13-letter words containing g, u, n, s, i
- multiskilling — the practice of training employees to do a number of different tasks
- neurolinguist — One who studies neurolinguistics.
- neurosurgical — Of, or pertaining to neurosurgery.
- new age music — a type of gentle melodic popular music originating in the US in the late 1980s, which takes in elements of jazz, folk, and classical music and is played largely on synthesizers and acoustic instruments
- nitroso group — the univalent group O=N–.
- no such thing — You can say there is no such thing as something to emphasize that it does not exist or is not possible.
- non-egregious — extraordinary in some bad way; glaring; flagrant: an egregious mistake; an egregious liar. Synonyms: gross, outrageous, notorious, shocking. Antonyms: tolerable, moderate, minor, unnoticeable.
- noncontagious — capable of being transmitted by bodily contact with an infected person or object: contagious diseases.
- noncontiguous — touching; in contact.
- nondiapausing — lacking a diapause
- nongregarious — (zoology) Not gregarious; solitary. Compare 'ungregarious'.
- nonindigenous — Not indigenous; not native to an area.
- nonleguminous — pertaining to, of the nature of, or bearing legumes.
- nonlinguistic — of or belonging to language: linguistic change.
- nonsustaining — Not sustaining; having an end.
- numerologists — the study of numbers, as the figures designating the year of one's birth, to determine their supposed influence on one's life, future, etc.
- numismatology — Numismatics.
- nun's veiling — a thin, plain-woven, worsted fabric, originally for nuns' veils but now also for dresses, coats, etc.
- nutrigenetics — the branch of science concerned with the effect of heredity on diet and nutrition
- nutrigenomics — the study of how individual genetic makeup interacts with diet, especially the effects of this interaction on a person's health.
- off soundings — in waters more than 100 fathoms in depth
- opening hours — Opening hours are the times during which a shop, bank, library, or bar is open for business.
- outdistancing — Present participle of outdistance.
- outprocessing — to end a military tour of duty, accompanied by necessary paperwork: All enlisted soldiers out-process as a class.
- outstandingly — prominent; conspicuous; striking: an outstanding example of courage.
- outstretching — Present participle of outstretch.
- over-trusting — reliance on the integrity, strength, ability, surety, etc., of a person or thing; confidence.
- overingenious — ingenious to a fault
- packing house — A packing house is a company that processes and packs food, especially meat, to be sold.
- pantagruelism — (in Rabelais' Pantagruel) the huge son of Gargantua, represented as dealing with serious matters in a spirit of broad and somewhat cynical good humor.
- paper-pushing — a person who has a routine desk job.
- pease pudding — a pudding of strained split peas mixed with egg.
- pneumogastric — of or relating to the lungs and stomach.
- postinaugural — of or relating to the period after an inauguration
- pouring-basin — (in a vacuum induction furnace) a trough through which molten metal flows under vacuum to a mold chamber.
- prague spring — a brief period of democratization in Czechoslovakia in 1968, under Alexander Dubček.
- press cutting — an article or picture from a newspaper about someone or something
- pudding basin — A pudding basin is a deep round bowl that is used in the kitchen, especially for mixing or for cooking puddings.
- pudding stone — conglomerate (def 3).
- pulse dialing — a system of calling telephone numbers wherein electrical pulses corresponding to the digits in the number called are generated by manipulating a rotary dial or push buttons (contrasted with tone dialing).
- purse strings — hold the purse strings, to have the power to determine how money shall be spent.
- quaking aspen — any of various poplars, as Populus tremula, of Europe, and P. tremuloides (quaking aspen) or P. alba (white aspen) of America, having soft wood and alternate ovate leaves that tremble in the slightest breeze.
- quaking grass — any of several grasses of the genus Briza, having spikelets with slender, drooping stalks.
- queen's guide — (in Britain and the Commonwealth when the sovereign is female) a Guide who has passed the highest tests of proficiency
- queer-bashing — the activity of making vicious and unprovoked verbal or physical assaults upon homosexuals or supposed homosexuals
- questioningly — In a questioning manner.
- quick-setting — setting quickly, as a cement, paint, or gelatin.
- quickstepping — Present participle of quickstep.
- quinquagesima — the Sunday before Lent; Shrove Sunday.
- rabblerousing — Of or pertaining to a rabble-rouser.