13-letter words containing g, u, t
- bouquet garni — A bouquet garni is a bunch of herbs that are tied together and used in cooking to add flavour to the food.
- boutros-ghali — ˈBoutros (ˈbutroʊs ) ; bo̅oˈtrōs) 1922- ; Egypt. diplomat: secretary-general of the United Nations (1992-96)
- break through — If you break through a barrier, you succeed in forcing your way through it.
- breakthroughs — a military movement or advance all the way through and beyond an enemy's front-line defense.
- buck sergeant — a newly promoted sergeant
- budget period — the time which a budget covers
- budget speech — the speech in which the Chancellor presents his budget to parliament
- buggin's turn — promotion by seniority or rotation rather than merit.
- buggins' turn — the principle of awarding an appointment to members of a group in turn, rather than according to merit
- building plot — a piece of land on which a house can be built
- building site — A building site is an area of land on which a building or a group of buildings is in the process of being built or altered.
- bulk settling — Bulk settling is a process in which two liquids, or a solid and a liquid, of different densities are allowed to separate by gravity.
- bus mastering — bus master
- butterfingers — a person who drops things inadvertently or fails to catch things
- butyryl group — the univalent group C 4 H 7 O–.
- calcium light — limelight (sense 1)
- calculatingly — In a calculating manner.
- calf's tongue — a molding having pendent, tonguelike members in relief against a flat or molded surface.
- carnegie unit — a standardized unit of measurement for evaluating courses in secondary schools in terms of college entrance requirements, representing one year's study in any subject, that subject having been taught for a minimum of 120 classroom hours to qualify.
- carry through — If you carry something through, you do it or complete it, often in spite of difficulties.
- cartilaginous — of or like cartilage; gristly
- cartiliginous — Alternative form of cartilaginous.
- casting couch — a couch on which a casting director is said to seduce women seeking a part in a film or play
- cattle plague — rinderpest.
- centre ground — the nominal space in the political spectrum that is neither right or left
- centrifugally — Away from a centre or axis.
- centrifugence — the property of being centrifugal
- checkout girl — a female employee who works on a supermarket checkout
- circuit judge — a judge presiding over a county court or crown court
- circumagitate — (transitive) To agitate on all sides.
- circumventing — to go around or bypass: to circumvent the lake; to circumvent the real issues.
- cleistogamous — having small, unopened, self-pollinating flowers, usually in addition to the showier flowers
- click through — to navigate around (a website) using the links provided to move onto different pages
- click-through — the act of clicking on an advertisement or other link to go to another website, especially a retail site: The store gets lots of clickthroughs from social media.
- club together — If people club together to do something, they all give money towards the cost of it.
- coagulability — The ability to coagulate, of being coagulable.
- communicating — making or having a direct connection from one room to another
- compsognathus — any bipedal carnivorous dinosaur of the genus Compsognathus, of late Jurassic age, having a slender body that reached a length of 30 inches (76 cm).
- computer game — A computer game is a game that you play on a computer or on a small portable piece of electronic equipment.
- computer geek — (jargon) (Or "turbo nerd", "turbo geek") One who eats (computer) bugs for a living. One who fulfils all the dreariest negative stereotypes about hackers: an asocial, malodourous, pasty-faced monomaniac with all the personality of a cheese grater. The term cannot be used by outsiders without implied insult to all hackers; compare black-on-black usage of "nigger". A computer geek may be either a fundamentally clueless individual or a proto-hacker in larval stage. See also Alpha Geek, propeller head, clustergeeking, geek out, wannabee, terminal junkie, spod, weenie.
- computerising — Present participle of computerise.
- computerizing — Present participle of computerize.
- concertgebouw — a concert hall in Amsterdam, inaugurated in 1888: the Concertgebouw Orchestra established in 1888, has been independent of the hall since World War II
- confabulating — Present participle of confabulate.
- configurating — to give a configuration, form, or design to.
- configuration — A configuration is an arrangement of a group of things.
- configurative — the relative disposition or arrangement of the parts or elements of a thing.
- conglutinated — Simple past tense and past participle of conglutinate.
- conglutinator — an agent that conglutinates
- congratulable — worthy of congratulation