek to influence legislation.
  • interlanguages — Plural form of interlanguage.
  • interlingually — in an interlingual manner
  • interreligious — existing or communicating between different religions.
  • intertriginous — (medicine) Of or relating to intertrigo.
  • irregular verb — verb with non-standard past tense
  • irregularities — the quality or state of being irregular.
  • isocyano group — the univalent group −NC.
  • jerry-building — the act of building (houses, flats, etc) badly using cheap materials
  • judgementalism — Alternative form of judgmentalism.
  • jugurthine war — an unsuccessful war waged against the Romans (112–105 bc) by Jugurtha, king of Numidia (died 104)
  • juicing orange — an orange that is grown especially for its juice, for example the Valencia orange
  • jumping spider — any of several small, hairy spiders, of the family Salticidae, that stalk and jump upon their prey instead of snaring it in a web.
  • junior college — a collegiate institution offering courses only through the first one or two years of college instruction and granting a certificate of title instead of a degree.
  • king's counsel — a body of barristers of a higher status who are specially appointed to be the crown's counsel, and who are permitted to plead inside the bar in the court.
  • kings mountain — a ridge in N South Carolina: American victory over the British 1780.
  • kissing cousin — any more or less distant kin familiar enough to be greeted with a kiss, as a cousin (kissing cousin)
  • kwangsi chuang — Guangxi Zhuang.
  • lactoglobulins — Plural form of lactoglobulin.
  • lake nicaragua — a lake in SW Nicaragua, separated from the Pacific by an isthmus 19 km (12 miles) wide: the largest lake in Central America. Area: 8264 sq km (3191 sq miles)
  • landing ground — airfield
  • lapsus linguae — a slip of the tongue.
  • laser-guidance — a technique of guiding a missile, etc, using a laser beam
  • laughing hyena — an African hyena, Crocuta crocuta, having a yellowish-gray coat with brown or black spots, noted for its distinctive howl.
  • laughing stock — object of others' amusement
  • laughingstocks — Plural form of laughingstock.
  • laughter lines — Laughter lines are the same as laugh lines.
  • learning curve — Education. a graphic representation of progress in learning measured against the time required to achieve mastery.
  • lemon geranium — a garden geranium, Pelargonium crispum, having lemon-scented leaves.
  • lifestyle guru — a person hired to give someone advice on various aspects of his or her life, work, and relationships
  • light industry — consumer goods manufacturing
  • light the fuse — If someone or something lights the fuse of a particular situation or activity, they suddenly get it started.
  • light-coloured — having a light colour
  • lignocellulose — any of various compounds of lignin and cellulose comprising the essential part of woody cell walls.
  • lignosulfonate — a brown powder consisting of a sulfonate salt made from waste liquor of the sulfate pulping process of soft wood: used in concrete, leather tanning, as an additive in oil-well drilling mud, and as a source of vanillin.
  • limburg cheese — a semihard white cheese of very strong smell and flavour
  • linguistically — of or belonging to language: linguistic change.
  • liquiritigenin — (organic compound) A flavanone found in a variety of plants including liquorice.
  • liturgiologist — a person who studies liturgiology
  • living picture — tableau (def 3).
  • logic emulator — A system of FPGAs, programmable interconnect and software which automatically configures itself into an operating prototype of a large-scale logic design, such as a microprocessor. An emulated design can be connected into the target system and really operated and tested before the design is made into an integrated circuit.
  • logistic curve — a curve, shaped like a letter S , defined as an exponential function and used to model various forms of growth.
  • long-suffering — enduring injury, trouble, or provocation long and patiently.
  • longitudinally — of or relating to longitude or length: longitudinal measurement.
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