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14-letter words containing g, u, n

  • emergency fund — a sum of money set aside by a country, group, or organization for use in an emergency
  • encouragements — Plural form of encouragement.
  • enfant sauvage — a person given to naive, undisciplined, or unpredictable behaviour, largely because of youth and inexperience
  • engine failure — failure to operate by the engine of an aircraft, car, or other vehicle
  • engine trouble — malfunction of a vehicle's engine
  • english muffin — crumpet
  • english walnut — an Asiatic walnut tree (Juglans regia) now grown in Europe and North America
  • equiangularity — the state of being equiangular
  • erogenous zone — a part of the body that is sensitive to sexual stimulation
  • ethnoreligious — Of or pertaining to ethnicity and religion.
  • ethylene group — the divalent group, -CH2CH2-, derived from ethylene
  • eugeosynclinal — of or relating to a eugeosyncline
  • evergreen fund — a fund that provides capital for new companies and makes regular injections of capital to support their development
  • excruciatingly — In an excruciating manner or to an excruciating degree; in a manner causing great pain or anguish.
  • exsanguination — The action of draining a person, animal, or organ of blood.
  • extinguishable — Able to be extinguished.
  • extinguishment — The act of extinguishing, putting out, or quenching, or the state of being extinguished.
  • faculty lounge — a staffroom
  • fancy geranium — a geranium, Pelargonium domesticum, of southern Africa, having roundish clusters of large white, pink, or red flowers.
  • feature-length — long enough to be made a feature; of full length: a feature-length story; a feature-length film.
  • feeding ground — The feeding ground of a group of animals or birds, is the place where they find food and eat.
  • feng yu-hsiang — ("Christian General") 1880–1948, Chinese general.
  • field guidance — a method of guiding a missile to a point within a gravitational or radio field by means of the properties of the field
  • figurativeness — The property of being figurative.
  • figure skating — ice skating in which the skater traces intricate patterns on the ice.
  • figure-hugging — Figure-hugging clothes fit very close to the body of the person who is wearing them. Figure-hugging is usually used to describe clothes worn by women.
  • file signature — A magic number.
  • final judgment — judgment (def 8).
  • finger trouble — trouble caused by operator error, such as striking the wrong key
  • first language — mother tongue
  • fishing ground — a part of a body of water where the fishing is usually good.
  • flagitiousness — The state or quality of being flagitious.
  • flight surgeon — a medical officer in the U.S. Air Force who is trained in aviation medicine.
  • floating cloud — Drifting Cloud, The.
  • fluid coupling — Machinery. an apparatus in which a fluid, usually oil, transmits torque from one shaft to another, producing an equal torque in the other shaft.
  • flying colours — conspicuous success; triumph
  • flying dustbin — petard (def 3).
  • flying gurnard — any marine fish of the family Dactylopteridae, especially Dactylopterus volitans, having greatly enlarged, colorful pectoral fins that enable it to glide short distances through the air.
  • focusing cloth — an opaque cloth surrounding the ground glass of a camera so as to shield the eyes of the photographer from light that would otherwise prevent seeing the image in the ground glass.
  • food colouring — substances used to impart colour to food
  • foramen magnum — the large opening in the base of the skull forming the passage from the cranial cavity to the spinal canal.
  • fortunetelling — the act or practice of predicting the future.
  • forward buying — the purchase of merchandise in quantities exceeding demand
  • fountain grass — a perennial grass, Pennisetum setaceum, of Ethiopia, having bristly spikes, often rose-purple, grown as an ornamental.
  • fragrant sumac — a sprawling shrub, Rhus aromatica, of the cashew family, native to eastern North America, having aromatic foliage and greenish-yellow flowers in small spikes.
  • framing square — a steel square usually having on its faces various tables and scales useful to the carpenter.
  • francois guise — François de Lorraine [frahn-swa duh law-ren] /frɑ̃ˈswa də lɔˈrɛn/ (Show IPA), 2nd Duc de, 1519–63, French general and statesman.
  • french bulldog — one of a French breed of small, bat-eared dogs having a large, square head, a short tail, and a short, sleek coat.
  • frozen pudding — a frozen or chilled dessert mixture of rich custard, nuts or candied fruit, and sometimes liquor.
  • frozen yoghurt — a dessert made from sweetened yoghurt that has been frozen
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