14-letter words containing g, u, l, e, t
- disgruntlement — to put into a state of sulky dissatisfaction; make discontent.
- disgustfulness — the quality of being disgustful
- divine liturgy — liturgy (def 5).
- double-tongued — deceitful; hypocritical.
- downregulating — Present participle of downregulate.
- downregulation — (genetics) The process, in the regulation of gene expression, in which the number, or activity of receptors decreases in order to decrease sensitivity.
- ductless gland — endocrine gland.
- dunning letter — a letter pressing someone for payment
- electrosurgery — Surgery using a high-frequency electric current to heat and so cut tissue with great precision.
- engine trouble — malfunction of a vehicle's engine
- english walnut — an Asiatic walnut tree (Juglans regia) now grown in Europe and North America
- equiangularity — the state of being equiangular
- ethnoreligious — Of or pertaining to ethnicity and religion.
- ethylene group — the divalent group, -CH2CH2-, derived from ethylene
- eulogistically — In the form or manner of a eulogy; with praise.
- excruciatingly — In an excruciating manner or to an excruciating degree; in a manner causing great pain or anguish.
- extinguishable — Able to be extinguished.
- faculty lounge — a staffroom
- feature-length — long enough to be made a feature; of full length: a feature-length story; a feature-length film.
- fertility drug — a substance that enhances the ability to produce young.
- file signature — A magic number.
- final judgment — judgment (def 8).
- finger trouble — trouble caused by operator error, such as striking the wrong key
- first language — mother tongue
- flagitiousness — The state or quality of being flagitious.
- flight surgeon — a medical officer in the U.S. Air Force who is trained in aviation medicine.
- forethoughtful — full of or having forethought; provident.
- formula weight — (of a molecule) molecular weight.
- fortunetelling — the act or practice of predicting the future.
- galvanocautery — a cautery heated by a galvanic current.
- gastroduodenal — of or relating to the stomach and the duodenum
- gelatiniferous — Yielding gelatine on boiling with water; capable of gelatination.
- gemuetlichkeit — warm cordiality; comfortable friendliness; congeniality.
- gender-neutral — noting or relating to a word or phrase that does not refer to one gender only: Firefighter and flight attendant are gender-neutral terms.
- geolinguistics — the study of the geographical distribution of languages
- gesticulations — Plural form of gesticulation.
- glauber's salt — the decahydrate form of sodium sulfate, a colorless, crystalline, water-soluble solid, Na 2 SO 4 ·10H 2 O, used chiefly in textile dyeing and as a cathartic.
- glutaraldehyde — a nonflammable liquid, C 5 H 8 O 2 , soluble in water and alcohol, toxic and an irritant, used for tanning leather and as a fixative for samples to be examined under the electron microscope.
- gluteus medius — the muscle of the buttocks lying between the gluteus maximus and the gluteus minimus, involved in the abduction of the thigh.
- gluttonousness — The quality of being gluttonous.
- go up the wall — to become crazy or furious
- golden currant — a western North American shrub, Ribes aureum, of the saxifrage family, having purplish fruit and fragrant, drooping clusters of yellow flowers that turn reddish.
- granulopoietin — a hormone that promotes the production of white blood cells.
- grapefruitlike — Resembling or characteristic of grapefruit.
- groundsel tree — a composite shrub, Baccharis halimifolia, having dull, gray-green leaves and fruit with tufts of long, white hair, growing in salt marshes of eastern North America.
- group velocity — the velocity of finite numbers of waves undergoing simple harmonic motion, equal to the phase velocity when it does not vary with the wavelengths of the waves. The group velocity of the set of waves produced in water when a stone is dropped is less than the velocity of the individual waves.
- guatemala city — a republic in N Central America. 42,042 sq. mi. (108,889 sq. km).
- gunpowder plot — an unsuccessful plot to kill King James I and the assembled Lords and Commons by blowing up Parliament, November 5, 1605, in revenge for the laws against Roman Catholics.
- gunstock stile — (in a door) a diminished stile having an oblique transition between the broader and narrower parts.
- gypsum plaster — plaster made primarily of gypsum.