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14-letter words containing g, u, n, s

  • housing scheme — arrangement offering subsidized housing
  • hundredweights — Plural form of hundredweight.
  • hungtow island — an island off the SE coast of Taiwan. 8 miles (13 km) long.
  • hunting season — annual period when hunting is permitted
  • immunogenetics — the branch of immunology dealing with the study of immunity in relation to genetic makeup.
  • immunostaining — (uncountable, immunology) Any of several staining techniques that are used to detect specific proteins.
  • impulse buying — the buying of retail merchandise prompted by a whim on seeing the product displayed
  • incongruencies — Plural form of incongruency.
  • incontiguously — in an incontiguous or unconnected fashion; discretely
  • indigenousness — The quality or state of being indigenous.
  • ingloriousness — The state of being inglorious.
  • insightfulness — The state or condition of being insightful.
  • 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.
  • interreligious — existing or communicating between different religions.
  • intertriginous — (medicine) Of or relating to intertrigo.
  • isocyano group — the univalent group −NC.
  • jackass gunter — a gunter having a wire rope with a traveler in place of the usual upper iron.
  • judgementalism — Alternative form of judgmentalism.
  • 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.
  • 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.
  • languorousness — The quality of being languorous.
  • lapsus linguae — a slip of the tongue.
  • laser-guidance — a technique of guiding a missile, etc, using a laser beam
  • last judgement — In the Christian religion, the Last Judgement is the last day of the world when God will judge everyone who has died and decide whether they will go to Heaven or Hell.
  • laughing stock — object of others' amusement
  • laughingstocks — Plural form of laughingstock.
  • laughter lines — Laughter lines are the same as laugh lines.
  • light industry — consumer goods manufacturing
  • 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.
  • linguistically — of or belonging to language: linguistic change.
  • long-suffering — enduring injury, trouble, or provocation long and patiently.
  • longleat house — an Elizabethan mansion near Warminster in Wiltshire, built (from 1568) by Robert Smythson for Sir John Thynne; the grounds, landscaped by Capability Brown, now contain a famous safari park
  • lower tunguska — one of three rivers in Russia, in central Siberia, that is a tributary of the Yenisei and is 2690 km (1670 miles) long
  • lu-wang school — School of Mind.
  • lugubriousness — The property of being lugubrious.
  • luminous range — the distance at which a certain light, as that of a lighthouse, is visible in clear weather, disregarding interference from obstructions and from the curvature of the earth and depending on the power of the light.
  • macroglobulins — Plural form of macroglobulin.
  • manslaughterer — (legal) Someone who commits manslaughter.
  • manual testing — (testing)   That part of software testing that requires human input, analysis, or evaluation.
  • meaningfulness — full of meaning, significance, purpose, or value; purposeful; significant: a meaningful wink; a meaningful choice.
  • measuring worm — the larva of any geometrid moth, which progresses by bringing the rear end of the body forward and then advancing the front end.
  • megasporangium — a sporangium containing megaspores.
  • metalinguistic — Pertaining to metalinguistics.
  • miscalculating — Present participle of miscalculate.
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