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14-letter words containing g, u, t

  • dry rot fungus — a fungus, Merulius lacrymans, that causes a common type of dry rot.
  • ductless gland — endocrine gland.
  • dunning letter — a letter pressing someone for payment
  • dusting powder — a powder used on the skin, especially to relieve irritation or absorb moisture.
  • dusting-powder — a powder used on the skin, especially to relieve irritation or absorb moisture.
  • dutchman's log — a method of gauging a ship's speed, in which the distance between two shipboard observation stations is divided by the time elapsing between the throwing overboard of an object by the first station and the sighting of it by the second.
  • educated guess — informed estimate
  • education page — a page in a newspaper devoted to news relating to education or teaching
  • electrosurgery — Surgery using a high-frequency electric current to heat and so cut tissue with great precision.
  • encouragements — Plural form of encouragement.
  • enfant sauvage — a person given to naive, undisciplined, or unpredictable behaviour, largely because of youth and inexperience
  • engine trouble — malfunction of a vehicle's engine
  • english walnut — an Asiatic walnut tree (Juglans regia) now grown in Europe and North America
  • equiangularity — the state of being equiangular
  • ethnoreligious — Of or pertaining to ethnicity and religion.
  • ethylene group — the divalent group, -CH2CH2-, derived from ethylene
  • eulogistically — In the form or manner of a eulogy; with praise.
  • 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
  • feature-length — long enough to be made a feature; of full length: a feature-length story; a feature-length film.
  • fertility drug — a substance that enhances the ability to produce young.
  • figurativeness — The property of being figurative.
  • figure skating — ice skating in which the skater traces intricate patterns on the ice.
  • 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
  • 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.
  • flying dustbin — petard (def 3).
  • 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.
  • follow through — the act of following.
  • follow-through — the completion of a motion, as in the stroke of a tennis racket.
  • forethoughtful — full of or having forethought; provident.
  • formula weight — (of a molecule) molecular weight.
  • fortunetelling — the act or practice of predicting the future.
  • 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.
  • frozen yoghurt — a dessert made from sweetened yoghurt that has been frozen
  • galactophorous — bearing milk; lactiferous.
  • galvanocautery — a cautery heated by a galvanic current.
  • gamine haircut — a boyish or elfish hairstyle, esp on a woman
  • gamma function — a function defined by Γ(x) = ∫0∞tx–1e–tdt, where x is real and greater than zero
  • garlic mustard — a plant, Alliaria petiolata, of N temperate regions, with small white flowers and an odour of garlic: family Brassicaceae (crucifers)
  • gastroduodenal — of or relating to the stomach and the duodenum
  • gastrovascular — serving for digestion and circulation, as a cavity.
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