13-letter words containing g, u, n, y
- hasty pudding — New England. cornmeal mush.
- highly strung — person: tense, sensitive
- homogeneously — composed of parts or elements that are all of the same kind; not heterogeneous: a homogeneous population.
- human ecology — ecology (def 4).
- humiliatingly — lowering the pride, self-respect, or dignity of a person; mortifying: Such a humiliating defeat was good for his overblown ego.
- hydraulicking — a type of mining that uses water to move rock
- ignominiously — marked by or attended with ignominy; discreditable; humiliating: an ignominious retreat.
- immunobiology — the study of the immune response and the biological aspects of immunity to disease.
- incongruently — not congruent.
- incongruously — out of keeping or place; inappropriate; unbecoming: an incongruous effect; incongruous behavior.
- infuriatingly — causing or tending to cause anger or outrage; maddening: His delay is infuriating.
- inquiry agent — a private detective
- insinuatingly — tending to instill doubts, distrust, etc.; suggestive: an insinuating letter.
- integumentary — of, relating to, or like an integument.
- judgementally — Alternative form of judgmentally.
- jury shopping — the practice of presenting a case to several juries until a favourable decision is obtained
- key signature — (in notation) the group of sharps or flats placed after the clef to indicate the tonality of the music following.
- kim young sam — born 1927, president of South Korea 1993–98.
- king's bounty — a grant, given in the royal name, to a mother of triplets.
- languishingly — In a languishing manner.
- lingayen gulf — a gulf in the Philippines, on the NW coast of Luzon.
- 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.
- magnanimously — In a magnanimous manner; with greatness of mind.
- malonyl group — the bivalent group C 3 H 2 O 2 , derived from malonic acid.
- mango chutney — chutney which contains or is made from the fruit mango
- mistrustingly — In a mistrusting manner.
- money grubber — a person who is aggressively engaged in or preoccupied with making or saving money.
- money-grubber — a person who is aggressively engaged in or preoccupied with making or saving money.
- moneygrubbers — Plural form of moneygrubber.
- moneygrubbing — Alternative spelling of money-grubbing.
- monopolylogue — a theatrical entertainment in which the same performer plays several parts or characters.
- mutagenically — in a mutagenic manner
- my giddy aunt — an exclamation of surprise
- neuroethology — the study of the role of the nervous system in animal behaviour
- night journey — the journey in which Muhammad was carried from Mecca to Jerusalem and ascended into heaven.
- non-ambiguity — doubtfulness or uncertainty of meaning or intention: to speak with ambiguity; an ambiguity of manner.
- non-budgetary — an estimate, often itemized, of expected income and expense for a given period in the future.
- numismatology — Numismatics.
- old and young — people of all ages
- on your guard — If you are on your guard or on guard, you are being very careful because you think a situation might become difficult or dangerous.
- orange roughy — a marine food fish, Hoplosthenus atlanticus, of S Pacific waters
- outstandingly — prominent; conspicuous; striking: an outstanding example of courage.
- overingenuity — the state of being ingenious to a fault
- plain yoghurt — natural yoghurt, without added flavouring
- plough monday — the first Monday after Epiphany, which in N and E England used to be celebrated with a procession of ploughmen drawing a plough from house to house
- plug and play — (sometimes lowercase) a standard for the production of compatible computers, peripherals, and software that facilitates device installation and enables automatic configuration of the system.
- plug and pray — (humour) The Windows 95 equivalent of the Macintosh's plug and play, referring to difficulties encountered when setting up new hardware under Windows 95.
- plug-and-play — Plug-and-play is used to describe computer equipment, for example a printer, that is ready to use immediately when you connect it to a computer.
- polygonaceous — belonging to the Polygonaceae, the buckwheat family of plants.
- psychosurgeon — a surgeon who specializes in psychosurgery