13-letter words containing g, u, l, e
- housecleaning — the act of cleaning a house, room, etc., and its furnishings, especially the act of cleaning thoroughly and completely.
- household god — a god presiding over and protecting the home, especially in the religion of ancient Rome.
- human ecology — ecology (def 4).
- hunting lodge — a house or hut in the country or in the mountains where people stay on holiday when they want to go hunting
- hunting rifle — shotgun used to kill game
- ill-disguised — badly concealed or hidden.
- incongruently — not congruent.
- insulinogenic — Promoting the production of insulin.
- intergranular — located or occurring between granules or grains: intergranular corrosion.
- interlanguage — a language created or used for international communication.
- interreligous — Between religions.
- involute gear — a gear tooth form that is generated by involute geometry
- irregularness — Quality of being irregular.
- irreligiously — In an irreligious fashion.
- james douglas — Sir James ("the Black Douglas") 1286–1330, Scottish military leader.
- jigsaw puzzle — Also called picture puzzle. a set of irregularly cut pieces of pasteboard, wood, or the like that form a picture or design when fitted together.
- judgementally — Alternative form of judgmentally.
- judges' rules — (in English law, formerly) a set of rules, not legally binding, governing the behaviour of police towards suspects, as in administering a caution to a person under arrest
- judgment call — Sports. an observational ruling by a referee or umpire that is necessarily subjective because of the disputable nature of the play in question, and one that may be appealed but not protested, as opposed to a matter of official rule interpretation: Balks and close plays at first are of course judgment calls, and umpires are human.
- judgmentalism — Judgmental behaviour or attitude.
- juggling eggs — Keeping a lot of state in your head while modifying a program. "Don't bother me now, I'm juggling eggs", means that an interrupt is likely to result in the program's being scrambled. In the classic first-contact SF novel "The Mote in God's Eye", by Larry Niven and Jerry Pournelle, an alien describes a very difficult task by saying "We juggle priceless eggs in variable gravity." See also hack mode.
- juglandaceous — belonging to the plant family Juglandaceae.
- junior league — any local branch of a women's organization, the Association of the Junior Leagues of America, Inc., the members of which are engaged in volunteer welfare work, civic affairs, etc.
- lake sturgeon — a sturgeon, Acipenser fulvescens, of the Great Lakes and Mississippi and St. Lawrence rivers.
- lamb's tongue — a molding having a deep, symmetrical profile ending in a narrow edge, as in a sash bar.
- language arts — study of reading and writing
- language code — (human language, standard) A set of standard names and abbreviations maintained by ISO for identifying human languages, natural and invented, past and present. Each language has a list of English and French names and an ISO 639-2 three-letter code. Some also have an ISO 639-1 two-letter code. The list even includes the Klingon language from the Star Trek science fiction series. There are also country codes.
- laser surgery — the surgical use of lasers.
- lasik surgery — laser surgery to correct short sight
- last judgment — judgment (def 8).
- laughableness — The state or quality of being laughable; ludicrousness.
- laughter club — a group of people who meet regularly to take part in communal laughing for therapeutic effect
- leg-of-mutton — having the triangular shape of a leg of mutton: leg-of-mutton sail; a dress with leg-of-mutton sleeves.
- legume family — the large plant family Leguminosae (or Fabaceae), typified by herbaceous plants, shrubs, trees, and vines having usually compound leaves, clusters of irregular, keeled flowers, and fruit in the form of a pod splitting along both sides, and including beans, peas, acacia, alfalfa, clover, indigo, lentil, mesquite, mimosa, and peanut.
- letter ruling — a written ruling sent by the U.S. Internal Revenue Service in response to a query concerning the application of the tax laws to a specific situation.
- letzeburgesch — a Germanic dialect that is the native language of most of the people of Luxembourg.
- leucaemogenic — leukemogenic
- leukaemogenic — relating to the development of leukaemia, or causing leukaemia
- light cruiser — a naval cruiser having 6-inch (15-cm) guns as its main armament.
- lighter fluid — a combustible fluid used in cigarette, cigar, and pipe lighters.
- lighthouseman — a lighthouse keeper
- lingayen gulf — a gulf in the Philippines, on the NW coast of Luzon.
- lingual brace — a specialized dental brace that fits behind the teeth so that it is not visible when the wearer speaks or smiles.
- linkage group — a group of genes in a chromosome that tends to be inherited as a unit.
- liqueur glass — a small glass intended for drinking liqueur from
- liquid oxygen — a clear, pale blue liquid obtained by compressing oxygen and then cooling it below its boiling point: used chiefly as an oxidizer in liquid rocket propellants.
- litigiousness — of or relating to litigation.
- little league — The Little League is an organization of children's baseball teams that compete against each other in the United States.
- liver sausage — liverwurst.
- lodging house — a house in which rooms are rented, especially a house other than an inn or hotel; rooming house.