13-letter words containing g, u, l
- disquietingly — causing anxiety or uneasiness; disturbing: disquieting news.
- disregulation — Misspelling of dysregulation.
- dissimulating — Present participle of dissimulate.
- distrustingly — In a distrusting manner.
- double dagger — a mark (‡) used for references, as footnotes.
- double garage — a garage that can hold two vehicles
- double magnum — Jeroboam (def 2).
- double-acting — (of a reciprocating engine, pump, etc.) having pistons accomplishing work in both directions, fluid being admitted alternately to opposite ends of the cylinders. Compare single-acting.
- double-figure — double-digit.
- double-glazed — of, having, or provided with double glazing: double-glazed windows and doors.
- double-tongue — to interrupt the wind flow by moving the tongue as if pronouncing t and k alternately, especially in playing rapid passages or staccato notes on a brass instrument.
- doughnut hole — a funding shortfall in the standard drug benefit offered by many Medicare prescription drug plans
- douglas scale — an international scale of sea disturbance and swell ranging from 0 to 9 with one figure for disturbance and one for swell
- downregulates — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of downregulate.
- dramaturgical — the craft or the techniques of dramatic composition.
- drug smuggler — trafficker in illegal substances
- drum paneling — flush paneling in a door.
- dual heritage — an upbringing in which one's parents are of different ethnic or religious backgrounds
- duck-egg blue — a pale greenish-blue colour
- ducking stool — a former instrument of punishment consisting of a chair in which an offender was tied to be plunged into water.
- due diligence — the degree of care that is to be reasonably expected or that is legally required, esp. of persons giving professional advice
- due-diligence — reasonable care and caution exercised by a person who is buying, selling, giving professional advice, etc., especially as required by law to protect against incurring liability: The court said there was due diligence on the part of the plaintiff.
- duino elegies — a collection of ten poems (1923) by Rainer Maria Rilke.
- dun laoghaire — a seaport in E Republic of Ireland, near Dublin.
- durable goods — Durable goods or durables are goods such as televisions or cars which are expected to last a long time, and are bought infrequently.
- dysregulation — A failure to regulate properly.
- edinburgh sml — (EdML) Implementation of the Core language of SML. Byte-code interpreter in C. Ported to Amiga, Atari, Archimedes and IBM PC. Version: 0.44. E-mail: <[email protected]>.
- electrocuting — Present participle of electrocute.
- encapsulating — Present participle of encapsulate.
- encourageable — Able to be encouraged; suggestible.
- encouragingly — In an encouraging manner.
- enculturating — Present participle of enculturate.
- equilibrating — Present participle of equilibrate.
- equivalencing — Present participle of equivalence.
- ethnolinguist — a person who studies ethnolinguistics
- eugeosyncline — a geosyncline characterized by lithology typical of deep ocean environments
- excalibur bug — (humour, programming) The legendary bug that, despite repeated valliant attempts, none but the true king of all programmers can fix. Named after the sword in the stone in the legend of King Arthur.
- expostulating — Present participle of expostulate.
- extenuatingly — in an extenuating manner
- farmer's lung — a lung disorder caused by inhalation of moldy hay dust, marked by shortness of breath, dry cough, and weight loss.
- fatiguability — Alternative form of fatigability.
- fatigue limit — the maximum stress to which a material can be subjected without failing.
- fault-finding — the act of pointing out faults, especially faults of a petty nature; carping.
- figured glass — plate or sheet glass having a pattern rolled onto one side of the surface.
- filibustering — Present participle of filibuster.
- flag of truce — a white flag displayed as an invitation to the enemy to confer, or carried as a sign of peaceful intention by one sent to deal with the enemy.
- flame cutting — a method of cutting ferrous metals in which the metal is heated by a torch to about 800°C and is oxidized by a stream of oxygen from the torch
- flight number — the identifying number of a scheduled flight
- floor-through — occupying the entire depth of a building: a floor-through apartment.
- flourishingly — In a flourishing way; tending to succeed and grow.